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<<<... Confused??? On how does this work…? Simple, this is a traditional answer which you will find every where on the internet. Basically your POTS call requires a dedicated circuit between you and the person you called, but where as with VoIP your voice is carried over internet, which does not work on the principle of dedicated circuit, but based on packets. Trillions and trillions of electrons keep running across the globe in order to take your data from one point to other with out asking heavy returns from you. Coming back to technological advantages with VoIP. On one side humans are also actively researching on compressing the size of data that needs to carry your voice and lots of advancements have happened in this field too. The mechanism is called CODECS (Coder Decoders) and today we have some extremely brilliant codecs like G.729, iLBC, Speex etc., to implement these on your POTS lines, it will cost a fortune as these are hardware based solutions and lots of elements from your service provider equipments to the equipments at your home need to be replaced. But with VoIP, we have learned the advantages of software based solutions and implementing a new CODEC for your VoIP phone is just a new software installation. So VoIP also carries the advantages of these compressed CODECS which give better voice quality than the CODEC(s) used by traditional POTS and VoIP is also future ready for CODECS that might surface tomorrow. As we discussed earlier, humans have achieved a solution to talk with their cousin living across the globe, but we always want more. Won’t it be wonderful if we are able to see the cousin too by some mechanism? Yes the advantages of VoIP have shown us the possibility of carrying video too over the internet. The foundation of VoIP being so excellent, it could adapt for this new requirement. Every VoIP company today have started their research on this and you could see the results already with skype video (Did you upgrade your skype client recently?), MSN messenger video etc., This journey of technology evolution is going to be continuous with the next goals may be teleporting (why not we carry ourselves over internet?) etc., etc., with all realizations of science fictions. In this website we will try to discuss about this journey, understand the technological advancements of today and tomorrow, and let’s contribute our part to quench the human technological hunger. Any discussions on this site will be technology and business neutral and will not be biased up on any thing specific.