As numerous organizations worldwide are looking to take advantage of the cost savings and additional services available when migrating from digital to VoIP phone lines, the demand for hardware that can convert conventional phones to IP phones is huge. In order to cater to this demand, Citel provides customers with the Portico Telephone VoIP adapter. This product allows users to harness the benefits of their PBX, P-phone and analog phones as well as their existing phone cabling infrastructure.

The Portico TVA offered by Citel “SIP enables” legacy phones, enabling them to offer modern features like IVR and simultaneous ringing and many other advanced features assigned to the buttons during provisioning. The Portico TVA is compatible with numerous networks running on either a hosted IP platform and premise based IP-PBX systems. With the help of this unique VoIP migration device, legacy handsets are converted to IP endpoints, thus the need for the whole ‘rip-and-replace’ process gets eliminated. So, with the help of Citel’s telephone VoIP adapter, users can enjoy advantages like lower cost business phone calls, higher productivity, enhanced functionality and convergence of applications, without having to buy IP phones, Power over Ethernet switches, upgrade cabling or maintain their legacy PBXs.

To date, numerous organizations have integrated their legacy phones with IP telephony with the help of Citel’s Portico TVA. Such firms are enjoying reduced monthly business communication expenses. Other factors that have been instrumental in bringing down the operating costs are optimized usage of IP network as well as the removal of PBX and Key systems throughout the organization. Moreover, since this internet-based telephony solution, offered by Citel, can be used for moving to a unified communication platform smoothly. Arguably, the Portico TVA is essential for all organizations that have a legacy phone infrastructure and cannot afford to take the rip-and-replace process to move to a VoIP platform. With the cost of the Portico TVA, customers can achieve the benefits of the move to IP telephony at a savings of up to 65% of the typical rip-and-replace process depending upon the platform selected, something all organizations should consider. Contact Citel at www.citel.com for more details.