voice over IP

VoIP is an acronym for Voice over IP or broken down even further, Voice over Internet Protocol, yet calls don’t have to run over the internet at all.

Essentially, VoIP is a way to transmit voice telephone calls over a data network using the protocol, or set of rules and standards, that the internet was based on – the internet protocol.   VoIP takes your voice as spoken into a telephone handset or headset and converts that voice into a format that can be transmitted at high speeds over a data network previously reserved for data such as internet searches and FTP.   Read more»