Why VoIP is Advantageous

VoIP Networks: The advantages of the new Telephone Standard.

Voice over IP (VoIP) refers to a way to carry phone calls over an IP data network. It routes voice calls over the internet rather than through a traditional packet switched telephone network.  It has become the standard for phones and services and has driven the plain old telephone system in to retirement.  The innately innovative design of this system carries with it numerous advantages the best of which is lower cost to consumers. With AT&T trying to drive out POTS systems, VoIP is soon to become the sole standard for voice communications.

Compared to POTS, VoIP offers many advantages like better sound quality and lower cost.  With it you can make a telephone call to anyone on the globe and the cost is included in your internet bill.

For businesses, branch offices are allowed to maintain a local number to the main office which curtails long distance fees and other telephone expenses. If your employees want to work remotely this technology easily gives them the atmosphere of being in the office and the environment that their customers enjoy.

 VoIP services save businesses significant amounts of time, money and resources that might otherwise be tied up on a landline based phone. Converting can save on long distance, operating costs, maintain a simple infrastructure and manage their communications more efficiently. In addition to being faster, less expensive and more convenient; all VoIP system maintenance is done by the same people that handle all IT and computer networking tasks.

Most of the cost of VoIP services previously involved connecting back to the plain old telephone system. Now that the majority of phone users have switched to VoIP it will no longer be necessary to make use of the old service.  

Two months ago AT&T petitioned the FCC to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks and transition to an all IP platform. They had been discussing it internally, egged on by the FCC suggestion that the Public Switched Telephone Network may completely die out by 2018. The transition will incorporate only a couple standards of the old system like sustained connections and 911 services.

An all IP network lacks traditional circuit switching, will shed the complexity, save money and content conveyance will all be delivered using the same technology. Many customers have already ditched landlines for cell phones and VoIP services.

Traditional phone systems are getting harder to maintain and are a more expensive platform that doesn’t suit our technological civilization any longer. VoIP has been around for some time, and it seems our society has come to the conclusion to fully embrace its benefits. It’s about time to get rid of the plain old telephone system after a century. VoIP and IP are now the reigning champs.