POTS Replacement 101
Colleges & Universities
POTS Replacement 101
Colleges & Universities
POTS Replacement For Colleges & Universities
Colleges and Universities are responsible for a large portion of the traditional POTS still in use today. Unfortunately, the FCC-mandated retirement date for those POTS lines has passed, and providers are no longer obligated to service existing lines or issue new ones. POTS Replacement 101: Colleges & Universities is an all-in-one guide on how and why organizations should be upgrading their traditional POTS connectivity solution sooner rather than later.
What TO Expect From Traditional Lines
For college/university I.T. staff, relying on traditional copper lines makes their job much harder than it has to be. A perfect example is the emergency blue light systems found on campuses across the country. Most are powered by traditional POTS lines, and due to the limited visibility provided by those lines, it isn’t always possible to confirm their operational status. This can put students and staff in harms way if the line was needed and didn’t work. The only way to ensure a traditional line works is to manually test it, and for organizations with a large number of POTS lines that can easily be mislabeled, not labeled at all, or unorganized, manually testing each line can quickly become a nightmare.
Limited Visibility
Reduced Support
Sky-Rocketing Costs
Upgrade with pots link
The POTS line retirement date passed on August 2nd, 2022, and due to this ruling, providers will no longer sell new POTS lines and will seek to migrate users from existing ones. POTS Link is an all-encompassing solution that converts analog signals to digital to enable more efficient monitoring, lower monthly prices, and provide a better overall experience for customers. POTS Link can be deployed with little to no infrastructure updates in under a few hours, plus organizations can expect to see an average of 20%-50% cost savings per month. Additionally, every POTS Link unit includes access to cloud monitoring software that enables remote monitoring, which can save staff hours that would otherwise be spent testing lines.
Long-Term Benefits
Immediate and long-term savings are usually the most important benefits to organizations, followed closely by remote monitoring enablement. As a perfect illustration of these benefits, the RTech team was recently able to help a large University upgrade its copper lines to POTS Link, which ended up saving them $2,700 per month while also providing more visibility that helps keep students, faculty, and staff safe. RTech’s solution enabled University I.T. staff to rely on a digital signal rather than a physical line that could break unexpectedly without notice.
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