Siemens Gigaset A580IP Manual page 185

Glossary
User identification
Name/number combination for access, e.g. to your VoIP account.
V
Voice codec
£
Codec.
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
Telephone calls are no longer placed and transmitted over the telephone network
but over the
VoIP provider
A VoIP, SIP or
way for Internet telephony. As the phone works with the SIP standard, your pro-
vider must support the SIP standard.
The provider routes calls from VoIP to the telephone network (analog, ISDN and cel-
lular) and vice versa.
W
WAN
Wide Area Network
Wide-area network that is unrestricted in terms of area (e.g. Internet).
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Internet (or other IP networks).
Gateway provider is an Internet service provider that provides a Gate-