Utilizing Toll Bypass
One of IP telephony’s key features is also one of its most enticing benefits, a feature
known as toll bypass.Toll bypass allows an organization to utilize its existing
data infrastructure to make calls within the organization. Imagine a multinational
organization with branch offices spread throughout the world. In the old-world
solution, any time one office placed a call to another, the telephone systems of
each office would employ the services of telecommunications service providers to
place a call within their own organization. If you have ever traveled, you may
have experienced the sting of how expensive international calls can be. I placed a
call on a business trip from a branch office in Moscow to their headquarters in
Cleveland; the call lasted around 40 minutes, and the bill turned out to be $300.00.
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So you can imagine how expensive international telecommunications must be for
the day-to-day operations of a multinational organization. Now imagine that
same scenario using IP telephony, placing that same call from the branch office in
Moscow to headquarters in Cleveland, this time utilizing the IP telephony solution.
Instead of utilizing the telephone company’s services and infrastructure, you
would employ the existing leased data lines between the two sites. Now the only
price you are incurring is the fixed price you pay each month for the leased line
that was already there. As I am sure you can see, IP telephony has the potential to
save an organization a great deal of money.