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Voice over IP (VoIP)
Voice over IP (VoIP)
The term “Voice over IP” describes the usage of IP-based data networks for telephony. It is possible to
distinguish between two different types of VoIP:
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Telephony via Internet provides cheaper charge-models for telephone services. For telephony directly via
the Internet, only the cost of data transmission is incurred. Various Gateway providers can provide
crossover into the PSTN (“Public Switched Telephone Network”) for a fee. As well as standardised
protocols such as SIP and H.323, proprietary protocols such as the Skype network, are used. Voice and
service quality via Internet is often indeterminable because they are dependent on the communication
lines of various service providers. which have been optimised for data communication
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Telephony via Intranet enables joint usage of existing infrastructure for telephony and for data
communication. Integrating the two communication networks into a single communications network can
provide considerable savings. The Comfort Pro S gives users all the features of system telephony through
its use of an IP-based protocol. Furthermore, the standardised SIP protocol can also be used on the
intranet. The control of the data connections used makes it possible to define exactly the voice and
service quality.
VoIP telephony over the Internet using the Comfort Pro S provides you with the following options (see also SIP
Telephony starting on page 104):
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You can use low-cost “SIP trunk lines” with your existing Internet connection
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You can use the services of a SIP gateway service provider to access the public telephone network
(PSTN)
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Automatic fallback (bundle overflow) to ISDN connections in case of the breakdown or over-occupancy of
the SIP connection
VoIP Telephony via intranet with the Comfort Pro S offers the following possibilities:
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Use of IP-based system telephones and of SIP telephones connected to Cat5 twisted-pair ethernet cables
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Use of IP-based system telephones and of SIP telephones via VPN, RAS, Branch or WLAN connections
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Using voice-data compression with compressing codecs, it is also possible to make multiple IP-based
telephone calls simultaneously on a 64 kbit/s ISDN line
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Use of PC-supported system telephones (so-called “Softphones”) without extra hardware costs