VoIP (Voice-over-IP), IPT (IP Telephony), and IPC (IP Communications) are common terms in discussions of today’s new telephone services.

This Podcast should help you to learn the differences between them and how you can transform your phone system into a full blown communications system that unifies and delivers voice, video, e-mail, faxes, voicemail, and much more. It was kindly supplied by Cisco.

Voice-over-Internet Protocol is a category of hardware and software that enables people to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls. Voice data is sent in packets using rather than by traditional POTS circuits.

One advantage of VoIP is that the telephone calls over the Internet do not incur a surcharge beyond what the user is paying for Internet access, much in the same way that the user doesn’t pay for sending individual e-mails over the Internet.

IP Telephony is the two-way transmission of audio over a packet-switched IP network (TCP/IP network). When used in a private intranet or WAN, it is generally known as ‘voice over IP,’ or ‘VoIP.’

When the transport is the public Internet or the Internet backbone from a major carrier, it is generally called ‘IP telephony’ or ‘Internet telephony.’ However, the terms IP telephony, Internet telephony and VoIP are used interchangeably. IP telephony uses two protocols: one for transport and another for signalling.

IP Communications covers a range of products including voice, e-mail, text, collaboration, and videoconferencing capabilities, as well as the ability to reach the right person on the first try on matter what device they are using through presence technology.

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