What is Ventrilo?

• Ventrilo is a scalable Voice over IP (VoIP) communications system that solves a lot of the problems associated with network latency, packet loss, uptime and administration.
• Ventrilo can be used for home / personal applications like talking to friends and family, or playing organized online games where Voice Comm can make them more exciting and productive. It can also be used in an enterprise environment as a productivity tool for conducting long distance group discussions. The ventrilo.com domain is used for hosting these web pages and all of the download files for the Ventrilo Client and Server programs. It's also a centralized location for checking on updates to the programs and asking for technical help via the message forum.

Applications of Ventrilo:

• Ventrilo can be used for home / personal applications like talking to friends and family, or playing organized online games where Voice Comm can make them more exciting and productive. It can also be used in an enterprise environment as a productivity tool for conducting long distance group discussions. This would also help when using group collaboration programs that don't provide any kind of voice communication support.
• A Ventrilo server could be setup in order to complement a web site that has voice interaction with its creators or for communicating with other people who share a common interest. For those people that use Windows or Linux based firewall's to connect their internal home LAN's with the Internet can setup a server on the firewall computer so that friends and family can connect to your server and talk for free. If voice communication isn't your cup of tea then you can always use Ventrilo as a more reliable form of IRC without the hassles or frustration of trying to teach someone how to setup a real IRC client.