Replacing POTS Lines In elevators

Solution: POTS Link | Industry: Safety | Use Case: POTS Line Replacement in Elevators

The Goal of Replacing Your Current POTS System

Long Term Benefits

The Cost of Copper POTS Lines Is Continually Rising

The monthly cost of maintaining copper POTS lines is continually rising with very little reliable support from service providers. Replacing your POTS system is a modern, secure, and proven way to save, receive better support, and future-proof your technology. Currently, it costs anywhere between $50-$100 every month to maintain just one POTS line used in an elevator’s call box. Organizations with large buildings or multibuilding campuses, like K-12 school districts, universities, local and state governments, hospitals, or manufacturing and warehouse facilities see this expense multiply across their locations.

Demystifying the FCC’s Technology Transition Rules

As the sunset date has come and gone, the phase-out of existing lines is solely in the hands of the provider. These providers each have their own incentive to phase out lines, which will likely show in:

Hard Shutoff Dates

What to Know About POTS Line Replacement

Converting Existing POTS Lines to a VoIP Solution

When looking at a modern solution, there are several different routes that a solution can take. Some solutions require removing the existing lines, which can be a challenge for locations that are on a time crunch or feature challenging infrastructure. Other solutions take a more ‘plug and play’ approach by adding a device to the access line of an elevator. While this method solves the time crunch and is minimally invasive, hardware costs can quickly rise, and signal strength in an elevator is going to vary wildly by location and building material. The last solution takes the ‘plug and play’ approach and improves on it. This has the solution connected to the building’s existing 66 block (“on the way out the door”), giving you a fast and reliable LTE connection using your existing infrastructure and hardware.

RTech POTS Link

This solution gives you 24/7/365 access to your connected lines and notifies you instantly when a connection is lost. It gives you control over your system in an easy-to-navigate and safe way. With remote monitoring, you no longer need field checks and inspections can be completed in a quick, efficient, and remote way. Efficient inspections mean more cost savings in the long term.

What to Look for in a POTS Line Replacement

POTS Line Support

Here at RTech Solutions, we have 3 main channels of remote visibility that we use to identify, fix, and solve any potential issues before they become a problem. First, we’ll log into the router contained within our solution to view system traffic and look for anything out of place. Second, we plug into your elevator’s phone line data to check signal health. Lastly, if you’re using RTech Data, we can log into the Cloud Data Platform to look at the path that your data is taking to identify any potential roadblocks there. The best part is that this can be accomplished remotely, often before you even realize there was even a potential issue in the first place.

Cross-Carrier Data Pooling for Coverage

Managed Device & Data Services

About RTech Solutions

RTech Solutions is a single-source provider for LTE & 5G all-in-one solutions-as-a-service. RTech delivers customers turnkey cellular services backed by secure cloud-managed, cross-carrier pooled data. RTech’s bundled services combine best-in-class hardware, major U.S. carrier data, world-class tech support, and cloud management platforms for one low, fixed monthly cost. Popular services include solutions for converting POTS lines to operate over LTE networks, backup wireless internet, out-of-band management, and more. RTech is headquartered in Knoxville, TN, and has been making it easy for businesses to get connected since 2018.