IP phones look and feel just like a normal office phone but can make and receive VoIP calls with just an internet connection. IP telephones are excellent for home workers; serviced offices or other individual users. For larger offices, IP phones combined with an IP PBX provides a powerful and cost effective communications system for your business.
IP Telephones are stand alone VoIP devices that look like an ordinary telephone handset but effectively include a single port VoIP gateway. This enables users to make and receive VoIP call directly from an IP telephone without the need of additional hardware or computer software using VoIP service providers such as V4B.
IP telephones represent an excellent way for small businesses to gain the benefits of VoIP. For a cost effective way to implement VoIP, IP telephones can be directly connected to the V4B VoIP service providing a telephone number and voice mail account enabling you to just plug the phone into your office or home network and make and receive calls instantly. In addition, calls between IP telephones on the V4B network are free of charge giving even greater benefits. For even greater functionality, combining an IP PBX, with IP telephones provides your business with a fully functional office telephone system at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. V4B provides IP telephones pre configured to ensure your business can simply plug and play immediately you receive the phone.
IP telephones using the V4B VoIP service offer the following benefits:
◦ Free calls between VoIP phones anywhere in the world
◦ Lower calling costs
◦ Voicemail, available anywhere worldwide
◦ Voicemail direct to email
◦ Receive calls anywhere in the world
◦ Call diversion
◦ Reduced line rental costs
◦ Local numbers in almost 40 countries answered on your IP phone anywhere in the world
◦ Toll free numbers in many countries answered on your IP phone
IP phones can connect to an ADSL or cable broadband connection or a Local Area Network through most available Routers. SIP and IAX based IP phones are able to transverse most business firewalls and networks. There are many IP phones available on the market varying significantly in price and functionality. V4B can provide pre configured IP telephones from the major suppliers of IP Phones including:
◦ Yealink
◦ Snom
◦ Polycom
◦ Aastra
◦ Cisco
◦ Grandstream
