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More About: Internet Telephony
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More About: Internet Telephony
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Internet telephony has already been in use for years, but to-
day it allows even private customers the convenience familiar
from conventional telephony, usually at significantly lower
prices.
Internet telephony has also made it considerably more conve-
nient to use applications like conference calls and answering
machines in networks. Further advantages include global
availability at a single telephone number, and the develop-
ment of new standards for security and voice quality.
Data Transfer
All kinds of data transmission in the Internet use the Internet
Protocol (IP). IP is packet-oriented. This means that the data
are broken down into data packets for transmission and IP
takes care of the transport of the individual data packets
through the Internet. Language is also transmitted in the In-
ternet in this manner.
In opposition to this, fixed-line telephony transmits data in a
line-oriented manner. In this case data are transmitted in a
coherent data stream.