how voip works

Technology – that’s how voip works!  Digitising your voice is the first step in how voip works.  Transmitting it across a digital network is the second stage in how voip works.  Finally reconstituting it into sounds you can hear is the final part of how voip works.

OK that’s the same as TDM you say.  You’re quite right.  The difference is that the converted digits are put into packets that share the wires and optical fibres with other multi-media traffic.  It goes from one IP address to another.

Unfortunately these routes are analogous to roads and motorways and at rush hour there are too many vehicles all trying to go along the same path.  Some are slowed down but they do get to their destination eventually.  Just imagine if our speech was like that!  Well, how voip works is that it has to prioritise every packet that contains the spoken word!  In Local Area Networks that’s achieved by QOS in Layer 3 or 4 switches and routers.  Doing that over the WWW is a different matter!

The Twenty-First-Century-Network in the UK is how voip works in the future for the general public and internet based VoIP.

Call TelephoneSystemsDirect if you want to know how voip works on 0800 652 8052.