Benefits Of VoIP

Benefits Of VoIP

Case Studies and Success Stories

The benefits of VoIP to users and providers include increased access to information, elimination of boundaries, reduction of costs, consistent quality of service, and enhanced revenue. Specifically, in promoting access to information, VoIP:

• Enables growth in penetration of information services to the home whether via cable, DSL, or other emerging access technologies

• Is media independent

• Promotes social development through access to an integrated IP network that facilitates distance learning, telemedicine, and e-government

• Promotes economic development through access to new markets

VoIP technology eliminates boundaries by giving users the flexibility to use one or more communications devices, such as a PC, telephone, PDA, wireless phone, or even a TV set-top box. In addition, VoIP integrates voice in other services that can be offered cost effectively since the network operation is streamlined. Furthermore, VoIP eliminates boundaries between wireless and wireline devices and facilitates interconnection. VoIP technology also can permit geographic independence, mobility, and the potential for convenience of access via one number anywhere.

Costs are reduced in a number of ways when VoIP technology is deployed. For voice traffic, data is compressed and transmitted over an IP-based computer network, which means that VoIP uses up to 90 percent less bandwidth than a traditional PSTN call. Installing a packet-switched network costs about a third of a circuit-switched system and can save about 50-60 percent in operating costs.

IP networks can be specifically designed to deliver quality of service for VoIP. Managed "IP" networks support the capability to prioritize the voice and ensure prompt and consistent communications regardless of how congested the network. In that environment the user does not distinguish a difference in quality between a managed VoIP call and a traditional POTS call.

Finally, VoIP enhances revenue by bringing in new revenue sources, even where there is a drop in traditional revenue sources. Enhanced revenue includes:

• Extra local traffic because VoIP increases total traffic carried over local networks

• Second lines to homes and more leased lines

• Growth in backbone traffic

• New services, such as call transit service through VoIP gateways, unified messaging services, IP virtual private networks for businesses, and VoIP clearing house services for ISPs.

News

VoIP Gateway

Sherbrooke, Canada, November 19, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Mediatrix Telecom, the leader in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) access devices and gateways, today announced the newest member to the award-winning 4100 Series, the Mediatrix 4102. The ...

Mediatrix Telecom Delivers the Mediatrix 4102 VoIP Gateway - PR.com

Berlin, Germany, November 21, 2008 --( PR.com )-- TELES, the Berlin based NGN and Access Gateways vendor, is expanding its operation into Africa with the support of voice communications distribution partner Du Pont Telecom. Du Pont Telecom has signed ...

Du Pont Telecom to Play Key Role in TELES Expansion Into Africa - PR.com

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate VoIP technology into existing telephony infrastructure, eliminating the need for expensive network overhauls and also extending the useful life of existing investments. The ...