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Article Title: International Call With 1 Dollar
Author: Naiyana Thamcheeveevong
Category: Information Technology, Broadband, VOIP
Word Count: 515
Keywords: VoIP, SIP Phone, Softphone, International call, Skype
Author's Email Address: [email protected]
Article Source: http://www.articlemarketer.com
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Before making an International call, don't forget to compare your options
* Typical home phone or cell phone. Normally this is the most preferable
option. We're familiar with it.
* Softphone. Not a typical for most people. Don't be panic. It's just
soft(ware) + (tele)phone. Our analog voice is converted to digital and sent
over the Internet to the destination equipment where it converts our digitized
voice to analog again.
Some of you might have tried Softphone but have you ever compare the charging
rate from service provider?
It provides easy comparing rate for us. For example, I can call a friend in
Thailand just $0.014 a minute using the service provider future-nine. I can
talk to her more than an hour and pay only 1$.
You can try either Softphone or an adapter like USB VOIP Phone Adapter,
Support SIP, Skype. The product will make your life easier. Don't need to
install any software but plug the USB phone adapter to your PC/Laptop and make
a call.
About Softphone
In computing, a softphone is a software program for making telephone calls over
the Internet using a general purpose computer, rather than using dedicated
hardware. Often a softphone is designed to behave like a traditional telephone,
sometimes appearing as an image of a phone, with a display panel and buttons
with which the user can interact. A softphone is usually used with a headset
connected to the sound card of the PC, or with a USB phone. (From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia)
Softphone Requirements
To make voice calls over Internet, you should have
* Any modern PC with a microphone and a speaker, or with a headset, or with
USBphone.
* Reliable Internet connectivity like DSL, WiFi, cable or LAN. 28.8 dial-up
modem may be enough if you use a codec compressing the speech to this bandwidth.
* Account with an Internet telephony service provider.
Comparison of VoIP software
Voice over IP (VoIP) software is used to conduct telephone-like voice
conversations across IP based networks. For residential markets, VOIP phone
service is often cheaper than traditional PSTN phone service and can remove
geographic restrictions to telephone numbers (i.e. have a "New York" PSTN phone
number in Tokyo).
For enterprise or business markets, VoIP enables the enterprise to manage a
single network (the IP network) instead of separate voice and data networks,
while enabling advanced and flexible capabilities to the end user.
Softphones are end user based clients for initiating and receiving voice and
video communications over the IP network with the standard functionality of
most "original" telephones and usually allow integration with IP Phones and USB
Phones instead of utilizing a computer's microphone and speakers (or headset).
Most softphone clients run on the open SIP supporting various codecs. Skype
runs on a closed proprietary network. "Chat" programs now also incorporate
voice and video communications.
Other VoIP software applications include conferencing servers, intercom
systems, virtual FXOs and adapted telephony software which concurrently support
VoIP and PSTN like IVR systems, dial in dictation, on hold and call recording
servers.
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