VOIP Advantages

What Advantage Does IP Office Have?

IP Office can provide support of PSTN, POTs, digital time division multiplexed phones AND digital IP phones all on the same system. This means you don't have to abandon the past to embrace the future, IP Office allows all the technologies to co-exist. IP Office connects to the PSTN and to IP trunks (the VoIP equivalent) so providing a "Hybrid" PBX function - where both legacy and future technologies can be used together to minimize operating costs and offer optimize business communications through both voice and data.

IP Office has digital telephones built on both TDM and IP technology that provide the same user interface offering a flexible choice of solution that can mix, for example TDM phones in the office and IP phones at a remote site of at home. With the choice of IP phones including real and virtual (software) phones, IP Office can take communications to a new level.

Buying IP Office allows you choice - you can use the pure POTs or the pure VoIP capabilities of IP Office, or use both at the same time to allow seamless technology transition of your business without the disruption of having to choose between them now.

IP telephony has the advantage of allowing extensions to be deployed both locally and remotely through the use of IP routing and IP VPN services.

When making use of IP telephony, there are a number of data centric considerations such as which data types have priority on the IP network when there is contention. This is set with IP/TCP "quality of service" and should not be ignored. In situations where LAN Bandwidth is limited, a quality of service capable LAN switch should be used to ensure voice packets are transmitted with the required priority on the network. If not, the conversation carried over IP appears as broken up (due to packet loss) or has unacceptable delays introduced in the conversation (latency & jitter). With IP hardphones there is need for Power over Ethernet (PoE) or "midspan power" to be provided to the phones as the IP phones are no longer powered by IP Office.