What is VoIP?

What is VoIP?

Jim Gurol (VP of Operations, Tierzero) gives expert video advice on: What is VoIP?; Is VoIP free?; Why is VoIP so cheap? and more...

Voice over IP is the ability to make phone calls over the internet using an IP type phone. Basically, how it works is you pick up the handset, you make a phone call. That phone call gets converted to digital signal, then it's converted into data packets that travel over the internet and arrive at a device on the other side which will undo it, basically, and send it back into analog form. That device is usually hosted at your provider, such as Skype or Vonage, and they provide features such as call waiting or call forwarding, all the features that you get with a traditional phone system, you're going to get with Voice over IP as well.