Snom IP phones and systems have been around for a long time. They have become so popular and can easily be able to scale to tens of thousands of units in dozens if not hundreds of locations. There are a lot of advantages in using IP phone systems.

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Advantages

Some of the IP phone systems today are hybrid. This means that they can handle traditional phone lines such as analogue trunks, ISDN, T1, E1 and PRI to Multiple T1 and PRIs as well as Voice Over IP (VoIP) phone lines. So they provide the best of both worlds. VoIP phone lines are also called Session Initiated Protocol (SIP). They are typically provided by an ITSP Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) and these types of phone lines can replace or augment your traditional phone lines. Each phone line needs about 84 Kilobit of uncompressed bandwidth when a conversation is in session. That means that a data T1 can handle about 17 or so conversations simultaneously.

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Many companies find that SIP is the way to go because they cost far less than traditional phone lines, as well as provide extremely competitive rates for long distance, and some providers have plans which include unlimited long distance. And if you make calls overseas, some of these plans can provide very cheap rates. Lots of people are buying IP phone systems these days and still using traditional phone lines. This is because they either don’t trust the internet or don’t understand SIP Technology that well or don’t have the upload bandwidth it takes to sustain these types of phone lines. However, they like the idea of buying an IP phone system because it gives them the flexibility to use traditional phone lines or VOIP Lines or both. But the appeal of IP systems goes beyond the fact that you can do IP trunking.

IP phone systems are going to be around for a long time. SIP is the only ratified standard of telephony today. IP Phone systems save you money by providing less expensive alternatives for local and long distance lines as well as 0 Toll when using them between each other. It also decreases cost of cabling as well as the need to dispatch a phone guy since they use a graphical user’s interface. This gives each person the flexibility to manage their own end points and the ability to move their system as much as they want without calling a phone guy. Moving an IP phone system is as easy as unplugging 3 connections. No more 66 Blocks and the confusing and unattractive wire closets you sometimes see. They are often a 2 or 3U Rack Mounted appliance that EASILY travel and here again, reduce cost if you ever have to move the system. IP phone systems provide ease of use, flexibility, mobility, compliance, scalability, and a drastic overall reduction of price.