How VoIP Phone Systems Have Changed In 2016?

Upon observing the concept of VoIP phone systems closely, you will conclude that it has changed drastically and that too for a good reason in the past one year. For example – TDM as well as Frame Relay have emerged as legacy technologies, but at the same time, several companies are ceasing them because of several problems like bandwidth limitations, complexity and cost. You will find several other newer technologies like SIP, Ethernet, IP, MPLS and others taking over the former two, i.e. the TDM and Frame Relay.

·         The past one year, i.e. since the beginning of 2016, there has been several changes and development in this technology and the biggest one is stated herein. The past year has seen the emergence of Ethernet services that has provided businesses having lower connectivity, an ability to increase the bandwidth, whenever needed.

·         Then, there has been significant increase in the concept of hosted VoIP business phone systems that provide the services in cloud at very affordable rates. This service has eliminated several concerns for the users of these VoIP phone systems and some of them are –

·         Long Distance

·         Extension-to-Extension transfer

·         Access Features and functionality you can never get with a PSTN line or plain ole Telephone (POTS)

·         Ability to use mobile devices as endpoints

·         Another major development seen in the past one year is regarding the Internet of Things. Most people must not be aware of it and how and what role does it play in the VoIP business phone systems. To understand more about this concept, you need to first consider the trends related to automation and how we were connecting to the Internet till now.

·         The past one year has seen the trends towards voice-based control with some of the same IoT. This means that a lots of voice over IP packets from the projected 26 billion things to make calls to our mobile devices to alert us. All these packets interact to us and are actually, controlled by us too.

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·         According to the experts, in the past one year, our mobile phones have developed as a more useful thing than just being a mobile device.

·         This has become possible because the technology called VoLTE developed faster and better than what it was anticipated.

·         This technology has actually penetrated better and as a result, VoIP has managed to enter our smart phones all the way right from our table phones.

·         This has become possible because of soft phone application that allowed controlling smart phones after converting it into VoIP business phones.

·         This has actually resulted into cell phone lines and office phone lines blurring and this has included seamless call handoffs as well.

One more thing observed in this past one year is that the phone as a service has gained a huge momentum. This has become more prevalent since the inception of VoIP and according to experts; this service has allowed organizations and companies to convert themselves into remote offices quicker and whenever needed. The benefit is that now you do not have to pay an upfront cost or dedicate phone systems for cloud adoption.