how does voip work

how does voip work?  Transmitting digitised voice over a data network using internet protocols put very simply.

how does voip work?  In an office environment you will have a voip server that recognised voip devices and will route packets of speech coding from one IP address to another.

how does voip work?  In the wider world the transmission will be through many servers and routing equipment.  The big difference between the WWW and a LAN is that the IT manager has full control of the traffic and the “policemen” that wave the vehicles through the intersections and junctions.  It’s just like the roads and motorways.  We need the voip packages to get prioritised over everything else:  web pages, streaming video, text messages, etc.  They can suffer a few seconds delay but real conversations are killed by delays.

how does voip work?  QOS is the answer.  It stands for Quality of Service and is implemented in Layer 3 and 4 switches and routers in businesses.  Now we’re seeing SIP Trunks being offered to overcome global voip problems. When the UK’s 21CN project has been completed (2012?) then we all stand to benefit from cheaper comms costs – we hope.

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