My OperaVoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:22:59 PM
Internet Telephony
Calling your friends via a digital medium never been easier! Of course every time you use your cell phone your voice is digitally sampled then transferred. But what we could call land line phones started to convert as well. At home we are using Internet telephony provided by my ISP Vidéotron. Their service is very stable, you get to keep your old phone number, 911 works, you can get all the options available on regular phone connection. Having this service does not alter your cable TV signal nor your Internet connection speed. The calls are encrypted within Videotron's internal network. You can subscribe to their service even if you don't have the Internet or Cable TV from them, but you won't save as much money though.
This way you get to combine your services and save a lot of money!
P2P Telephony
But there is also another form of VoIP I'd like to talk about, it's Skype! They've been out there for sometime and have all the experience they needed. Skype is P2P messaging software that lets you make free calls to other users of the network. So if you have a computer, microphone/headset, you are ready to make free calls world-wide over the Internet. Problem is most people don't even have a microphone and can't get any benefit from that great technology. Skype recently bought by eBay comes with other features you can pay for such as SkypeOut; to call land line phones, SkypeIn; to get several phone numbers normal phones can call to, Voicemail; well we all know what that is.
So the thing with Skype is that it's 100% within it's network but you need to pay if you have to cross technology. A perfect world would make all computers have Skype and headsets so we can make free calls world-wide!! I mentioned earlier, it's P2P encrypted calls meaning it's not a server handling the transfers beeing the reason why it's free for skype-to-skype users.
Calling your friends via a digital medium never been easier! Of course every time you use your cell phone your voice is digitally sampled then transferred. But what we could call land line phones started to convert as well. At home we are using Internet telephony provided by my ISP Vidéotron. Their service is very stable, you get to keep your old phone number, 911 works, you can get all the options available on regular phone connection. Having this service does not alter your cable TV signal nor your Internet connection speed. The calls are encrypted within Videotron's internal network. You can subscribe to their service even if you don't have the Internet or Cable TV from them, but you won't save as much money though.
This way you get to combine your services and save a lot of money!P2P Telephony
But there is also another form of VoIP I'd like to talk about, it's Skype! They've been out there for sometime and have all the experience they needed. Skype is P2P messaging software that lets you make free calls to other users of the network. So if you have a computer, microphone/headset, you are ready to make free calls world-wide over the Internet. Problem is most people don't even have a microphone and can't get any benefit from that great technology. Skype recently bought by eBay comes with other features you can pay for such as SkypeOut; to call land line phones, SkypeIn; to get several phone numbers normal phones can call to, Voicemail; well we all know what that is.
So the thing with Skype is that it's 100% within it's network but you need to pay if you have to cross technology. A perfect world would make all computers have Skype and headsets so we can make free calls world-wide!! I mentioned earlier, it's P2P encrypted calls meaning it's not a server handling the transfers beeing the reason why it's free for skype-to-skype users.
