So now that you know what VoIP is, let's check out some main flavors of VoIP, starting with the ATA, or the analog telephone adapter, and that's just the most simplest and most common form of VoIP and it's just a little box that you can use for your, to connect your phone into and you have VoIP calling instead of a traditional landline. How does it do it? It just, an ATA is just a ADC, which stands for analog to digital converter, so it will take the analog signal that comes from the phone, convert it to a digital signal, and then send it through the Internet for someone else to receive. ATAs are normally bundled by service providers, so instead of the service provider giving you the normal landline, kind of traditional phone service, you now have web calling capabilities instead. >> Mm-hm. >> Next we have the IP phones. >> Right. >> And so IP phones is just very similar to a landline phone with an ATA built into it. >> Yeah, it's just an ATA built into it, so it looks like a normal phone, but instead of traditional phone calls you have Internet protocol phone or VoIP phone calls. >> And so IP phones, so most of the phones that exist today, most smartphones all have IP phone capabilities, so whenever your smartphone's connected on wi-fi or on an additional network, you basically, your phone is basically an IP Phone. And what that means is that the hardware and the software to make WiFi calls or VoIP calls, any of those things, they're already built into the phone, you don't need any external software, you don't need to get any external hardware. Everything's built in. >> You know what else makes for really good VoIP IP phone? >> What? >> The Dragonboard. >> Right! >> Would you believe that? >> Completely forgot about that. So, you guys have been watching three courses on the Dragonboard so far, and the Dragonboard is essentially an IP phone and it has all the WiFi capabilities. It has the hardware built into it, and it has the soft, and bring you, as soon as you get the operating system, you also have the software built into it. >> Right. You just set up the software and you can just call anyone with the Internet. >> Yeah, and we're gonna be teaching you how to do all those things later on in the course, too. >> And finally we have the computer computer. >> Right. >> So the computer computer calling is the easiest way to use VoIP in most cases, and in almost all the cases I can think of is usually free. >> [LAUGH] >> For instance if you have Skype. If you have Skype and the person you're trying to call also has Skype, even if they're in some other part of the world in a different country, Skype call is 99% of the time it's free, and you can talk for as long as you want. You have video call and audio call and you don't need any external hardware or software. An external hardware, like computer computer, it's pure software. >> Yeah. >> So, you have to download the software. As long as you have the software, it's a pure software business thing, so it can take care of that. >> Yeah, it'll be very good as long as set up to like a microphone, speakers. >> Right, so you need a webcam and all those things, and the only charge that comes with the computer computer calling is that you have the monthly Internet charge that you have to pay anyway if you're using Internet. Other than that it's probably the easiest way to use VoIP, and with that we'll see you in our next video.