You may be familiar with NetMeeting and other software that let you talk to others over the internet. VoIP is somewhat similar, except it also makes use of your phone - hence VoIP phone telephony.
With VoIP phone telephony, instead of plugging your phone into the socket in the wall, you connect it to a box. This box could either be provided by the VoIP company you use, or you can buy it yourself. This is the VoIP modem.
The VoIP modem plugs into your cable/dsl modem. (ideally, you need high speed broadband internet for VoIP)
In summary, you simply plug the VoIP modem between your current cable/dsl modem and your computer. Therefore, the out from your cable modem now goes to the new VoIP modem box. The out from VoIP modem box goes to your computer. This box also has a phone jack for your regular phone.
There are many benefits of VoIP phone telephony.
Depending on the service you use, you should get access to:
- Caller id
- Call waiting
- Call waiting caller id
- Call forwarding
- Voicemail
- Email alerts for new voicemail.
- Web access to voicemail - you can play your messages on your computer.
- Auto-forward - if the phone is ever down or isn't answered, it's auto-routed to another number
- Online management of all features, settings, account, etc.
- Computer dialing - highlight any number on your computer, hit F6 and it sets up the call from your phone to theirs
- Use your regular phone
Finally, and probably the biggest benefit, VoIP phone telephony can be very economical. For a basic VoIP service you can use www.skype.com, which is free.
You can research the possibilities yourself. Go onto Google and search on voip compare, and you will find many sites which provide useful comparisons between a wide range of VoIP phone telephony service providers.
You can quickly locate information about VoIP phone telephony here: http://www.voip-phone-telephony.com
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