VoIP Delivers High Quality Audio Conferencing

| Saturday, October 6, 2012
By Chain R. Velazques


Virtual PBX (virtual private branch exchange) offers business phone systems that work over the internet using voice over IP (VoIP) technology and can be employed to provide small businesses with audio conferencing capabilities. A telephone call involving a real time conversation between three or more people, who are all situated in different locations, is called an audio conference or a conference call. Audio conferencing can be held with phones that operate on analog telephone lines or with telephones functioning on a VoIP network via the internet.

Conference calls on analog telephones work using a process known as circuit switching, which directs calls through a series of interconnected switches onto a conference bridge that connects multiple calls together. Audio conferencing in VoIP networks work using a method known packet switching that sends packets of information across the internet via the most efficient path. Circuit switching makes and keeps constant and open connections for the complete period of the call; however, packet switching only makes brief connects in order to transmit data. Even though all the connections remain open in circuit switching, only one connection is used at a time while one person talks; however, in packet switching multiple packets will be transmitted back and forth during the same time, making it much more efficient. This digital technology of VoIP makes for crisp, high definition sound quality and reliable conference calls.

Unlike traditional conference calls using telephone lines, audio conferencing by VoIP technology is much more affordable and opens up a lot of opportunities for small businesses. It can help you save time and money by allowing employees situated in remote areas to communicate together without enduring the hassle and cost of travelling.

Unlike traditional phone systems, VoIP technology allows you to make conference calls without pre-scheduling and also offers many valuable features like 'listen only', call recording, playback, call waiting, transfer, mute and forward. Participants of long conference calls have the choice to mute their microphones and just listen to the conversation while also working on other tasks. Regular meetings via conference calls can make sure that all employees are on the same page and eliminate errors made due to miscommunication.

This sort of technology also has numerous other capabilities for everyday communication purposes in small businesses and is easy to setup and maintain. Hosted VoIP service providers offer business phone systems that provide other features like business fax, voicemail and more.




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