About 20 years ago, a revolution took place in the telecom industry. Time-division multiplexing (TDM), the technology that digital telephony had depended upon for decades, began to lose dominance in favor of a newer, more flexible technology: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
However, despite the extensive proliferation of VoIP today, many businesses in the United States still use TDM-based systems and services. Although these systems work well to provide basic functionality, the companies using them are missing out on the many benefits that VoIP offers.
In this article, we examine how Yeastar’s VoIP offerings show these businesses that the benefits of moving from TDM to VoIP far outweigh any initial costs or disruptions. For further Yeastar-related information concerning TDM-to-IP phone system migration, look at Yeastar’s TDM Upgrade Accelerate Kit.
Time-division multiplexing is a technology that splits a communications channel into time slots and assigns each slot to a different signal, allowing multiple signals to share the same channel. TDM was the technology leveraged by private branch exchanges (PBXs) manufactured from the 1970s to the 1990s. These primarily included:
Other technologies leverage TDM, including fiber optic backbones based on SONET and SDH and cellular applications such as GSM. However, these methods go beyond how TDM is used within enterprise telephony systems.
Compared with VoIP, TDM-based PBXs and telephony services are limited in functionality. Some of these limitations are serious and can hinder a business from growing and remaining competitive. These limitations include the following:
Many organizations are entirely unaware of the limitations that TDM systems impose on their businesses simply because they are still traditionally using telephony.
They don’t yet see the full potential of powerful capabilities such as workforce mobility, integration with other business applications or the financial benefits of VoIP and unified communications (UC).
Moving from TDM to VoIP can help organizations recognize that they were held back from reaching their full potential and maximum competitiveness in their fields.
If thinking about upgrading or replacing your TDM PBX gives you a headache, let Yeastar put you at ease. Yeastar makes replacing your TDM system easy with two options: going all-IP immediately or doing a phased upgrade.
An immediate replacement of your whole TDM telephony system ensures a highly scalable and flexible solution. This instantly delivers workforce mobility, complex call routing, and more connectivity options, all within a simplified and converged communications infrastructure.
This choice is ideal for businesses with the finances to support such a change, as they will immediately begin enjoying the benefits delivered by VoIP. Although it does incur a higher initial cost, this option is typically cheaper in the long run.
Alternatively, a company heavily invested in its current TDM infrastructure may prefer a gradual transition to prevent an abrupt and expensive revamp. Through an incremental approach, an organization can begin with a minor change that imposes less initial financial burden and then complete the transition at its own pace.
This also provides the opportunity to further explore IP telephony on a limited scale before fully embracing and committing to purchasing the technology.
Yeastar provides a range of migration strategies and versatile implementation choices, including on-site and cloud-based solutions, enabling you to design an ideal solution tailored to your unique requirements, objectives and available resources.
Yeastar has made a TDM Upgrade Accelerate Kit available to assist with your migration process, which you can download for free here.
Yeastar's P-Series IP PBX systems deliver advanced UC solutions via three major implementation scenarios, each of which can be implemented through an immediate deployment or gradual upgrade:
TDM systems are long past their prime. Competing successfully in the modern business world requires organizations to seek out every advantage, including the many provided by modern VoIP telephony systems.
Yeastar’s extensive base of over 450,000 worldwide customers has made it a leader in IP-based telephony services. This has also allowed the company to become highly experienced in the accelerated migration from TDM to IP-based voice services.
Yeastar’s TDM-to-IP migration kit includes helpful information and resources to facilitate your migration. You can download it for free here.
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