POTS

The alarm panel business has progressed significantly since its early days of only communicating their signals through the use of copper phone lines. Today system vendors and installers have a choice of several robust means of connecting with a monitoring station including dial up, radio links of all ranges, cellular and IP pathways.

When the digital dialer was introduced… …to the central stations and alarm dealers started using toll free numbers (800’s) for the panels to dial, this was for 2 reasons, the first was so that the subscribers didn’t incur the cost of the phone calls but more importantly so that the dealer or central station could