HD Conferencing
SimpleSignal keeps costs low by eliminating toll-free access to a conference bridge.
With most business phone users nationwide on unlimited long distance calling plans, toll free service becomes a potentially redundant, unnecessary expense.
Although any user with a phone connection may call into SimpleSignal’s conference bridge, HD Audio sound is what really takes conference calling to another level. SimpleSignal uses the HD Audio Codec, G.722, which doubles the sample rate and the high and low frequency rate, with no noticeable latency, delivering a more natural conversation, with better clarity to discriminate between letters “S” and “F” or “P” and “T”. To take advantage of this technology users must be on the SimpleSignal network with a Polycom HD Voice IP phone or equivalent (legacy phone systems don’t support the G.722 codec). While this might limit the broad enjoyment of HD Audio conference calling at this point, the biggest beneficiaries of the HD quality will be SimpleSignal clients with multiple office locations that use a conference bridge as a regular part of their business process.
SimpleSignal’s HD Conference Bridge provides a full feature set including:
- Reservation-less conference start, meaning your bridge is active and ready 24/7 without scheduling
- 100 participant capacity
- Entry/exit notification using chimes or recorded names
- Self muting
- Conference termination by the host (useful when you have back to back conference calls)
- Participant count
- Private roll call, meaning participants can hear a private playback of the recorded names still active on the call
- Multiple hosts
- Touchtone suppression
- Security lock which prevents new callers from joining the active call
- Keypad commands which easily and intuitively modify any of the settings during a call
SimpleSignal’s unlimited flat rate of $29 per month for up to 100 participants is extremely competitive for any size business, competing strongly with per minute plans that can cost businesses thousands of dollars per year with or without toll-free access.
Contact us today to learn more about SimpleSignal’s Hosted VoIP solution, and their outstanding HD Conference Bridge service.
