IP Telephony

Last week, Phybridge (News - Alert) introduced the prototype of its UniPhyer IP Telephony gateway, which, according to CEO John Croce, will offer “a new way of launching converged networks,” eliminating QOS and other issues that often plague the convergence of voice services onto an enterprise LAN.

 

The UniPhyer is a 24- or 48-port gateway designed specifically to interoperate with legacy PBX infrastructures, first and foremost, eliminating the cost barrier of a complete system forklift required to switch to an all-IP infrastructure.

 

However, with the UniPhyer, business with anywhere from 50 to 2,000 seats can benefit from IP telephony while maximizing ROI from their legacy investments — the gateways can be daisy-chained to create up to 2,000 ports in a single deployment. Croce says, with Phybridge’s plug and play solution, businesses can save considerable deployment time (and money), because they will not need to go through the network analysis typically required for a traditional VoIP deployment.

 

Because Phybridge creates point to point links between endpoints and the UniPhyer — using an adapter with an IP jack — which provides reliable, predictable IP-based communications, as opposed to a distributed architecture, which can be susceptible to latency and other network congestion issues.

 

The UniPhyer, because it is independent from the LAN, does not disrupt data communications, not does it allow data flow to impeded voice traffic — all while providing the benefits of IP telephony.

 

Further eliminating deployment complexity, the UniPhyer is a PoE solution, making the availability of traditional power outlets a non-factor, and also offering a mobility aspect and disaster recovery solution — a single UPS located centrally can ensure communications continuity during localized or wide-scale power outages.

 

Importantly, because of its point to point topology, the Phybridge solution provides specific location information for E-911 services. The UniPhyer maintains a database that can be used to quickly retrieve individual port information corresponding to the physical location of each individual endpoint on the system.

 

Using a Broadcom chipset, the vendor agnostic UniPhyer, which has already been tested by several major PBX vendors, including Nortel (News - Alert), brings the benefits of IP telephony to legacy infrastructures. For businesses looking to limit their TCO and deployment and management complexity, while maximizing ROI, Phybridge offers a reliable converged communications alternative to a full-blown infrastructure overhaul.