The company gives customers an analog telephone adapter free of charge.

Analog telephone adapter, a device which makes a Voice over IP connection appear to be a standard outside line.

These systems provide a piece of hardware called an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA).

Then T-Mobile associates that number with an ATA (analog telephone adapter).

Vonage supplies an analog telephone adapter which connects a customer supplied standard analog telephone to the Internet and the Vonage service.

Gateways & Analog Telephone Adapters (ATAs)

VoIP, in contrast, uses an all-digital network between both call endpoints (using a VoIP phone or analog telephone adapter).

Some analog telephone adapters do not decode pulse dialing that is generated by older analog telephones, supporting only touch-tone signaling, but pulse-to-tone converter are commercially available.

Traditional PSTN phones are used as VoIP phones with analog telephone adapters (ATA).

IP telephony uses an Internet connection and hardware IP Phones, analog telephone adapters, or softphone computer applications to transmit conversations encoded as data packets.

Comparison can be made with an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter), which allows analog phones to be connected to VoIP networks.

An analog telephone adapter is a device that connects to the network and implements the electronics and firmware to operate a conventional analog telephone attached through a modular phone jack.

T.38 is designed to work with VoIP services and often supported by analog telephone adapters used by legacy fax machines that need to connect through a VoIP service.

Some analog telephone adapters for Internet telephony require analog phones with low REN, but researching RENs online is difficult because manufacturers and sellers seldom provide that information.

Most analog telephone adapters for Internet-based telecommunications (VoIP) recognise and translate DTMF tones but ignore dial pulses, an issue which also exists for some PBX systems.

When you make a VoIP call, you use your computer's built-in microphone and speakers, a headset, an IP phone or a phone plugged into an analog telephone adapter in place of an ordinary phone.

An analog telephony adapter or analog telephone adapter (ATA) is a device used to connect one or more standard analog telephones to a digital telephone system (such as Voice over IP) or a non-standard telephone system.

Instead of using dedicated, hard-ware based VoIP devices, such as IP phones, analog telephone adapters, or integrated VoIP/Internet access routers, services are provided via a web page and the facilities of the user's computer or hand-held device for accessing and operating a locally attached head set, and microphone.