With the growing popularity of everything digital we’ve seen most household items advance. Of course the first probably being the digital clock, but more recently digital television, the digital camera and picture frame, digital music and even eBooks. So why are we still talking on the same phone line that’s been installed since the 1950′s or earlier. In comes VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol, the new (or not really too new) digital phone service. You may have seen all the new products and services regarding VOIP, but what exactly is VOIP and why should you be excited about it. Will VOIP do for the phone what my digital camera did for my photo albums?
To put it simply VOIP is just that, your Voice, Over the Internet (Protocol). VOIP services basically take the analog sounds you speak into your phone and change them into digital signals. Similar to the way a digital camera takes light waves and changes them into digital pictures you can see on a screen. There are many advantages to having analog signals converted to digital ones. The main one being quality. Digital quality usually exceeds analog quality because there’s no loss of data when transmitting the signal. Think of yelling at someone from across the room. All of the other sounds get in the way and can potentially affect the quality of what the other person hears. If you were able to write a note and fold it up and hand it to the person and they open it and read it not matter how many other things were going on in the room the person would get the message without any interference directly to the note. VOIP works in the same manor. Your voice is basically transferred into little digital sounds, packed up by your VOIP service then sent over the date lines then reopened and the other end and converted into sound again with virtually no loss of quality.
It may sound complicated but VOIP works with the phone and internet connection you already have, the only additional hardware you might need is a VOIP Adapter. You talk into your regular phone; the sound goes through the VOIP adapter is converted into a digital signal then travels through your Ethernet line, to your router, then to the internet, and makes its way with no loss of quality to the person you’re calling. The second of the two ways is if you have a VOIP phone. These phones have no need for an adapter they just connect directly to your Ethernet cable and go through the router to the internet.
No matter how you look at it with once every home is equipped with the internet there will be no reason not to use VOIP as opposed to your traditional analog phone system. Quality is not the only advantage to switching to a VOIP phone service so be sure to shop around when you finally decide to move over to VOIP.
Author: Daniel Enos
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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