There are many benefits afforded by VoIP phones including cost savings, advanced features and more options. But there is one more advantage that not everyone might be picking up on – its ability to improve a company’s sustainability practices.

VoIP equipment allows one to patch through to VoIP phones in employees' homes over a virtual private network, enabling firms to give them their own extension number without callers being aware that they are not based in the office. For those organizations that care about their resource consumption, this could be an ideal way of reducing the number of people on-site and, in so doing, cutting down on electricity, gas and water use.

Dominic Wood, program coordinator for organizational change group Groundwork, said for those working on sustainability commitments, VoIP phones may be a great starting place.  

"Begin with legislative obligations, as these reduce liability and the prospect of prosecution," he said in a recent article."Then look at other areas of the business where improvements can potentially be made."

All the different parts of VoIP equipment, like VoIP phones, work together to offer a multitude of benefits in addition to sustainability – most notably cost savings. All that is needed is a fast Internet connection and the proper VoIP equipment and VoIP users can enjoy making PC to PC phone calls to anywhere around the world for free. Even calls from a PC to a phone are cheaper than a regular phone service. VoIP equipment also allows users to benefit from a small monthly fee in exchange for unlimited calls within a certain geographic area.

Moreover, VoIP equipment boasts portability, meaning that users can make and receive phone calls wherever there is a broadband connection by signing into their VoIP account. In this sense, VoIP becomes as fast and as easy as email and traveling becomes less of a hassle. With VoIP equipment, a user can make a call thousands of miles away and the connectivity and cost will be no different than if the user was calling his/her next door neighbor.

In related news, VoIP Supply, a leading provider of VoIP equipment and complete solutions, had some good news to share this week – the addition of Ruckus Wireless (News - Alert) products that specialize in Wi-Fi for both enterprise and service provider markets.