Toll Avoidance and Least Cost Routing

Toll avoidance is the practice of bypassing fee-based telephone networks to complete calls between two or more locations using the Internet or private data networks. In other words: dramatically reduce your phone bills by eliminating inter-office call charges.

This solution is particularly useful for companies that have:

• Multiple offices
• International facilities
• Home-based employees
• Frequent communications between partner companies

Least Cost Routing (LCR) is an extension of toll avoidance that leverages the geographical locations of your facilities. By utilizing different phone lines connected to your phone systems in different regions (aka "Rate Centers"), the LCR "brain" picks which line to use based upon the number being called to get the best rate. In other words, a company with sites in Los Angeles and New York will only pay local phone charges placed to either city.

Pacific Swell can inter-connect virtually any phone system for toll avoidance and LCR. Our solutions work with phone systems that have any of the following telephony interfaces:

• PRI (Primary Rate Interface)
• Analog (Loop Start, Ground Start, etc)
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
• H.323

All of our Business IP Phone Systems have integrated Toll Avoidance and LCR, but this solution is particularly useful for business with very large phone systems that cannot easily be replaced or are not inter-operable with other brands. Contact us today for a free consultation and cost-savings analysis for your company.