hotelwifi

I'm trying to see how this VoIP works. I do the WiFi for hotels, but haven't gotten into VoIP yet.

1. Do I need a special access point to do VoIP or will a regular 802.11B work? Can VoIP coexist with regular WiFi users as long as there is enough broadband for them all?

2. If I want to call someone across the country or world, and we both have a broadband internet connection, and both have VoIP equipment, I assume we don't even need Vonage to do this. I can call him directly over the Internet using VoIP.

3. But if I have VoIP equipment and a broadband connection and want to all someone across the country, but that person does not even have a computer or even any Internet connection, but only has a regular land line telephone, I'm tryint to figure hot the call routing goes to call him? Since he does not have VoIP equipment or a Internet connection.

I assume this is where Vonage comes in? Might Vonage be the one to have all the long distance trunks that will interface my VoIP calls to other users who only have regular wired telephone service?

4. Can I cost effectively set up my own equipment to act like Vonage does. I might want to sell VoIP to my networking customers that we do networking for. Can I myself route my customers VoIP calls to the land line where by I could bypass companies like Vonage?

Maybe this may not be too cost effective since I might have to purchase long distance trunks to do so? So do most networking companies, like I work for, who are considering selling VoIP to our clients, utilize Vonage (and similiar companies) to interface VoIP calls of their customers into regular wired telephone system?

I think you all very much for your help