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Network Performance: Why CPS is the Wrong Measure

/ Interconnect, Telecoms & Data

One of the most common questions asked by customers of VoIP networks is "What level of CPS can your network handle?" CPS, or Calls Per Second is a term used widely in today's telecoms industry; you'll hear it in business meetings, presentations, sales pitches and in the conversations between technical network staff. But as it turns out, the number of calls per second is not actually the best indicator of network performance or call capacity. We got together with Simon Sharman, Technical Director at Nexbridge, to get the facts straight.
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Should I Replace ISDN with SIP?

/ For Call Centres, Interconnect, Telecoms & Data

ISDN is an acronym of Integrated Services Digital Network, which can be defined as a series of communication standards that allows the simultaneous digital transmission of data, voice, and other services over the public switched telephone network. The introduction of ISDN technology represented a move from analogue connectivity to digital, which offered significant improvements in quality. Although SIP (session initiation protocol) has been around for several years, it is only recently that advances in technology that have now made SIP an viable alternative to ISDN. The purpose of this article is to explore whether a business should replace ISDN with SIP.
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How Can SIP Trunking Benefit My Business?

/ For Call Centres, Interconnect, Telecoms & Data

A SIP trunk is the use of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) to set up communications over the Internet between a customer location and an Internet telephony service provider (ITSP), which transfers the SIP calls to the PSTN. Unlike in traditional telephony, where bundles of physical wires were once delivered from the service provider to a business, a SIP trunk is a logical connection from one point to another over the Internet.
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