Voice Over IP (VoIP) is Going Green
Written by Lydia Kim
Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems is jumping on the bandwagon and going environmental friendly, with newly renovated technology that allows their systems to be energy conscious.
VoIP revolutionized how businesses in a modern society would be able to communicate with their customers and employees. By utilizing the broadband, the Internet, to make calls– VoIP service allow businesses incredible opportunities to save on unrestricted domestic and international long distance calls. But to service a VoIP phone system needs an incredible amount of energy to operate over the Internet, network communications, along with their data centers and other resources.
Internet-related activities consume nearly 4% of North America’s power supply. The number is only going to increase with the added features VoIP service offers, such as video conferencing, one-click dialing etc. Understanding this, without sacrificing any of their technological advances, VoIP service have gone one step further and started coming up with new ways to utilize VoIP features without consuming so much energy and being wasteful. Some new technological advances VoIP phone system providers have come up with is:
Telephone VoIP Adapter (TVA) – A TVA adapter allow businesses to adjust their existing phone lines and infrastructures to be VoIP compatible, allowing existing desktop handsets to gain access to many enhanced VoIP features. There would be no need to get new handsets, network upgrades and retrain employees with a TVA. By adapting existing handsets to be VoIP adaptable, there would be no need to rip out old wiring from the walls, which is expensive, time-consuming, and environmentally costly. Continuing the use of your old handsets would ultimately save them from being dumped in landfills.
Fax over IP (FoIP) ¬– This technology allows faxes to be transmitted via the Internet rather than the analog method of sending faxes via the telephone line, allowing the internetworking of fax machines with a packet-based network. FoIP requires less bandwidth, less consumption of energy, provide employees with less exposure to paper dust, fine particles as well as potential toxic toners.
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