What is Voice Over Internet Protocol(VoIP)

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet. VoIP involves sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets called SIP(Session Initiation Protocol, a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls / conferences over Internet Protocol (IP)). rather than by using the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service. VoIP has become very popular means of communication nowadays, given the advantages it possesses. It is too fine-tuning and is gaining popularity day by day and one day replace the traditional phone everything.
VoIP gives the abilty to go hosted on highly expensive PBX with many advantages like;
• Enjoy mobility and flexibility of operations with multiple geographic and non-geographic numbers for global operations.
• Plug-and-play service modules enable all types of deployment to deploy dramatic upscaling of operations in a matter of hours.
• Hosted solutions enable customers to fully utilize a full-blown infrastructure by employing micro-level, incremental, pay-per-use investment model. 123+
• Enterprises with multiple points of geographic presence can utilize managed business services to have inter-office connections at no cost.
• Enjoy International calling at nominal investments when compared with conventional solutions.
• Do away with the need to maintain leased circuits between the offices & to maintain expensive legacy PABX systems.
• Ability to connect corporate offices spread over multiple geographic locations to work as a cohesive unit with our hosted solution.
• Value added features for corporate businesses, especially contact centers, like voice mail, call forwarding and call transfer between various branches.
• Seamless and uniform VoIP termination for all offices, whether local or international.