Telephony Portal

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You probably know what a Web Portal is; this is a site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. A telephony portal is quite similar; this is a platform that aggregates many SIP IP telephony account providers through a unified service.

From a telephony portal you can choose one or many SIP VoIP operators or IP telephony operators to use into your SIP phone. Whoever your SIP telephony operator is you can access to the portal services transparently from your VoIP software, whether the service is IPTV, dating services, Wi-Fi location based content etc. Paid services, such as Wi-Fi access or paid TV, can be billed through your operator when the portal and your operator have interconnected their billing system. When connected to the Internet your phone can receive RSS streams that you subscribed to or other types of information. Some solutions allow you to customize the skin of your telephone and offer a skin editor. Thus you can make a reception desk platform with the look and feel of your company or a standard telephony terminal for PC or handset.

With a telephony portal you can select one or several telephony numbers (SIP accounts) for entering calls and other for outgoing calls. This feature gives you the possibility to get the best rates from the global offer while still keeping a unified usage of your telephone. When you have many SIP accounts running on your telephone, advanced functionalities allow you to create routing rules for an automatic management of the account choice when calling local, international or specific destinations.

Technically a telephony portal is usually composed of a web site that features IP telephony operators, and various services that can be accessed from your IP phone and a software that can be a widget that you use on your PC, your Wi-Fi GSM handset or your Wi-Fi PDA. You can download the software from the telephony portal web site; it is delivered with the features you have selected from the web site.