Obtain a VOIP line

[drashish]

Hello,

I own a medical transcrption service where I currently lease 8 telephone lines with rollover at a huge cost. My clients use these telephone lines which link into my 8 port digital dictation server to dictate into.

I would like to know if there are any VOIP based solutions I could purchase and integrate into my digital dictation servers.

If not, is there a better solution rather than leasing, and be fleased, by the telecos?

Thanks

 

[HungryHouse]

Your best bet is to look at analog to VOIP gateway products and do this your self.
Take a look at either:

http://www.mediatrix.com

or

http://www.quintum.com

This would be the cleanest and simplest way to make this happen.

 

[lopes1211]

Not sure I would trust digital dictation to a "do it yourself" and/or "over the internet" VOIP solution. I've had instances where people complain the "toll-grade" POTS lines were not clear enough for the dictation system. You may want to contact a clec and inquire about a fractional t1. You could get your 8 voice lines plus internet connectivity on the rest of the circuit.

-CL

 

[drashish]

CL - what's a "toll-grade POTS line". How can I contact about getting a fractional t1. I didn't know I could do that. Could I get it for a residential location as my business operates from home? Also, why would I need the bandwidth of a t1 line.

What I need to is get multiple external telephne lines client's can use for dictation (currently they call an analog line set up to a digital voice server run by my ASP provider). I want to cost effectveiyl bring this inhouse and leasing multiple telephone lines from a telecom may be too expenesive, hence VOIP since it's, in theory, internet lines so I should be able to "theoreticxally" get as many as bandwidth will allow to the price of 1.

HungryHouse- the adpaters allow for me to create a vOIP gateway. How does this get me multiple VOIP telephone lines that outside people can call?

 

[HungryHouse]

In theory, you would need the analog gateways on both ends...(the outside dialers would need a small one at each location)...These units are intelligent (not merely adapters)including basic call routing...able to change from circuit to packet and back again. Essentially you are replacing the PSTN with VOIP trunking. Indeed you will not have QOS on the voice is use the Internet as your VOIP data network. The point made about the clarity needed for dictations systems is a good one (I am not familiar with such systems).
Keep in mind that there is fallback to the PSTN if voice quality degrades below acceptable levels (too much jitter for example) however.