We had several questions posed that were quite similar, one during the webinar and then a follow up question from someone else after the webinar so we thought we would combine the answer

Q2 I listened to a webcast today about the use of your system with analog phones. If we put in a new IPPBX from Avaya we have the option of buying analog cards with it. I'm confused on why we would need your solution when the IP Office has analog port options. Could you please explain?

A. The Analog TVA does indeed offer the functionality of an Analog ATA, available from various suppliers in gateway form, as well as in the form of analog line cards for IP PBXs, like IP Office or Asterisk.

If an Avaya IP Office user wants to connect simple analog phones, assuming the pricing works out, they would likely buy Avaya analog cards, making the overall system easier to manage. However if they want to connect Centrex phones, or legacy digital phones, then the TVA is the only show in town. Having said that we have had several customers tell us that as they were already migrating digital / Centrex phones using our TVA’s they wanted to keep everything consistent and standardized on the Portico™ TVA™. Also in another case, a customer stated that they found our Analog TVA worked out more cost effectively that the specific analog cards they were looking at.