What Is VoIP Termination?
Where a call is made from a Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, terminal to a regular land line, the final segment of the route of the call has to leave the Internet and travel over the Public Switched Telephone Network. This is known as VoIP termination.
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Public Switched Telephone Network
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The Public Switched Telephone Network is what the general public regards as the telephone company. The PSTN runs analog signals over wires.
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Most VoIP users don't know many people who have the same VoIP service as them and who will be sitting at their computer at the time a call is made. For this reason, VoIP only became attractive to the general public once VoIP callers were able to route calls to customers of other VoIP providers, as well as out of the Internet and over the PSTN to home telephones.
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Termination
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When a call leaves the Internet, the VoIP termination provider reassembles the data packets carrying the call into recognizable speech. The resulting analog signal is then channeled over the PSTN to the receiver.
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