VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol

Internet protocol is a type of computer language that allows computers to share information over a network.

It does not matter if the network is connecting computers in your office or around the world. This is what your PC uses to connect to all those wonderful websites out there.

Since the internet explosion back in the mid- 1990's there has been a rapid change from the networking methods of the past to IP. That being the case it was only natural that businesses started looking at ways to maximize their use of the data network to carry not only data but voice as well.

So now rather than dial over the regular "Bell" network you call over your computer connection.

So here is where many get confused

"I can't use VoIP to call my Grandmother because she doesn't have an IP telephone."

Well, that's true in one respect, your Grandmother probably doesn't have an IP phone yet. But, you might already be calling her using VoIP technology. A lot of the major carriers are already using VoIP to deliver calls in between locations. They just convert it to the regular, old public network format before Granny answers it.

Now we can be sure that your call is using only a minimal amount of the "old public network" and that is how we can save you money!

For those of you who never work on this stuff I hope this helped clear it up just a little bit.

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