Business Grade VoIP

More businesses than ever are migrating to a single network carrying voice and data .  This process is called convergence, and it's revolutionizing the world of telecommunications by slashing costs and empowering users. The technology driving this convergence is called VoIP, or Voice over IP.

The primary reason for migrating to VoIP is cost, as it equalizes the costs of long distance calls, local calls, and e-mails to fractions of a penny per use. But the real enterprise value is how VoIP empowers businesses to mold and customize telecom and datacom solutions using a single, cohesive networking platform.

The below diagram illustrates a typical business implementation of VoIP and Asterisk.  In this example, users of the network can make and receive phone calls from both the PSTN (public switched telephone network) and via VoIP.  As you can see, all sorts of IP devices are able to share the same network.  With VoIP, everything is digital so the same network that provides internet access, email and database access for your PC can also provide telephone service.  The telephone simply becomes another device on the network.

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