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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Services

Overview

Find information here about MIT’s voice over internet protocol offerings, including MITvoip, Open Source Telephony, and Personal SIP Accounts.

To find out what kind of service you have, see Identifying Your Service.

IP Telephony

MITvoip	General VoIP telephone service, currently being rolled out across campus to faculty, staff, and administration.
Open Source Telephony	A bare-bones VoIP telephone service that evolved out of the VoIP Pilot Program.
Personal SIP Accounts	Personal SIP Accounts leverage the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to allow MIT users to experiment with advanced voice and video applications and services. SIP is an open standard that supports communications with a variety of devices using your “username@mit.edu” identity. Personal SIP Accounts are not intended as a replacement for telephone services. This experimental service is aimed at advanced users and has limited support.

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Traditional Telephony Services

Traditional telephony services encompass all MIT telephones that use dedicated voice wiring instead of data lines. This includes analog and ISDN phones.

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