VoIP as Business Solution
VoIP as Business Solution
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) or widely known as Internet
Telephony, have been publicly used for several years now. VoIP
itself originated to be used by ARPANET as commercial
realizations of the experimental Network Voice Protocol in 1973.
But due to many drawbacks it is believe not ready for widespread
implementation even till now. Yet despite having few drawbacks
left, many of communication pioneers have leaded the way for
VoIP to be widely used.
VoIP needs an active Internet connection since the technology
itself based on Internet Protocol. The cost generated by VoIP
generally lower than the conventional way of communicating. It
even practically free in certain situation. This provides
valuable aspect to business enterprise due to considerable cost
reduction offer by VoIP.
Behind it's complexity of technical structure, VoIP has proven
to be easier to implement these days. Although it's quality of
sounds may not the best due to latency and jitter problem, many
big company installed VoIP as their communicating purpose known
as IP Phone. Mostly their investments on VoIP are on internal
network that relatively have much bandwidth to spare so jitter
and latency can be reduced as much as possible. Outsourcing may
the best option if your company core competency is not within
Information Technology.
The interesting part of VoIP besides its cost is the ability to
route the call anywhere you want. This allows you to
communicated anywhere in the world from your computer with just
internet line and on fixed cost or even free. Even now due to
releases of new 3G technology for mobile phone and mobile phone
ability to inter-connect with private and public wireless
network, VoIP has been used in mobile phone in many countries.
VoIP as business investment are very much common these days.
Since it offers many advantages compare to POTS (Plain Old
Telephone System) also the drawbacks are reduced as the
technology growth. The beneficial of this system has been widely
used even there are free service of VoIP for individual uses
such as Google Talk, Skype and many more that makes VoIP gain
its own attention in the world.
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