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VOIP

VOIP is the alternative letter-case form of VoIP.

Proper noun capitalized: VoIP

VoIP

  1. (Internet) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.
    • The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used...1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 03 Nov 2016, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>
    • VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2016

Forms of VOIP

alternative formVOIP

Questions about VOIP

What does VOIP mean?
VOIP means voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.
What is VOIP the alternative letter-case form of?
VOIP is the alternative letter-case form of VoIP.
What part of speech is VOIP?
VOIP is a proper noun.

Words near VOIP in the dictionary

  1. voiles
  2. voilà
  3. Voineasa
  4. Voinești
  5. Voinjama
  6. VOIP
  7. voir dire
  8. voir dires
  9. VOIs
  10. Voisin
  11. Voisine

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