It cannot be denied that the advancement of communications technology today has indeed reached a milestone. What started out as simple Morse codes that served as the major communication decades ago; is now developed into the most sophisticated means of contact.

While the telephone or the cell phone is the fastest and the most convenient means of communication; the internet provides equally fast and convenient ways as well. The internet supplies plenty of opportunities for people to communicate and contact one another. Aside from emails, another mode of contact in the internet which has become popular lately is the softphone.

A softphone is basically a software program employed for making calls over the internet. This software actually functions like the traditional telephone, and is in fact literally appearing as a phone image often times on a standard PC. The phone image of a softphone is one with a display panel and buttons for the user to interact with. A headset is connected to the soundcard of the PC in order to generate sound. The amazing thing about the softphone is that it can make telephone calls over the internet using the general purpose computer instead of dedicated software. Thus, installing a softphone in any PC is very simple and easy.

There have been a lot of these software that have been developed by various software developers, and CounterPath is just but one of these developers. CounterPath has lately introduced their version of the softphone which is the eyeBeam 1.5.

The eyeBeam 1.5 is a multimedia communicator which is designed to amplify an internet communications experience in Voice over IP. EyeBeam 1.5 offers carrier-grade Voice, Presence, and Video IM features. These features provide the users the ultimate VoIP experience like no other. In fact, eyebeam 1.5 is one of the few softphones that features a dial pad-centric interface for users to use in managing their IM, video, voice, and presence applications.

Perhaps one of the greatest characteristic of eyeBeam is its user-friendly and simple navigation environment. This is certainly a big factor since not all users are particularly familiar with the Voice over IP environment. Moreover, the intuitive interface of eyeBeam provides an easy transition from the conventional hard phone environment to the VoIP.

Moreover, eyeBeam is easily linked to most VoIP based broadband service providers such as CallCentric internet phone service. Furthermore, eyeBeam is readily accessible through CallCentric service. In fact, eyeBeam software can be purchased at the CallCentric website. CallCentric even provides instructions on the installation and configuration of eyeBeam along with other softphones such as X-Lite and X-Pro.

With these great features, it is not surprising why eyebeam is getting a lot of attention lately. Moreover, more people are employing this softphone as their major means of internet communication.