Alarm Monitoring over VOIP

This is just one of a number of similar devices now available.This device can give a regular phone connection that connects to you dialler on your security system thus eliminating the need for a regular phone line for Alarm monitoring.

ZyXEL Prestige 2602HW ADSL VoIP Router
Manufacturer ZyXEL
http://www.zyxel.co.uk
Supplier DSL Warehouse
http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk
Author Dave Mitchell
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ZyXEL Prestige 2602HW ADSL VoIP Router
ZyXEL has always ensured that its range of Prestige ADSL routers has more features than you can shake a stick at and its latest model, the 2602HW, keeps this tradition going admirably. Along with a full range of security features and 802.11b/g wireless access point capabilities it also provides support for VoIP enabling you to make and receive calls over the Internet for a fraction the cost of standard PSTN calls.
Despite the potential of VoIP we've see relatively few consumer products supporting this as it has generally been targeted at larger businesses looking to make big savings on their phone bills. The 2602HW brings this to home users and small businesses and supports SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), enabling calls to be made to other VoIP devices and to normal landlines. You must sign up with a SIP gateway service provider of which there an ever increasing number popping up.

For testing we used an account with PipeMedia (www.pipemedia.com) which costs a one-off set up fee of £14.99 and then £2.99 per month afterwards. Making a call to another VoIP device costs nothing and calling a UK national landline number costs 1.2p per minute peak rate and 0.5p per minute off-peak. Call costs are substantially lower than between two landlines with, for example, a VoIP call to a U.S. landline costing a shade under 1p per minute.