VOIP is accomplished by a piece of hardware or software converting your voice into IP packets, sending them shooting to the destination across your regular network or Internet lines, then reassembling and reconverting them into voice. It’s the word “hello” converted to IP, sent across your computer network, then reconverted into “hello” again. Conversations can be carried-on in a fairly normal bidirectional manner using VOIP.
- CTIs cards
- GateKeepers
- Gateways
- IP Phones
- PBXs
- Sessions Controllers
- Soft switches
- Softphones
- USB phones
Hardware to add to your existing phone system to VoIP enable it (digital & analog gateways) for both VoIP Station and VoIP Trunk usage.
You needed hardware (in this case a PCI card in your phone system here) to convert the regular voice signals into VOIP and transmit them over the Internet to India and a gateway box in India to reconvert all the packets back to voice.
USB phone or headset connected to the PC’s of others, and some others using a gateway with standard phones attached, and some standard analog or digital phones attached to a standard analog card in the server.