The Best VoIP and SIP Apps for Android
More and more people across the globe use VoIP and SIP apps for their talk and text service, but which ones are the best ones?
Watch this video and find out the results of the survey on which VoIP and SIP Apps are the most outstanding for Android.
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SIP VoIP systems
SIP VoIP systems have always been a go-to tool used by professionals. Its standardized protocol lets is interoperate with other compatible networks. Also, its integration with the conventional PSTN phone system is unrivaled. Architecture-wise, it’s almost a rip-off from email. Majority of VoIP applications need their clients to come up with their own usernames. This way, they can easily contact and be contacted.
On the other hand, SIP depends mainly on what is called “SIP address” that is a knock-off of an email ID. It has the username as the first part, separated by a “@” symbol followed by the domain name. If you sign up for a free SIP account, the domain name will belong to the service provider with whom you have the account. Companies and businesses that sign up for VoIP systems however can insert their own branding, much like e-mail.
The architecture is not so new. We have an SIP server through which all of our calls are routed. We then install a client on our local device whether it is a smartphone, a PC, or a tablet. Such client will be communicating with the server, thus allowing access to every VoIP functionality needed.
There is a wide array of VoIP clients on Android and iOS, paid or free. Your service provider might have their own app that is sure to work with their system, or there could be a separate section up on their site that has all the configuration settings optimized for their servers. More to these, they could develop their own program that would work impeccable and seamlessly. Find out how easy it is to sign up for an SIP service and get started today.
Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: ANDROID, client, compatible, iOS, name, SIP, SIP server, SIP VoIP systems, VoIP systems
Fixed Wireless Convergence and Mobility Options for VoIP
We have been steadily moving through a range of mobility options on our way to achieving true fixed mobile convergence. We want to take our Office Extension away on our Cell phones and have the same functionality away from the office as we do in the office! Originally, people forwarded their office extensions to their Cell phones. Not the best solution, but clearly the easiest to set up. The problem however, is that the caller to your office extension might end up anywhere including your cell phone voice mail. So much for a maintaining a business presence!
ShoreTel addressed that issue, but adding a couple of useful features. For example, you can use External Assignment. Someone calls your desk phone and you can have it re-assigned to your home phone or cell phone. The benefit over call forwarding alone, is that the call profiles you set up for each of your call handling modes are followed as if the caller were going to your desk phone.
Find Me Follow Me with the auto option was also very useful for that reason. When your desk phone was called, it could be routed to your cell phone. You had to explicitly accept the call or the system would take the call back and put it in your personal Voice Mail box. This is clearly superior to just forwarding the call off to your cell phone, risking the possibility of having the caller end up in a personal cell phone voice mailbox.
Twining (see other blog video) is also a favorite strategy for extending your office phone to your cell. Why not ring both devices when your desk phone is called? In this way you could answer on either device and you could also seamlessly move the call between the devices. For example if I am on my desk phone and need to jump into my car and race off to the next appointment, but do not want to terminate my current call, I can simply hit the move button and the call now appears on my cell. Likewise, if I took the call on my cell phone, I can now *23 and send it to my desk phone enabling me to move seamlessly from my car to my desk.
The Mobile Call Manager is another exciting option for extending your desk phone to your cell. Using the ShoreTel Mobile Call Manager, we get a GUI on our phone that allows us to setup our call handling, review voice messages and otherwise experience most of what we see in the desktop Communicator. I can externally assign my desk phone to my Mobile Call Manager and setup phone calls that originate at the office.
All of these are useful tools, but none come close to true fixed mobile convergence. I want my cell phone to be smart enough to enable me to take and make office phone calls regardless of where I am on the planet. I also want the phone to work on any available WiFi connection and to seamlessly move between G3 and WiFi without dumping the call in progress. You walk into Starbucks and your cell phone is smart enough to jump on the WiFi and establish a secure connection back to the office and register with the office mobility server. Any call coming into your office desk phone will now ring your cell phone as a SIP extension!
With a true mobility router, a call to my desk phone will ring both my office extension and my mobile extension. I can answer the call on either extension and have full feature access. While out on the WiFi I can still access my office directory, history, voice mail and manipulate active calls to allow conference and transfer functionality. If my WiFi drops my G3 connection can pick up and continue as my office SIP extension.
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Calls to my Cell phone are personal business and calls to my office desk are for business. I want each of these callers to receive appropriate call handling. If I make a call to a personal contact, I want my CID to be different then my CID to a business contact. The phone should be smart enough to route business calls to the company VM and personal calls to my personal VM. All of this is possible with a true Mobility router. All that is required is a PBX that supports both SIP trunks and SIP extensions. Most if not all of the IP based PBX solutions in the market support this capability and the ShoreTel Mobility Router and ShoreTel Roam Anywhere Client make true fixed mobile convergence a reality!
Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: CID, PBX, SIP, VM
Help on finding a Voip IP phone?
Adam Asked: Help on finding a Voip IP phone?
I’m looking at completely switching to voip from my land line. I’m looking for a Voip ip phone that is cordless. I’m new to this technology, but I think it needs to be SIP compatible and unlocked. I’m not sure if I can simply get a router and have wifi cordless phones, or if I need to purchase an Internet phone adapter to use analog phone base that can support cordless phone. My main concern is highest quality with cordless phones.
Any help in this direction would be appreciated.
Answers:
joe r Answered:
while cordless VoIP phones do exist, mostly WiFi versions, they are extremely cost prohibitive, and most people do not use them.. most people who want a cordless phone, or for residential VoIP customers, they generally get an ATA such as a linksys PAP2T or SPA 2102 then connect a standard telephone into this box…
while cordless VoIP phones do exist, mostly WiFi versions, they are extremely cost prohibitive, and most people do not use them.. most people who want a cordless phone, or for residential VoIP customers, they generally get an ATA such as a linksys PAP2T or SPA 2102 then connect a standard telephone into this box…
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Categories: VOIP Questions Tags: ATA, SIP, SPA
SIP Trunks – Best SIP Trunks With Cloud Communications & Cloud PBX
SIP Trunks Do you prefer to keep your existing phone system? Digerati can still offer you cloud-based services to reduce your business operating costs. Our Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking service will significantly reduce your costs for long distance calling. A (SIP) trunk is a service that permits businesses that have a traditional phone system installed to use Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) to communicate outside their enterprise network using their existing broadband connection. SIP is a signaling standard used by voice equipment manufacturers to interoperate seamlessly with customer premise equipment (CPE) such as IP PBX phone systems. Typically, an Integrated Access Device (IAD) or gateway is used to interface legacy phone systems with a SIP network. By using Digerati’s services for your long distrotary-phoneance phone calls, you can take advantage of our global reach, buying power, and proven track record of quality and stability. Select a SIP trunk that best suits your needs: Outbound SIP Trunk – Low-cost domestic and global calling Prepaid SIP Trunk — Control your long distance expenses ahead of time Intelligent SIP Trunk — Includes added features that can enhance your current phone system Contact our Cloud sales team today at 1-855-20-CLOUD or cloudsales@digerati-inc.com.
Categories: VOIP Videos Tags: CPE, SIP
Smart Bridge Trading Solutions Noida.wmv
Email : biz@smart-bridge.net www.smart-bridge.net SmartBridge offer wholesale services to other telecom service providers. Some companies have found this to be a lucrative business in its own right and are strictly focused on this area; others offer wholesale capabilities as a complement to existing services. To remain competitive in a very crowded market, quality, reliability, and flexibility are essential qualities that wholesale carriers look for in their equipment providers. Wholesale VoIP Carriers TheSmartBridge trunking solution for wholesale service providers supports a variety of signaling options (including ISUP, SIP, SIP-I/SIP-T, H.323), numerous codecs (narrowband and wideband), ENUM support, Least Cost Routing, and rich call detail records. With the ability to scale to a truly worldwide footprint,SmartBridge gives wholesale service providers the tools they need to do business globally.
Categories: VOIP Videos Tags: ENUM, ISUP, Least Cost Routing, SIP
Nokia Unlocked
DISCOUNT LINK WWW.AMAZON.COM Mobile Phones Nokia Unlocked Nokia N80 Nokia’s N80 is one of the company’s new breed of high-end media handsets, and is one of the first such devices to use the new 3rd edition of Nokia’s S60 user interface. This is significant because S60 3rd edition is both far faster and attractive than prior versions, making the N80 a pleasure to use. The Nokia N80 features aa very clean and attractive slider design. The N80 comes in a very clean and attractive slider design. When closed, the numeric keypad is hidden within its 4.8oz, 3.8″ x 2″ x 1″ body. The 5-way directional pad controller, a pair of softkeys, a pair of editing keys, and the normal red and green call buttons are still accessible. In terms of feel and usability, the N80’s d-pad controller takes some getting use to, but the rest of the buttons and keys are all fine. When it comes to connectivity, Nokia’s N80 has it in spades. It will work on any of the 4 GSM bands found throughout the world, and even supports 3G WCDMA networks as well – where available. But there is more to it than that. For example, the N80 supports the new enhanced GPRS system called EDGE that is available here in the US and other places, and it also supports 802.11g WiFi data for connecting to a network at high speeds when at home, the office, or a local coffee house. It is even capable of SIP compliant Voice Over IP (VOIP) service, when configured to work with a compatible provider. But that’s still not all, as the N80 <b>…</b>
Categories: VOIP Videos Tags: AMAZON, EDGE, GSM, SIP
Understanding Routers’ Role In VoIP Telecom
An effective and efficient router is one that understands the logical topology of the network and is able to communicate with its nearby devices well. The efficiency of the router is vital in a VoIP telecom business as it handles the traffic.
Routing is a very important part of VoIP telephony. In VoIP telephony, routing is a relay process through which data packets are sent from one device to the other. The term ‘routing’ is not confined to VoIP only, other networks such as circuit switching telephone networks and transportation networks (a network of roads, pipes, power lines etc.) also use routing processes to transfer packets and commodities respectively.
Routers
Routers are the devices used in networks for routing has a big role to play. In VoIP, the quality and redundancy of the communication is more or less determined by the efficiency of your router.
Routing Tables
Before trying to understand the way routers work to perform the routing process, it is perhaps best to know about routing table. It is a database that stores the routing information of the router such as logical addresses of other devices and networks. A route can be entered into the routing table manually by a process called static routing or else the router can learn one through a dynamic routing process. The entered or learned route information are stored in the routing table to which the router refers every time it performs a transfer of packet.
How it works
In a network, each device (router) has a logical address assigned to it, including the network itself. This address is what makes the devices and networks identifiable by others (devices and networks) while transferring packets. An effective and efficient router is one that understands the logical topology (the order of devices on a network and the way they communicate with each other) of the network and is able to communicate with its nearby devices well. Therefore, a router learns the network’s logical topology and also handles the movement of traffic. While receiving a packet, a router makes a routing decision based on three factors:
* The protocol in use.
* The address of the destination network that exists in its routing table.
* The interface of the destination network.
Once the decision is made, the router sends out the packet to the appropriate interface of the destination network. In case of a non-existent destination network, the router cancels the transfer and disposes the packet and sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) message to the sender as a notice of the event.
If you are looking to venture into the VoIP telecom business as a VoIP service provider or provide support services for your customers (non telecom businesses), it is imperative that you have a solid infrastructure and state-of-the-art equipment for switching, routing, billing and so on. Such requirements mean a very huge cost that is not practical for many businesses, especially the smaller ones who need the funds to support their own core businesses. A solution in such a situation is to outsource the VoIP switching, routing and billing services to a reliable provider of these services.
VoIP telephony services outsourcing is popular amongst smaller businesses and wholesale as well as retail VoIP service providers. For instance, by partnering with an efficient routing services provider, you can get all the required services yet save the cost of setting up the infrastructure, installing the equipment etc. However, while finding a partner who can provide the services, you must ensure that they offer A-Z routes from which you can choose and also superior network platform, quality ASR, ACD, SIP and PDD with capacity and destinations scalability. A thorough research of the provider and their services will help you decide wisely.
The writer is associated with Breezecom, a reputable name amongst VoIP providers SIP termination and VoIP billing services seekers can contact the company for detailed information.
Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: ACD, ASR, PDD, SIP
Small Business Phone Services
The video you are about to see will be all on business phone services. This will guide you with your needs regarding the information you need for phone services.
You can save on T1 voice services. Not only that but also save on VoMPLS service. Save up to 60 percent on all your calling needs for 5 or more phone lines. You can save on business VoIP with the different offers they will provide you.
Having this can enhance communication and help you in your needs regarding all of the latest communication technologies. Offering all integrated solutions from VoIP to SIP to increase productivity.
So enjoy and learn more about the small business phone services.
Categories: VOIP Videos Tags: Offering T1, SIP