Patent ID: 6937575

Claim:
A method of providing an intra-company voice communication service for a first company; the first company having a plurality of remote geographical facilities, a plurality of interconnected phones at each of the facilities, an intra-company data network connecting the facilities; the method comprising the steps of: determining a call traffic pattern for each of the remote facilities, said traffic pattern comprising the duration, cost, and peak number of phone calls made between each facility and all other of the facilities for a selected time period; determining performance specifications of the data network, said specifications comprising available network bandwidth between the facilities; using said call traffic pattern and said network performance specifications to design a digital telephony solution for the company; said solution comprising required network bandwidth between each of said facilities, specifications for a digital telephony gateway at each of the facilities, said gateway interfacing between the data network and the plurality of interconnected phones at each facility; and implementing said solution; said implementing comprising installing said gateways at each of said company facilities, connecting said gateways to said data network and to said plurality of interconnected phones at each of said facilities, programming said digital telephony gateways to transmit and receive intra-company phone calls over said data network.