Saturday, October 3, 2009

VOIP Service and Emergency Phone Numbers

The general assumption about VOIP service was that you could not call emergency numbers using internet phone service. This was considered to be a draw back of VOIP but if you had visited Axvoice site, you would have to change your mind.
VOIP service is already winning great appreciation from its customers spread all around the world. The amazing features offered by Axvoice at a real low cost prove that they understand the user needs and requirements far better than others.
Internet phone service not only provides unlimited local, international calls at remarkably low rates, but also provides its customers with E911 service. Whenever you need to call a police station or fire brigade, all you need is an internet connection and a VOIP service provider.
Now comes the question how they made this possible. The simple story is that when you dial 911 using your Axvoice internet phone service, the call is instantly, routed through our system to emergency response services. Your up-to-date registered information, which includes your full name and address, is already stored in their database, against the number you are calling from, while, emergency operators, with access to your information, send help right away and call back in case of further assistance, if necessary. When a user signs up with them, they dutifully forward that information to the emergency help centers, so that emergency responders reach you at that address, in times of need.
I have observed that Axvoice is the most user-friendly cost effective service both for residential and business users. As a user of this service I can assure you that a non-techno-savvy person can also enjoy it without a twinge.
By Stefen Clark
Working As Asterisk Engineer in Axvoice

What is Voice Over Internet Protocol(VoIP)

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet. VoIP involves sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets called SIP(Session Initiation Protocol, a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls / conferences over Internet Protocol (IP)). rather than by using the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service. VoIP has become very popular means of communication nowadays, given the advantages it possesses. It is too fine-tuning and is gaining popularity day by day and one day replace the traditional phone everything.
VoIP gives the abilty to go hosted on highly expensive PBX with many advantages like;
• Enjoy mobility and flexibility of operations with multiple geographic and non-geographic numbers for global operations.
• Plug-and-play service modules enable all types of deployment to deploy dramatic upscaling of operations in a matter of hours.
• Hosted solutions enable customers to fully utilize a full-blown infrastructure by employing micro-level, incremental, pay-per-use investment model. 123+
• Enterprises with multiple points of geographic presence can utilize managed business services to have inter-office connections at no cost.
• Enjoy International calling at nominal investments when compared with conventional solutions.
• Do away with the need to maintain leased circuits between the offices & to maintain expensive legacy PABX systems.
• Ability to connect corporate offices spread over multiple geographic locations to work as a cohesive unit with our hosted solution.
• Value added features for corporate businesses, especially contact centers, like voice mail, call forwarding and call transfer between various branches.
• Seamless and uniform VoIP termination for all offices, whether local or international.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Master Antenna Television System ( MATV )

What is a Master Antenna System?
MATV stands for Master Antenna Television. It is the means by which many apartment houses1 hotels, schools and other multi-unit buildings distribute TV and FM signals to a number of receivers. In order to accomplish this without a loss of signal quality, these systems must be carefully planned and engineered through the effective use of MATV equipment and techniques.
An MATV system is basically a network of cables and specially designed components that process and amplify TV and FM signals and distribute them from one central location . If there were 100 TV sets in a building, it would be extremely expensive to Install and maintain l00 separate antennas. Not only would It be unsightly, but reception would suffer because that many antennas would interact with each other, causing interference problems.
The MATV system concept can be separated into two divisions: the Head End and the Distribution System
The Head End normally consists of an antenna Installation to receive the desired signals to, processing equipment to filter the signals and remove interference, and a distribution amplifier to amplify the signals to the level required to provide an adequate signal to every receiver in the system. Antenna amplifiers, traps, filters, antenna mixing units, and UHF converters are among the equipment used in t~is portion of the system.
A welt-designed Distribution System is necessary to guarantee that an adequate signal will be delivered to every receiver. It should provide a clean signal to the sets by isolating each receiver from the system and by delivering the proper amount of signal to each set. This portion of the system consists of trunk lines, splitters, feeder lines, and tapoffs. Some of the other equipment used includes tine taps, variable isolation wall taps, coaxial cable, and band separators.
It is important to design your distribution system first. Usually, the requirements of the distribution system will determine the type and size of the amplifier that will be necessary at the head end. The actual layout of the system, of course, will depend upon the dimensions and requirements of the building in which it Is installed.