We have just started 2009 and it is proving to be one of the most challenging years for the global economy. Service providers and business customers are re-evaluating their spending plans and scaling down their workforce in order to prepare for the impending economic slowdown. Naturally, the telecommunications industry, along with other industries, is having a very difficult time.
Although telecommunications involves capital expenses, most of the spending is focused around operational costs. By carefully investing in telecommunications equipment, and by changing the way we do business and communicate, we can save operational costs, and reduce the total cost of doing business globally.
This edition of the AudioCodes Newsletter will focus on cost savings for the telecommunications industry, during a down economy.
We will discuss the use of SIP Trunking, replacing traditional PSTN as a new, cost-effective way to interconnect business telephony networks. By migrating from the traditional PSTN to the new SIP service providers, using the AudioCodes IP-to-IP Media Gateways and Multi-Service Business Gateways, enterprise customers and SMBs can save on their monthly telecommunications costs.
We will also discuss savings on mobile telecommunications costs, by using dual-mode mobile handsets (cellular and WiFi) and running SIP-based mobile software clients on top of the service provider mobile data network. AudioCodes supports this trend with the MailVision Pico mobile phone SIP soft client.
Another important way to save costs in today’s global business environment is by replacing traveling and costly PSTN conference calls with IP-based telecommunications and collaboration. AudioCodes HD VoIP strategy plays an important role in this trend. HD VoIP conferencing and communications enhances the voice communications experience and enables much clearer and comprehensive remote business communications.
AudioCodes is confident that businesses are able to reduce their operational costs, and benefit from the new productivity applications of Unified Communications and HD VoIP by using our products during this economic slowdown.