VoIP Termination

How much do you know about the term “VoIP termination”?  Voice Termination can have two meanings. However when a voice call is routed from a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN). Moreover the ends on the VoIP network or when a call originates from a VoIP network. It gets terminated by the service provider at PSTN. Therefore most view VoIP Termination as calls that originate from a VoIP network. Further, it will be terminated by the service provider at PSTN or to other VoIP networks.

What is the PSTN?

PSTN is an acronym for Public Switched Telephone Network, which is a traditional or analog telephone operating feature in which calls are routed through a series of public circuit switches to route voices over GSM or CDMA telephone lines. Therefore this is unlike a VoIP in which all calls are routed through packet switches to route voices over the Internet.

Example VoIP Termination Provider Setup

Let’s say you live in Dallas; you have asterisk PBX system, an internet connection, and four local phone lines (PSTN) in your office. However, your four local phone lines have the ability to call anywhere in Dallas free of charge. However, If you were to install four analog ports onto your asterisk PBX, you could then connect your four local lines directly into your asterisk system.  Further, it also connects your asterisk system to the internet, you would then have the ability to terminate four simultaneous calls into the Dallas Local Area. Therefore You would then be a termination provider for the Dallas area. You can change the rate of $.005 cents per minute, saving others money while making a few bucks yourself.

However legally,  you would have to check the rules in your local community about using your local lines in this manner, but this is nothing new for local companies to date.