POTS Replacement: Time to Face the Music

If you are an enterprise, you have been doing a lot over the last 20 years to keep your business communications infrastructure modern and up to date. VoIP and Video have been such disruptive forces that you have had to update your systems, from the phone system you use to the type of trunks coming into the building to enabling everything for Wi-Fi.

But there may still be some POTS endpoints in your enterprise that you have not updated yet, and probably never will, since it is cost prohibitive to do so. These POTS lines may reside in elevators or alarm systems. And connecting these POTS endpoints to POTS lines is an issue given the costs are increasing (just check your bill!) and the Service Providers want to get you off POTS lines that these POTS endpoints are connecting to. And there are still businesses on Centrex systems, all using POTS endpoints!

If this sounds like you, it is time to finally do something about it. There are POTS replacement solutions to enable connectivity from embedded POTS endpoints to the modern IP (wired or wireless) networks, so you can leave the last of your POTS endpoints in place.

A recent Frost and Sullivan Paper titled: POTS Line Replacement—an Essential but Overlooked Step in Communications Modernization Efforts outlines these issues and solutions in more detail.

This paper goes into the benefits of modernizing, the urgency of upgrading, the importance of POTS lines to your business (that you may not even realize), and what you need to do about it. Clearspan can certainly help provide you a scalable reliable POTS replacement solution.