Are there any disadvantages of Digital Voice for business?
Significant numbers of Digital Voice calls will tend to strain your internal data network and broadband Internet connection. Deploying Digital Voice on an industrial scale will likely require more Internet bandwidth, faster connections within your data network, and assigning different priorities to different types of Internet traffic (for instance, Digital Voice traffic should be given a higher priority than e-mail traffic in many cases, simply because voice is more time-sensitive. Also, by relying on Digital Voice and canceling commercial PSTN phone service, you are now at the mercy of your Internet service provider (ISP), and youthful ISPs are not as reliable as the PSTN is after its century of development.
