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voice over IP

voice over IP noun: voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.

Noun

voice over IP

  1. (Internet) Voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.
    • Subject: Voice over IP and/or OSI? Message: Am looking for information on software/hardware to allow voice transmission over IP and/or OSI stacks. Please post or mail direct. Thanks in advance.1992 April 10, Steve Johnson, “Voice over IP and/or OSI?”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), retrieved 01 Nov 2016, message-ID <534@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
    • Is there an application that will let use broadcast audio and let individual machines 'tune in' on the connection?? Will we get decent bandwidth (i.e. sample rates at 32 or 48 kHz) or the crappy bandwidth like 8.192 kHz used for voice over IP (i.e. NeVOT) ??1993 September 26, Jim Doyle, “Listening to CDs over the LAN ??”, in comp.sys.sgi.apps (Usenet), retrieved 01 Nov 2016, message-ID <284o3jINNmc2@ymir.cs.umass.edu>
    Synonyms:
    VoIP

Synonyms of voice over IP

Questions about voice over IP

What does voice over IP mean?
Voice over IP means voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.
What part of speech is voice over IP?
Voice over IP is a noun.

Words near voice over IP in the dictionary

  1. voice note
  2. voice of reason
  3. voice onset time
  4. voice onset times
  5. voice over broadband
  6. voice over IP
  7. Voice over NR
  8. voice picking
  9. voice procedure alphabet
  10. voice procedure alphabets
  11. voice quality

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