What Is Voice over IP (VoIP) and How Does It Work?

What Is VoIP?

VoIP stands for Voice overIPor voice over Internet Protocol.

It is also known as IP telephony.

VoIP is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions overInternet Protocolnetworks.

The principles involved in originating VoIP telephone calls are similar to traditional digital telephony.

They involve signaling, channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signals, as well as encoding.

Instead of being delivered over a circuit-switched web link, the digital information is packetized.

Transmission occurs as IP packets over a packet-switched online grid.

IP packets transfer media streams relying on special media delivery protocols that encode audio and video withaudio codecsandvideo codecs.

A lot of codecs exist that optimize the media stream based on utility requirements and connection bandwidth.

Some implementations rely on compressed speech and narrowband while others support high-fidelity stereo codecs.

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The VoIP protocols are the following:

It requires many functions to implement VoIP communication.

The functions are below.

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Finally, lets see what are the benefits and shortcomings of VoIP.