By Gilly Genge

What does VoIP

stand for?

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet

Protocol

What is a VoIP?

Voice over Internet Protocol is a variety of

technologies, communication protocols and

transmission techniques to allow multimedia

sessions and the delivery of voice communication

over Internet Protocol networks such as, the Internet.

Often encountered and used alongside

VoIPare IP telephony, voice over broadband

and internet telephony.

Internet telephony is a reference to

communications services i.e. Voice, fax, SMS

and voice-messaging applications, that are

transported via the internet.

What make’s a VoIP’s. The steps involved in making a VoIP telephone call

are signaling and media channel setup, the

processing of the analog voice signal, encoding,

packetization (making it into a smaller file for easy

transmitting) and then the final transmission. These

are the steps used to create and open up video calls

etc.

Examples of VoIP’s Examples of modern VoIP's are programs such as

Skype, Msn and Facetime. All of which are examples

of VoIP's because they enable you to have video

calls and conversation via the access of the internet.

Public & Private use.