SOHO Voice over IP Telephone Roundup

VoIP is nothing new. Large multinational corporations have been saving money on inter-office and international calls with this technology for years, but it’s only recently that it’s begun to make serious inroads into the lives of everyday people.

We are all used to standard telephone systems, with dedicated wiring specifically for telephone signals and charged per minute of usage. VoIP telephones however, are designed to communicate over data links like a LAN or the Internet. The benefit of this is that the bandwidth involved in sending an essentially low-quality sound transmission is often minimal, so this can work out significantly cheaper than a phone line, or in many cases free.

So, with the market poised to offer home and small business users a whole new way of communicating that has a whole host of advantages aside from price, we thought it was time for a roundup of hardware telephones aimed at the SOHO user…

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