{"id":3209,"date":"2020-02-27T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internal.n4engage.co.uk\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2020-10-19T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:28:29","slug":"isdn-switch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/internal.n4engage.co.uk\/2020\/02\/27\/isdn-switch-off\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long ISDN – It’s Been Emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The news that traditional phone lines were about to be phased out shouldn\u2019t have come as much of a shock to most people. Anyone who has seen an iconic red telephone box being used as a makeshift community library probably realised something was happening with how our approach to communication methods is changing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many of us still use our landlines\nwith any regularity? We are now predominantly mobile. When Openreach launched a\ncampaign to warn us all that PSTN and ISDN would start to be phased out to make\nway for more affordable, functional and sustainable voice technologies, we\ncouldn\u2019t argue with their logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landline calls have halved over the\nlast six years and phone lines are often now just used to access broadband. The\nrise of mobiles is the main culprit for this with residential use, not so much because\nwe use mobiles to make calls, but because we don\u2019t make calls so much at all.\nInstead many people now text, message, email, or use social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For businesses, it\u2019s the popularity of\nIP telephony mixed with mobility that has signalled the end for these old\ntechnologies. With so many businesses leveraging their affordable ultra-fast\nconnectivity to use VoIP and SIP solutions \u201cover the top\u201d, dedicated telephony lines\nare simply no longer a financially viable voice option for the provider. The\nROI simply isn\u2019t there with call volume, plus they are costly and difficult to\nmaintain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The copper line and telephone exchange network has connected homes and businesses all over the UK for well over 100 years, but PSTN and ISDN are the victims of a culture that values flexibility. It\u2019s something that the two, traditional technologies cannot deliver. Enterprise-grade IP communications can divert or forward phone calls intended for an office location to anywhere in the world, on most devices, delivering high quality calls, video conferencing and feature-rich communications. It\u2019s not just the big corporations leading the way with this. The main surge in popularity for IP telephony uptake is driven by SMEs \u2013 businesses which need to stay agile and flexible to compete and have seen that IP voice can help them to achieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you still using traditional ISDN lines? Give us a call<\/a> to find out what you need to do to modernise your phone systems and stay ahead of the changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who is Richard?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Richard Buxton has worked within the VoIP and Unified Comms industry for over 20 years. Starting out in the industry, he was responsible for adding IP telephony functionality to traditional PBX systems \u2013 years before the technology had been widely adopted. He then moved into the service provider sector and helped maintain and grow a SIP trunking platform and launch a hosted telephony solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the recent years, he has built a team and developed the Collaboration portfolio for Node4<\/a>, our parent company. More recently, he has migrated the entire Collaboration portfolio and teams into our brand new business unit \u2013 N4Engage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find Richard’s full author profile here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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