Business telephone systems

What Kinds Of Telephone Stations Can I Add To A Business Phone System? Posted By: Ernest Mac

By admin • December 20th, 2009

The answer is simple. You can add digital, analog, and VoIP.

Digital Telephone Stations

The most common telephone stations in use on business telephone systems are digital. Some examples of pure digital systems include Norstar phone systems, Avaya Merlin Legend and Merlin Magix, and Avaya Definity systems. Digital phone systems sample your voice using a method called Time Division Multiplexing or TDM. When you speak into a digital telephone, your voice is digitally sampled into time slots so that a conversation does not have to use the entire bandwidth of a circuit. The system then uses a clock to synchronize the digital samples and turn them back in to voice. That sounds complicated. It is, and you don’t need to know what it means. Whereas analog telephone stations can only handle one conversation at a time, digital phone stations can stuff more than one conversation and other features onto a single pair of wire. This provides for more features, less wiring, and more efficient communication than a simple analog circuit.

When shopping for a digital telephone system, you may encounter a variety of acronyms describing the names of each manufacturers digital protocols.

 

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