VoIP services in conjunction with T3
When in a big or small business, it is important to have a fast internet connection, which can be achieved by using a DS3 or a T3 line. These are actually one in the same and provide fast, reliable, cheap connections. One asset to look into in conjunction with these is a VoIP service that can allow you to talk long-distance without the high price or hassle of regular phone services. The first thing you need to know about VoIP Service is that it can replace your local phone company. Whether you have just one plain old telephone service line or a voice T1, a VoIP solution is meant to replace your phone company. Instead of using your local phone company's voice connection, VoIP will digitize your voice signal and send it over an internet connection. VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is an enigma for many businesses.
In order for your voice to transmit digitally through the internet, you need to be sure you have enough bandwidth to facilitate the communication link. A minimum of a DSL line is required, but larger companies will want a T1 line, which is a dedicated link directly to the internet. Since you will be entrusting all of your business voice communication to this new technology, your connection to the internet becomes the critical link and you don't want to risk a company-wide phone outage to save a few hundred dollars on your bandwidth connection. To help with this DS3-Bandwidth.com has developed software that will allow you to generate a T1 or DS3 price.
Once you have your high-speed internet connection taken care of, it's time to select a VoIP Service Provider - the company that will actually route your digitized voice signal to a real telephone on the other end. In essence, your VoIP Carrier will become your long distance carrier. The service providers Business-VoIP-Solution.com work with offer unlimited telephone calls to the United States and Canada, all for one fixed price. That's a good place to start your search. For companies who average more than $40 in local and long distance usage per employee, VoIP is well worth the initial investment.
The main benefit of VoIP is the reduced bandwidth required to conduct a regular telephone conversation. Since a VoIP transmission only requires 32KB of bandwidth, you can fix up to 24 'VoIP lines' on a data T1, and still have 768KB left over for dedicated high-speed internet access.
This means that you can migrate your entire phone system on to your existing T1 and still have half of the bandwidth allocated for data. Other benefit of VoIP lies in the prioritization of the digitized voice signals that are generated when you speak. In the event no one is talking, the VoIP line does not transmit any data. This allows your T1 line to dynamically allocate bandwidth as it is needed.
