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Business VoIP Solution …. What does this really mean?

A business VoIP solution is an alternative to a traditional service switched-voice. Instead of using dedicated trunks between PBXs, you can share your bandwidth with data services, better capacity utilization available. Using the techniques of prioritization, you can ensure that your voice traffic passes through the network in a timely manner to maintain the quality voice.

For a typical Internet telephony application, suppose you have a number of offices that need to communicate with each other. Voice traffic can be achieved through the Internet or through a third party network or VPN …. and be delivered to the far end without using the PSTN or leased line. It depends on what you want to achieve.

You can have an IP PBX for internal use only, with all your employees connected on the same LAN as the infrastructure used for data – separate voice and data traffic using VLANs, with external access to the PSTN. If you have more than one office, you can connect using T1 or DS3 leased lines, bandwidth, or Metro Ethernet In the same way you would for a data service – VoIP is, after all, the voice packets are transported in the same manner as data packets.

Since VoIP traffic is treated like any other data traffic, it does not really matter where your PBX is located, as you can have a hosted server for your data, you can have a hosted server for your VoIP. You can have the IP-PBX in your office or in a data center, there is no difference.

SIP trunking? Now there is a buzzword. Is a SIP signaling protocol in the same way that are H.323 or QSIG protocols. SIP is a standard and many manufacturers interpret the standard in their own way, but, fortunately, a lot of interpretation SIP work together.

Session Initiation Protocol runs over IP and should allow the replacement of PSTN trunks via the Internet. So, again, traffic voice can go on the Internet instead of the RTC with a gain resulting cost.

But remember that the Internet is not regulated and unmanaged. Voice traffic is sensitive to packet loss, delay and jitter (delay variation). Thus, the school at peak times (just after evenings and weekends) of your voice traffic may break up. That means it would be useful to consider having a service management system for ensure the quality of your voice traffic for calls critical.

In order for your voice to transmit digitally through the Internet, you must ensure have sufficient bandwidth to facilitate communication. To optimize the quality of your business connection, we recommend a minimum of one T1 or DS3 bandwidth – a dedicated direct connection to the Internet which is guaranteed to be above 99.999% of the time. As you will entrust your entire corporate communication voice to this new technology, your connection to the Internet becomes the essential link. You do not want to risk a breakdown of telephone company-wide savings of some hundreds of dollars on your connection bandwidth. It is therefore opt for at least a line of T DSL. It is simply good business sense.

VoIP works between products from the same manufacturer and sometimes it works between manufacturers. Some manufacturers have produced interfaces and third parties will provide bridges to enable collaboration. My recommendation would be to check first.

Hardware? Go for something that many other people use .. Cisco, Avaya, Alcatel. Whitefish began in the data and moved to the vote. Avaya and Alcatel started in voice and IP data has moved. They have their own way implement VoIP. Cisco is only VoIP. Avaya and Alcatel can provide you with a migration of traditional voice, the reuse of devices from analog and digital adding IP phones as the transition continues. IP handsets are expensive.

For more help in designing the right business VoIP solution for your network …. I recommend taking advantage of the services Business VoIP Solution. The assistance is free …. and they can often find good deals providers in your specific location.

About the Author

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications …. including Business VoIP Solution.com. Michael also is the author ofBroadband Nation.