IP Telephony allows for voice calls to be transmitted over data networks using open standards rather than traditional telephone networks, enabling businesses to consolidate their data and voice networks onto a single infrastructure. This provides benefits such as lower telecommunications costs, simplified network management as sites no longer need dedicated voice systems, and increased worker productivity and collaboration enabled by centralized applications that can be accessed remotely.

1. IP Telephony

2. What is IP Telephony
IP Telephony principally satisfies a simple need:
Enabling the use of open standard LAN and distributed
data networks for the transport of voice, replacing the use
of traditional telephone networks and equipment for that
purpose

3. Today’s Business Imperatives

4. One Communication Network

5. What’s the Business Value?
• Lower costs
• Centralized network control and management
• Increased communications capabilities and
productivity for remote and mobile employees
• Increased customer satisfaction through the use of
distributed call center applications and remote
branches

6. Example:
Enterprise without IP Telephony
Dedicated infrastructure for both data and voice

7. The Results
• Inefficient use of communications network bandwidth
• Higher equipment costs as each site requires
dedicated voice systems
• Higher equipment management costs since each site
must be managed separately
• Worker productivity and collaboration is limited due to
feature dissimilarity and segregation imposed by
separate and often different voice systems

8. Example:
Enterprise using IP Telephony
Converged network of data, voice and even video

9. The Results
• Lower Telecom Costs
• Simplified Communications Management
• Ease of Access to Centralized Applications

10. Future Implementations
Easy to add branches

11. DISCUSSION