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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 them 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 the 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. Software are also available which allow you to do video conferencing. Some popular
softwares are iCall, TrueConf, Meetings.io, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, 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 communication over networks like Internet. VoIP services encode
your voice into a digital signal before transmitting it over the 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
messages. 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
Whatsapp, Skype and Telegram.
To use VoIP service of Skype, follow these steps:
Step 1 Click on the Start button.
Step 2 Scroll down to keyword 'S' and click on Skype.
Step 3 Click on the No account? Create one! link to create an account on Skype.
Step 4 Click on the Create one link.
Step 5 Enter your email and click on Next button.
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