Picture: Latest VoIP phone by Gigaset: S685 IP
Internet telephony so-called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has to be be distinguished from old-fashioned fixed line telephony. It is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony, as well as voice over broadband, broadband telephony, and broadband phone, when the network connectivity is available over broadband Internet access.
VoIP systems usually interface with the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) to allow for transparent phone communications worldwide. VoIP can be a benefit for reducing communication and infrastructure costs by routing phone calls over existing data networks and avoiding duplicate network systems. Skype and Vonage are notable service provider examples that have achieved widespread user and customer acceptance and market penetration. Voice-over-IP systems carry telephony speech as digital audio, typically reduced in data rate using speech data compression techniques, packetized in small units of typically tens of milliseconds of speech, and encapsulated in a packet stream over IP.
Siemens Gigaset focuses on VoIP telephones. Find a selection here:
Siemens Gigaset IP Phones
This phone is great! Please visit our site for more information.
This is our best selling gigaset model ever with little to no complaints. So when you do not know which phone to choose, choose this one and you are save.
Dear Siemens, I have found the S685IP very interesting. However, we are keen to find a model that can manage
fixed line, IP AND bluetooth - this seems no be the case. Am I wrog, or do you have another model fulfilling these criteria ?
This phone is good solution for small business.
Tim,
The S685IP can do fixed lines, voip and bluetooth !
However not all bluetooth headsets are working well with the gigaset. We have tested many but now only tell our customers to use the Plantronics Voyager 510 and 520.
This phone feels cheep and nastly. When will the SL785 be released as an IP phone?
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"When will the SL785 be released as an IP phone?"
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When will the standard version be released in the UK??
I am getting fed up of seeing the ETA of 16 days for the last 3 months although that has now changed to March 20th which is another month away.
Vapourware in the first degree...