Re: Voice Over IP

["Dan" <dtoma@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Martyn,

I cannot see the page from your link.
What IP phone is about?
Cisco has some SIP phones too (7940 / 7960 or ATA-186/188), so you are not
more stuck with proprietary protocols.

It is a good choice to have VoIP phones in each room (hardware/ software or
combined: see Actiontec's USB Internet Phone Wizard)...
Then open a FWD account for each one and you can call each other for free
and even your overseas friends. (see http://fwd.pulver.com for details)
You can use a PC2Phone provider ( many available on the net) and then call
regular phones too.

Mainly two protocols are used now for residential users: SIP and H.323, so
the majority of the available hardware IP phones use one or both of those
protocols.
FWD uses SIP

I have something like this for each family member and it is great...

If you need further assistance drop me a mail.

Best regards,
Dan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mailing Lists" <mailing.lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Voice Over IP


> Hi,
>
> Anybody had any experience with VOIP telephones?  Are they easy to set
up
/
> use?  With LAN connectivity in nearly every room it occured to me that
> installing VOIP telephones would offer intercom facilities between
rooms.
> With ADSL installed it should also cut down costs on overseas calls
> (assuming other end party has a VOIP telephone, or we use a VOIP
gateway
in
> the country where the call is destined for).
>
> These have come up on ebay and seem ridiculously cheap:
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=176&item=3020299881
&rd=1
>
> But I believe that they need to use proprietry software from CISCO
which
is
> no longer available.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts / advice!
>
> Martyn
>
>
>
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