VoIP

Converging Networks (VOIP)

In Figure 2-10, you see a packet-switched computer network running VoIP and connected to the traditional PSTN. Note the absence of any POTS lines or private telephone systems (KTS or PBX) under the DS carrier service network cloud. All telephone calls are originating on the company’s computer network using VoIP. Only calls destined for the […]

Private Systems Versus VoIP

A private telephone system approach can’t begin to compare to a VoIP model in terms of savings. Your guide should be “How much telephone calling traffic, across all five regulated PSTN charging categories, do you or your company have each month?” If your monthly call volume, which is charged by the minute for each line […]

Private Telephone Systems Reduce POTS Line Costs (VOIP)

Computer data networks and circuit-switched voice networks are completely separate, with individual staffing, billing, maintenance, and accounting systems. Although the maintenance costs of computer networks are affordable for most companies, the recurring charges for traditional forms of telephony are huge for small, medium, and large multilocation companies. VoIP is designed to converge (integrate) a company’s […]

Everything You Need to Know About Charges (VOIP)

In This topic ^ Getting access to the network ^ Understanding the costs of service categories ^ Surviving your monthly bills ^ Analyzing savings with a case study In the old days of making calls with a telephone (remember, just last year), you paid for a phone line. Your company may have had one network […]

Accessing the NetWork (VOIP)

All phone costs start with leasing some sort of access line or set of access lines from the local exchange carrier (affectionately called LEC, which rhymes with “heck”). For the line itself, you pay a monthly access fee that varies depending on the type of line you lease. For most consumers, the line is a […]

Saving With VoIP

If you’ve read the topic up to this point, you’re a much more savvy POTS-PSTN customer. You now know exactly how your carrier makes money at your expense. You also know how the five regulated service categories can combine to increase your monthly and annual telephony costs and therefore reduce your revenue. Something that increases […]

Service Categories Cost You Big Time (VOIP)

If you’ve ever tried to read your monthly phone bill, you know that the system of charges for traditional phone services is virtually incomprehensible to the average person. One of the big benefits of VoIP is that it makes the POTS-PSTN model, together with its complicated billing structure and weird terminology, just go away. Traditional […]

VoIP Savings: A Case Study

One of my clients in the Pittsburgh area has eleven locations distributed across several local calling areas within two Pittsburgh LATAs. Five locations are in the city itself. The other six are in the South Hills, with two inside Allegheny County but outside the city, and four located to the south across the county line […]

Road Map to VoIP Transports and Services

In This topic ^ Recognizing the abstract world of CSIs ^ Understanding transports ^ Uncovering the five carrier service infrastructures ^ Fitting VoIP and the Net in the CSI structure Let’s face it — telecommunications can be daunting to those who have not given much thought as to how their voice gets from their phone’s […]

Taking VoIP to Your Network

In this part Get ready for a mind-bending tour of how you can integrate voice with your data network through the magic of VoIP. In this part, you discover an expansive view of networking, and how you can take advantage of all the benefits that VoIP has to offer. topic 4 provides a road map […]