Are all home phones lines analog lines ?

Polycom's reference to Analog phone lines is how they perform, not how they are delivered. VoIP service uses an Analog Terminal adapter and the Polycom would work on that. Windstream is the renamed Alltel local telephone company. In Ohio, it's also the purchase of the Western Reserve telco and Nationally, they also bought PaeTec.

Don't worry, your telephone service is analog for Polycom.

Analog lines, also referred to as POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), support standard phones, fax machines, and modems. These are the lines typically found in a home or small office. Digital lines are generally found in large, corporate phone systems.

How to tell if the phone line is analog or digital Look at the back of the telephone connected to the phone line.If "complies with part 68, FCC Rules" and a Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) are seen, then the phone and the line are analog.

Look at the phone's dial pad. Are there multiple function buttons? Do you need to dial "9" for an outside line? These features indicate that the phone may be part of a digital system.

Though digital lines carry lower voltages than analog lines, they still pose a threat to analog equipment. Do NOT connect a Pitney Bowes meter to a digital phone system.

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TDM "time division multiplexing" is not used for POTS(Plain Old Telephone Service). TDM WAS used as a transport technology that could handle many calls over a single 4 wire circuit and was replaced by digital technology starting in the late 1970's. Analog telephone lines are 2 wire circuits just like the circuit that powers your typical stereo speakers.

Windstream appears to be a cable TV company so your analog phone should plug right into their equipment.

Here's what that means in plain English: TDM is short for "time division multiplexing," the venerable phone technology we all grew up with. TDM carries calls over traditional copper phone lines that are physically switched in a public branch exchange, or PBX -- those enormous banks of analog circuits that a technician could literally step up to and repair. PBXs were the next leap in telephony technology after the age of the live operator, who connected your call by hand on a switchboard a la Lily Tomlin as the snorting, condescending telephone operator Ernestine on "Laugh In."

The next big leap in telephone technology emerged around 2004: VoIP, short for "Voice over Internet Protocol." Digital VoIP calls are made over Internet service lines, typically fiber-optic ones, which completely bypass the old copper-wire TDM/PBX system.

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TDM is analog. Only VOIP is digital.

Analog phones will work on landlines until and unless these lines are discontinued.