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Chapter Profile
Video Conferencing
You use telephones and mobiles to talk to your friends and relatives. With the advancement in
technology, you can now see the person with whom you are talking. This technique of watching the
person while talking to him is called video conferencing. In video conferencing, there can be more
than two persons at different locations simultaneously talking to each other by both audio as well as
video. For video conferencing, you should be connected to Internet. In addition to Internet, you need
to have a webcam and a microphone connected to your computer/laptop. Most of the online chat
service providers give facility of video chat and video conference. There are software also available
which allow you to do video conferencing. Some popular software are TrueConf, Meetings.io, etc.
Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology which gives calling facility over the Internet. It is
basically used for voice communications over networks like Internet.
Clickipedia
The first VoIP service was developed in 1973 by Danny Cohen. He named this service as
Network Voice Protocol (NVP). The commercial use of VoIP started as late as 2004.
VoIP is an Internet based telephone service which is also used to transfer voice, fax, SMS and voice
messaging. VoIP is available on smart phones, personal computers, laptops and other hardware
devices that can access Internet. The most common and popular VoIP services used in India are
Skype and Telegram.
To use VoIP service of Skype, follow these steps:
2 Scroll down to 3 Click on the Sign
keyword 'S' and in or Create button
click on Skype. to create an account
on Skype.
1 Click on the
Start button.
4 Click on the 5 Enter your email and 6 Enter your password 7 Enter the verification code
Create one link. click on Next button. and click on Next button. and click on Next button.
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