- USB Phone
- A USB Phone (Universal Serial Bus) is a telephone that plugs into your computers USB socket. A USB phone is used with a VoIP Service.
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- Virtual PBX
- See IP PBX. A PBX not in your premises but on the Internet.
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- Voice over IP
- See VoIP. The two terms are the same.
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- VoIP
- VOIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol. The word VoIP is the term that is used to differentiate standard telephone calls from telephone calls that are made and received over the Internet. Standard telephone calls use the BT (or other operator) network of cables that you see along the roadside and that connect directly to your home or office. Internet phone calls travel over the Internet. The Internet uses a language called IP (Internet Protocol) so VoIP simply means transmitting a voice using the Internet.
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- VoIP Provider
- A company that can offer a Voice over Internet Protocol to you - such as Primex. Primex is a VoIP provider. There are many other VoIP providers but Primex has been around since the mid 90s.
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- VoIP Gateway
- A gateway is a point in a network where data gets changed from one format to another. In the case of a VoIP gateway it is where your internet phone call breaks out of the internet and onto the standard public telephone network. The voice data gets converted into a normal phone call for the rest of the journey until it reaches its destination. All the Primex VoIP services come with a VoIP gateway as standard.
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- Voice Mail, Voicemail
- A telephone answering machine basically. With a VoIP service your voicemail messages are stored on the internet and can be played back to you or sent to you in an email as a sound file attachment.
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- VoIP Mail
- Same as Voice Mail. An answering machine service for VoIP.
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- Voice over broadband
- Voice over IP is what it technically is but many VoIP providers have coined this term instead. It is the same as Voice over IP but as most people will use and need broadband to use the service it seems better to use this new term.
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