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Chapter : 7.2 Current Trends On Internet

Topic : 7.2.3 Internet Phone

Internet Phone
1. The iPhone is an Internet and multimedia enabled smart phone designed and
marked by Apple Inc.

2. The iPhone functions as a camera phone (including text messages and visual
void mail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet
client with e-mail, web browsing and Wi-Fi connectivity - using the phone's multi-
touch screen to render a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard.

VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)

3. Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) is a general term for a family of transmission
technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the
Internet or other packet switched networks.

4. IP telephony, Internet telephony Voice Over broadband (VoBB), broadband

telephony, broadband phone are some frequently encountered terms and
synonymous with VOIP.

5. Internet Telephony refers to communications services like voice, facsimile (fax),

Voice messaging applications that are transported via the Internet, rather than
the PUBLIC SWITCHES TELEPHONE NETWORK (PSTN).

Working of VOIP
• When user places a call, their computer or VoIP device converts their voice
signals to digital packets.

• Those packets travel through the internet until they reach the final destination.

• At last, the digital packets converts back to their voice signals.

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 During scenario 2 and 3 these processes take place:

 The call originates/ passes via a VIOP provider's server also known a soft-
switch.

 Once the provider bypasses the call, the call is sent to another provider
who receives the call through internet and then terminates/ delivers it to
the desired destination number.

• The following three methods of connections are shown in figures

 PC to PC

FIG 7.7 PC to PC Connection of VoIP

 PC to Phone

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FIG 7.8 PC to Phone Connection of VoIP

 VOIP device to phone calls

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FIG 7.9 : VoIP device to phone calls Connection of VoIP

6. VOIP requirements

7. To make VOIP call user need

 Internet

 VOIP software and/or a software

 VOIP service provider

8. Internet network, VOIP works with many types of internet access, such as

 Dial-up

 Broadband DSL/ADSL and cable internet

 Wi-Fi

9. VoIP software and/or hardware

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 A software application known as a Soft-Phone is a dialer that you
download on your computer or laptop. Whenever you make computer
based phone calls, you are running a VOIP soft-phone application, Skype
for instance.

 By hardware we mean any VoIP hard phone equipment such as VoIP

analog telephone adapter, VoIP Gateway, IP-Phone and many others
types. Check VoIP devices link for some list of VoIP hardware.

10. VoIP Service Provider

 A VoIP provider, also known as Internet Phone Company and ITSP

(Internet Telephony Service Provider), is a company that provides VoIP
phone services and solutions, similar to your local telecom companies.

 But they use VoIP technology to transmit our data, voice and video
packets whereas traditional companies use PSTN lines.

11. Benefits of VOIP are

12. Operational Cost

 VOIP can be beneficial for reducing communication and infrastructure

costs.

 For example, routing phone calls over existing data networks to avoid the
need for separate voice and data networks.

13. Flexibility

 VOIP can facilitate tasks & provide services that may be more difficult to
implement using the PSTN.

 For example, the ability to transmit more than one telephone calls over
same broadband connection. This can make VOIP a simple way to add an
extra telephone line to a home or office.

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