Protecting your wholesale VoIP termination rates
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:39 am
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More and more businesses are switching their voice communications to VoIP, but this inevitably raises concerns surrounding security. The good news is that a properly installed and configured VoIP system is pretty secure, but it’s important to understand how to keep it that way and how VoIP compares to PSTN in terms of its security.
New vs old
For many years, calls canada telegram have been made over the PSTN system. This means that calls are sent over analogue lines via exchanges to their destination. PSTN may seem secure, but the analogue systems are relatively easy to tap into and – because they are analogue – to understand the content. This kind of interception generally needs physical access to some part of the equipment but it isn’t hard to do. There are other risks too, as PSTN equipment ages and doesn’t get replaced, it’s more prone to breakdowns and service outages.
With VoIP, your call is routed over the same internet connections used for your email, website access and cloud systems. It, therefore, has the same potential security issues as any other online system.
That said, things are no longer quite so simple, because as major service providers slowly move to VoIP, there’s a good chance that your PSTN call will be carried at least some of the way to its destination via the internet. Of course, it’s possible that internet traffic can be intercepted too, but you have the opportunity to encrypt the traffic to make it useless to potential eavesdroppers. There are other methods you can take to secure your VoIP too.
More and more businesses are switching their voice communications to VoIP, but this inevitably raises concerns surrounding security. The good news is that a properly installed and configured VoIP system is pretty secure, but it’s important to understand how to keep it that way and how VoIP compares to PSTN in terms of its security.
New vs old
For many years, calls canada telegram have been made over the PSTN system. This means that calls are sent over analogue lines via exchanges to their destination. PSTN may seem secure, but the analogue systems are relatively easy to tap into and – because they are analogue – to understand the content. This kind of interception generally needs physical access to some part of the equipment but it isn’t hard to do. There are other risks too, as PSTN equipment ages and doesn’t get replaced, it’s more prone to breakdowns and service outages.
With VoIP, your call is routed over the same internet connections used for your email, website access and cloud systems. It, therefore, has the same potential security issues as any other online system.
That said, things are no longer quite so simple, because as major service providers slowly move to VoIP, there’s a good chance that your PSTN call will be carried at least some of the way to its destination via the internet. Of course, it’s possible that internet traffic can be intercepted too, but you have the opportunity to encrypt the traffic to make it useless to potential eavesdroppers. There are other methods you can take to secure your VoIP too.