While wireless can’t cure every corporate ailment, it can certainly treat the primary ill of business—the tyranny of voice mail and phone tag. The solution is obvious and simple: cordless office phones. Why, then, has this staple of the average American home not yet migrated into the workplace? Answer: cost, security, and quality. Until now. (more…)

The human voice is a consolidation of the waves of electrical energy carried across the given channel capacity. Humans generate a combination of amplitude and frequency changes in a continuing flow. If the changes are held constant, then the conversation becomes monotone, highly unacceptable for the average conversation. Indeed, if everything were held constant, the recipient of the information would be lulled to sleep. (more…)

In February 1996, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Telecom Act of 1996. This act was the culmination of several years of trying to deregulate and provide a competitive marketplace in the telecommunications arena. This law, when enacted, opened the door to an open communications infrastructure. Essentially, what the administration put into play was the beginnings of the concept of the information superhighway. (more…)

Our interface to the telephone company network is the single-line telephone set. It stands to reason that we need to connect this set to the telephone company central office (CO). The pair of twisted wires running from the telephone company’s CO is called the local loop unbundling. Each subscriber, or customer, is delivered at least one pair of wires per telephone line. (more…)

The telco’s company’s company uses a variety of connections to bring the service to the customer locations. The typical connection is the two-wire service that we keep talking about. This two-wire interface to the network is terminated in a demarcation point, as required by law. The DEMARC is the point of least penetration into the customer’s premises, typically within 12 inches of where the telco’s company cable comes up into the building. (more…)

In the facilities-based environment, the carrier will provide its own cables or wireless communications to the customer’s door. At that point all of the communications will be carried right out to the wide area network, by passing the local telephone companies.

In a non-facilities-based environment, the new emerging players will rent or lease facilities from the local telephone company at a discount. (more…)

One of the main characteristics and advantages of a PBX in reducing the number of subscriber lines from the main switch PSTN. Other key features include PBX maintain routing information for telephone lines and calls the client path consequently.

PBX systems have one key distinction functions to manually select the starting lines, while PBX systems automatically dial the outgoing line. (more…)

Internet Protocol PBX (iPBX) systems applying standard protocols of the Internet, as a media transport for voice for companies ensuring smooth voice communication. iPBX systems can be used concurrence in the same network elements to share data networks systems, or can be applied in separate network. If iPBX system is sharing the same network (LAN), this system can be said or TeLANophy system. (more…)

Even today there are problems in using VoIP, it is clear that these problems are the result of technological limitations and will be solved in the short term by the constant evolution of VoIP technology, however some of these disadvantages of VoIP still remain and are listed below: (more…)

The Voice over Internet Protocol is a fast growing technology that is allowing more and more people to make long distance calls for free or ridiculously low prices. With a minimum of equipment, an easy download of software and the desire to make your telecommunication costs the lowest possible, Voice over IP can make you a very happy customer. (more…)