Voxis frequently asked questions
Can I keep my Phone Number?
Yes, we can port your phone number(s)
from your current carrier. Porting Can take anywhere from a 1-2 days to
4-6 weeks depending on your current carrier. We can issue temporary phone
numbers that you forward your current service to until the port completes.
Is Voxis SIP Trunking as reliable Analog Phone Lines?
Yes, Our SIP Trunking solution can actually be
more reliable than traditional Analog lines as SIP trunking allows for
automatic fallback. Fallback is a technology that allows us to automatically
re-route calls upon conditions such as an end point being in an offline
status.
With 4G LTE Failover, SIP trunks are even more
resilient. 4G LTE Failover allows your phones to operate in normal mode
while your Primary Internet is down
What is the difference
between Fallback, Failover, and Failback?
Fallback is the automatic re-routing of
calls due to a device being offline, for example extension 101 has an
incoming call, but extension 101 is offline, the call can automatically
be sent to another route or destination such as another extension or
a cell phone.
Failover is when your primary Internet goes down and your router
automatically switches to another standby Internet connection. Some
routers support multiple failover connections.
Failback is when your primary Internet connection is back online
and services automatically move back from a Failover connection to your
primary or a higher tiered Internet connection.
Does Voxis SIP Trunking sound as good
as Analog Phone Lines?
Yes and sometimes better, but QoS
is the key to achieving high quality sound
Which Audio Codec should I use?
G.729 is a licensed codec with superior
packet loss concealment that any other codec while using half the bandwidth,
and therefore our default codec, this codec is best with low bandwidth
applications or best effort applications that might have slight packet
loss, with G.729 you have the ablitly to run 46 concurrent active channels
using 1.54Mbps of Bandwidth.
G.711 or Ulaw is the Analog audio codec and is best used in higher bandwidth
applications with the ability to run 23 concurrent active channels using
1.54Mbps of Bandwidth.
G.722 is the HD Audio codec and is best used in higher bandwidth applications
with the ability to run 23 concurrent active channels using 1.54Mbps of
Bandwidth. G.722 is a compressed packet codec so it is also best used
in low latency and very low packet loss applications.
Do I need to keep all my phone numbers or have 1 Phone Number per Phone
Line?
Typically not, most companies will
have less phone numbers (DiDs) than phone lines (Trunk Channels) due to
the lack of needing more than 1 phone number per roll over group. You
only need to have 1 phone number per destination. An example would be
a business with 10 Phone lines with 2 destinations, a Sales ring group
and a direct line to the CEO. In the example the company would only need
2 phone numbers. It is possible to have more phone numbers than phone
lines. Example; that same 10 phone Line Company with 1 sales ring group
and 1 direct line to the CEO wants a Sales phone number in the capital
city of every state. The example company would then have 51 phone numbers
and 10 phone lines, 50 numbers to the Sales Ring Group and 1 to direct
dial the CEO.
Do I have to purchase Hardware though Voxis Telcom?
No, our service is compatible with
all Open SIP compliant hardware from many different manufactures including,
Grandstream, Cicso, Polycom, Aastra, Snom, Yealink, and many more. You
may use hardware you already have or purchase though 3rd party. In some
cases using hardware not supplied by Voxis may result in one time setup
fees if you require a Voxis Technician to configure the device. Hardware
sold by Voxis is pre-configured to customer's specifications at no extra
charge.
Will my Alarm System work with Voxis Telcom?
Many Alarm system do work with SIP
Trunking Phone Lines, whiles others do not. This is dependent on your
specific alarm modem and service provider. You may check with your alarm
company to see if your model works with VoIP using an ATA gateway. In
some cases we can conduct a test using demo equipment. To use an Alarm
System over SIP Trunks you must use G.711 codec, please make your Voxis
technician aware of the intent to use an Alarm System.
Will my Pitney Bowes work with Voxis Telcom?
No, many older Pitney Bowes and all
new Pitney Bowes machines have either USB or Ethernet connections and
can be filled via online at no extra cost; this is the preferred filling
method by Pitney Bowes. To continue filling via a dial up connection you
will need to keep 1 analog phone line.
Will my dial up credit card terminal work
with Voxis Telcom?
Some credit card terminals do work,
depending on model and your processor, G.711 is required however use of
dial up credit card terminals is not recommended. Many terminals have
Ethernet capability to process directly over the internet often at lower
rates than dial up transactions.
Does Voxis
have a customer web portal?
Non-Hosted Solutions
No, features can be changed from * dial codes or you may ask a Voxis technician
to change them for you.
Hosted PBX
Yes, Customers get Administrator rights to the PBX web GUI
Will I
need to re-wire my office for new IP Phones?
Not in most cases. New IP Phones have
a 10/100/1000 network pass though allowing you to use existing data cables
without compromising LAN speeds. Simply run data cable from the wall to
the Phone, then from the Phone to the computer. Many of the Analog Phone
systems used Cat5 or better wiring that can be converted to data cable
in cases where data cable in not already in place.
Do
I need a Static IP for My Internet Connection?
No, Voxis supports 2 different methods
to traversing your NAT without need for paying for a static IP. Stun and
Keep-Alive depending on the type of router you have.
I
am currently under contract with my current carrier is there a way out?
Possibly
many telephone contracts
have a minimum service level agreement. For example most of AT&T's
contracts state you must keep a minimum of 1 phone line and a Internet
product to avoid early termination fees, In which case you just keep 1
line active to use for fax or alarm service.
Does Voxis Support Channels on Demand?
Yes, in terms of you may upgrade the
number of channels you have at anytime, and the channels will be available
for use right away. Services are not under contract and can be turned
down at any time; however services are billed in 30 day increments. This
serves growing and seasonal business well as they can turn up extra lines
during their busy month(s) and easily turn them back down after their
busy period.
Is the
Voxis Standard Channel a Unlimited use product?
No, there is actually no such thing
as a truly unlimited plan in the telephone industry, all "unlimited"
plans in the industry come with a "Fair Usage" policy that limits
the "unlimited". Despite court's ruling advertising as "Unlimited"
with a Fair Usage clause is not false advertising, we think it's anything
but fair.
Voxis Standard channels are aggregated thousand minute per channel plans.
Meaning you get one thousand minutes multiplied by the number of channels
you have, with overages billed depend on where the call is placed but
average 0.025 per minute billed in once second increments.
Why the thousand minute model? Over sixty years of industry study shows
that the average business uses 600 minutes per phone line they have in
a given month. Once a business reaches 700 minutes of use per line customers
start to complain about getting busy signals, as a business approaches
real usage of 1000 minutes per phone line, it becomes difficult for the
business to function, employees have a hard time access lines to make
calls and customers start to look elsewhere to conduct business as they
cant not get though on your lines.
For over sixty years business has successfully self regulated this without
even beginning aware of their actual minute usage, solely on the fact
if employees are having trouble accessing outside lines or high volumes
of customers are complaining about busy signals, our standard channel
service is no differen.t
Many companies have a perception that they use far more minutes than they
actually do. A lot of this has to do with how long distance has been billed
for over 60 years. Voxis tracks your usage bills down to the tenth of
a second per call, where Long Distance has traditionally been billed rounded
up to 6, 30 or 60 seconds per call depending on the LD plan.
Does calling
another extension on our HPBX use a channel?
No, calling other extensions on your
HPBX does not use up a channel, even if the two extensions are in different
locations
How many
Channels Do I need?
This will depend on your business
size, your industry, and how you use your phones. If you have access to
your CDR, take 1 month of data, subtract out all Internal and location
to location calls, make sure the remaining inbound and outbound calls
are not rounded up, add them all up and divided by 700. This will give
you the minimum number of channels you should be using.
For those that do not have access
to CDR's, if you are converting from an analog service and did not have
busy signal issues, the number of Analog lines you had is probably the
number of lines you need. Remember to count your fax line as a Voice line
if you shared the fax line to make outbound voice calls.
Still not sure try our sizing charts:
Small Business
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#
Of Users
|
#
of Channels
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2
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3
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5
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3-4
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10
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4-6
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25
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8-12
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Large Business
Many Larger Business model 3 users per channel,
while some split up types of users to determine a channel count
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For
# Of type of Users
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#
of Channels
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1 Always On (Receptionist
/Operator)
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2
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2 Heavy Users (Lawyers,
Real-estate Agents)
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1
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3-4 Medium Users (Medical
Office Staff)
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1
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4-5 Light Users (Administration
Staff)
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1
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6-8 Very Light Users (Data
Entry)
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1
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How does the Voxis Fax Service Work?
The purchase of a Fax Line comes with
one thousand aggregated minutes, and 1 fax box. Multiple fax lines minutes
aggregate together but they do not aggregate with Voice Line as these
lines are on a separate trunk group where all channels in the fax group
are running the T.38 codec. The average fax consumes about 40 seconds
per faxed page.
Multiple additional fax boxes can
be added to the trunk group without the need to purchase more channels.
Each Fax Box comes with a Fax Phone number; you can port your existing
phone number in or be assigned new numbers.
Each Fax Box can be assigned multiple email addresses, when a fax comes
in, all email addresses for the fax box will be sent a PDF file of the
Fax. Any Email address assigned to the box may fax out by sending an email
with a PDF file attached. In addition to email addresses each fax box
can support a fax scanner ATA.
A fax scanner ATA is a device that adapts your analog fax machine to the
SIP fax trunk channels. Scanner ATA's can and are commonly setup to send
only, where incoming faxes go to email only and outbound faxing can be
done either by email or fax machine.
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