The digitizing of analog data transformed the ways data could be processed and distributed.

The digitizing of analog telephony promises similar revolutionary advances.

New developments in digital telephony are changing the ways calls are made, and even the nature of calls themselves.

Software phones have finally turned the videophone of science fiction into an everyday reality - at least for those with broadband Internet connections, and who actually want their callers to be able to see them.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) promises to revolutionize long distance telephone calling - overcoming the obstacles of geographical distance, and turning the entire globe into one vast local calling area.

Analog telephones were once the only alternative, and they still dominate the office and home environment. But conventional analog phones are being increasingly displaced by a variety of digital technologies, blurring the distinction between voice and data networking.

The simplicity of analog telephony over twisted pair copper wires has become a jumble of confusing acronyms - VoIP, SIP, IAX, H323, GSM, ZAP, POTS, TDM, etc. These new developments offer impressive potentials, but the downside is that most, if not all, of them are inherently incompatible with the conventional analog telco system - and each other.

Overall's new PBX provides a powerful switching engine capable of overcoming the incompatibilities between a wide variety of voice/data streams - providing a dynamically adaptive bridge between different communications media. Our new PBX supports both analog and digital connections, providing transparent real time translation between a mind numbing variety of codexes.

Our Mini-ISP was originally intended to provide a firewall protected data gateway between a private LAN and the public Internet. That same Mini-ISP can now also provide advanced telephony switching for a private telephone system, and a shared voice and video gateway to analog telco lines and digital VoIP.