Preparing Your Network for VoIP

In case you determined to really make the bounce into a Above commercial infrastructure sometimes beginning damage or by transferring through the classic PSTN telephone system, you’ll want to keep your active circle is good ample to handle insert. At its cardiovascular, Above is often a superior using your standard Net connection and yes it takes its traits through the parent or guardian circle. Not like other world wide web software like surfing around and electronic-snail mail even so, it has very specific traits that necessitate a set of procedures in order to maintain circle integrity above a certain level. Above is extremely intolerant of flaws in net connectivity – more so than any other use of the Internet. Fortunately today’s networks are more than capable of handling real-time communications. Not just for audio, but video as well. In the early days, using Above was dicey. Trying to maintain a two-way conversation over dial-up connectivity was an exercise in frustration. Latency, lag, and jitter constantly lowered the quality of communications. But these days with broadband connectivity reaching the overwhelming majority of the population, we can say with some confidence that Above is finally ready for the big stage.

So here’s what you need to do to prepare your circle

. The first and most important step is to try and accurately estimate your usage requirements. For a regular person using Above at home, the upload and download speeds are too insignificant compared to the overall bandwidth available. Even mobile data connectivity is sufficient. However, a large organization can expect a multitude of people to be using the phone lines at any given time and all of it adds up. It also helps to remember that upload speeds are a an order of magnitude slower than download speeds. When calculating the amount of bandwidth necessary for Above, you have to take the lesser of these two into consideration. Once that is done and you have provisioned sufficient bandwidth for it, you’ll want to segregate the Above traffic from all others. This is so that it cannot be affected by any unexpected surge in Internet connectivity like a file download that would completely hog all available bandwidth.

This kind of Virtual LAN or VLAN is a common

best practice when dealing with sensitive real-time communications. For a hosted PBX system, there’s really nothing else you need to do other than to ensure that your Internet connectivity is ready to accept Above traffic. All of the heavy lifting is done in the background by a third-party SIP provider. As long as you keep tabs on Above usage and the amount of bandwidth you have allotted to it, everything else should go smoothly.