So, your organization has finally decided to update the old telephone system, you have a big project on his hands and looked at the first things you need to do to plan the Beast. Well have no fear because I was on the planning, design, implementation and support side of the VoIP business for 10 years and provides an overview overview of what the next 3-12 months will be with you in mind.

The first thing you need to know is what are the reasons for the deployment. It is important to keep the reasons for the upgrade in mind when planning and selection of the new system, not to be drawn into the reasons less important in the process. Here are the most common reasons that we encounter:

* The old telephone system is failing or falling all the time.
* People complain about the age of the telephone system.
* It is possible monthly savings by switching to SIP trunking.
* You will hear from improving the productivity of other companies with Voice over IP systems.
* There are many new features that you need.

However, there are also other advantages for the modernization of the existing telephone system have not thought of that and in the process:
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VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)

VOIP explained

VOIP, in addition to being the biggest buzzword in our industry has ever seen, in simple terms, a way of connecting a phone handset or calls from one place to another over a computer network son instead of the normal phone.

There are 3 main reasons to use VoIP

* VOIP Extensions (for remote workers)
* Lines VOIP (instead of traditional phone lines)
* VoIP Gateways (also for connecting PBXs at different locations)

Many people contact us about using VoIP to save money. While this can work for non-enterprise customers, it is our experience that usually loses VOIP savings accounts in the victim.
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You have the ads on TV and everybody talks about seen – as the home VOIP service, and why it is the best thing since sliced bread or canned beer. Everyone is jumping on the train, VOIP, and now has more than one year from the date of the first benchmark where new VoIP installations are new activations exceeded conventional telephone. Is this good and everyone is on board with him what could be the problem?

It is a disadvantage to home VOIP service, and in fact there are several disadvantages. One of the biggest problems is that it still is not consistently available in 100% of countries simply because a secure high-speed Internet service is not yet available in 100% of the country. How many countries are still covered by the service reliable high-speed Internet? It is a two-part question, simply because the word “reliable.”

The high-speed Internet service for your home is in most metropolitan areas across the country available. To use VOIP, noted that the satellite is not recommended, and wireless is also a question mark on the state of VoIP today. But even where high-speed Internet service is available, it can not reliably enough to use VoIP. Today, access to residential broadband Internet services in a surprisingly high number of homes to some miserable compared to the very “connected” countries elsewhere, as in Great Britain and Finland. Some people are at speeds that rival Putzing think speed dial, they are at high speed. If your connection “broadband” Internet is so not even try VOIP.

The reason for the mention, because many people have given VOIP a bad name because it does not work for you. What they do not realize is that this is not the VoIP provider or the VoIP service that is blowing, it’s their high-speed Internet connection that blows, and solved until the problem is, boxing can and a taut string is better function as VOIP. [Read more...]