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[ajax222] VoIP is a method by which the voice signal is digitized and then transmitted over the Internet in packets, in a similar manner to how an email with a sound file attachment is send over the Internet. Although Voice chats were famous for about 10 years now, it is only in the last few years that bandwidth, customer equipment, and protocols have provided us with a viable substitute for the PSTN.

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