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IP Telephone Systems
New technologies such as IP telephone systems don’t just replace previous ones but enable much greater functionality, increased productivity, enhanced customer service and lower costs than prior technologies. IP telephone systems bring with them several advantages such as:
Your IP Telephone System provides the following advantages:
- Seamless extension dialing between all your locations on your private network, or even over the public Internet, is relatively easy and much less costly than traditional means. All your offices can be “tied together” to act as one large office no matter where in the world they are located. This also provides the advantage of eliminating long distance charges between your locations.
- IP Telephone systems help create lower cost and greater functionality advantages from carrier services. IP Telephone systems enable you to connect all your offices together on your own private network. This means you use one service provider to provide the voice trunks at each office. Your voice traffic between offices stays on the private network of the carrier. Your voice traffic never has to travel through the public internet. This gives you the advantage of carrying your voice traffic over the same network that carries your data traffic between offices but through the service provider you have Quality of Service to give voice priority over data. This will also give you a lower cost than the traditional means of a totally private network connecting your offices.
- Easily and economically connecting home based workers . Your home based worker can be easily connected to your office phone system with a high speed connection such as DSL or cable Internet. Your worker takes a phone from your office and connects it to that Internet connection. Or your worker uses a “soft phone” which is software on their computer at home that functions like a telephone.
- That physical phone or soft phone, located anywhere in the world, is now a phone on your office phone system with all the individual settings that a worker has on their phone at the office. Someone calls your office and the call automatically rings the phone at your worker’s home. The caller doesn’t know where the person they’re calling is located. This arrangement can even work for a small one, two, or three person branch office.
- An IP telephone system enables you to easily and economically connecting traveling workers . Imagine you’re traveling and staying at a hotel with a high speed Internet connection. You have a “soft phone” on your laptop computer. You can use a headset on your laptop or a handset that plugs into a USB port on your computer. The handset acts just like the handset on your phone at the office. You can now receive and make calls through your soft phone just like you’re at your office. Callers will ring through to your soft phone.
- You can be located anywhere in the world and the person you call or calls you won’t know where you are. If you’re going to be away for an extended period of time, you may even want to take a regular office phone and set it up on your Internet connection. This arrangement makes use of IP Telephone systems for your office combined with VOIP using the Internet. IP Telephone systems makes all this easily possible at a lower cost than traditional systems.
- Home based and traveling workers can also go into your office, in fact any of your office locations, and simply “log in” to your phone system just like they log in to your computer system. Once logged in all their phone settings are automatically provided to the phone in which they log in. This just wasn’t easy or feasible to do economically prior to IP Telephony.
- Software upgrades are much easier and can be performed by you instead of paying the telephone equipment vendor to do them.
- There are many more benefits to installing an IP Telephone system. This brief overview should be enough to peak your interest to continue your investigation. You don’t need to make a total swap out of your current phone system. It is possible to gradually introduce an IP Telephone System into your organization and interface it to legacy systems.
An IP telephone system uses Voice over IP technologies allowing telephone calls to be made over an IP network such as the internet instead of the ordinary PSTN system. Calls can traverse the Internet, or a private IP Network such as that of a company. The phones use control protocols such as Session Initiation Protocol, Skinny Client Control Protocol or one of various proprietary protocols such as that used by Skype.
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