Technology Reports

In the last few months switching from traditional telephony to voip has become much easire than it was just a few short years ago.  The thing that helped make this happen was a wonderful little device called an ATA.  An ATA or Analogue Telephone Adaptor is a little box that you plug 1 side into a normal telephone handset and the other side plugs into a network connection on your Broadband Router.

This little box made it possible to use VoIP on an ordinary telephone and not even have your computer turned on!  Now, by making it “easy for the masses” and non techo people, this little box was the turning point for VoIP.

Now, you could go out and buy an ATA and then try and learn how to put all the setting into it to make it work.  This is probably only something that less than 1% of all VoIP users do - yep the techo types (I am included in that small category), or you could probably buy the Adaptor already set up for you when you sign up with a VoIP provider.  Buying an Adaptor ready to go and following a simple sign-up process made it possible for everyone who has broadband to exploit it and get cheaper Telephone calls.