We are all witnessing how Enterprises are struggling to navigate their business in the current economic climate. Some of the most immediate steps that enterprises might take to cut costs are to halt all planned investments involving CapEx and delay all upgrades until the economic climate improves. We would like to question this practice and offer a solution that can moderate expenses that will result in actually saving costs.
It is not necessary to elaborate about why converging data and voice networks can save money, taking into account infrastructure, management as well as Add Move and Change (MACs) costs. VoIP is the perfect utilization of IP networks that is currently available in the majority of enterprises today.
An additional important layer is productivity enhancing applications such as Unified Communications which save time, simplify the communication setup and lay the foundation for mutually beneficial collaboration and team work, resulting in increased productivity.
AudioCodes is indeed part of this new revolution - with our CPE Gateways as well as Media Servers and trunking Gateways. AudioCodes is now introducing a suite of elements that when combined, bring about a unique synergy to any enterprise communication solution along with being specifically designed to bring VoIP to Small and Medium Enterprises and Business (SME/SMB). Below is a list of elements:
AudioCodes Multi-Service Business Gateway (MSBG) is the cornerstone of any SME/SMB communication infrastructure combining cost-effective Voice, Data, Security, Branch Office Survivability and Value Added applications. Aside from optimizing the equipment cost, unifying all communication elements in one entity speeds up integration and simplifies maintenance and service management.
High Definition VoIP Enabled IP Phones are part of AudioCodes’ offer. SME/SMBs will be part of the HD VoIP revolution as this “state-of-the-art” technology is brought into practice in an affordable way which greatly influences how people communicate and collaborate in distributed and global organizations. The following are a few benefits of HD VoIP: less traveling and more working from home (“carbon footprint” is an issue), effective team work, quicker and effective decision making, better customer service with fewer mistakes, and more.
Open source based IP-PBX integrated into the MSBG is perhaps the most cost-effective call control application that can be optimized for any type and size of organization. With a variety of partners AudioCodes is capable of addressing system integrators and enterprise solution needs.
Tailored Value Added Applications as part of AudioCodes in-house offering, are mixed-and-matched to meet unique functionalities such as a cost-controlled conference bridge (avoiding the need for a hosted “pay-per-minute” service), Record Your Call service and fax termination tools. Add these to an existing PBX/IP-PBX or to an open source IP-PBX residing on the MSBG to obtain just what you need in a cost-effective manner.
Mobility applications integrated into the MSBG provided by our partners can substantially reduce travelling agents and on-premise cellular call costs when using a dual-mode handset equipped with a dedicated software client.
Interconnecting IP-PBX and Unified Communications solutions is a unique capability that leverages on AudioCodes’ rich interoperability record. Integration of different environments such as a variety of IP-PBX and PBXs as well as Microsoft Unified Communications is made easy and sometimes at a fraction of the cost of the usually required software upgrade. IP-to-IP and IP-to-TDM mediation based on SIP translation and transcoding is built into the AudioCodes MSBG platforms.
AudioCodes mission to optimize “cutting-edge” IP telephony for any business needs becomes important in financially challenging and competitive times.