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Why VoIP?
. . . How telephones
are undergoing the biggest change since Alexander Graham Bell
first invented them — and how ESI is leading the way in that
race to the future.
The telephone became a part of our culture over 100 years ago and,
for more than a century, all phone calls were made the same way. You
picked up the phone and accessed the public telephone network. Each and
every phone call was connected by a dedicated circuit that stayed open
for the duration of the call — until one of you hung up.
That all changed in the late 1990s. By that time, engineers started
to convert telephone conversations into data packets — small
chunks of digital data that are exactly like those computers use to
communicate. Once converted into packets, telephone conversations
could be transported anywhere that computer data packets could go —
including the Internet: a revolutionary concept.
Welcome to the world of Internet telephony.
Sometimes called VoIP (for Voice
over Internet Protocol), Internet telephony removes traditional
boundaries. Phone calls are no longer limited to the telephone network.
Through an amazing technological advancement, a whole new world of
opportunity presents itself to the intelligent business owner.
ESI now offers the ability to connect telephone
stations (with all the features and functionality one would
expect from ESI) in any location anywhere in the world.
Imagine sitting in a branch office in St. Louis or
Seattle, using a phone that is an actual extension from your
home office in Dallas.
For businesses that need more than just an
extension outside of headquarters, our technology can connect the ESI phone
systems (and, with the appropriate hardware, even non-ESI phone systems)
at up to 100 branch offices. These multiple branch offices,
as well as remote users, instantly communicate together, effectively
creating one large system. As a result, each of these individual
locations offers virtually all of the same features as the extensions
sitting in the main office, without distance limitations. Additionally,
each of the phone systems can function independently, taking full
advantage of ESI’s unique, robust features.
The future is now. Imagine the possibilities —
and then let your imagination become reality.
To learn about the products that can make VoIP a reality
in your business, simply click on one of the following links:
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