Personal Internet Phone Equipment is a compact and smart application designed for real-time vocal communication; i.e. it is an application that allows people to talk with their friends, colleagues or relatives by means of computer and IP networks: Intern

PIPE supports voice PC-to-PC calls both over the Internet and local area networks (LAN) based on TCP/IP protocols stack. Basically, the program is intended for the following purposes:

· Free or low cost long-distance calls between two persons through computers, connected to the Internet.
· Office telephone, which allows voice information exchange for a company's stuff by means of computers and intranet.


The PIPE system requirements are obviously extremely modest and prevailing. The most critical resource is the quality of IP network, since low speed connection causes sensible voice data losses. Satisfactory quality of voice stream can be achieved at 19,200 bps link.

Here are some key features of "Personal Internet Phone Equipment":

· PIPE provides reliable voice transmission of high quality.
· PIPE allows establishing connection over Socks Proxies.
· PIPE includes a smart and adjustable UDP port scanning mechanism.
· Installing PIPE requires little disk space.
· The program has a phone-like user interface


Requirements:

· Pentium CPU, 75 MHz or better with at least 8 Mb RAM.
· Cable or dial-up IP network connection.
· Full or half -duplex sound card.
· Head-phone (or microphone and ear-phones) compatible with sound card.
· Valid multimedia driver for sound card.


Limitations:

· You're not able to speak on the unregistered telephone more than 3 minutes.