Utilizing VoIP
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you can employ VoIP technology in a number of ways in your organization:
- Your business organization can use VoIP for all calls within the company network, and then once calls go outside the company, they can be routed over standard phone lines.
- The second option is plugging your phone into a sort of gateway that then plugs into your broadband modem. This allows you to talk on an ordinary phone and to call people who don't have a VoIP set up at large discounts.
- PC to PC software based applications allow you to speak someone anywhere in the world as long as your caller also has the same software application on his PC.
Pros
The most obvious benefit to employing VoIP technology is cost savings. VoIP allows you to make extremely cheap, if not free, phone calls and have unlimited calling plans at half the cost of a standard phone service.
More advantages of VoIP over circuit-switched technology include the ability to:
- create your own private interoffice network for communication between main and branch offices;
- use the same lines to transport voice and data transmission;
- eliminate or reduce intra-office toll charges.
- avoid service and support contracts on existing PBX hardware;
- eliminate the need for on-going Centrex services -- and charges;
- reduce expansion costs due to lower costs for moves, changes and adds;
- reduce the on-going costs for separate voice messaging systems;
- improve productivity for remote and traveling workers by offering the same integrated capabilities as their office workers;
- allow more flexibility in a call center architecture since it can now be virtual; and
- reduce customer turnover via improved call center services.
A Wide area network (WAN) is a communication network made up of computers that are non-local to one another, exchanging data across a wide area or great distance. The most common example is the Internet, though a WAN need not be global to qualify as a wide area network. Since computer aeronyms have become virtual words, the terminology “WAN network” is often used in the public sector, even though redundant. For those new to these acronyms, adding the word “network” can be a reminder of what a WAN is, so while this article uses the common term, the proper term is WAN .
A data center is where you can transfer your hardware and see them in a proper environment and infrastructure for a nominal charge. Consider the situation when you might be housing a server room or any other heavy equipment in your office premises. Such a setup might need proper temperature and humidity levels, and at the same time, a dust free environment. While it may be possible for you to provide this for the equipment that you may be working with, it may require a considerable amount of time and attention, not forgetting the monetary requirements.
However, co-location can save a lot of space, money and your time and can help with relocating your PBX and also help with you data disaster recovery plan. Also we can take daily back up services off your plate. This can be used by small business as well as large business in Indiana and thought the US.
Colocation is where servers are stored in a data center. The major difference is that instead of being leased, the servers are actually owned by the customers. Whereas a dedicated or managed host generally maintains the server, a colocation provider gives you access to the facility and allows you to manage your own hardware. The similarities include network connectivity, backup power sources and physical security. The greatest advantage of colocation is that it allows businesses to get the best of their servers who otherwise could not do so on their own. LightBound has one of Indiana's premier Data Centers and can also offer Data Disaster Recovery plans and Business Continuity advise..
Advantages:
Cost Saving
Higher Availability
Enhanced Security
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