Wireless Voip Phone

The functioning of wireless VoIP phones is similar to that of ordinary wireless VoIP phones, but VoIP phones combine VoIP technology and Wi-Fi (WLAN) systems. Users need to be in the range of the wireless node to make and receive calls. And when they are within the reach of Wi-Fi, they are able to do much the same calling functions enabled by VoIP phones desktop computer. When one is already equipped with a wireless LAN and VoIP phones, VoIP phones may be adding a logical step.

Wireless VoIP is also known as VoWLAN or voice over Wi-Fi areas of LAN and mobile wireless operation of wireless VoIP phones require a data network to which Wi-Fi equipment is connected. The network itself can be independent or connected to the Internet or the public telephone system. The equipment enables high-speed wireless access points limit.

Each access point has an antenna to catch the signal from the Wi-Fi equipment and broadcast in a radius of 300 feet or a hot spot. Within the radius all Wi-Fi enabled laptops, digital organizers and wireless phones can connect to the signal.

In wireless VoIP phones, voice is converted into data segments for transmission of the phone antenna to radio Wi-Fi, then received by the data network. Here, the data segments reverse the process to reach an extension or the traditional telephone network. In other words, an extension can be carried anywhere.

Although there is no argument about wireless VoIP phones being advantageous, they have their share of shortcomings. Fore one, they can not completely replace hard-wire VoIP phones mainly due to lack of reliability and the limited functions of wireless phones currently available in relation to office phones.

However, the biggest disadvantage in wireless VoIP phones is the limit on the number of simultaneous calls that can be made. The maximum number of calls in each wireless system can not exceed five or ten years. This seriously undermines its call handling capacity in a large enterprise environment.

However, the drastic reduction of operating costs enabled wireless operators of high quality compressed VoIP to bring the ease and convenience of wireless access in the VoIP world.