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From: "VoIP Business Phones" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:49:33 -0700

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calling, and low per minute rates for international calls. Similar services would be significantly more from many if not all regular phone service providers. Q. Will I need to upgrade and buy new VoIP phones as the technology matures? A. While it is difficult to give a firm answer, the most likely scenario is that you will be able to enjoy many years of service from the VoIP hardware you purchase or are provided from your VoIP carrier. The likelihood of needing to upgrade the hardware in the near future is slim to none. Q. Can I select an area code for my VoIP phone number, even if I do not live in that area? A. Yes, some VoIP service providers allow you to use area codes other than the ones designated for your area. Check the availability of the feature with the VoIP provider you are interested in using. Q. Do fax machines work on a VoIP line? A. Yes, many VoIP service providers offer fax related features for their service plans. Some even offer their VoIP plans with an addition
al dedicated fax line either included or for a small additional cost. Q. When I travel, can I bring my VoIP hardware with me and use it on the road? A. Yes, since VoIP uses the internet to transmit voice data, you do not need to be bound to a specific termination in order to use VoIP service. As long as you have all of your necessary VoIP hardware / software and are in a country that supports the power and compatibility requirements of your hardware, you can use VoIP just about anywhere. VoIP Glossary Just like most other technologies, VoIP has its own plethora of acronyms and technical terms to describe its various aspects. Our VoIP glossary contains all of the most commonly used and most important terms that you may encounter when reading or hearing about VoIP services or products. We have made our VoIP glossary as easy to understand as possible, and made sure you understand how each term relates to VoIP. Backbone Refers to the high capacity internet infrastructure that typically
connects major service providers such as your web hosting provider or internet service provider. Internet service providers with a large backbone connection offer better potential for a reliable VoIP connection than one with a smaller backbone. For example: When your internet service provider says it has an "ultra fast backbone connection", it is referring to the fact that its main communications channel with the internet is very fast to facilitate a large volume of communications. Bandwidth The maximum amount of data that can be transferred by a connection. VoIP is related to this term because the more bandwidth your internet connection has, the more reliable your VoIP connect can potentially be. For example: Your internet service provider may claim to offer you a cable internet connection with up to 8MB bandwidth, which means the maximum amount of data you can send through that connection is 8MB. Byte This is the most base unit of data volume measurement, from which larger sums a
re built upon such as kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and so on. VoIP technology typically uses hundreds or thousands of bytes within seconds for a conversation to take place. For example: You may notice that your bandwidth consumption per second while using VoIP is 32Kbps (or 32,000 bytes per second). Cable This is a type of internet connection that is used almost exclusively in residential environments. Cable uses the data transmission capacity of commonly available television coax cable to provide broadband internet connectivity. Cable internet bandwidth is typically measured in MB. VoIP is commonly used over cable internet connections. For example: My cable internet access has been great for making VoIP calls to my family. Compression You compress data so that you can store or transmit more of it in a given confinement. Compression takes data and makes it smaller typically by performing an algorithm against it that better optimizes (lossless compression) how the information is s
tored or transmitted, or by strategically removing unnecessary data (lossy compression). VoIP relies heavily on compression, because the audio it transmits between the two callers would require far too much information to be sent without it first being compressed. For example: If you have a large music file on your computer, you can compress it into a smaller size for easier storage and transmission, sometimes only a fraction of the original size, while still retaining most if not all of the musical sound. Congestion Describes the amount of communications traffic within a network or segment of a network. When the number of computers communicating simultaneously approaches, reaches or exceeds the limits of that network's infrastructure, it is considered to be a congested network. VoIP can be adversely affected by network congestion as it can limit the network resources available to successfully send all of the data back and between between computers a VoIP connection needs. For examp
le: My VoIP conversation sounded distorted because there was too much network congestion.