Internet Phone VoIP Hardware Requirements for Internet Telephony

Hardware

To set up a little VoIP system the following hardware is needed:

• A PC, 386 or more
  
• A sound card, full duplex capable
  
• A network card or connection to internet or other kind of interface to allow communication between 2 PCs
  

All these have to be present twice to simulate a standard communication.

The tools above are the minimal requirement for a VoIP connection.

Real situation

Next we'll see that we should use more hardware to do the same in a real situation. The sound card has be full duplex unless we couldn't hear anything while speaking! Additional hardware cards can be used to be able to manage data stream in a compressed format.

Hardware accelerating cards

Special cards with hardware accelerating capability can be used. They are:

• Quicknet PhoneJack