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“Voice over Internet Protocol” or VoIP is a technology that lets you make and receive phone calls over the Internet through an online VoIP service. The main difference between VoIP and conventional telephone is price. The reason for it is that VoIP services use the broad band internet connection to transmit the data not the phone wires, and transferring digital signals over internet is much cheaper than transferring analog signals over ordinary phone lines. Because of the low rates and affordability more and more people nowadays are deciding on VoIP.

That is not the main difficulty to choose the VoIP over traditional telephony but to choose the appropriate provider. Today VoIP services are offered by dozens of them and the basic features remain the same, though many of their services differ greatly. The most important features which are offered by majority of the providers enclose both local and international calls at extremely low rates. This saves the subscribers around 70% of their telephone bills. Most VoIP providers have special offers for homes and businesses and a lot of extra features included in VoIP packages if you need them. But even if you get all the extras possible the cost will be still much lower than your normal telephone bills.

What is more, some providers offer custom-made services for big companies, small businesses or even individual customers so you may have your personal VoIP package. Moreover a lot of VoIP services include providing fax and emergency services through 911. As well they can include providing required hardware devices, soft phones, inbound and outbound termination, and also bundling of all these services. Most of the services are charged monthly.

So that is clear enough that before selecting the provider you need to study carefully all the schemes and rates offered by numerous VoIP service providers. And facilities and services should be the benchmark for your study not the price. That is the way to choose the most advantageous provider.

Microsoft integrates VoIP with its Share Point product to answer to the challenge of Cisco the subscribers of which are able to use presence awareness, IM and VoIP on select mobile phones. Redmond will release its new Communications Server product February 2009 in the unified communications space. It provides users with ability to change their phone system with Microsoft software.

This product will replace a PBX system with Microsoft’s VoIP software on a server and allow buyers to make calls to any phone number and from within Microsoft documents and to add audio conferencing.

We have already got the ability to connect via IM or VoIP in real-time simultaneously sharing online documents, but we’re still eager to get that one-stop depository for all our communications. And Microsoft offers us that depository tying the next generation Communications Server with its SharePoint software. This allows buyers to see presence and call within Microsoft programs, what means users don’t have to go to a separate presence application to talk over VoIP or IM about a spreadsheet or Word document. That will make Office the one-stop shop for all even real- time communications.

Cisco is taking another line. They are planning to make a separate layer of communications services such as IM and VoIP that will sit in the network and work across different applications. If it becomes a well-integrated, neutral distributor it will gain the upper hand over Microsoft.

There is a new VoIP service available in Delhi and Mumbai, India. Thanks to MTNL and Aksh Optifibre who started the service called “Pigeon VoIP” now you can call to over a hundred countries from India at Rs.1 per minute.

Any MTNL Broadband user can request for “Pigeon VoIP service“. Moreover you can take multiple VoIP on single landline and send it to different locations to use it as a hot line between friends or relatives all over the world.

Pigeon VoIP maintains a common standard and works on SIP. So they give you an 8 digit SIP ID number starting with 2. If only we knew their SIP address, then we could easily hack into their SIP and do lot of stuff for free J . Still Pigeon VOIP provides only Pigeon to Pigeon calls up to 400 minutes every month then it is charged at 20paise per minute.

What is more, you are free to use Pigeon VoIP as your landline phone.

They provide you with a VoIP adapter which is hooked into your broadband modem (supposedly ADSL). And finally they would hook one line from VoIP adapter into your regular landline phone jack.

The total price of it is quite acceptable. One time Installation Charges Rs.100 plus
Monthly Rental Rs.150. Above you get 400 minutes Pigeon to Pigeon free calling with 20paise per minute thereafter. International calling is extra and paid with coupons which are available in denominations of 100, 500, 1000. In addition you get free Telephone Adapter with the connection.

Are there some definite shortcomings in the service? If anyone using this service, your comments are very much appreciated.

Recently, DalCom releases new product for VoIP providers. It is a new business solution, DalCom Matrix, for those engaged in VoIP product business. With this Matrix service, DalCom distributes its own system to be used by its clients. Providers can use as much as they want of any needed part of the network, and moreover, according to the latest offering, they can start at any level and grow as high as required. This service allows providers to save their money because the DalCom Matrix liquidates the need of a sizable investment in equipment, months of testing and configuration, along with the monthly recurring expenses for IP and a full time staff for supporting the daily technical operation. In addition the service ensures security of an established and high efficient VoIP network.

Fred Hakim, CEO at DalCom said that his company is letting other entities get into the company’s resources without need to spend incalculable hours and dollars He explained that small entities can’t
deploy a successful commercial product relying on a Single Asterisk machine and the new service beneficially allows them to use DalCom existing technology for their own business and communicational needs. At present, the offered services include session initiation protocol (SIP) registration, billing, Web portal for end user and also for reseller, domestic origination, domestic termination, integration
origination, Internet faxing, voice mail, and more. “By partitioning our services, it gives providers the chance to inexpensively and efficiently move forward with their business goals. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved,” he stated.

To start with, these days there are no technical barriers preventing cell phone or VoIP calls during a flight. Moreover American Airlines now offers broadband internet access to its clients, but has taken measures not to let passengers use Skype or similar VoIP software. The only reason of the prohibition is our own comfortable flight. Airlines are trying to avoid some tension and social consequences of letting passengers chatter. Most of you probably wouldn’t like to be sitting next to a chatterbox who will be telling his or her dummy stories the whole flight long, but you also might need to speak with the friends picking you up or answer some urgent call. So we put it to you, dear readers: Do you want VoIP or cell phone access during the flight or you are voting for voice calling limits on board? Tell us your opinion in the comments.

On the seventh anniversary of 9.11 British intelligence wowed the audience reporting that the Talibs who are responsible for the atrocity used Skype to plot and coordinate its operations for the attack. The reason for this choice is that the VoIP calls are heavily encrypted and difficult to decode.

Earlier it came easy to the British and U.S. military to eavesdrop on Talibs, because they used satellite or ordinary mobile phones which are easily traceable by all intelligence agencies. But at present Taliban coordinate their attacks through VoIP calls. It is an essential part of the more aggressive strategy and reorganization of this military group. British officials were reported working overtime with American intelligence to crack Skype encryption on suspected terrorist conversations.

Later on British military authorities tried to introduce legislation into the Parliament about ISPs tracking data because the Skype algorithm is considered to be almost impossible to crack. But the proposal was denied as violating individual privacy. Anyhow, as reported July 25, 2008, Austrian officials hinted that Skype calls were quite easy to intercept. Actually, if that’s the case, British officials must have a chat with Vienna sooner or later.

The iPhone has already changed our attitude to mobile communication and revolutionized the way it can be applied. Estimated iPhone market is currently over 10 million 2G and 3G users, which is expected to grow up towards 45 million users at the end of 2009 according to the analytical surveys. What is more, today Apple produces 800.000 new iPhone devices every week and before New Year is expected to be sold in 70 countries of the world.

For the growing iPhone success GoIP International has created an amazing VoIP product.

That is GoIP International launches an iPhone VoIP in a Box platform with highly advanced VoIP services, as a complete private label solution. Actually this co-operation is not only for iPhone’s benefit it is a win-win deals for both iPhone and GoIP. To put it another way GoIP International sees a great growth potential for service providers to offer their own complete iPhone VoIP service as a worthwhile append to their existing telecommunication portfolio, or needs a stand-alone solution to make a step towards the world of advanced communication services. All in all, GoIP International has lately been recognized as an official Apple Developer, and can assist Service Providers in launching their customized iPhone VoIP services on the popular App Store, which in the first 30 days had over 60 million Application downloads, and on the average profit 1 million US$ in sales a day.

As far as users’ benefits are concerned, GoIP offers a set of unique VoIP services to iPhone consumers. The unique services include free calling between iPhone users, utilizing the built in GPS, using existing mobile number as caller ID on outbound VoIP calls, controlling multiple rate plans, VoIP calls via Wi-Fi, location based service access, auto replenishment of account, multilingual front- and backend system.

For instance, one can attaches additional services in particular locating their nearest hot spot to access their VoIP service, or use the GPS, when information becomes available, for other location based services via the GoIP iPhone client.

Each customer with an iPhone and the GoIP VoIP application will be able to get customized to each Service Providers wish and desires.

In the middle of the August Intel company announced Remote Wake-Up technology which allows PCs to work as a remote system of data storage. According the new technology users will be able to turn out sleeping mode and get access to any data on their hard drives remotely just knowing their IP addresses. All you need is to type the URL in Web browser. But your computer must be constantly connected to broadband data transmission network and you are to install not only Wake-up technology but also guard authorizing system.

For the first time this technology was mentioned by Intel in February 2008 at a conference for investors in Santa-Clara (USA). Computer with Remote Wake-up equipped VoIP-client (unfortunately the technology supports only Jajah service and don’t work with Skype) or connected to the phone line can turn out sleeping mode in order to take a call and re-direct it to answering machine. The point is that the Intel technology will wake up computers during calls. Moreover microphone and loudspeakers will be activated for the user to react to a call. All in all this new technology will help to transform home PC into many-sided communicational center. By the way computer will wake-up only in case of a call from known subscriber that’s why using technology by prunkers is out of the question. The technology needs special software stored not on the hard drive but on the special memory block on motherboard. The motherboards supporting Remote Wake Up technology came into the market at the beginning of September.

All owners of Nokia smartphones in the near future will be presented a small surprise. Vendor of mobile phones has removed support SIP protocol, which is used for VoIP-telephony via Wi-Fi. VoIP-telephony is a great challenge for all cellular operators because it allows users to make relatively cheap calls over Wi-Fi-network.

All in all, this is beneficial to users, but quite unprofitable for operators. The Nokia company has supported providers of mobile communications and remove the built-SIP-protocol platform S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2). Some smartphones such as Nokia N78 and Nokia N96 work on the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2) platform.That means to use VoIP-telephony on these models their owners will have to use a third-party software.

“PC Of world” reports that long-expected standard 802.11r was finished and approved by IEEE. This means that finally WiFi telephones can gain general acceptance, and that roaming between the wireless access points and networks will become more stable and reliable.

But not everybody is pleased with this news. For example company Nokia removed the possibility of WiFi connections from its new mobile phones. This is because while using WiFi people can make calls over any VoIP operator.

It’s very convenient for people. Now everyone can choose how to call cheaper- using their mobile operator or a VoIP provider suit for roaming calls.