New MIT Grad Dorm will have VoIP Phone Service
08.04.2008 10:22 VoIP Asterisk
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NW35, the new MIT graduate residence that will be named Ashdown House when it opens this fall, will not have analog Quality Broadband Phone lines in the rooms. Residents who want room phones will need to purchase a voice over IP Quality Broadband Phone and Internet Quality Broadband Phone service. But NW35 will have four network ports per pillow — at least twice as many as in the current Ashdown House.
The change reflects changing tele Quality Broadband Phone usage patterns. Director of Housing Dennis J. Collins said that he believes most students today have cell phones for communicating with friends and family. To that end, NW35 will be “cell- Quality Broadband Phone friendly.” Housing is “putting in cell Quality Broadband Phone repeaters to ensure cell phones will work everywhere,” Collins said.
The MIT campus is increasingly moving towards voice over IP, said Steven R. Winig, manager of the Relationship Management Program at Information Services and Technology. VoIP is a technology that transports tele Quality Broadband Phone calls digitally over a computer network. Traditional Quality Broadband Phone service operates on a separate analog network.
Collins said that the decision to provide extra network ports instead of an analog Quality Broadband Phone port “really was not about the money.” Rather, he said, Housing wanted to “build for the future.”
Collins said that the four network ports would provide access for two computers, a VoIP phone, and a possible future IP television service. Residents will be free to use the ports however they want, he said.
Rooms at NW35 will still have coaxial cable connections for standard MIT cable television service.
The rooms in the existing MIT dormitories, including the current Ashdown House, provide either one or two network ports per pillow.
They also have analog Quality Broadband Phone lines that can receive all incoming calls and can place outgoing calls to on campus phones as a standard service. Residents in these dormitories may order full Quality Broadband Phone service — including unlimited local calls, access to long distance services, and voice mail — for $17 per month.
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