You have likely heard the terms “Voice Over IP” or “telecom convergence” used lately and wondered ‘how does this apply to me and my business?’ E-TEL Systems Corporation takes a consultative approach with each and every client to insure that our clients have a comfortable understanding of the technologies and more importantly how precisely it benefits them. As telecom convergence becomes an increasing reality in today’s business environment, questions arise. Questions like “what is the advantage of having an IP phone on my desk?” And “will this system let me get free long distance by calling over the internet?”  Answers to these questions can vary greatly depending on how the technologies are applied and E-TEL Systems has the experience and design expertise to turn these answers into viable, forward thinking business solutions.

 
 

 

 
Voice Over IP
How does this apply to me and my business?

Voice over IP or “Voip” can mean different things to different people.  There are two basic perspectives on voice over IP, IP Telephony and Voip. Most consumers recognize Voip from television commercials in which service providers offer free long distance and many other benefits by subscribing to a service plan.  Many business professionals think of Voip as being an IP telephone on their desk or IP softphone application on their PC that lets them log into their corporate telephone system remotely and take calls while sitting at the local coffee shop or at home.

IP Telephony

IP Telephony introduces packetized voice to your local area IP network, thereby making telephones additional nodes on the LAN. In an IP Telephony environment all calls within the network are considered VOIP because it is in fact routing voice over internet protocol, but as soon as an outbound call leaves the local area network, it commonly goes over the standard PSTN carrier services via traditional analog POTS or ISDN circuits. There are many advantages to be gained by IP Telephony, E-TEL Systems Corporation can guide you through the requirements and considerations to determine if IP Telephony is a good fit for your organization.

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VOIP

VOIP is sending calls off of your network via the internet with a carrier service that has an interface with the PSTN (publicly switched telephone network) that can route calls to a traditional POTS circuit. Many of us have seen ads on television for these carriers. A tremendous advantage of VOIP as it relates to today’s business environment is the ability to “link” two telephone systems in geographically dissimilar locations together via WAN (T1 or virtual private network) connection to appear as one logical network, thus allowing station to station dialing between locations and centralization of common services such as voicemail or call accounting.

E- TEL Systems specializes in designing, engineering and installing the largest most complex networks as well as the smallest simple telephone system. Let us put our skills to work for you.
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