IP telephony can combine all your communications-such as data, voice, and video-over a single network infrastructure. By combining multiple types of traffic on a single network connection, your company can drastically reduce the cost of managing their voice, video and data networks. Additional benefits are realized from the increase collaboration and productivity that an IP Telephony solution will provide.

IP Telephony is the main catalyst of Multi-service Networking where this convergence creates a single, powerful network that is far easier and less expensive to manage and operate. Consolidating data, voice, and video networks into one architecture reduces costs and gives companies a new way to do business-a better way to compete. A multi-service network is easily extensible to add new capacity and features that protect today's investments and enable tomorrow's functionality.

Companies that converge their voice and data networks can immediately reduce operating costs using simple toll bypass-using the WAN to carry long distance voice and fax calls between offices. However, the true benefit of multi-service networking is that it opens a new environment to application development that fully leverages the coexistence of data, voice, and video traffic on the same wire.