tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120586500871587872024-03-13T11:12:55.433-07:00The Official Voip Resellers WorldwideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-20349606090784530142009-06-12T08:46:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:13:10.163-07:00Cheap Call To IndonesiaIndonesia has always been one of the costliest destinations, but it seems VOIP and Calling Card Companies are all set to make it one of the cheapest destionations to call in Asia. Cheap Calls to Indonesia are now possible with Freecall.com<br /><br />FreeCall has slashed Indonesia calling rates to a mere 1.5 cents per minute to mobile and SmartVoip is already offering 1.5 cents per minute to indonesia mobile and landline. That means, Indonesia can't be categorised as a costly destination to call anymore.<br /><br />However making cheap calls to Indonesia is still not possible without Betamax. Unfortunately, most calling card companies still offer about 6-15 cents per minute to make calls to indonesia. Let's just hope that betamax VOIP services can change this forever.<br /><br />There are literally millions of people who call Indonesia and this new cheap calling rate can save them a lot of money. If you are using one of the costly calling card services, it time to switch to VOIP and enjoy extremely cheap calls to indonesia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-76228364441804043152009-03-23T10:27:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:15:45.907-07:00Call India for less then 1 centBetamax Now comes with another VoIP service, actionvoip<br /><br />Now you can call India only half cent a minute.<br /><br />The difference with other betamax services is action VoIP do not get any free days.<br /><br /><br />The calling rates to India are:<br />India (Landline:0.9 EUR cents/min<br />India (Mobile):1.0 EUR cents/min<br /><br />Click here to visit <a href="http://www.actionvoip.com/" rel="nofollow" target="new">http://www.actionvoip.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-53180240621310205202009-03-21T09:13:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:16:43.854-07:00ActionVoip : Cheap calls to Pakistan (SIP, PC to Phone)Betamax has again launched their new voip service. Its named ActionVoip. Just as other betamax services, this ActionVoip offers calls via <a href="http://voipapplication.blogspot.com/">PC to Phone</a>, Access numbers and SIP.<br /><br />Many blogs posted about ActionVoip offering cheapest calls to India. Yeah the new is true, ActionVoip being offering 0.07 cents/min to Indian Landline. But many people left unnoticed the Price for making voip calls to Pakistan.<br /><br />ActionVoip is actually offering very cheap phone calls to Pakistan. ActionVoip is charging just 6.6 cents/min to both Pakistan landline and Mobiles. We all know that calling rates to Pakistan have been high in recent past and many provider charge above 10 cents for calls to Pakistan. However, ActionVoip is at presently offering such low rate calls to Pakistan.<br /><br />I guess you won't find a better deal than this to make cheap calls to Pakistan. Just as I have said, you can make PC to Phone calls or even Phone to Phone calls using SIP.<br /><br />visit www.actionvoip.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-81418797973401105712009-03-19T12:55:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:17:36.448-07:00Free Call To UKFree call to UK is suggested to all students or workers originate from UK which study or work oversea. This can help you reduce the call bills.<br /><br />I suggest you to use this VOIP because it can save you money<br /><br />1. www.12voip.com<br /><br />2. www.voipraider.com<br /><br />3. www.voistunt.com<br /><br />You can get aLL this products from me. It cost you only USD 21. Very cheapUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-77225603445113463242009-03-12T13:25:00.000-07:002009-03-23T10:35:32.909-07:00Free Call To MalaysiaHere some web that i want to share. This web offer you free call to malaysia using voip with condition. 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When you use the free VoipBuster software, you can call regular phones in various popular destinations for free* or call at an incredible low rate to any other phone on the planet. You can also call all your online friends (peer-to-peer calls) as long as you like, for free. Just click here to download VoipBuster; the download should take only a few moments depending on your connection speed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-77752847437275847292009-03-05T18:20:00.000-08:002009-03-12T12:22:51.396-07:00Voip Technology, Info for those admire Voip EngineerIt is very easy to get into a discussion that is very technical and confusing to most readers. The purpose of this section will be to provide a very high-level overview of Voice over IP (▲VoIP) aimed at those who do not consider themselves experts in the subject and hopefully with enough clarity that it serves as a good introduction to most readers.<br /><br />Many people have used a computer and a microphone to record a human voice or other sounds. The process involves sampling the sound that is heard by the computer at a very high rate (at least 8,000 times per second or more) and storing those "samples" in memory or in a file on the computer. Each sample of sound is just a very tiny bit of the person's voice or other sound recorded by the computer. The computer has the wherewithal to take all of those samples and play them, so that the listener can hear what was recorded.<br /><br />VoIP is based on the same idea, but the difference is that the audio samples are not stored locally. Instead, they are sent over the IP network to another computer and played there.<br /><br />Of course, there is much more required in order to make VoIP work. When recording the sound samples, the computer might compress those sounds so that they require less space and will certainly record only a limited frequency range. There are a number of ways to compress audio, the algorithm for which is referred to as a "compressor/de-compressor", or simply ▲CODEC. Many CODECs exist for a variety of applications (e.g., movies and sound recordings) and, for VoIP, the CODECs are optimized for compressing voice, which significantly reduce the bandwidth used compared to an uncompressed audio stream. Speech CODECs are optimized to improve spoken words at the expense of sounds outside the frequency range of human speech. Recorded music and other sounds do not generally sound very good when passed through a speech CODEC, but that is perfectly OK for the task at hand.<br /><br />Once the sound is recorded by the computer and compressed into very small samples, the samples are collected together into larger chunks and placed into data packets for transmission over the IP network. This process is referred to packetization. Generally, a single IP packet will contain 10 or more milliseconds of audio, with 20 or 30 milliseconds being most common.<br /><br />Vint Cerf, who is often called the Father of the Internet, once explained packets in a way that is very easy to understand. Paraphrasing his description, he suggested to think of a packet as a postcards sent via postal mail. A postcard contains just a limited amount of information. To deliver a very long message, one must send a lot of postcards. Of course, the post office might lose one or more postcards. One also has to assemble the received postcards in order, so some kind of mechanism must be used to properly order to postcards, such as placing a sequence number on the bottom right corner. One can think of data packets in an IP network as postcards.<br /><br />Just like postcards sent via the postal system, some IP data packets get lost and the CODECs must compensate for lost packets by "filling in the gaps" with audio that is acceptable to the human ear. This process is referred to as ▲packet-loss concealment (PLC). In some cases, packets are sent multiple times in order to overcome packet loss. This method is called, appropriately enough, redundancy. Another method to address packet loss, known as forward-error correction (FEC), is to include some information from previously transmitted packets in subsequent packets. By performing mathematical operations in a particular FEC scheme, it is possible to reconstruct a lost packet from information bits in neighboring packets.<br /><br />Packets are also sometimes delayed, just as with the postcards sent through the post office. This is particularly problematic for VoIP systems, as delays in delivering a voice packet means the information is too old to play. Such old packets are simply discarded, just as if the packet was never received. This is acceptable, as the same PLC algorithms can smooth the audio to provide good audio quality.<br /><br />Computers generally measure the packet delay and expect the delay to remain relatively constant, though delay can increase and decrease during the course of a conversation. Variation in delay (called jitter) is the most frustrating for IP devices. Delay, itself, just means it takes longer for the recorded voice spoken by the first person to be heard by the user on the far end. In general, good networks have an end-to-end delay of less than 100ms, though delay up to 400ms is considered acceptable (especially when using satellite systems). Jitter can result in choppy voice or temporary glitches, so VoIP devices must implement jitter buffer algorithms to compensate for jitter. Essentially, this means that a certain number of packets are queued before play-out and the queue length may be increased or decreased over time to reduce the number of discarded, late-arriving packets or to reduce "mouth to ear" delay. Such "adaptive jitter buffer" schemes are also used by CD recorders and other types of devices that deal with variable delay.<br /><br />Video works in much the same way as voice. Video information received through a camera is broken into small pieces, compressed with a CODEC, placed into small packets, and transmitted over the IP network. This is one reason why VoIP is promising as a new technology: adding video or other media is relatively simple. Of course, there are certain issues that must be considered that are unique to video (e.g., frame refresh and much higher bandwidth requirements), but the basic principles of VoIP equally apply to ▲video telephony.<br /><br />Of course there is much more to VoIP than just sending the audio/video packets over the Internet. There must also be an agreed protocol for how computers find each other and how information is exchanged in order to allow packets to ultimately flow between the communicating devices. There must also be an agreed format (called payload format) for the contents of the media packets. We will describe some of the popular VoIP protocols in the next section.<br /><br />Through this section, we have focused on computers that communicate with each other. However, VoIP is certainly not limited to desktop computers. VoIP is implemented in a variety of hardware devices, including IP phones, ▲analog terminal adapters (ATAs), and ▲gateways. In short, a large number of devices can enable VoIP communication, some of which allow one to use traditional telephone devices to interface with the IP networks: one does not have to throw out existing equipment to migrate to VoIP.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-8476800737306885752009-03-05T18:06:00.000-08:002009-03-19T11:28:23.600-07:00Free Call To USANew today [08 March 2009]<br /><br />15. <a href="www.voipdiscount.com">www.voipdiscount.com</a><br /><br />16. www.voipraider.com<br /><br />17. www.voipstunt.com<br /><br />18. www.voipwise.com<br /><br />19. www.voipzoom.com<br /><br />20. www.webcalldirect.com<br /><br />Edited 07 March 2009.<br /><br />More new website that provide free call to USA<br /><br />6. www.nonoh.net<br /><br />7. www.poivy.com<br /><br />8. www.sipdiscount.com<br /><br />9. www.smartvoip.com<br /><br />10. www.smslisto.com<br /><br />11. www.voipbuster.com<br /><br />12. www.voipbusterpro.com<br /><br />13. www.voipcheap.co.uk<br /><br />14. www.voipcheap.com<br /><br />That all for today updated.. Stay tune...<br /><br /><br />Here are suggestion of web that provide FREE CALL TO USA<br /><br />1. <a href="http://voipbetamax.blogspot.com/2008/09/12voip.html">www.12voip.com</a><br /><br />2. <a href="http://voipbetamax.blogspot.com/2008/10/free-call.html">www.freecalls.com</a><br /><br />3. <a href="http://voipbetamax.blogspot.com/2008/10/justvoip.html">www.justvoip.com</a><br /><br />4. www.lowratevop.com<br /><br />5. www.netapel.com<br /><br />All this voip provide free call to mobile and fixed line to USA using softphone in computer with T & C apply.<br /><br />You can buy this voucher from me. IT cost you only RM 60 per euro 10. It may reduce to RM 57 for bulk.<br /><br />This voip all give good quality voice over IP.<br /><br />Suitable for :-<br />1. Student whose study oversea.<br /><br />2. Businessmen.<br /><br />3. Those working OS.<br /><br />4. Have alot of friend in OS<br /><br />5. Want to reduce calling cost.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-42777446559106006342009-02-25T02:46:00.000-08:002009-02-25T02:49:40.080-08:00Betamax SmartVoip SIPIts time of the year again, the great Betamax VOIP Factory keeps rolling their new VOIP ventures almost every quarter and now launched a new VOIP Provider called SmartVoip.<br /><br />SmartVOIP like many other Betamax VOIP Services offers free international calls and cheap international calls. SmartVoip is offers free international voip calls to the following countries: Canada,USA,UK(Landline),Singapore,Taiwan,China,Portugal,Thailand,Spain,Russia.<br /><br />SmartVOIP is offering cheap international calls to India at only 1.5 eurocents per minute to India landline and 2 eurocents per minute to India mobile. Of course, if you are already using Nymgo or LocalPhone then you might not like to switch :-)<br /><br />Although, not a lot of free calling destinations, lets just hope smartvoip can offers some better international calling rates to certain destinations.<br /><br />One good thing about Smartvoip is they offer SIP support.<br /><br />Here are the SmartVOIP SIP Details:<br /><br />SIP port : 5060<br />Registrar : sip.smartvoip.com<br />Proxy server : sip.smartvoip.com<br />Outbound proxy server : leave empty<br />Account name : your SmartVoip username<br />Password : your SmartVoip password<br />Display name/number : your SmartVoip username or voipnumber<br />Stunserver (option) : stun.smartvoip.com<br /><br />SmartVOIP supported Codecs<br /><br />G.711 (64 kbps)<br />G.726 (32 kbps)<br />G.729 (8 kbps)<br />G.723 (5.3 & 6.3 kbps)<br />GSMFR (13.2 kbps)<br /><br />If you have audio problems:<br /><br />Use a STUN server (e.g. stun.smartvoip.com) with port 3478 (if supported by your device)<br />Use the G.711 codecUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-32712669777297096302009-02-23T01:19:00.000-08:002009-02-23T01:22:39.734-08:00Skype Teams With Nokia for Mobile VoIPIt was recently announced at Mobile World Congress that Skype has finally teamed up with a handset maker (Nokia) to offer the company’s VoIP service pre-installed on new phones. This means a big leap forward for mobile VoIP users, particularly those users who are already familiar with the use of Skype from mobile phones.<br /><br />For those who aren’t too familiar with mobile VoIP, there are several services out there (some of which are free) which act as third party providers of mobile VoIP services. You set up an account with businesses like Fring or TruPhone and they set you up with a mobile VoIP service on your cell phone. Some of these businesses are already using Skype as the service that they offer.<br /><br />The new announcement means that these third party providers will no longer be necessary to using Skype on certain phones. These phones will be able to utilize any WiFi and / or 3G capabilities to facilitate Skype calls. The phone will be able to regularly update your contact list (instant message style) so you can see who is online, allowing you to easily make free Skype-to-Skype calls or send Skype-to-Skype messages.<br /><br />It is notable that Skype is currently the largest VoIP provider online and Nokia is currently the world’s largest handset maker. This means that the deal is … well, a big deal. Mobile VoIP has been lingering in the wings for awhile now and this could be the thing that really pushes it into the spotlight.<br /><br />Post from Dial-a-Phone, UK's no. 1 for Mobile Phones.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-77552212417542814872009-02-16T08:23:00.000-08:002009-02-16T08:32:30.369-08:00Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)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. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone.<br /><br />How VoIP / Internet Voice Works<br />VoIP services convert your voice into a digital signal that travels over the Internet. If you are calling a regular phone number, the signal is converted to a regular telephone signal before it reaches the destination. VoIP can allow you to make a call directly from a computer, a special VoIP phone, or a traditional phone connected to a special adapter. In addition, wireless "hot spots" in locations such as airports, parks, and cafes allow you to connect to the Internet and may enable you to use VoIP service wirelessly.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />VoIP systems usually interface with the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) to allow for transparent phone communications worldwide[1].<br /><br />VoIP systems employ session control protocols to control the set-up and tear-down of calls as well as audio codecs which encode speech allowing transmission over an IP network as digital audio via an audio stream. Codec use is varied between different implementations of VoIP (and often a range of codecs are used); some implementations rely on narrowband and compressed speech, while others support high fidelity stereo codecs.<br /><br />Benefits<br /><br />Operational cost<br /><br />VoIP can be a benefit for reducing communication and infrastructure costs. Examples include:<br /><br /> * Routing phone calls over existing data networks to avoid the need for separate voice and data networks[21].<br /> * Conference calling, IVR, call forwarding, automatic redial, and caller ID features that traditional telecommunication companies (telcos) normally charge extra for are available for free from open source VoIP implementations such as Asterisk.<br />Flexibility<br /><br />VoIP can facilitate tasks and provide services that may be more difficult to implement using the PSTN. Examples include:<br /><br /> * The ability to transmit more than one telephone call over the same broadband connection[22]. This can make VoIP a simple way to add an extra telephone line to a home or office.<br /> * Secure calls using standardized protocols (such as Secure Real-time Transport Protocol.) Most of the difficulties of creating a secure phone connection over traditional phone lines, like digitizing and digital transmission, are already in place with VoIP. It is only necessary to encrypt and authenticate the existing data stream[23].<br /> * Location independence. Only an Internet connection is needed to get a connection to a VoIP provider. For instance, call center agents using VoIP phones can work from anywhere with a sufficiently fast and stable Internet connection.<br /> * Integration with other services available over the Internet, including video conversation, message or data file exchange in parallel with the conversation, audio conferencing, managing address books, and passing information about whether others (e.g., friends or colleagues) are available to interested parties.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-84691574216214365922009-02-11T09:00:00.000-08:002009-02-11T09:01:36.240-08:00Peer-to-peer, Virtual PBX, hosted, managed business VOIPSo yu hae heard talk about VoIP, but wat exactly does it mean? Well, the answer is that VoIP means different things to different people; it all depends on who you ask. Since the term VoIP can be applied in many unique ways, there is usually another word in front of VoIP to accurately explain the service. Usually the term VoIP is applied in one of the following ways : peer-to-peer VoIP, Virtual PBX VoIP, hosted VoIP, managed business VoIP etc. Below is a short run down of these services providing you with a quick look at each niche market to help you better understand this service.<br /><br />Peer-to-Peer VoIP<br /><br />What it is : Two people who have downloaded the same software can chat directly for free. Example : Skype, YM<br /><br />What you should know : It is free but works best for individuals ( when you want to chat with your kids or spouse from a business trip, for instance ), not business.<br /><br />Residential VoIP. In general this means that you use your analog phone to chat with other people except in this case the call is going over the Internet instead of a phone line. AN example of this is Vonage. An important thing to keep in mind is you get what you pay for. The price is better than a regular phone but service is often spotty.<br /><br />Virtual PBX. The benefit of virtual PBX is that it makes a small company look bigger. If you have a one-person firm, this is a good ption. By setting up a virtual PBX you can have callers press one for sales, two for marketing and three for technlogy. Then you can have all calls routed to your cell phone. An example of virtual PBX is GotVMail. Keep in mind however that while this is expensive, its functionality is limited.<br /><br />Hosted. This simply means that there are phones but no central piece of equipment at your office. This central technology is hosted by the provider. Example : Packet 8<br /><br />What you should know : You get more functionality than with a virtual PBX, yet you don't have to spend as much as you would on a managed business VoIP.<br /><br />Managed Business.<br /><br />This service is nearly identical to hosted VoIP, except everything runs on private lines, instead of the public Internet. This is ideal for a very large company that will be in truble if its phone s system goes down, even on a very rare occasion and even if only for a few minutes. Examples : MS< CBeyond, Cisco.<br /><br />What you should know : Better quality control but most expensive of all VoIP options.<br /><br />About the Author :<br />Frank Newman is a VoIP expert, providing in depth analysis of IP phones, VoIP providers, and more on his industry leading blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-46868718243676942752009-02-03T22:18:00.000-08:002009-02-03T22:23:27.086-08:00Voip BetamaxWelcome to Voip Betamax Reseller. We sell Betamax Voucher's at cheap price that you will never get in the world. Just buy it here... I open this promotion to all Malaysian or others which can bank in to my account...<br /><br />Bank in to my account RM 49.. You will get voucher euro 10...<br /><br />1. This promotion only for 10 vouchers only...<br />2. I sell below my cost. So, i just need your testimonial..<br />3. Bank in your money and give me testimonial..<br /><br />Hurry up.. This promotion will end at 20 February 2009..<br /><br /><br />Hurry up..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-56540125928276058772009-02-03T22:00:00.000-08:002009-02-03T22:06:31.477-08:00American Airlines Previews Wi-Fi. But Skype Gets BlockedChances are you'd feel differently about all the new airline fees if you were getting something new for your money--especially if that something were to help ease the tedium of a long flight. Starting today, American Airlines will begin testing that premise with a sneak preview of Wi-Fi connectivity aboard two flights--one from JFK to LA and one in the return direction--allowing passengers to send and receive emails, download and send attachments, and surf the web while aloft. If it works, American says it will roll out the service (possibly in a couple weeks) called Air Cell's "GoGo" on all of its 767-200s that fly on longer routes, such as New York to San Francisco, LA and Miami. Today's experiment will be free, but after that, the charge will be $12.95 per flight.<br /><br />One thing you will not be able to do is use internet voice services like Skype; those will be blocked, in keeping with the federal ban on phone calls. (In Europe, by contrast, inflight cell calls are permitted by law, but not all airlines have the necessary hardware yet.) Otherwise, there are no limits on content. "It's exactly the same as if you were at a Wi-Fi hot spot at an airport or at your local Starbucks," says American s Doug Backelin. He adds that the service will be able to handle a full planeload of users. Eventually, it should be on most domestic flights--the service works only in the continental U.S. and so it won't be offered on international routes.<br /><br />American may be the first legacy airline to introduce Wi-Fi, but JetBlue has been testing a different service aboard a single plane since last December. And Virgin America says it will soon introduce the Air Cell service on all of its 15 A320s.<br /><br />All business and first class seats in American's fleet have built-in power ports, and if you are consigned to a seat in coach, you can still plug in your laptop--power ports are scattered around the economy section.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-18694185944245419972009-02-02T03:31:00.000-08:002009-02-02T03:32:03.187-08:00VoIP Vs the Traditional PhoneVoIP is short for “Voice over Internet Protocol”. Also known as Internet Telephony, VoIP is the general term used to describe transmitting two-way voice over the Internet in real (or near-real) time. VoIP transmits voice in packets over data networks. With the promise of new features and low prices, VoIP providers want to replace regular circuit switch phone service for the millions of U.S. homes; the basic technical requirement being a broadband internet connection.<br /><br />How is a VoIP internet phone different from our telephone?<br /><br />Our traditional phone carries voice using analogue signaling over dedicated electronic circuits. The next generation saw digitized signals between exchanges. VoIP is a method by which the voice signal is digitized and then transmitted over the Internet in packets, in a similar manner to how an email with a sound file attachment is send over the Internet. Although Voice chats were famous for about 10 years now, it is only in the last few years that bandwidth, customer equipment, and protocols have provided us with a viable substitute for the PSTN.<br /><br />How is a VoIP more advantageous than our local phone lines?<br /><br />People are turning to VoIP. As of April 1, 2005, 1.8 million home VoIP lines were running in North America, says market tracker Point Topic. That's up nearly 40% from 1.3 million just three months earlier. The widespread use of broadband and the low prices for VoIP calls, almost always cheaper than conventional phone service have sparked the fast rise.<br /><br />The biggest plus of VoIP services as opposed to traditional phone services, is its easy installation features and low cost. Most VoIP services charge as less as $25 for all the features (such as caller id, call waiting, conference facilities, and call transfer) while traditional phone service is pricey with separate tariffs for long distance and local calls.<br /><br />Again, with VoIP services, the customer can opt to own virtual phone numbers in any place covered by the VoIP provider. That is, if you want your friends or peers in another state to be able to make calls to your VoIP phone without any additional cost or for a local call cost, all you have to do is to get a telephone number in that state and have the respective call routed to your ATA irrespective of your current physical location. By doing so, the maximum the caller may have to shell out for calling you will be the cost for a local call. This is a facility that is non-existent in the traditional phone services domain.<br /><br />VoIP call service has many additional features over traditional phone services. Apart from the traditional add-on services like call waiting, voice mail, caller ID; VoIP offers video phone option, travel with your phone number, worldwide service (need high-speed Internet connection), no area code tied to geographic area and ultra-low or free International calls.<br /><br />It is evident that VoIP is advantageous than traditional phones. However people should be very careful before choosing their VoIP service providers. Remember all service providers are not the best. One needs to keep in mind the difference in tariffs and schemes. Research well into the facilities offered by the players, cheap VoIP calls don’t mean great quality.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-68769585746818272032009-01-30T05:24:00.000-08:002009-01-30T05:26:00.414-08:00Security Privacy for Home VoIP - Don’t Just Think VoIPMuch disussion has centralised around the section and concealment aspects of VoIP as substantially as momentous issues in traffic to crisis calls. 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Maybe we can use video conference or 3G technology combain with voip or the rates is more cheap... or maybe we can send mms via voip..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-67608558787374641892009-01-09T06:44:00.000-08:002009-01-20T01:40:58.364-08:00Talk Becomes Cheap - VoIP The Alternative<div style="text-align: justify;"> More than for million people worldwide now use VOIP to route heir calls over the internet and private networks instead of over dedicated phone lnes. All you need is an adaptor that sits between your phone and your high-speed connection and magically transforms your conversation into byte-size digital packets and back to voice again. The quality is better than your cell and often as good as your landline, with a gazallion include features, for less money than you pay now. You can even keep your phone and number. So why aren't we all using VoIP?<br /><br /> For starters, you need broadband. Also, local area codes aren't yet available everywhere. Other hurdless : VoIP lines die when the power does, not all provider support 91, and there are theoritical security risks ( call taping, voicemail spam ), although most providers have protection against these threats<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-10097685964179477732009-01-03T00:13:00.000-08:002009-01-20T01:42:18.408-08:00VoIP Gains Traction in Slower EconomyAs if we needed any more proof, rumors swirling this week of massive layoffs at Microsoft Corp. show us that no company is immune from the recession that’s taken hold.<br /><br />Yet, just as mobility is emerging as an attractive option in this economy, with its inherent cost-savings, so VoIP, with its lower costs and increasingly reliable and high quality, is poised to gain a healthy share of the voice communications space.<br /><br />Experts already have told us that VoIP will gain a greater appreciation from the federal agency that regulates communications in the United States under President-elect Barack Obama’s administration. They’ve also said that VoIP stands to get better carrier interconnection rights and recognition among policy-makers that the telecommunications world is evolving toward Internet telephony.<br /><br />As Sam Li, chief executive officer and co-founder of Clearsight Networks says, demand for VoIP test solutions remains very healthy. Li’s Fremont, California-based company provides network monitoring and analysis tools for real-time application troubleshooting.<br /><br />Interestingly, in our interview with Li, printed below, we learn that for many of Clearsight’s customers, unified communications haven’t yet reached a point where solutions are compelling enough to draw clients.<br /><br />Our exchange follows.<br /><br />TMCnet: As it has for many industries, the recession has thrown a wrench into plans for companies in the telecommunications space. At the same time, VoIP is emerging as an increasingly attractive way for many businesses navigating the slower economy to cut costs. How has demand for ClearSight Networks’ VoIP analysis tools changed since the slowdown, if at all, and what does the company anticipate for 2009?<br /><br />Sam Li (pictured left): While it is true that today’s economic situation is hitting the telecommunications space hard, there is a silver lining. VoIP’s big draw is, and always has been, that it is more cost-effective than traditional telephony. As a result, there’s good reason to believe that the VoIP industry may not be as impacted as other businesses, as companies looking to save money continue to dedicate more attention to VoIP solutions than traditional telecom services. To ensure the ongoing health of their network and these VoIP services, these organizations require management tools such as the kind ClearSight provides.<br /><br />ClearSight has received quite a few awards for our VoIP test solutions. These awards help us position ClearSight as a leader in this space and help boost customer confidence when selecting one of our solutions.<br /><br />Demand for our tools is still relatively healthy – all things considered. We continue to push our products into new markets and verticals. For example, ClearSight is currently working with one of largest telecom organizations in Japan for the third phase of a large triple play project; the end-users are residential and home customers.<br /><br />As far as the outlook for 2009, ClearSight is on track to grow our business and make our revenue targets, despite the challenging economy.<br /><br /><br />TMCnet: Though the market hype for some time has been around “unified communications,” some would say that companies must get VoIP right first – that is, of a high and consistent quality – before they consider moving into a unified messaging environment. What do you hear from customers who are pursuing UC options such as fixed and mobile voice, e-mail, instant messaging, desktop and advanced business applications, IP-PBX (News - Alert), VoIP, telepresence, voicemail, fax, audio video and Web conferencing?<br /><br />SL: UC has not reached a critical point yet with our customers and I think this is mainly due to the lack of compelling solutions. ClearSight is closely researching the market, especially for the UC infrastructure solutions such as Cisco UC Manager orMicrosoft ( News - Alert) Office Communication Server.<br /><br />Ultimately, however, UC requires a higher quality network experience that any organization looking to invest in the technologies needs to closely consider. ClearSight Networks’ quality of service monitoring and trouble-shooting functions are major differentiators to any competitive offering, and as demand for UC increases, we anticipate so will demand for our solutions to properly monitor and manage them. Currently, ClearSight offers sophisticated and in-depth application analysis features for managing VoIP, video, fax and Web applications. As you mentioned, most of our customers would like to get VoIP deployed and working first, and so that is were we are focusing much of our efforts.<br /><br />TMCnet: How often do the problems that ClearSight sees emerge in a VoIP system – whether it’s packet loss or something else – have to do with the IP network itself?<br /><br />SL: When it comes to system problems, I would say it is 50/50 for the VoIP deployment. Fifty percent of the problems in a VoIP system are caused by the network, which is perhaps not as well-designed and engineered as it should be. Some companies are still running the applications other than VoIP in their VoIP backbone. Such practices should be discouraged as packet loss, jitter and delay are the major culprit to good VoIP quality and running such applications can only detrimental to achieving good VoIP. Lastly, VoIP equipment and applications are also major culprits.<br /><br />TMCnet: Your company’s ClearSight Analyzer and ClearSight Distributed products monitor VoIP transmission through sets of audio and video statistics and reports. TMCnet has talked to companies that offer similar services in the past, such asPsytechnics ( News - Alert), which provides software solutions that improve video communications and the quality of IP telephony. In a market that’s expected to become even more crowded, what specific value proposition does ClearSight bring?<br /><br />SL: Since VoIP is becoming increasingly important, there will be more and more companies entering the market and the total market size will grow significantly for the next few years. ClearSight enjoys several clear advantages in the area of VoIP and video monitoring and management. As a pioneer in application monitoring, analysis and reporting, we not only have years of experience strengthening our solutions, but we are also committed to continuously enhancing our products and solutions so that we may provide innovative and cutting-edge tools to our loyal customers.<br /><br />There are a handful of unique, key innovations at work within ClearSight solutions that gives us advantages over the competition. For example, in the area of unified communications, ClearSight solutions are adept at VoIP, video, fax and Web applications, ensuring organizations can proactively protect the health of their cutting-edge networks. ClearSight has also built up intuitive VoIP application level analysis features on top of ClearSight Network Time Machine product line, which will continue to be a focus of ours for the next three years.<br /><br />ClearSight delivers the only solutions that can accurately identify problems at the application layer. This enables ClearSight to more effectively capture, report and store data for real-time, proactive monitoring and management of your most critical applications as well as new, emerging technologies—better than any competitive solution available today.<br /><br />TMCnet: What about video? Many IT insiders, such as Cisco CEO John Chambers (News - Alert), have said that video-based communications are the wave of the future. The United States is lagging behind Europe as far as mobile video communications go, yet we hear every day about new telepresence and similar systems proliferating. What does ClearSight see as the future of those technologies and the future of its services that support them?<br /><br />SL: Video is becoming more and more important as Cisco (News - Alert) is pushing its MXE or media engine switch. When ClearSight was building a VoIP engine for our tools, the video component was part of the architecture, so our solutions are already prepared to support this fast growing technology. In fact, that support is one of the reasons why ClearSight’s VoIP and video features are so highly regarded today. We developed a video QoS measurement called VQ-Factor which is the equipment part of Audio MOS. We will be able to go into Video CODEC to provide much deeper Video QOS measurement and alarming. Additionally, as 3G service is getting popular, ClearSight is also anticipating adding our audio and video features into PDA or mobile devices.<br /><br />By Michael Dinan<br />TMCnet EditorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-57444064970506334072008-12-24T10:17:00.001-08:002008-12-24T10:17:33.026-08:00The Top 25 VoIP Innovations of 2008<div style="text-align: justify;">The VoIP industry, like most others, felt the impact of the 2008 economic crisis. Promising startups laid off employees. Some even shut down. But VoIP companies had an advantage many others didn't: their capacity for intense innovation. That ability let them provide products and services that could help struggling businesses of all sorts, and even individuals, save money and work in new and better ways. In short, the industry could help itself weather the downturn by helping others do so. It's no surprise, then, that the level of VoIP innovation remained as high this year as in 2007.<br /><br />Here, in no special order, are the top 25 VoIP innovations of 2008:<br /><br />1. Creating an iNum country code for VoIP: It was the most far-sighted initiative of the year. Belgium-based Voxbone SA, a global supplier of inbound local numbers and IP transport, persuaded the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) to create a new country code for international calls. The move meant callers would be able to dial an "iNum" phone number starting with 883, instead of a location-based phone number beginning with, say, 1 for the U.S. or 44 for the U.K., and reach a VoIP subscriber anywhere in the world.<br /><br />The new country code went live in November. To start, it will mainly work for calls between subscribers of VoIP services. In 2009, Voxbone will begin setting up the commercial and technical arrangements with carriers that will allow calls from ordinary landline and mobile phones around the world to reach VoIP subscribers with iNums. At that point, VoIP will have become a country of its own.<br /><br />2. VoIP for iPhone and Android: VoIP companies of every stripe raced each other in 2008 to make their services work with the hottest mobile handsets around, the iPhone and the Android. The contenders included fringland ltd., iSkoot, JAJAH Inc., 8x8 Inc., Truphone, Voxofon LLC and more. Some of the applications they came up with use client software downloaded to the handset, and some provide mobile Web sites that replicate, for example, the iPhone dial pad. Some rely on wifi connections, while others send calls over cellular voice links to the VoIP network. Voxofon's Android application works in the background, emerging only to give the caller the choice to make international calls via VoIP rather than expensive overseas cellular circuits. Taken together, the flurry of applications demonstrated how rapidly VoIP companies can innovate in response to fast-changing conditions.<br /><br />3. Extending voice-streaming technology to video: When GIPS changed its formal name from Global IP Sound to Global IP Solutions in January 2007, it pointed the way to the future of the VoIP industry. A variety of Web-based VoIP providers, from AOL LLC to Gizmo5 to Net2Phone Inc. to Yahoo! Inc., use GIPS voice-processing technology to maintain the quality of voice communication over widely varying network types and conditions. And if GIPS was ready to move beyond just sound (that is, voice), it meant they could too. So when the company extended its technology to video in October 2008, it laid the groundwork for an explosion of new services using VoIP as just one part of a larger array of real-time IP communications.<br /><br />4. Free hosted IP PBX – if you buy SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunks: One of the key benefits of hosted VoIP, or hosted IP PBX, is the money it can save companies by cutting calling costs and making the purchase of premise phone systems unnecessary. In September, Bandwidth.com took that benefit to the extreme by offering free IP PBX service to customers of its Internet access and SIP trunking services.<br /><br />The move did away with the per-seat pricing model of conventional hosted services, since it meant companies could pay only for the number of SIP lines they bought. That helps because not all employees are on the phone at the same time, so five lines might be enough for a 20-person company. With a per-seat model, by contrast, each extension, even rarely used ones in the reception area or loading dock, still costs about $50 per month.<br /><br />5. Voice-to-text transcription for both incoming and outgoing messages: Voice-to-text transcription, using voice-recognition software to turn incoming spoken messages into text, is becoming an increasingly common feature of innovative voice mail services. The attraction is clear: Users can read their messages on their PCs or mobile devices rather than having to call in and negotiate an interactive menu to listen to them. They can also skip unimportant messages instead of having to wade through the whole list.<br /><br />MessageSling applies voice recognition to the voice mail recipients' speech as well. First, it lets them access the system by verbal commands rather than key presses. More important, it lets them reply verbally, turning their spoken responses into text for delivery to the original callers by email or text message. Pretty soon, pressing keys will be a thing of the past.<br /><br />6. Free ad-supported international calling: Several services provide free calling between users connected to the Internet. Calls to traditional phones, however, almost always cost money, because traditional phone companies charge for terminating calls. Ring Plus Inc. makes even international calls to landline and cellular phones by having callers listen to short ads rather than ringing tones while waiting for the person to answer. It's not for everyone, but it offers a good alternative for those with many overseas friends and relatives who aren't always at their computers to take a Skype or Gizmo call.<br /><br />Talkster provides a similar free calling service and adds a perk for those who want to save even more money by using Skype to replace their landlines. Its ad-supported service depends on knowing who is placing the international call, based on the person's caller ID. Because SkypeOut users can now attach their cellular numbers as their outgoing caller IDs, they can now make unlimited overseas calls through Talkster for the $2.95 per month that outbound Skype calling costs in North America.<br /><br />7. Putting voice, video, text, time and location information in a single post: Vayyoo's vPost service offers yet more proof that VoIP is just one of a spectrum of interrelated applications that can be delivered in a variety of ways. The service lets smartphone users create integrated messages containing voice, image, video, text, time and location information, and post them to a Web site or other system of their choice. The messages are of course called vPosts and their potential uses are limited only by imagination.<br /><br />8. Newber's iPhone anywhere numbers. FreedomVOICE went straight for the iPhone crowd with the beta introduction of Newber, a virtual number service that lets business users automatically change the numbers to which their cellular calls are forwarded. It employs client software that uses the iPhone's GPS capabilities to determine which office or home landline the user is near, and automatically forwards incoming calls to that number. Unfortunately, although the innovative service was supposed to go commercial in October, it still hasn't shown up on the FreedomVOICE Web site.<br /><br />9. Real-time — and real cheap — language interpretation: Transcribing voice messages into text is, as noted above, fairly common by now. This summer JAJAH and IBM Corp. collaborated to do something far more unusual: translate spoken phrases into a different language. When in a foreign country, call a local JAJAH number and speak a phrase into your mobile handset. Hand it to the person you're trying to communicate with to hear your phrase as translated into the local language. The cost? Just the price of a JAJAH call, which typically runs pennies per minute. The innovative VoIP provider unveiled the Chinese version of the service in time for the Beijing Olympics.<br /><br />10. Hosted VoIP as a key system: Call it retro VoIP. 8x8 introduced a version of its Packet8 hosted IP telephony service that emulates traditional small-business key systems rather than sophisticated big-company IP PBXes. When a call arrives, the lights for line 1 begin blinking on everyone's phone at once. When someone answers it and starts talking, the next call lights up all the line 2 lights. Call transfers also take place the old-fashioned way: someone presses a button to put the caller on hold, and shouts across the room, "Line 1 for you, Joe." Meanwhile, the small business gains all the cost savings and technical advantages of IP telephony without burdening change-resistant employees with learning a new system.<br /><br />11. A wifi voice seal of approval: Experts often warn that transporting voice calls over wifi links can compromise call quality. No small business wants to damage its image with shoddy-sounding phone calls, but sometimes wifi is the only practical way to gain the benefits of VoIP. To help with such dilemmas, the Wi-Fi Alliance this year began certifying equipment as suitable for carrying voice traffic.<br /><br />The Alliance's standards are strict: latency and jitter must be less than 50 milliseconds and packet loss less than 1 percent. The original program, covering home/SOHO gear, is called the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice-Personal program. Manufacturers will be able to put stickers on their equipment boasting of their certification, bringing ease of mind to harried managers hurrying to implement VoIP as quickly and cheaply as possible. The Alliance's next step is to certify the kind of heavy-duty equipment used by enterprises and carriers.<br /><br />12. VoIP peering for Web-phone companies: VoIP peering, in which VoIP providers exchange traffic directly rather than sending it to one other through the PSTN (public switched telephone network), benefits both the vendors and their customers. In particular, it helps them avoid the extra cost and decreased voice quality that results every time voice traffic moves from an IP network to the PSTN. Stealth Communications' VPF (Voice Peering Fabric) has for some time been a place where VoIP companies with their own physical networks could exchange traffic.<br /><br />In the summer of 2008 Stealth extended that capability to what CEO Shrihari Pandit calls software-based telecoms — that is, those that have no physical networks of their own, but rather deliver their calls over the Internet. The change will let some of the most innovative phone companies around work together, potentially creating large groups of users who can share creative new voice and other services that rely on end-to-end IP transport.<br /><br />13. Flexible Web-based conferencing for SMBs (small- to medium-sized businesses): Add a Web interface and conference calls evolve from rigidly limited conversations to spontaneous discussions with multiple ways for participants to know what others are up to. Iotum Inc.'s Calliflower service, for one, provides an onscreen dashboard that lets callers see who else is on a call or has not yet joined, as well as a chat "wall" where they can exchange text comments and post URLs to illustrate their points. Scheduling is just as easy. Users can log on and immediately set up a call, send invitations and moderate the call. Best of all, there's a version that costs nothing except for the long-distance connection to reach the service.<br /><br />14. Bringing outbound virtual number calling to the menu bar: GrandCentral Communications was a high profile startup that built a loyal following by providing virtual numbers for individuals. Its users could go online and have calls to their numbers forwarded to whatever landline or mobile phones they wished. It was particularly helpful for those who moved, changed or lost jobs, because it meant they could remain reachable no matter where they were. The problem was that if they made calls from those same landline or cellular phones, the outbound calls didn't display their GrandCentral caller ID.<br /><br />In November 2008 GrandCentral, which Google had acquired in July 2007, developed a desktop calling application for Macintosh users called Vocito. Clicking the Vocito icon in the menu bar opens a drop-down window that lets users click-to-call manually entered or address-book numbers. GrandCentral first calls the user at a preregistered number; when the user picks up, it calls the destination number, giving the GrandCentral number as the caller ID. It turns virtual numbers into practical business tools.<br /><br />15. IMs containing voice instead of text: IMing (instant messaging) can be a time-saver and efficiency booster. But taking it mobile introduces a number of inefficiencies. In particular, typing on a tiny keyboard is difficult anywhere. And in some places, such as the driver's seat of a car, it's also dangerous. Palringo's solution, which it calls vocal IM, lets people send each other instant voice messages. Call a number, say the name of a person in your contact list and speak your message. The recipient gets a text-message notification, then calls a number and listens to the message. Couldn't be simpler — or easier on the thumbs.<br /><br />16. Browser-based video calling: For big enterprises looking to go beyond VoIP to video communication, telepresence systems costing $100,000 or more will work just fine. But smaller companies will need something cheaper. Fortunately, Adobe System Inc.'s Flash technology now puts the capability to make video calls using a webcam and computer microphone right in the browser. TokBox Inc. was one of the first to take advantage of it, targeting consumers with its easy-to-use offering but providing a useful tool for small businesses as well. Raketu wasn't far behind. Jaduka offered a similar service but built it around Microsoft Corp.'s ActiveX, so it only works with Internet Explorer. Ribbit Corp. also uses Flash technology in its Web telephony platform, so look for much more of the same.<br /><br />17. Hands-free configuration for IP phones: Fonality got tired of hearing the term "auto-provisioning" used to describe how easily IP PBXes register and set up new IP phones once they're plugged into a network. The company believed too many vendors were claiming to offer the capability when users really had to do a fair amount of work to get the phones working. So Fonality came up with the term "hands-free auto-provisioning" to describe the way its trixbox Pro IP PBX platform worked. The software detects each Aastra Technologies Ltd. or Polycom Inc. phone as it is plugged in, determines whether it's new, gives it the next available extension if it is, and orders it to reboot. After that, the phone is ready to use.<br /><br />18. Giving click-to-call a pleasant voice: Click-to-call applications are popping up everywhere. They allow a company to embed a link or button in a Web site or email. When someone clicks, the application sets up a VoIP call between the clicker and the company, using SkypeIn or some other service to make the call free to the caller. MOBIVOX makes the service sound better than usual. It initiates a call to the person who clicked the button, then calls the intended recipient at the company that published the button. When the recipient picks up, a pleasant-sounding voice says where the call is from and how much it will cost per minute, and offers the option of accepting or rejecting the call. It's nicer than being interrupted by a screen pop or, worse, simply a call displaying an unfamiliar caller ID or none at all.<br /><br />19. Automating the creation of Asterisk call flows: Using Asterisk IP PBX software can let a small company build a phone system on the cheap. But Asterisk can be hard to use, particularly when it comes to setting up dial plans or call flows — those complex roadmaps dictating how the system handles incoming and outgoing calls. The unappealing options include learning to program using the text-based Asterisk dial-plan syntax, or hiring someone to do it for you.<br /><br />Apstel LLC's Visual Dialplan provides a graphical interface that makes it easy to set up call flows without being an Asterisk geek. Although providers of commercial Asterisk-based IP PBXes offer their own graphical administrative tools, they typically target a broad range of configuration and other tasks. As a result, they aren't able to make full use of Asterisk dial-plan features and capabilities. Because Visual Dialplan specializes in the task, it can do it better than the more general-purpose applications.<br /><br />20. Moving from big-iron to UC (unified communications) software vendor: Put this one in the category of walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Siemens AG showed it took seriously the contention that the future of communications lay in software, not hardware. In March, it released OpenScape UC Server, UC software that can run on Linux servers and lets enterprises migrate to VoIP and UC at their own pace. It also released voice, UC and video applications that will run on the platform. The voice application, HiPath 8000 V3.1 R2, was ported from Siemens' HiPath 8000 enterprise phone system. In short, the vendor released software would let companies build phone systems running on open-source server platforms as an alternative to buying its hardware.<br /><br />21. Combining Skype calling with online collaboration: Online collaboration lets people in different locations view each other's computer desktops and share applications via the Internet. It's more effective if they can talk to one another, but that can get expensive if they live in different parts of the world. Yugma Inc. addressed that problem by integrating Skype into its cross-platform service for Linux, Macintosh and Windows users.<br /><br />22. Turning Web developers into phone-service providers: In late 2007, Ribbit introduced its platform aimed at making it easy to extend telephony services to the Web. BT (British Telecommunications PLC) bought the Silicon Valley startup in July 2008. And in November Ribbit took its platform public, automating the sign-up process and otherwise making it as simple as possible for Web developers to build phone functions and features into their applications. BT demonstrated its commitment to software-based telephony by allowing developers to use any network they liked to access Ribbit rather than insisting that they use the BT network and pay for the privilege.<br /><br />23. Disposable numbers for serial socializers: It's fairly easy to get cheap or free virtual phone numbers, which accept incoming calls that you can then have forwarded to any other numbers you wish. Most providers of such services, though, expect you to keep the numbers once you have them. Vumber, by contrast, wants you to feel free to throw your virtual number, or Vumber, away whenever you feel like it. And why might you feel like it? Well, perhaps you gave the number out too often to people in bars — or to department stores or Web merchants. Either way, you can change to a new number three times for free on top of the $9.99 monthly charge. After that, each change costs $1.99. It's a cheap way to make up for your lapses in social judgment. As the Vumber Web site puts it, "You can change your Vumber like you change your clothes."<br /><br />24. VoIP as USB plug-in: MagicJack came out of beta at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2008. The tiny device plugs into the USB port of an Internet-connected computer, and an ordinary phone plugs into the MagicJack. Get one for $39.95 and you can make unlimited calls in North America for a year, with each year thereafter costing $19.95. Get a pair, give one to your friend or relative, and the two of you can talk for free for as long as you like. The biggest shortcoming: your computer has to be turned on to make and receive calls. The biggest attraction: plug-and-talk simplicity.<br /><br />25. Stuffing all communication services into one platform: It was the most ambitious entrant yet in the contest to consolidate every conceivable Internet communication method in a single platform. In November, TelCentris Inc. introduced the VoxOx universal communicator that lets users access the major email, IM, voice, video and social networking services through one interface. It combines all the contact information in a single "meta" address book and provides a free virtual phone number for incoming calls. The only cost is for outbound calling to the PSTN. It runs on Windows and Intel Macintoshes, with Linux and mobile versions in the works.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-20581352583123502232008-12-23T02:54:00.001-08:002008-12-23T02:54:45.772-08:00Become a VoIP Systems Engineer1. Pursue a bachelor's degree at an accredited 4-year institution. Focus the bulk of your studies on electronic engineering and computer science topics, such as radio frequency (RF), Local area network (LAN) and VoIP.<br /><br />2. Take advanced courses in VoIP to learn about the difficulties the technology has with latent (late) signals. This has to do with the manner in which VoIP transmits information. Older computers and telephone systems with analog (rather than digital) circuitry may experience problems with the VoIP interface and might be unable to receive VoIP without echoing sounds.<br /><br />3. Continue your education with an advanced degree in a technology-related field. While the minimum requirements to become a VoIP systems engineer is a bachelor's degree, an increasing number of employers are seeking candidates with master's degrees in computer engineering, computer science or electrical engineering.<br /><br />4. Capitalize on your new electronics training to get a job with an Internet-based or telecommunications company as a technician. Working as a technician will acquaint you with particular systems, and can provide you with the 2 to 5 years of experience most engineering employers seek.<br /><br />5. Ask to work as a technician near VoIP engineers. You can learn on the job by watching what the engineers do. Make it clear to your employer that you would like to receive specialized VoIP training.<br /><br />6. Emphasize your detailed nature and your ability to work independently on your resume. VoIP systems engineers must keep every aspect of the system in place, and often need to work with very little supervision.<br /><br />Tips & Warnings<br /><br /># Consider undergoing VoIP training while in the military. You can opt for training that focuses on electronic communication, such as the Navy's Electronics Communication Technician program. This training will give you a basic background in electronics that you can use later to gain engineering experience. The Army also offers advanced telecommunications training for service men and women.<br /><br /># Navy Electronics technicians must not be color blind.<br /><br /># Expect to be on-call when you are not at work. Systems engineers are often required to fix problems in the system during off hours.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-72519424349746993902008-12-22T21:59:00.000-08:002008-12-22T22:00:56.093-08:00The Advantages Of Voip For Businesses<div style="text-align: justify;">VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIPfor business has now become very popular, and will eventually take over from traditional tepehony systems. There are still numerous problems that are being worked out by VOIP developers and VOIP Providers, but it truly is a revolutionary communications method.<br /><br />Voice over IP (VoIP) technology for business provides many advantages to companies and individuals over both traditional telephone services and traditional IP communications. But, like other technologies, it also brings with it the potential for abuse.<br /><br />Voice quality, or Quality of Service, refers to the clarity of your phone call over a business or domestic network. The "how good do I sound" approach to measuring the VoIP network.<br /><br />Under normal circumstances, when using a Broadband connection, the quality of a conversation using VoIP will be indistinguishable from a conventional telephone service. If you have a VoIP service, you might be limited only to other subscribers to the service, or you may be able to call any phone number, anywhere in the world.<br /><br />The government just recently ordered that all VoIP providers make 911 available. Up to this point, people who did switch from a landline to VoIP were not able to call 911 for emergency services.<br /><br />Businesses are reducing costs using VoIP for business, improving customer service while gaining access to features and applications that increase worker productivity. The best business phone systems can stand the test of time and grow with your business needs. Businesses simply send all of their information over their Broadband Internet connection whether it be Internet data from PCs or voice calls from their employees. It all shares the same pipe, which could be DSL or Cable High Speed connection for Small Offices or T1/T3 cables for medium to larger sized businesses.<br /><br />Any phone system made can take advantage of VoIP lines. You do not need an IP based (IP PBX) or even IP compatible phone system. An ever growing number of Internet connections around the world that let VoIP which turns Internet infrastructure to a giant global telephone network. For the VoIP user, VXI headset solutions enhance the overall experience with VoIP by providing premium sound quality, ergonomic comfort, and long lasting durability.<br /><br />VoIP converts the voice signal from your telephone into a digital signal that travels over the internet then converts it back at the other end so you can speak to anyone with a regular phone number. VoIP for business is here to stay, and is one of today's fastest growing technologies. VOIP and VOIP telephones have opened a whole new realm of possibilities for businesses and individuals across the globe.<br /><br />VoIP is employed in telephony applications, from analog phones to next-generation IP phones and wireless headsets, and in desktop voice chat services, from web-based party-line chat services (like Yahoo! Chat) to the well-known Skype desktop voice-calling service. VoIP business carriers are already attempting to fix this problem by implementing a technical work-around. Finally, it will be very difficult to integrate VoIP on a massive scale, because while the standard Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) has a common standard, VoIP does not. VoIP PR News is a portal service, providing up to date articles related to the VoIP industry. VoIP headlines are provided by their 24-7 Press Release Service , from the VoIP for Business category of this web site.<br /><br />VoIP is the transmission of voice over packet-switched networks. If you're on the internet with a fast enough connection, you can speak to another party without incurring any call charges whatsoever, as long as the other party is using a VOIP for business device compatible with yours. For the moment VoIP is a compliment to your traditional phone line, rather than a replacement. The low cost in processing VOIP data has meant that there are now growing number Voip service providers who can compete with the large Telco’s.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-71415272943108663492008-12-13T16:50:00.000-08:002008-12-13T16:54:13.134-08:00Private Systems versus VoIP<div style="text-align: justify;">A private telephone system approach can’t begin to compare to a VoIP model<br />in terms of savings. Your guide should be “How much telephone calling traffic,<br />across all five regulated PSTN charging categories, do you or your company<br />have each month?” If your monthly call volume, which is charged by the<br />minute for each line across each charging category, is substantial, a private<br />telephone system model reduces your recurring charges because you use<br />fewer lines. However, VoIP can reduce your recurring charges even further, as<br />you’ll discover in the next chapter.<br /><br />Following is a list of cost benefits and features that your company can gain by<br />converting to its own telephone system.<br /><br />1. Greatly reduced number of access lines<br />2. Reduced recurring carrier charges<br />3. Reduced access line fees and surcharges<br />4. Reduced access line taxes<br />5. Elimination of call feature charges<br />6. Greater managerial control of telephony systems and services<br /><br />There is no doubt that moving to a private telephone system saves a company<br />significant money when compared to a POTS access-line model. But<br />keep in mind that all of these cost benefits are based on reductions in the<br />number of lines required or lower costs for features priced on a per-line<br />basis. These benefits are also realized with any VoIP model.<br /><br />The conventional telephony models described in this section, KTS and PBX,<br />don’t remove the problems associated with telephone costs. They only minimize<br />them by adjusting the number of access lines or calling features you<br />need to pay for. A VoIP system, on the other hand, represents a fundamental<br />change in telephony, and thereby offers huge cost savings, feature enhancements,<br />and productivity improvements. VoIP eliminates the need for most access lines.<br />(A few POTS lines are always required in any building.)<br />VoIP eliminates also the noncarrier costs (that is, your maintenance costs),<br />line fees, and government surcharges that come with those lines.<br />And VoIP runs on the computer network, which is usually already set up.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-34365831755017600272008-12-11T08:51:00.000-08:002009-01-20T01:42:51.508-08:00Private Telephone Systems Reduce POTS Line Costs<div style="text-align: justify;">Computer data networks and circuit-switched voice networks are completely<br />separate, with individual staffing, billing, maintenance, and accounting systems.<br />Although the maintenance costs of computer networks are affordable<br />for most companies, the recurring charges for traditional forms of telephony<br />are huge for small, medium, and large multilocation companies.<br /><br />VoIP is designed to converge (integrate) a company’s voice needs onto the company’s<br />existing computer network. If a company does this, they can eliminate<br />most (if not all) recurring circuit-switched telephony charges.<br /><br />In the past, the POTS world had only two types of services: local and long distance.<br />Local service covered the entire metropolitan area, with no distinctions<br />for the various levels of toll service that we have today. In the early<br />days of the telephone, long-distance cost customers dearly. A call from New<br />York to the west coast might have cost $3 to $4 per minute. Today, that same<br />call might cost a consumer $.02 to $.05 per minute and a corporate caller $.01<br />to $.03 per minute. The corporate customer is most likely on some sort of<br />dedicated private network consisting of a phone system connected to the<br />PSTN.<br /><br />It might appear that the cost of telephony today is dirt cheap in historical<br />terms. This would be a mistaken conclusion. In addition to the carriers getting<br />more organized and the government increasing its regulation of the<br />telecommunications industry, many changes have evolved. These changes<br />have increased your bottom-line telephone bill and increased the number of<br />line items on that bill.<br /><br />Now, instead of just two types of phone service offered on the PSTN (local<br />and long distance), we have five: local, intralata, intrastate, interstate, and<br />international. These five services<br />are based on the origin and destination of a call, using the LATA and<br />NPA-NXX to determine those locations. In addition, the same system is used<br />by the government to place various surcharges and fees on each telephone<br />access line.<br /><br />No one would argue that the quality of carrier-switched telephony is excellent.<br />However, the system that has evolved for charging telephony customers<br />leaves much unsaid and a lot to be desired. Except for local calling, VoIP can<br />reduce or eliminate the charges of the other four categories.<br /><br />To lessen the burden of newer and diverse telephone costs, many companies<br />have acquired their own POTS-based telephone systems. Company-sponsored<br />telephone systems can reduce the monthly bill that consumers and companies<br />pay for telephony services. Four different telephony system models have<br />evolved in the past three decades.<br /><br />The first model, POTS, has already been described; it is the use of telephony<br />access lines and carrier services over the PSTN through a carrier. The other<br />models are the Centrex, KTS, and PBX models. Each of these are discussed in<br />this sections.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412058650087158787.post-68936820746307523092008-12-09T16:19:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:22:25.591-08:00Gaining Flexibility with VoIP<div style="text-align: justify;">VoIP is not just about making and receiving telephone calls; it’s about a whole<br />new way of communicating. Sure, it includes telephone calls, but there is so<br />much more to the VoIP telephony picture. VoIP integrates most if not all<br />other forms of communication. You can even run videoconferencing to your<br />desktop.<br /><br />With VoIP, your company enjoys increased productivity and customer satisfaction.<br />These improvements are typically realized through the flexibility<br />offered by enhanced calling features. A few calling features, such as voice<br />mail and call transfer, have been around in the POTS world for quite some<br />time. On the other hand, integrating data, voice, and video applications to<br />run over a single network and work with wireless phones are more recent<br />innovations made possible by IP telephony.<br /><br />Following are some enhanced calling features made possible by IP telephony:<br /><br />1. Vemail: Before IP telephony and VoIP, you accessed voice mail through a<br />telephone and accessed e-mail through a computer. With VoIP, you can<br />read your voice mail on your computer screen and listen to your e-mail<br />through an IP-enabled telephone. The new term for this converged feature<br />is vemail (pronounced “v-e-mail”).<br /><br />2. Web surfing: Because VoIP operates with the same set of IP rules and<br />protocols that support Web-based applications, it is possible to access<br />the Web with an IP-enabled telephone. If you have an IP telephone with a<br />large enough screen, it can display Web pages or a list of your favorite<br />Web links. For instance, you could use your phone to view your stock<br />exchange trading status or the current weather forecast.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Getting Down to Business with VoIP 15</span></span><br /><br />In an IP telephony world, these calling features (and many more) are available<br />with no monthly recurring charges. VoIP, with all of its many benefits, is<br />quickly replacing traditional POTS-based technologies. VoIP is even becoming<br />a superior replacement for many former computer-only applications.<br />One of the big stories with VoIP is the many new and exciting features that<br />increase your ability to be agile and mobile. You no longer have to say “I’ve<br />got to get to a phone!” VoIP can be on your desk, computer, mobile phone, or<br />PDA. It can be hardwired or have no wires at all. This flexibility is astounding<br />to those familiar with traditional telephony.<br />If you have a mobile user base, be sure to check out IP soft phones. A soft<br />phone is software that works on a laptop computer or pocket PC and provides<br />most of the functionality of a traditional desk phone. If a user can connect<br />to a network, the soft phone provides a way to reap the benefits of IP<br />telephony regardless of location.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0