Anyone who picks up a so-called session initiation protocol or SIP phone is likely to find that it acts very differently from a traditional landline handset. For that matter, it might be drastically different from what might be expected from their cell phones. A group of engineers who work on cloud phone systems has been working to ensure that call quality is at least similar to what users would expect from these other services, which is helping to ease the transition toward VoIP service in small business environments.
Perhaps the most common ISDN-based compression algorithm is µ-law, which is also widely used by podcasters and other online content creators. Someone who manages a cloud telephony network could theoretically adopt a similar transmission protocol and thus experience a quality of service that’s at least somewhat close to what they’re used to when it comes time to listen to a radio show online.
Other specialists have opted for solutions based on the hardware end of the spectrum. These include better pickups to better capture a greater degree of frequency response in order to provide better sound on the other end. While it doesn’t look like cloud phones are ever going to offer the same exact features that someone might have expected from an old Bell System rotary unit, there’s no reason why small business owners shouldn’t be able to get used to them without so much as a growing pain.
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