Phone Lines
Delivering Voice in a Variety of Ways
- Analog (POTS/Copper)
- Digital (ISDN, PRI)
- VoIP (SIP)
Back Then...
A long, long time ago we had to order one phone line for each inbound or outbound conversation required on a daily basis.
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Phone lines were bought the same way we used our residential lines. Maybe we got really fancy and pushed the envelope by routing a toll-free 800 to our main published number. In other words, we bought individual phone lines for voice or fax that sit idle unless used. And with analog lines, there was only one number that travels across that line.
With business phone line capacities that exceed the threshold outlined above, a shared digital PRI or SIP circuit approach was the smart choice for many. A PRI or SIP circuit offered 23 B channels for voice, video and data traffic via a T-1. SIP offered over 30. You could run 20-60 numbers over one PRI or SIP circuit. This allows for better call center backup, overflow and alternate routing. Digital in nature, PRI’s and SIP circuits were equally good at handling voice or data. PRI and SIP circuits had become the chosen access method for business voice traffic.
Nowadays...
Phone lines are new and improved! SIP Trunks services are now the preferred choice of phone lines for businesses. SIP Trunks are a dynamic form of voice over IP calling and offer a subset of additional features that you couldn’t get before with analog lines.
Here's What You Get Now:
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Virtual lines & numbers eliminate long distance charges
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Scale-up- add more lines and numbers easily with minimum cost and time
Voice, data, video, messaging, and fax on sip lines
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Cloud Phone Systems
Did you know that Cloud Phone Systems use SIP Trunks for voice calling? That’s right– so all of the benefits listed above are also available when you deploy a cloud based phone system for your business. Just like SIP, cloud phone systems utilize your bandwidth internet connection to place and receive calls, send messages, faxes, and so forth.
If you’re still using analog phone lines or an analog phone system for your business, then you will be shocked at all of the features you’ll receive with your cloud phone system and sip voice lines–and most likely for half the cost of what you are paying now for telecommunications. Most business report saving between 40-60% on their telecommunications costs when moving to a cloud-based phone system and SIP Trunks.
Explore Your Options
When considering your SIP Trunk service or cloud phone system, contact us and we can help you decide what service would be best for your business. We offer SIP Trunk services, and cloud communications phone system solutions, as well as address hardware and software that may be interfaced with your new service. We can also play a large part of coordinating your installation, training, and support. Whether you have a single site, or a multi site network, we’ve got you covered anywhere in the country!
Please let us help you by completing our request a quote form. No one should be paying too much for phone lines anymore now that these kinds of technologies are available. We can service and support your business anywhere in the United States.
You will learn about and get the best pricing on SIP and cloud phone system solutions (we recommend 3CX Hosted). We work with all the major providers of these services and have a very good reputation with them. This is what we do; all the work you don’t have to in order to get the best rate possible for your business’ office.