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I am looking for someone who has used Vonage or other VoIP network provider to provide voice services for business users. We have a couple of ways we are considering using these services and wanted to see if anyone had input.

1. Use Vonages ability to have a local numbers outside your calling area to allow a customer to provide a local phone number for a local market but the calls actually terminate in their PBX in another state. It seems that with one account you could have multiple local numbers for locations all over the country. Our inital look at this would have the Vonage ATA unit terminate into an analog port on a traditional PBX.

2. Use the VoIP provider to provide cheap outbound LD and local dialing. Anticipate using this in a small remote office that will need some local phone service. Rather than having a POTS line we would use a DSL or Cable modem.

This came up becuase we want to install a DSL or Cable line at a couple of remote offices to provide a backup for signaling and voice if a frame relay link went down and started to think how else we might use the connection.

I would also like to hear if you have other ideas how these new services are saving money or providing new services.