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What is VoIP?
A Better Way to Deliver VoIP
VoIP Benefits
VoIP Features
What is VoIP?
Traditional phone networks while dependable leave little room to exploit technology. By sharing a commonconnection with Internet data and bypassing traditional telephone companies’systems, voiceover IP (VoIP) can deliver incredible features while saving you significant amounts of money.
A Better Way to Deliver VoIP
Many VoIP providers “piggyback” on other companies’ networks or use the public Internet exclusivelyto handle phone calls. V4VoIP manages its own business-class network, and we are able to optimize voice traffic to help ensure that your call quality doesn’t suffer when data traffic is high. With V4VoIP, most people cannot tell the difference between VoIP and traditional voice calls.
The Bottom Line Is Productivity
Why wait for the phone company to get VoIP right? VoIP business-class VoIP is constantly improving the way businesses communicate, all through a single connection. Now your small or mid-sized company can benefit from the same advanced, easy-to-use VoIP features traditionally available only to larger companies. For example, the Find Me/Follow Me call-routing eliminates “phone tag”, ensuring that customer calls reach employees wherever they are. Administrative tools let you “see” and manage all your voicemails and faxes; view, prioritize, and even email your voice and fax messages from any Web browser.
VoIP Benefits
Welcome to the world of voice over internet protocol (VoIP). With VoIP service, your phone calls travel over the internet as data, just as e-mail does. This type of service can dramatically lower your telecommunications costs while increasing your productivity. It also provides useful features and capabilities that conventional phone technology can’t offer:
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Since its inception, the quality of VoIP service has come a long way.
Today’s VoIP service has evolved and allows you to make and receive calls using standard phones or, even better, feature-rich IP phones. Sound quality has vastly improved, too–in fact, many businesses today have abandoned traditional phone systems in favour of VoIP. Many of these businesses have the ability to leverage their own data network to carry phone calls originating and terminating within their office with additional savings and benefits.
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Using VoIP can significantly reduce your telecommunications costs.
Operating costs for VoIP service providers are significantly lower than for traditional phone companies, which must contend with the existing, expensive-to-maintain phone infrastructure and costly industry regulations. With lower expenses, VoIP providers can charge much less than their competitors.
And with VoIP, businesses no longer have to maintain separate networks for phones and data–another significant money saver. Also, the costs associated with employee moves, adds and changes are virtually eliminated. All you have to do is move your IP phone (or traditional phone with a VoIP adapter) to a different broadband network jack and plug it in.
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VoIP service makes your phone system highly flexible.
VoIP systems allow you to do things that are simply not possible with traditional phone technology. For example, you can:
* Take your phone system with you.
As long as you have access to a broadband connection, you can use your VoIP system anywhere, such as in a hotel room or at a friend’s home. Customers and employees can stay in touch just by calling your regular business phone number–they don’t need to call your cell phone, which means you can save precious cell phone minutes.
* Talk on your laptop.
Many VoIP systems include telephony software that enables you to send and receive calls using a headphone/microphone unit connected to your computer. Now you won’t miss an urgent call from a client, even when you’re hanging out with your laptop at an internet café.
* Get voice mail and faxes with your e-mail.
Many VoIP services allow you to have voice mail and faxes automatically forwarded to your regular e-mail inbox. You get all your messages in one place, and your voice mail and faxes can be easily archived or forwarded to others. Users can also get their e-mails “read” to voice mail.
* Get virtual phone numbers.
Your phone number can have any available area code, not just the one assigned to your region. For example, a business based in London could have a phone number with a Manchester area code –particularly advantageous if your business has (or wants) customers in Manchester.
* Increase productivity.
Many VoIP phone numbers can be configured to simultaneously ring on multiple devices–such as your cell and landline phones–before going to voice mail, thus eliminating time-consuming “phone tag.” In a recent survey conducted by Sage Research, the increased productivity enabled by internet telephony added up to 3.9 hours per week, per employee.
One thing’s for sure: VoIP technology is continually evolving, with compelling new benefits being developed for small businesses. For example, some new wireless PDA/phone combination devices allow you to use your VoIP service whenever you’re near a Wi-Fi network and use your cell phone service when you’re not. Among the advantages: a dramatic increase in mobility and a sharp decrease in your cell phone charges. For larger small businesses, having a single IP network for both voice and data can provide other advantages, too. For example, an IP network can also support real-time, high-quality, affordable videoconferencing, call centre applications and more.
No matter the size of your business, VoIP is a surprisingly flexible, affordable technology that offers the same, sophisticated communication tools your enterprise-size competitors have.
VoIP Features
Make / Receive incoming and outgoing calls
DDI to users and/or Groups
Hold, Transfer, Divert, Do Not Disturb, Redial, Speed Dial
Trunk Groups, User Groups, Call Pickup, Group Pickup
Message waiting
Call Barring
Auto-Attendant (IVR)
Outlook Integration
HUD® (Heads Up Display)
Unlimited Extensions
CRM Integration
Voicemail
Voicemail to Email
Operator Panel (w/ BLF)
Hot Desk Music-on-Hold
Scheduler
Custom CTI (AGI)
Analogue & IP Phones
Ring-all (Blast Group)
Call Forwarding
Name Directory
DID’s
PSTN Fallback
Telecommuters
Branch Office Support
Web Control Panel
Plug and Play
Powerful Reporting
Conference Bridges
Extension Groups
Multiple Auto-Attendants
Paging / Zone Paging
Intercom / Zone Intercom
Voicemail Groups
Advanced Call-Forwarding
Call Return
Call Out
Report Exporting (.csv)
Custom Caller-IDs
IVR Authentication
SMS/Pager Voicemail
Upload Voice Prompts
Unlimited Call Queues
Full Featured A.C.D.
Skills-based Routing
Graphical Queue Reports
Agent Call Recording
Agent Variable Log-off
Agents on Cell Phones
On-the-fly Recording
Realtime Queue Stats
Call Monitor / Barge