VoIP Analogue Telephone Adaptor
The VoIP Analogue Telephone Adaptor (ATA) product are a standards-based communication devices that deliver true, next-generation voice-over-IP (VoIP) terminations to residences worldwide.
The VoIP Analogue Telephone Adaptor are a adaptor that interface legacy analog telephones, fax machines, analog conference telephones and other analogue devices to IP based telephony networks, thereby allowing users and ISPs to protect prior investments in analogue phones, fax machines, and speakerphones, and migrate to IP at their own pace.
This product address the needs of small-office environments, and the emerging VoIP voice services whereby ISPs value add their ADSL or Cable Modem offering with VoIP services by turning their analogue devices into IP devices.
The ATA is installed at the subscriber's premises and supports one voice ports with a POTS bypass for using the existing POTS primary line.
The ATA supports 2 10/100 BaseT Ethernet ports.
This adaptor can make use of existing broadband pipes such as digital subscriber line (DSL), fixed wireless and cable modem deployments. In addition, the ATA has an internal Ethernet switch which allows for a direct connection to another 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet network via an RJ-45 interface, with single LAN connectivity for both the ATA and a co-located PC or other Ethernet-based device.
By turning any analogue telephone into an IP telephone, the ATA addresses the needs of the emerging market of "second-line" residential voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.
Broadband service providers can now deploy voice services quickly to grow revenues and facilitate the development of new services.
