Voice Bridging Overview

Voice (telephone) bridging is a VoIP network service. It leverages the VCCS and college investments in VoIP services to provide statewide telephone conferencing services. Colleges may use it to conduct telephone (voice only) conferences without having to rely on, and pay for, non-VCCS voice bridging services.

The voice bridging strategy is to use a shared voice bridge, which is accessed via existing VCCS VoIP network services, to conduct telephone conferences with on-net and/or off-net parties. The voice bridging service is available from all on-net IP, analog, and digital telephones; and from all off-net telephones on the PSTN via the VoIP gateway routers on each VCCS campus.

The first element of voice bridging is the use of existing VoIP network services. Customers use their telephones to dial in to the voice bridge, just as they would dial any other telephone or voice service, via the VoIP network.

The other element is the voice bridge itself. It provides the same voice bridging features and functions as those provided by non-VCCS telephone bridge service providers.