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How Compressed voice works, a very simple
guide.
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Compressed Voice, also popularly know as VOIP (Voice
over IP) or any number of other marketed names is really not new at all.
Compressed voice is simply a better, more efficiently digitized voice of a
higher capacity than the digitized voice circuits that you have already been
using for decades! Oh really, you might say, but this in fact the truth and has
only come to the attention of the general public because of the speed of
technology and the Internet Industry. Again, simply put a voice call that used
to take up 56 KB of bandwidth for a single voice connection can now accommodate
4 or more voice conversations at the same time. That fact coupled with the
massive growth of channels of communications needed to accommodate the Internet
Industry, has made bandwidth dirt cheap!
There are general two ways that accessing this low
cost long distance service is available. One is through your PC and one is
through an external device that is provided by the Service Provider. They both
will require high speed access to the Internet (Dial up just does not work well
at all!) and effectively they perform the same function, just in two different
boxes. The advantage to having a separate box to process this voice compression
is that if there is a problem with your PC, in general terms it will not cause
problems with the voice service. The advantage to having this process performed
within your PC, is basically, well you don't have another box to contend with.
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