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Building Your Communications: DIY VoIP Server with LAD

With LAD you can build your own VoIP telephony server on your own equipment and gain access to a host of versatile and practical call processing features, including flexible call routing, ring groups, call holding queues, conference rooms, extensions, touchtone menus, voicemail boxes and more. Handily integrate multiple locations into one unified VoIP communications network, including hybrid worker and telecommuters, and enjoy LAD's ease of management, call tracking and call processing capabilities.

Getting Started: Hardware and Installation

LAD's VoIP server system is compatible with a wide range of hardware, including many pre-built mini-computers based on Intel processors with multiple Ethernet ports. With the addition of a few network interfaces many decommissioned desktop computers can be repurposed with LAD. Learn more about hardware compatible with LAD.

Installation is as simple as downloading the LAD module, putting it on a USB stick and booting up from it. LAD automatically starts up, reformatting the hard drive and installing itself within minutes. All you need to do is sit back and wait

Don't dismiss that ten-year-old machine in the corner. Given that the installation of LAD is very simple, give it a chance to see if it is compatible. Put LAD on a USB stick, plug it in to the chassis and give it a whirl. In just a few minutes you will know if LAD can run on it or not. If it works out, register a few telephone sets to place some test calls. While the calls are in progress, login to LAD and check out the CPU utilization numbers on the Sys Info page. This number will give you a good idea of how many simultaneous telephone calls that old chassis can handle. You may be pleasantly surprised.

There is one drawback to repurposing old desktops: the power consumption. The new small-footprint minicomputers with four or six Ethernet ports built in often use as little as 10-20 watts, compared to the upwards of 60-100 watts consumed by older desktop machines.

Benefits of Using LAD

In addition to a host of useful calling features, LAD telephony server and VoIP PBX provide many benefits, including higher security and the ability to work with multiple VoIP carriers to get the best rates for the destinations you call the most and integrating geographically disparate users into one private calling network.

LAD is not just a state-of-the-art fully-functional voip server. It also comes with a myriad of features that you would expect from a fully functional router, including Wi-Fi, and features that you would not typically expect but will find indispensable, such as LateralDNS, LateralTime and LateralFirewall. All of that in one fully-integrated system. Learn more about LAD's other features.

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