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SIP Telephony Server and VoIP PBXLAD Makes Your Voice HeardLAD's SIP telephony server and VoIP PBX provide fully integrated VoIP calling via SIP protocol, with a number of practical call flow processing features. As with many things (and telephones are no exception), if a setup is already working, keep it and improve it. That is how LAD approaches it: if you already have a service and setup, simply slide LAD in between your VoIP provider and your telephone sets, keep the existing authentication and password info and calling arrangements, and then enable additional features when and as you see fit, without reprogramming or taking apart what you already have. And, if you are starting from scratch, LAD offers many versatile call handling options with built-in advanced PBX features. Advantages of an "Invisible" TelephoneLAD instantly makes your VoIP telephone sets disappear from view of the Internet, while they contine to function as they should. Connecting your telephone sets behind LAD reduces their vulnerabilities, reduces the number of lurkers listening in, and reduces the strange communications your telephone sets may send to points unknown. To the outside world they vanish, but for you they are not gone, but very much functional and usable. LAD's ability to isolate the VoIP telephone sets and other SIP clients on your local network from the Internet makes them invisible from the outside. LAD essentially acts as the client device to your service provider and as the service provider to your telephone sets, "hiding" your VOIP telephone sets and SIP clients from the Internet, while still keeping their call capabilities. This provides tremendous advantages in terms of the privacy and security of these devices. In the years since the advent of VoIP, VoIP telephones have shown themselves easy prey, susceptible to compromise and exploitable as vectors of attack. These devices also contain a lot of information about your communications, including call data and activity logs. Attackers could further compromise your privacy by programming your telephone sets to route your calls elsewhere, so they can listen in as you discuss private or business matters without your knowledge. With LAD, however, external access to your VoIP telephone sets and SIP devices is cut off from the Internet, meaning would-be attackers have no way to detect where they are and get to them. It also works in the opposite direction, preventing your telephone sets from surreptitiously uploading or downloading information to and from third parties, while your calls still go through. LAD's simplicity of operation, regardless of whether integrating an existing VoIP setup or starting from scratch, is an obvious benefit. Perhaps even more beneficial is the increased security LAD provides — behind LAD your VoIP telephone sets and other SIP devices are virtually invisible outside of the local network reducing their vulnerability to outside interference. With LAD you also have the option of registering external VoIP telephone sets and SIP devices, making it possible to seamlessly integrate external users into your call processing system, without additional charges or complicated call forwarding arrangements. Complete, Fully-Featured VoIP PBXLAD's VoIP PBX system offers the following features:
LAD's SIP server additionally gives users the option of registering external SIP devices to it (that is, devices that are located outside of your local network), which would allow external telephones to participate in the VoIP PBX call processing, with all of its features and convenience. This is particularly handy for work-from-home and hybrid working arrangements, where a user may need telephone service at more than one location (users may even manually direct incoming calls on their extensions to ring on different devices or schedule them with different ring patterns or call destinations at different times). Full SIP Server CapabilitiesSince LAD provides full SIP server capabilities, it makes it possible to connect both local and remote SIP devices such as VoIP telephones, VoIP adapters and free applications like SIPDroid that users can install on their cell phones, tablets and PCs and place calls through LAD from practically anywhere and any device. You can further assign private telephone numbers or extensions to any of the VoIP devices registered with LAD, making it possible to easily call between any of them for free and for any of them to make external calls to the public telephone system through LAD (though if you want a completely private telephone system, you can forgo subscribing to any telephone carriers entirely and still be able to place calls between any VoIP/SIP device registered with LAD — the choice is yours). In addition to being able to connect to larger VoIP carriers, LAD's SIP server can connect you to a number of smaller wholesalers who may offer cheaper rates to specific national or international destinations. That is not to say you have to ditch your current VoIP carrier — on the contrary, you can keep your current VoIP telephone service and enhance it with more choices and options, contracting for minutes with any VoIP service provider you choose (and as many as you may choose). Simplified SetupSetting up SIP calling and VoIP PBX features with LAD, however, does not require a massive overhaul of your current equipment or calling arrangements. LAD presents its SIP server and VoIP PBX features in an intuitive web-based graphical user interface, for easy setup. An initial quick start to using LAD is as simple as entering the Auth Name (may be also referred to as the User Name), Password and sometimes the server name used by your current VoIP telephone (or other device). LAD will automatically register the account with your VoIP provider externally and connect to your VoIP telephone locally, without making any changes to your account with your VoIP provider or reprogramming your VoIP telephone. This gets you up and running, and you can explore LAD's call processing capabilities at your leisure, without altering or taking your current service or equipment off line. Other LAD Features
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