VOIP For Chicago Small Businesses /Providing Chicago VOIP Equipment and Chicago VOIP Service for Businesses Affordably

Most small and medium businesses feel intimidated by VOIP-PBX service. The reasons for this are all the new terms and the belief that it will be expensive to keep up.

The fact is that VOIP-PBX phone systems are less expensive to keep up if properly installed and maintained. At VOIP 4 Chicago we take pride in installing and servicing your system!

Why should your business invest in a VOIP PBX for your next phone system?


1.	Providers are changing their networks to support VOIP phone systems.
2.	VOIP phone systems have all the features you need now and in the future.
3.	Your VOIP phone system will allow you to better utilize and manage personnel, increasing your
	productivity.
4.	Combining voice and data results in better utilization of your bandwidth.
5.	Cost savings plus increased productivity result by combining your voice and data on to a single T1.

VOIP communications comes with many new terms that you might not be familiar with. Below is a list of the most common terms. VOIP 4 Chicago will work with you to become familiar with these terms and help you understand how these new products will make your business more effective both in productivity as well as saving cost savings.

	Provides a business with access to both the internet as well as access to the PSTN. This can provide your business with both digital and analog service. This service can replace the telephone lines and many times let the business take advantage of providers who are utilizing VOIP on their network to provide calling plans that allow for free calling.

	MultiProtocol Label Switching, an IETF initiative that integrates Layer 2 information about network links (bandwidth, latency, utilization) into Layer 3 (IP) within a particular autonomous system--or ISP--in order to simplify and improve IP-packet exchange. MPLS gives network operators a great deal of flexibility to divert and route traffic around link failures, congestion, and bottlenecks. This service will replace Frame Relay, VPN, and point to point service. It provides the security of point-to-point and provides businesses with greater control of the data packaging needs.

	Session Initiation Protocol uses text formatting to set up and maintain communications sessions with various endpoints. These endpoints include cell phones, desk phones, soft phones, and PDA’s. SIP permits these various endpoints to operate as a single system.

	Primary Rate Interface is a T1 that has 23 paths and a B channel used for signaling. This T1 uses DID’s (direct inward dial numbers) as well as gives a business access to the PSTN.

	Provides 1.5meg of dedicated internet access. Comes with a static IP address and can have a managed router provided by the carrier.