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How to use VOIP communications for effective business solutions.

 

I am the CEO of phone.com if you failed to notice my bio.  Which means that I deal with phone related business needs obviously. 

VOIP has become a buzzword in recent times, but it's really more than a buzzword, because there are many advantages of VOIP at home.  Do you know the benefits of using VOIP?

 

First let's make sure you understand what VOIP is. VOIP or voice over internet protocol is a way of taking analog audio signals [traditional telephone signals] and turn them into digital data that can then be transmitted across the internet.

 

VOIP takes your standard internet telephone and turns it into a free phone service.  By using VOIP software, you bypass your telephone company for free.

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What is VOIP? 

Well, for all of the technologically challenged, I will define one of the words that I use on a daily basis. VOIP: Voice over Internet protocol. I like this one: # The technology used to transmit voice conversations over a data network using the Internet Protocol. Such data network may be the Internet or a corporate Intranet.
www.shiftnetworks.com/glossary.cfm

What this means for small business:
1. Save a lot of money on your phone bill by using your existing internet/broadband service and make voice calls over the Internet.
2. As your business grows you can easily add new numbers, extensions and minutes to your plan through your online account.

Learn More About VoIP.

Virtual Office 

If you have more than 1 employee but don't have an office. If your customers need to remember 3 cell phone numbers just to reach you or your partners. If your tired of getting business calls at home after business hours. Then Phone.com Virtual Office is for you.

With Virtual Office there is no need to change phone service providers or install any hardware. Simply assign your existing phone number to your virtual extension and callers to your new Phone.com phone number can dial your extension and be forwarded to your existing phone! This feature alone allows you to connect multiple locations, phones and staff under one main phone number.

These virtual extensions can be accessed through menu options when calls are received at your Phone.com phone number or by direct dialing an assigned phone number.

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The benefits of voip 

There are actually three different ways that VOIP can be used. ATA is the easiest method using a device called an ATA or analog telephone adaptor. This device lets you connect a standard telephone to your computer using your internet connection.

IP phones are specialized telephones that look just like a regular phone but rather than the traditional phone jack they have the Ethernet connector and they connect directly to your router. Computer to computer is the easiest and is already in common use. It requires a microphone, speaker, and sound card and you can talk to anyone that has the same.

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VoIP on Wikipedia 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP, ) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony and Internet telephony, as well as voice over broadband, broadband telephony, and broadband phone, when the network connectivity is available over broadband Internet access.

VoIP systems usually interface with the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) to allow for transparent phone communications worldwide.

VoIP can be a benefit for reducing communication and infrastructure costs by routing phone calls over existing data networks and avoiding duplicate network systems. Skype and Vonage are notable service provider examples that have achieved widespread user and customer acceptance and market penetration.

Voice-over-IP systems carry telephony speech as digital audio, typically reduced in data rate using speech data compression techniques, packetized in small units of typically tens of milliseconds of speech, and encapsulated in a packet stream over IP.

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