VoIP Or Standard PBX

VoIP Or Standard PBX

Should you keep your trusty TDM based phone system or toss everything out in favor of a Internet Telephony system?

Why to miss services which would promise to enhance your productivity?
Substitute it all for a brand new Voip phone system and take all the benefits this new technology offers.

How to proceed?

Decide between these possibilities:
- analog,
- digital, or
- IP phones
on your desk and whether to go with VoIP telephone services or TDM to be linked with the outside. Some systems will even allow you to mix and match.

Which one to take?
VoIP?
TDM?
or Both?
Why not?

Most any telephone systems give you the option on how to connect to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network).

A pure IP-Telephony telephone system operates entirely in the IP world from handset to call termination. The PBX equivalent is the IP PBX. The IP PBX is generally a software running on a Linux system. The handsets are referred to as SIP phones.
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a switching protocol which controls the telephone calls over the Internet. Calls between subscribers to the same Internet Telephony service provider completely stay on the network and never enter the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). Calls to and from non-subscribers are terminated to the PSTN at the provider’s location.

Usually you can mix and match purely digital and TDM phone systems, purely analog phone systems and purely VoIP phone systems. A IP-Telephony system may well have FXS (Foreign Exchange Subscriber or Station) ports to connect to analog handsets, like traditional PBX telephone systems. The telephone service connection may be T1, analog, ISDN, or SIP Trunking.

Normally newer IP PBX telephone systems can offer a broader range of handset and telephone service connection options than traditional PBX systems. But before you decide to replace your telephone system, you may ask a skilled expert or get related information in one of the many Voip Review Sites you’ll find on the Internet.

Jim Francisto
has a master degree in IT and is a technical writer and business consultant
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