Call termination
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Call Termination, also known as voice termination, refers to the handing off or routing of telephone calls from one telephone company, also known as a carrier or provider, to another.
The terminating point is the called party or end point. The originating point is the calling party who initiates the call.
This term often applies to calls while using VoIP: a call initiated as a VoIP call is terminated using the PSTN. In such cases, termination services may be sold as a separate commodity. The opposite of call termination is call origination, in which a call initiated from the PSTN is terminated using VoIP. Thus, in "origination" a call originates from PSTN and goes to VoIP, while in "Termination" a call originates in VoIP and terminates to PSTN.
