Ooma, a provider of advanced communications services for businesses and consumers, saw its AirDial selected as the 20225 Competitive Strategy Leader for best practices in the North American POTS replacement industry.
This nod, which comes via Frost & Sullivan, emerges as analog copper-wire phone lines (plain old telephone service / POTS), are being phased out by legacy carriers. This creates a challenge for mission-critical devices such as fire alarm panels, elevator emergency phones, building entry systems and burglar alarms that rely on POTS connections. For reliability and regulatory reasons, standard VoIP lines are generally not an appropriate substitute.
“The accelerated decommissioning of POTS is well underway,” said Ooma SVP of marketing, Jim Gustke. “We believe Ooma AirDial is the one comprehensive solution that resolves the impending ‘copper sunset’ for even the most challenging use cases.”
