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The latest advancement in the telephony genre is VoIP PBX solutions. The high-speed solutions help the corporate clients to meet their communication needs in a more comprehensive and cost efficient manner. The voice over IP PBX solutions have the capability of transmitting data, image, video and voice over a “unified” IP network. This way of managing a communication infrastructure ensures that the organizations are able to deal with their clients from different parts of the world, quite effectively. As of now, this solution is becoming popular among various enterprises such as contact centres, media houses and MNCs as well. Moreover, the business with multiple branch offices scattered in varied locations- in a country or outside, are also availing the benefits of the same.

With its two inherent benefits- cost and excellent voice quality, the business users are shifting to VoIP PBX solutions from existing PSTN services for facilitating their voice communication. An increase in the returns on investment or RoI is natural to this trend. Importantly, with the IP PBX solutions, business and corporate houses can even keep their regular PSTN telephone numbers working. These advanced solutions connect the business employees with each other, regardless of their physical locations.

An IP PBX or Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange helps the enterprises to manage their telephone lines more effectively. The business users can share, add and extend the telephone lines in the pre-existing IP PBX systems. These solutions act as a gateway to both voice and data networks.

This packet switching technology includes ‘unified’ communication features such as scalability and robustness, which any organization seeks for. Moreover, these advanced solutions are able to connect the calls to traditional PSTN lines with the help of optional gateways. Therefore, the users can easily switch the calls between the VoIP and a traditional telephone line – just like any other conventional PBX systems.

To enjoy the communication over the IP PBX VoIP system, an organization requires one or more SIP phones and an IP PBX server. The VoIP Gateway is optional, as it helps to connect to existing PSTN lines. Moreover, the IP PBX system also has a directory of all phones/users and their corresponding SIP address.

To conclude, it can be said that investing in the VoIP PBX solutions helps the business and corporate houses to deliver significant savings in the management maintenance. Not only this, business entities can enjoy varied features such as better phone usability, hot desking & roaming, round the clock customer service and scalability. Importantly, most of the features are performed from the user-friendly Windows GUI interface.

The business entities are looking forward to realize the benefits such as cost savings, business continuity and mobility with the latest voice over IP or VoIP services. The advancement in context to “unified” communication and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses can be experienced with voice over IP technology. To do this, entities need to upgrade or extend their telecom services to VoIP infrastructure and deploy unified communications over IP networks. These internet telephony services focus on packet switched voice without unacceptable deterioration of voice quality. The digital data sets are transmitted across a packet switched network in form of compressed IP data. The high fidelity voice signals can be transmitted across the networks with negligible loss of accuracy.

These advanced VoIP phone services deliver various benefits ranging from improved organizational productivity and scalability to streamlined infrastructure and reduced calling costs. With these benefits, many business enterprises have got attracted towards this IP services to enjoy “unified” communication with their customers or clients, across the world. The main concern of this service is to provide necessary skills and expertise to assure that voice quality meets or exceeds business requirements. As a matter of fact, the voice over IP is a technology, wherein voice traffic is transmitted over data network including the public internet. In conjunction with a broadband internet connection, it is possible to use equipment such an ATA or Analog Telephone Adapter, a special IP Phone and software PC-to-Phone.

Depending upon the type of VoIP phone services used, the calls can be made either to VoIP users or both VoIP and regular phone users. The VoIP services can be categorised as Hardware based and Software based.

The Hardware based VoIP services require a converter box. This box converts or connects users traditional phone to the broadband modem or home router. As a matter of fact, the users do not have to turned on their computer system to make and receive calls. On other hand, the software VoIP works over computer with a microphone, a headset or a USB phone.

The hardware-based IP telephony is one of the most flexible applications. It requires only one additional ATA hardware. The ATA is an analogue-to-digital converter which connects users traditional phone to Internet connection. Usually, the service providers offer this hardware to their customers at the time of registration. A second and commonly used hardware-based option is an IP phone. This IP phone integrates an ATA. This phone is similar in appearance to a standard telephone but comes embedded with a built-in adapter. With the help of a standard RJ-45 Ethernet connector this phone connects directly to the router. These IP phones can be distinguished in three different standards namely- MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol), H.323 as well as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). In comparison to all, the SIP phones are quickly becoming the standard.

The Software-based VoIP phone services work little differently. Rather than using a telephone, the users can use speakers and a microphone connected to their computer or an inexpensive USB phone. Not only this, one can even set up a phone book for one-click calls to others.

With the help of advanced VoIP based services, these low-cost or quality enriched technology help the business entities to rely on it, for their growth and prosperity. Moreover, the business VoIP services have been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features to deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system for 40 to 80 percent in comparison to traditional offerings.