Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) refers to the traditional analog voice transmission telephone service. POTS has been the baseline telephone service in most parts of the world since 19th century.

Traditional telephony refers to the conventional method of voice communication using physical networks of copper wires. Before digital alternatives, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), POTS was the primary phone connectivity. Analog phone and Fax service are the common usage in large commercial occasions. For enterprises, reliable communications underpin their business as what it did in the past 100 years with PSTN. But now, VoIP should take this significant job since PSTN will eventually retire form the stage of history.

Moving analog phone to digital VoIP is not complex, you could replace by an IP-based phone or keep your analog phone by using analog telephone adapter (ATA, also known as FXS gateway) connect to cloud-based voice service. Compare with POTS lines, VoIP phone could provide more advanced features and functionalities, for example, POTS lines do not support features such as voicemail, call forwarding or video calling. Additionally, VoIP is using the latest technology which can provide much better call quality compared to analog alternatives.

Moving Fax machine to VoIP technology is another topic and require specified protocol compatible. As Fax would take an image of a document and turns that image into computer language (digital 1s and 0s), which is then being turn into electric signal that can be transmitted over POTS line.

One advantage of VoIP is its compression capability. You can combine data, voice and video, broken into packets, transmitted over an SIP network in compressed form — to save bandwidth and, usually, still maintaining acceptable quality. however, Faxes, cannot be compressed because it distorts the signal from the Fax machine so that it can’t be understood. And VoIP can delay or drop a packet here and there, by design. But even a 1% packet loss can kill an entire fax transmission, a reliable hardware and service is playing a crucial role in POTS replacement.

Flyingvoice POTS Replacement solution provide the same connection way to your analog phone and Fax machine while allowing you connect all these device with IP network, you can easily upgrade your communication system digitally while still preserving the same functionality.

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