The Wave Of The Future? Looking At Voip Phones
VOIP phones may not look all that strange or different from a regular telephone at first glance, and there’s a reason for that. VOIP phones aren’t meant to look sleek, cool, or futuristic, they way many of the new cell phones have come out with “trendy” designs based on appearance. VOIP technology was designed to do the exact same thing as a regular old telephone: only with the hopes of finding a way to do it cheaper, more efficiently, and better.
A phone that specifically uses VOIP technology for calls as opposed to a conventional phone line is known as an Ethernet hard phone as well. An Ethernet hard phone is a telephone that looks like a conventional phone, but instead of having the normal phone jack, it has an Ethernet port instead. This port is used to communicate with a VOIP server, gateway, or another VOIP phone. Since this type of phone as its own VOIP server, it does not have to be hooked up directly to a personal computer in order to make or receive phone calls.
It can be used independently as long as there is an Internet connection, which is part of the reason why some...