A Quick History of VoIP Phones

A Quick History of VoIP Phones From the first phone call to modern VoIP Providers.

1. A Quick History of VoIP Phones From the first phone call to modern VoIP Providers

2. The phone on your desk, and in your hand, is an underestimated business tool. Business owners don’t realize how much they rely on their phones until it stops functioning.

3. Let’s explore the history of this important communication tool…

4. If you cant imagine a day without your phone, thank Alexander Graham Bell , the inventor of the telephone.

5. Bell executes the first successful phone call and takes a step towards communication as we know it today. 1876

6. In the years after Bell’s invention, telephone switchboards are used to connect two parties so that they can communicate.

7. A t this point, making a phone call requires a switchboard that necessitates an operator to manually connect the two callers using a panel of jacks and wires.

8. Telephones at this time are made of wood and need to be hand-cranked to operate.

9. Thomas Edison and Tivadar Puskas are the brains behind a telephone exchange. The Bell Telephone Company builds one and inspires future designs. 1877

10. Behold the first office phone. Bell makes some much needed improvements to the telephone and introduces the candlestick telephone .

11. T wo years after the telephone switchboard exchange is invented, the first commercial North American telephone exchange opens in Connecticut. 1878

12. Due to increasing popularity and switchboards getting larger, technology shifts to a Panel Machine Switching System in the 1920s, which is an early type of automatic telephone exchange that eliminates the need for multiple switchboards.

13. Almon Strowger modernizes the office phone with the invention of the rotary dial telephone. 1892

14. It is advertised as “one of the answers to the modern cry for greater efficiency in everything .” …sound familiar?

15. The rotary phone, in its various models, shares the telephone market with the candlestick until the 1930s. The rotary dial telephone remains a popular choice as a home and office phone until the 1960s.

16. The first direct dialing distance service is implemented in New Jersey, which allow a caller to reach another user outside of the local calling area without operator assistance. 1951

17. Modems are now being used for direct connection by way of phone lines, which are used to transmit and decode digital data. 1958

18. The introduction of modems will eventually lead to the introduction of echo cancellation, broadband, radio, and our beloved Wi-Fi.

19. As cell phone electronics are developed, push button phones begin replacing the rotary dial phones. 1960s

20. The office phone is now easier to use and with answering machine technology gaining popularity, people’s behavior towards communicating is changing.

21. The following decades lead to advances that make the Asterisk Private Branch Exchange possible , and help power VoIP providers as we know them today.

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