VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol has gained much popularity today. There are many advantages consumers are discovering to using their broadband connections to handle all of their telecommunication needs. People also prefer integrating their telephony into one simple network. VoIP can handle all components such as voice, data, email, and web communications.

When VoIP first was revealed, it opened the door to many questions. For example, VoIP transmits packets of data, or information, over the Internet, while regular telephone services work by transmitting circuits- or electricity to create a connection between one telephone user and another. An example of this is the old switchboard operators who wearing headsets would frantically try to make the right connection and have the correct talkers communicate with each other.

This old method of using the telephones is called Circuit Switch Networks. Because VoIP utilizes packets of information, it is called Packet Switch.

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