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Voice over IP
Voice over IP (also called VoIP, IP Telephony, and Internet telephony) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP network. The voice data flows over a general-purpose packet-switched network, instead of the traditional dedicated, circuit-switched voice transmission lines.

Protocols used to carry voice signals over the IP network are commonly referred to as Voice over IP or VoIP protocols.

Voice over IP traffic may be deployed on any IP network, including ones lacking an Internet connection, for instance on a private building-wide LAN.

How VoIP Works
If you've never heard of VoIP, get ready to change the way you think about long-distance phone calls. VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a method for taking analog audio signals, like the kind you hear when you talk on the phone, and turning them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet.

How is this useful? VoIP can turn a standard Internet connection into a way to place free phone calls. The practical upshot of this is that by using some of the free VoIP software that is available to make Internet phone calls, you are bypassing the phone company (and its charges) entirely.

Voice-Over-Internet Protocol
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VoIP Howto
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voip-info.org : voip-info.org
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Howstuffworks "How VoIP Works"
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Voice over IP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peer to peer voice service. Users may call landlines and cellphones for a fee; users may call each other for free. Source code is not available.

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Free VoIP resources, including online bandwidth calculators, white papers, books, a directory and a forum.