VoIP: the future of healthcare communications?
Newton Meckley has written this good summary of Voice over IP telephony. Please note some of the article is only relevant to US readers.
Voice over Internet Protocol lets you make a telephone call using your computer and its high speed network. The voice signal from your telephone converts to voice over Internet protocol technology to a digitized signal that lets it be delivered across the Internet. Then when it gets to the person you're calling it changes back to regular telephone technology.
You can have a traditional phone conversation calling any standard phone number. When you call with Voip using your land line phone using the adapter for VoIP you get a dial tone just as usual and you dial just the way you always did. VoIP sometimes lets you call directly from your PC using an ordinary microphone or standard telephone.
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