What is the difference between IPT (Internet Protocol Telephone) and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)?
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Answer by ryu
Voice over Internet Protocol is a protocol meant for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet switched networks like LAN or WAN. VoIP differs from IP telephone in the sense that VoIP actually transmits voice rather than the protocol implementing it.
In IP telephony or Internet Telephony….u may call it broadband also..here the voice is actually broken down into bits and bytes and by techniques known as multiplexing and demultiplexing they actually tranmsit voice across the internet …so the basic difference being the method in which both of them transmit voice..
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These two terms are usually used interchangeably. IPT, or IP Telephony is usually used to describe telephony technologies that utilize IP, or data networks. Voice over IP specifically is talking about encapsulating voice traffic and sending it over a network using IP.