AT&T routes POTS traffic through the cloud

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You whitethorn not person a landline immoderate much but galore businesses trust connected wired lines for alarms, elevators, fax machines, modems and point-of-sale terminals. AT&T announced connected Friday a work that these companies tin usage to get the benefits of integer work without buying new  equipment. 

The Phone for Business-Advanced uses an enterprise-grade appliance from DataRemote by RingCentral to way dependable and specialty lines to a unreality server oregon the AT&T network. Each container tin negociate 8 "plain-old-telephone-service" lines. The instrumentality tin supply up to 12 hours of powerfulness to guarantee connectivity if the powerfulness goes retired locally, according to the company. 

Rich Shaw, vice president, dependable and collaboration for AT&T Business, said successful a property merchandise that this work volition modernize these lines to present customers to caller unreality capabilities portion maintaining the reliability and regulatory compliance that they require.

Sandra Krief, VP work providers, Americas for RingCentral, said successful a property merchandise that the institution believes enterprises contiguous are looking for trusted relationships and associated innovation to present the astir seamless travel to the unreality crossed each usage case.

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The work converts analog postulation truthful that it tin beryllium transferred implicit a VoIP Managed Facility Voice Network. This improves information and uses infrastructure that is easier and little costly to support and comes with much failover options, according to the company. The instrumentality is wireless susceptible and has an automatic LTE failover.

The work besides streamlines the billing process, the institution said, by creating a azygous supplier and a azygous measure for nationwide service.

The caller work meets oregon exceeds the Managed Facility Voice Network definitions volition enactment for these and different services:

• Voice services
• Fax transmission
  
• Burglar and occurrence alarm transmission
  
• One-number dialer line
  
• Elevator
  
• Emergency telephone box
  
• Gate access
  

The instrumentality is listed arsenic UL 60950-1 and designated for usage arsenic telecommunication terminal instrumentality and telecommunication web with a circumstantial notation to occurrence detection systems approved for usage with the standard. It conforms to ANSI and IEEE C2-2012.

The work is disposable successful each 50 U.S. states and customers tin usage their existing analog phones.