A Quick History of VoIP Phones

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A Quick History of VoIP Phones

• From the first phone call to modern VoIP Providers

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The phone on your desk, and in your hand, is an
underestimated business tool. Business owners
dont realize how much they rely on their phones
until it stops functioning.
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Lets explore the history of this important
communication tool
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If you cant imagine a day without your phone,
thank Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the
telephone.
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1876
Bell executes the first successful phone call and
takes a step towards communication as we know it
today.
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In the years after Bells invention, telephone
switchboards are used to connect two parties so
that they can communicate.
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At 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.
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Telephones at this time are made of wood and need
to be hand-cranked to operate.
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1877
Thomas Edison and Tivadar Puskas are the brains
behind a telephone exchange. The Bell Telephone
Company builds one and inspires future designs.
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Behold the first office phone. Bell makes some
much needed improvements to the telephone and
introduces the candlestick telephone.
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1878
Two years after the telephone switchboard
exchange is invented, the first commercial North
American telephone exchange opens in Connecticut.
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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.
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1892
Almon Strowger modernizes the office phone with
the invention of the rotary dial telephone.
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It is advertised as one of the answers to the
modern cry for greater efficiency in everything.
sound familiar?
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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.
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1951
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.
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1958
Modems are now being used for direct connection
by way of phone lines, which are used to transmit
and decode digital data.
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The introduction of modems will eventually lead
to the introduction of echo cancellation,
broadband, radio, and our beloved Wi-Fi.
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1960s
As cell phone electronics are developed, push
button phones begin replacing the rotary dial
phones.
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The office phone is now easier to use and with
answering machine technology gaining popularity,
peoples behavior towards communicating is
changing.
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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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