A centralized approach to branch office VoIP

A centralized approach to branch office VoIP

Final in the series of how organizations extend VoIP to the branch

Branch Office Best Practices Newsletter By Robin Gareiss, Network World, 06/06/06

This weeks’ column concludes our three-week analysis of how organizations extend VoIP to their branch offices.

Most commonly, they install IP PBXs at every location; 40% have adopted a distributed architecture. Another 35% deploy their PBXs regionally, and link each branch to an number of regions (also known as a clustered approach).