{"id":551923,"date":"2007-04-02T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551923-voice-over-internet-protocol.html"},"modified":"2007-04-02T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:28:23","slug":"voice-over-internet-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551923-voice-over-internet-protocol.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice over Internet Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"

To understand how VoIP works, we need to look back into the murky depths of telecommunications history. <\/font><\/p>\n

In the old days if you wanted to call someone on the telephone you spoke to an operator, who then connected your line to a switchboard and spoke to someone at another exchange who would then connect the line of the person you wanted to speak to. That created a connection between both phones along which the conversation could flow. <\/font><\/p>\n

Those human operators were then replaced by machines, which essentially did the same thing but automatically, and then later by digital exchanges. Those, instead of creating a physical connection, reserved capacity on a network for clients’ conversations. <\/font><\/p>\n

What VoIP does is instead of creating a connection between two handsets, it breaks conversations up into tiny pieces, called packets. For purposes of this illustration, imagine each word in a conversation being dropped into a packet. <\/font><\/p>\n

The contents of those packets are squashed (compressed) as small as possible to make the system work optimally, and sent across the Internet or your private network. <\/font><\/p>\n

Those packets are then uncompressed and reassembled at the receiving end – the trick being to get them there quickly so there’s no delay making the call, and in the right order, so that the person you’re calling doesn’t just hear gibberish.<\/font><\/p>\n

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VOICE OVER international protocol – or VoIP – is the buzzword on many service providers’ lips, as it offers the opportunity for companies focused on data services to take a bigger chunk of their clients’ cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}