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What is a SIP phone service?

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SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a protocol used in VoIP communications allowing users to make voice and video calls.

Why use SIP? 
SIP allows users around the world to speak using their computers and mobile devices over the web. It's a crucial part of web telecom and enables you to harness the advantages of VoIP (Voice over IP) and have chic communication expertise. However, the foremost attention-grabbing profit we tend to derive from SIP is that the scaling down of communication prices. SIP as a protocol is additionally terribly powerful and economical in some ways. A lot of companies use SIP for their internal and external communication, centred around a PBX.

What is required?
If you would like to speak through SIP, you would like the following:
• A SIP Account.
• A web connection. With decent bandwidth for voice and video communication. Not a lot of is needed for speech communication, mainly if you're using increased codecs for low bandwidth consumption; however, you would like reliable bandwidth for video communication.
• Hearing and talking devices. You need to get your voice through and to listen to what's being said, and what's being given in pictures: a headset, earpieces, a mike and a digital camera for video communication.

VoIP is a part of a large and increasing business. SIP is a component of it, a building block within the structure, presumably one among the pillars of VoIP.   

 

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