This document compares VoIP service providers Vonage, RingCentral, and Jive. It summarizes their pricing plans and features. Vonage offers the most affordable option, with unlimited calling plans starting at $39.99/month. RingCentral's Office Premium package for 10 users is $4,198.80/year. Jive's pricing information for enterprises is unavailable, but its Small Business plan for 10 extensions would be $2,874/year.
The document provides an overview and market analysis of Callture's cloud-based business phone service. It summarizes that the global IP PBX market is predicted to reach $9.05 billion by 2015. Callture positions itself as a cloud-based phone service provider that offers fully integrated and automated service at all-inclusive low pricing, targeting small and medium enterprises. The document outlines Callture's services and competitive advantages over traditional on-premise phone systems, such as lower total cost of ownership, centralized management, scalability, and redundancy.
VoIP is a technology that allows voice calls to be made over the internet rather than traditional phone lines. It offers cost savings compared to traditional phone systems by using existing internet connections and eliminating expensive phone lines and equipment. Some key benefits of VoIP include lower call costs, increased flexibility to add or remove phone lines easily, integration with other business applications, and improved disaster recovery. Planning is required to ensure adequate network bandwidth and equipment. Businesses should partner with reputable VoIP providers that are members of ITSPA to ensure quality of service and regulatory compliance.
The Vox PBX is Voxvalley Technologies unique PBX system which is provided as a solution for all businesses and enterprises either running on a VOIP based communication system or for those who provide VoIP solutions.
The Vox PBX single tenant is a managed PBX service which is provided by Voxvalley technologies. Here the Vox PBX is installed/setup onto the client’s server and is managed completely by them. Making it easy for the client’s to use and run according to their requirements. http://vox-pbx.com/
Fusion Cloud Voice provides a cloud-based phone system that offers flexibility, cost savings, and quality features for businesses. It eliminates the need for expensive on-premise phone equipment and allows businesses to pay only for the phone services and features they need. Fusion's cloud voice system provides clear call quality, traditional PBX functionality through cloud-based features, and customizable service packages and equipment options. Businesses can scale their phone system as their needs change without adding new equipment.
The document introduces the Fibernetics Digital PBX, a phone system that offers numerous features for businesses including unlimited extensions, auto attendants, voicemail, find me/follow me, call forwarding, call groups, queues, and more, all for $0 per month. The system allows remote extensions, call distribution, time of day scheduling, direct inward dialing, and integrates with Polycom phone sets.
The document discusses key aspects of a proposed push-to-talk service, version 1.0. It provides an overview of push-to-talk functionality, describing it as an "always on" one-to-one and one-to-many voice communication service initiated with a single button press. It then covers technical implementation using GPRS networks, potential features and limitations, and benchmark pricing consisting of a subscription fee and additional airtime charges.
Voice over IP (VoIP) has emerged as the new leader in cost-effective standards based communications. Dial Tone-Plus enables customers with any PBX environment, hosted or premise-based, to take full advantage of the unique features and applications made available today by virtue of VoIP and SIP technologies. Dial Tone-Plus provides businesses with advanced features such as disaster recovery, scalability, dynamic line bursting, support for remote workers, trunk consolidation, virtual DIDs, virtual conference centers, cell phone support, and location mobility no matter what phone system they currently have.
The document provides an overview and training on selling VoIP services commercially. It discusses what VoIP is, why customers would use the service to save money on calling features. It outlines the sales process, including qualifying questions to ask customers. It also summarizes the key product offerings of hosted PBX, SIP trunking, features and pricing.
The document provides an overview and market analysis of Callture's cloud-based business phone service. It summarizes that the global IP PBX market is predicted to reach $9.05 billion by 2015. Callture positions itself as a cloud-based phone service provider that offers fully integrated and automated service at all-inclusive low pricing, targeting small and medium enterprises. The document outlines Callture's services and competitive advantages over traditional on-premise phone systems, such as lower total cost of ownership, centralized management, scalability, and redundancy.
VoIP is a technology that allows voice calls to be made over the internet rather than traditional phone lines. It offers cost savings compared to traditional phone systems by using existing internet connections and eliminating expensive phone lines and equipment. Some key benefits of VoIP include lower call costs, increased flexibility to add or remove phone lines easily, integration with other business applications, and improved disaster recovery. Planning is required to ensure adequate network bandwidth and equipment. Businesses should partner with reputable VoIP providers that are members of ITSPA to ensure quality of service and regulatory compliance.
The Vox PBX is Voxvalley Technologies unique PBX system which is provided as a solution for all businesses and enterprises either running on a VOIP based communication system or for those who provide VoIP solutions.
The Vox PBX single tenant is a managed PBX service which is provided by Voxvalley technologies. Here the Vox PBX is installed/setup onto the client’s server and is managed completely by them. Making it easy for the client’s to use and run according to their requirements. http://vox-pbx.com/
Fusion Cloud Voice provides a cloud-based phone system that offers flexibility, cost savings, and quality features for businesses. It eliminates the need for expensive on-premise phone equipment and allows businesses to pay only for the phone services and features they need. Fusion's cloud voice system provides clear call quality, traditional PBX functionality through cloud-based features, and customizable service packages and equipment options. Businesses can scale their phone system as their needs change without adding new equipment.
The document introduces the Fibernetics Digital PBX, a phone system that offers numerous features for businesses including unlimited extensions, auto attendants, voicemail, find me/follow me, call forwarding, call groups, queues, and more, all for $0 per month. The system allows remote extensions, call distribution, time of day scheduling, direct inward dialing, and integrates with Polycom phone sets.
The document discusses key aspects of a proposed push-to-talk service, version 1.0. It provides an overview of push-to-talk functionality, describing it as an "always on" one-to-one and one-to-many voice communication service initiated with a single button press. It then covers technical implementation using GPRS networks, potential features and limitations, and benchmark pricing consisting of a subscription fee and additional airtime charges.
Voice over IP (VoIP) has emerged as the new leader in cost-effective standards based communications. Dial Tone-Plus enables customers with any PBX environment, hosted or premise-based, to take full advantage of the unique features and applications made available today by virtue of VoIP and SIP technologies. Dial Tone-Plus provides businesses with advanced features such as disaster recovery, scalability, dynamic line bursting, support for remote workers, trunk consolidation, virtual DIDs, virtual conference centers, cell phone support, and location mobility no matter what phone system they currently have.
The document provides an overview and training on selling VoIP services commercially. It discusses what VoIP is, why customers would use the service to save money on calling features. It outlines the sales process, including qualifying questions to ask customers. It also summarizes the key product offerings of hosted PBX, SIP trunking, features and pricing.
>> VoIP Phone - Add Value To Your Business
>> Why Consider VoIP Phone For Your Business
>> Hosted PBX – Effective Communication For Less
>> How Can Hosted PBX Help You Gain The Communication Balance
Find out more at http://www.dcstelecom.ca/
Rogers_SellSheet_ShareEverything for BusinessRoberto Mosca
- The document advertises Rogers' Share Everything for business plan with flexible data (Flex plan) starting at $100/month for 4GB of data.
- The Flex plan allows customers to pay $10 extra per month for every additional 2GB of data used, avoiding overage fees. It includes unlimited nationwide calling and texting.
- Customers can add additional devices like phones or tablets to their plan, with phones starting at $55/month. The plan also offers complimentary device protection or a wireless business phone for 2 years on certain data plans.
NewTel is proposing a push-to-talk service called "Push to Talk" that would allow instant one-to-one and one-to-many voice communications over GPRS networks. The service would have a premium monthly subscription fee and additional charges for usage. It is aimed at business customers and would allow time-critical information to be shared quickly and efficiently among work groups.
This document provides an introduction to SIP trunking, outlining some of its main benefits compared to traditional ISDN lines. SIP trunking allows businesses to make phone calls over their internet connection rather than dedicated phone lines, potentially reducing costs. It provides benefits such as only paying for the phone capacity needed, cheaper call rates, no hardware costs for additional lines, and increased phone system resilience by eliminating reliance on single circuits. The document also describes a hybrid SIP/ISDN solution that allows businesses to start using SIP trunking while keeping some ISDN lines for backup if internet connectivity is lost.
Intro to Voice over Internet Protocol: What does VoIP Mean for My Business?XO Communications
Savatar, a strategy and technology consulting firm, and XO Communications,
a leading provider of telecommunications services for businesses, explain
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) from the perspective of small and medium-
sized business (SMB) owners, specifically SMBs who are seriously considering
moving to VoIP, but are unsure what approach is right for them. This
paper presents key findings of a Savatar survey in which 500 SMB owners
and decision makers were asked how they thought a VoIP system would compare
to their current phone system in four areas: cost, system management,
migration to a new system, and feature availability. Key benefits of VoIP for
business include reliability and efficiency, cost savings, and convenience.
1. Sprint is committed to providing businesses with connectivity solutions including devices, networks, and plans to deliver the best service and value.
2. Businesses have many options to save with Sprint, including discounts for switching lines over from other carriers and choosing from a broad range of devices.
3. Sprint offers different plan options depending on business needs, such as share plans for multiple users or pooled minutes plans, with savings when plans are combined.
XO Enterprise SIP is an IP-based voice communications solution that allows businesses to connect multiple locations using SIP trunking. It provides high-capacity connections to headquarters and primary locations, which can then connect to additional branch locations privately or over XO's MPLS network. This provides substantial cost savings over separate lines at each location while improving business continuity, flexibility, and quality of service.
Internet Customer Solutions is offering hosted VoIP phone service through RingCentral. This provides a cheaper alternative to an on-premise PBX for small businesses with 2-5 employees. With hosted VoIP, the PBX equipment is maintained by RingCentral so customers only need to pay monthly for phone service and a one-time fee for IP phones. This can save small businesses 50% on their phone bills compared to traditional phone service. Internet Customer Solutions can help set up the service and train customers on using the RingCentral software.
The document proposes deploying an integrated communication solution from BizPBX to improve communication within a multi-office organization. The solution would provide features like unified messaging, video conferencing, file sharing and remote access to strengthen internal communication and management while reducing communication costs. It analyzes how adopting this solution could save the organization over 10% on monthly call costs through integrated VoIP calling between offices.
This document discusses VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies. It begins by defining VoIP and how it allows phone calls to be made over the internet instead of traditional telephone networks. It then explores enterprise VoIP systems, hosted VoIP, VoIP phones, and the differences between circuit switching used in PSTN networks and packet switching used in VoIP. Challenges of VoIP like latency, jitter and packet loss are outlined, as well as advantages such as lower costs, flexibility and portability. Popular VoIP service providers like Google Voice and Skype are compared.
VoIP has significant potential in India due to the large number of global enterprises operating there. However, its growth is restricted by regulations prohibiting VoIP gateways within India. Enterprises are consolidating PSTN and VoIP networks using logical partitioning to reduce costs while complying with regulations. The grey market also poses challenges, with unlicensed providers stealing large volumes of business from licensed operators.
Brovoinet is a telecommunications provider offering voice services worldwide over internet connections. They provide unlimited calling plans to over 40 countries starting at $9.99 per month, as well as business plans and IP phones. Their network is powered by partnerships with major carriers to ensure high quality voice services.
ViBE is a technology that allows high quality VoIP calls to be carried over low bandwidth links without compromising call quality or the user experience. It analyzes and strips unnecessary data from voice packets to maximize available bandwidth for VoIP. This allows ViBE to carry an unprecedented number of simultaneous, high quality VoIP calls even on standard residential broadband connections. By prioritizing voice data packets, ViBE delivers VoIP without compromising call quality or other data activities over the same connection.
Internet protocol (VoIP) is the technology of digitizing sound, compressing it, breaking it up into data packets, and sending it over an IP network.The conventional technique used for sending voice is PSTN (public switched telephone network) . As data traffic has higher speed than telephone traffic, so what we do most of the time we prefer to send voice over data networks. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is a method of telephone communication over a data network.
Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (BEST) is a service enhancement for Verizon's VoIP services that allows customers to leverage trunking resources across their enterprise. With BEST, customers can utilize idle trunk capacity at one location to accommodate increased traffic at another location. This allows customers to purchase fewer concurrent call ports at each location while sharing resources across their enterprise. BEST tracks trunk usage and allows locations to "burst" over their ordered quantity if other locations have available capacity.
Overview Ip Telephony Epygi Small BusinessToon Six
Internet Customer Solutions offers an IP telephony solution for small businesses consisting of NexVortex or AGN phone numbers and an Epygi Quadro IP PBX. The solution provides cost savings over traditional phone systems through lower equipment and service fees, easier administration, and free intra-office calls. It also improves productivity with features like integration with Outlook and follow-me calling. Internet Customer Solutions can help businesses select, set up, and customize the right IP telephony solution to meet their needs and budget.
The document describes a cloud-based PBX phone system called The Cloud PBX provided by DataTalk. It offers businesses significant monthly savings over traditional on-premise phone systems through cost savings of 20-55% per month. It provides enterprise-level phone features through an IP-PBX system hosted in the cloud that businesses can access over their existing internet connection and phones. The system offers benefits like no hardware costs, ability to use existing phones and data network, remote phone extensions, lower monthly bills, and unified communications across multiple offices.
With Crexendo Business Cloud Telephone Service, you gain reliable communication technology at a fraction of the cost of traditional phone systems. With “plug and talk” technology on your already existing high-speed broadband Internet connection you’ll enjoy:
• Free 10-Party Conferencing
• Free Maintenance and Software Updates
• Unlimited Local and Long Distance Calling (U.S. and Canada with fair usage)
• Unified Communications With all of your Offices Under One Network
• No Upfront Costs for Expensive Hardware
Comparison Between Cloud and On-Site Business Phone SystemShipra Mittal
Difference between Cloud Based and On-Site Phone System
To aid the decision making process for SMBS, lets take a look at different components and comparisons of these two VoIP business phone systems.
Why Wellness fails to control medical insurance costs. Brian Sekula
The document discusses why wellness programs often fail to control medical costs. It notes that costs always increase due to rising operating expenses and more sickness. While the goal of wellness programs is to stop disease progression and move people backwards in their health status, they often rely on sameness, lack scientific basis, and blame individuals rather than address systemic issues. The document provides examples of ROI from wellness programs at different companies but notes outcomes are often unclear. It concludes that individual choice alone does not impact costs and alternative approaches may be needed.
>> VoIP Phone - Add Value To Your Business
>> Why Consider VoIP Phone For Your Business
>> Hosted PBX – Effective Communication For Less
>> How Can Hosted PBX Help You Gain The Communication Balance
Find out more at http://www.dcstelecom.ca/
Rogers_SellSheet_ShareEverything for BusinessRoberto Mosca
- The document advertises Rogers' Share Everything for business plan with flexible data (Flex plan) starting at $100/month for 4GB of data.
- The Flex plan allows customers to pay $10 extra per month for every additional 2GB of data used, avoiding overage fees. It includes unlimited nationwide calling and texting.
- Customers can add additional devices like phones or tablets to their plan, with phones starting at $55/month. The plan also offers complimentary device protection or a wireless business phone for 2 years on certain data plans.
NewTel is proposing a push-to-talk service called "Push to Talk" that would allow instant one-to-one and one-to-many voice communications over GPRS networks. The service would have a premium monthly subscription fee and additional charges for usage. It is aimed at business customers and would allow time-critical information to be shared quickly and efficiently among work groups.
This document provides an introduction to SIP trunking, outlining some of its main benefits compared to traditional ISDN lines. SIP trunking allows businesses to make phone calls over their internet connection rather than dedicated phone lines, potentially reducing costs. It provides benefits such as only paying for the phone capacity needed, cheaper call rates, no hardware costs for additional lines, and increased phone system resilience by eliminating reliance on single circuits. The document also describes a hybrid SIP/ISDN solution that allows businesses to start using SIP trunking while keeping some ISDN lines for backup if internet connectivity is lost.
Intro to Voice over Internet Protocol: What does VoIP Mean for My Business?XO Communications
Savatar, a strategy and technology consulting firm, and XO Communications,
a leading provider of telecommunications services for businesses, explain
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) from the perspective of small and medium-
sized business (SMB) owners, specifically SMBs who are seriously considering
moving to VoIP, but are unsure what approach is right for them. This
paper presents key findings of a Savatar survey in which 500 SMB owners
and decision makers were asked how they thought a VoIP system would compare
to their current phone system in four areas: cost, system management,
migration to a new system, and feature availability. Key benefits of VoIP for
business include reliability and efficiency, cost savings, and convenience.
1. Sprint is committed to providing businesses with connectivity solutions including devices, networks, and plans to deliver the best service and value.
2. Businesses have many options to save with Sprint, including discounts for switching lines over from other carriers and choosing from a broad range of devices.
3. Sprint offers different plan options depending on business needs, such as share plans for multiple users or pooled minutes plans, with savings when plans are combined.
XO Enterprise SIP is an IP-based voice communications solution that allows businesses to connect multiple locations using SIP trunking. It provides high-capacity connections to headquarters and primary locations, which can then connect to additional branch locations privately or over XO's MPLS network. This provides substantial cost savings over separate lines at each location while improving business continuity, flexibility, and quality of service.
Internet Customer Solutions is offering hosted VoIP phone service through RingCentral. This provides a cheaper alternative to an on-premise PBX for small businesses with 2-5 employees. With hosted VoIP, the PBX equipment is maintained by RingCentral so customers only need to pay monthly for phone service and a one-time fee for IP phones. This can save small businesses 50% on their phone bills compared to traditional phone service. Internet Customer Solutions can help set up the service and train customers on using the RingCentral software.
The document proposes deploying an integrated communication solution from BizPBX to improve communication within a multi-office organization. The solution would provide features like unified messaging, video conferencing, file sharing and remote access to strengthen internal communication and management while reducing communication costs. It analyzes how adopting this solution could save the organization over 10% on monthly call costs through integrated VoIP calling between offices.
This document discusses VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies. It begins by defining VoIP and how it allows phone calls to be made over the internet instead of traditional telephone networks. It then explores enterprise VoIP systems, hosted VoIP, VoIP phones, and the differences between circuit switching used in PSTN networks and packet switching used in VoIP. Challenges of VoIP like latency, jitter and packet loss are outlined, as well as advantages such as lower costs, flexibility and portability. Popular VoIP service providers like Google Voice and Skype are compared.
VoIP has significant potential in India due to the large number of global enterprises operating there. However, its growth is restricted by regulations prohibiting VoIP gateways within India. Enterprises are consolidating PSTN and VoIP networks using logical partitioning to reduce costs while complying with regulations. The grey market also poses challenges, with unlicensed providers stealing large volumes of business from licensed operators.
Brovoinet is a telecommunications provider offering voice services worldwide over internet connections. They provide unlimited calling plans to over 40 countries starting at $9.99 per month, as well as business plans and IP phones. Their network is powered by partnerships with major carriers to ensure high quality voice services.
ViBE is a technology that allows high quality VoIP calls to be carried over low bandwidth links without compromising call quality or the user experience. It analyzes and strips unnecessary data from voice packets to maximize available bandwidth for VoIP. This allows ViBE to carry an unprecedented number of simultaneous, high quality VoIP calls even on standard residential broadband connections. By prioritizing voice data packets, ViBE delivers VoIP without compromising call quality or other data activities over the same connection.
Internet protocol (VoIP) is the technology of digitizing sound, compressing it, breaking it up into data packets, and sending it over an IP network.The conventional technique used for sending voice is PSTN (public switched telephone network) . As data traffic has higher speed than telephone traffic, so what we do most of the time we prefer to send voice over data networks. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is a method of telephone communication over a data network.
Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (BEST) is a service enhancement for Verizon's VoIP services that allows customers to leverage trunking resources across their enterprise. With BEST, customers can utilize idle trunk capacity at one location to accommodate increased traffic at another location. This allows customers to purchase fewer concurrent call ports at each location while sharing resources across their enterprise. BEST tracks trunk usage and allows locations to "burst" over their ordered quantity if other locations have available capacity.
Overview Ip Telephony Epygi Small BusinessToon Six
Internet Customer Solutions offers an IP telephony solution for small businesses consisting of NexVortex or AGN phone numbers and an Epygi Quadro IP PBX. The solution provides cost savings over traditional phone systems through lower equipment and service fees, easier administration, and free intra-office calls. It also improves productivity with features like integration with Outlook and follow-me calling. Internet Customer Solutions can help businesses select, set up, and customize the right IP telephony solution to meet their needs and budget.
The document describes a cloud-based PBX phone system called The Cloud PBX provided by DataTalk. It offers businesses significant monthly savings over traditional on-premise phone systems through cost savings of 20-55% per month. It provides enterprise-level phone features through an IP-PBX system hosted in the cloud that businesses can access over their existing internet connection and phones. The system offers benefits like no hardware costs, ability to use existing phones and data network, remote phone extensions, lower monthly bills, and unified communications across multiple offices.
With Crexendo Business Cloud Telephone Service, you gain reliable communication technology at a fraction of the cost of traditional phone systems. With “plug and talk” technology on your already existing high-speed broadband Internet connection you’ll enjoy:
• Free 10-Party Conferencing
• Free Maintenance and Software Updates
• Unlimited Local and Long Distance Calling (U.S. and Canada with fair usage)
• Unified Communications With all of your Offices Under One Network
• No Upfront Costs for Expensive Hardware
Comparison Between Cloud and On-Site Business Phone SystemShipra Mittal
Difference between Cloud Based and On-Site Phone System
To aid the decision making process for SMBS, lets take a look at different components and comparisons of these two VoIP business phone systems.
Why Wellness fails to control medical insurance costs. Brian Sekula
The document discusses why wellness programs often fail to control medical costs. It notes that costs always increase due to rising operating expenses and more sickness. While the goal of wellness programs is to stop disease progression and move people backwards in their health status, they often rely on sameness, lack scientific basis, and blame individuals rather than address systemic issues. The document provides examples of ROI from wellness programs at different companies but notes outcomes are often unclear. It concludes that individual choice alone does not impact costs and alternative approaches may be needed.
E-book elaborado por el Instituto Tecnológico Hotelero y el Instituto de Estudios Turísticos con alguno de los mejores productos turísticos experienciales de España.
Este documento presenta una introducción a los microprocesadores y microcomputadoras. Explica que un microprocesador es una máquina que procesa datos binarios siguiendo una secuencia de instrucciones almacenadas en la memoria, mientras que una microcomputadora utiliza un microprocesador como su unidad central de procesamiento. Describe los componentes básicos de un microprocesador y microcomputadora, incluyendo la memoria, puertos de entrada/salida y buses de control, dirección y datos. También explica conceptos como ciclos de
La Arquitectura de la Información es tan importante que sirve desde para organizar un portal de noticias hasta una infografía. Los elementos principales se encuentran en esta presentación, que forma parte de un taller sobre Periodismo Hipermedia.
Este documento presenta el desarrollo de un sistema de control avanzado para la presión de vapor en una caldera de tubos de fuego. Primero, se identifica el proceso mediante un experimento para obtener un modelo matemático que describe el comportamiento dinámico. Luego, se diseña un controlador predictivo adaptativo que actualiza los parámetros del modelo en tiempo real. Finalmente, se compara el desempeño del controlador adaptativo con un controlador PID convencional. El objetivo es lograr un funcionamiento más efectivo y disminuir el consumo de combustible.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF CO-OPERATIVE TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT A STUDY OF AGRICULT...Johnson Seun
This document is a thesis submitted by David Seun Johnson to the Department of Co-operative Economics and Management at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in Co-operative Economics and Management. The thesis examines the contributions of agricultural co-operatives to agricultural development in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. It includes chapters on the background of the study, objectives, literature review on concepts of co-operatives and their roles in agriculture, methodology, data analysis and presentation, findings, conclusion and recommendations. The thesis utilizes both primary and secondary data to determine the socio-economic characteristics of co-operative members, identify the activities of co-oper
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The document contains 94 essay topics that could potentially be given as part of the IELTS writing exam. The topics cover a wide range of subjects and issues like sports, family, education, technology, environment, and society. They are formatted with a question or statement followed by instructions to discuss views and give an opinion on the topic.
La psicología de la Gestalt se desarrolló en Alemania en oposición al estructuralismo y conductismo estadounidense. Sostiene que la mente organiza los estímulos sensoriales en formas o configuraciones globales más que en elementos aislados, siguiendo leyes como la proximidad, cierre, simplicidad y contraste. Sus fundadores, Wertheimer, Koffka y Köhler, realizaron experimentos pioneros sobre percepción y resolución de problemas.
The Who What Where When And Why Of Social Media Lead GenerationAbhishek Shah
Social Media is the place to be for lead generation. Each platform offers insight and information about thousands of potential prospects, and it’s all right there waiting for you.
But in order for your strategy to be efficient and effective, you have to identify the 5 W’s of your lead generation: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
This SlideShare will give you a brief breakdown of what these elements are and how to use them to your advantage.
Este documento presenta un curso completo sobre la reparación de televisores genéricos chinos. En el primer capítulo se explica el funcionamiento de las fuentes de alimentación conmutadas discretas utilizadas en estos televisores. Los capítulos siguientes cubren las etapas de barrido horizontal y vertical, la sección de video y sonido, la placa del cañón y el microcontrolador. El documento proporciona planos de circuitos y consejos para la reparación.
Selecting the Perfect VoIP Phone: A Comprehensive GuideIT Company Dubai
Our comprehensive guide has you covered, ensuring you select the perfect VoIP Phone for your clients or business. requirements.
https://www.itcompanydubai.com/blog/selecting-perfect-voip-phone/
VykeBusiness is the new way to make international calls from your smartphone or tablet while reducing international call charges by over 90%. Find out more at www.vykebusiness.com.
VoIPLy helps you serve customers better with mobile, flexible solutions that help you do business anywhere, anytime. From hosted VoIP business phone service, unified communications and remote worker solutions our services are easy to use, incredibly advanced and less expensive than traditional solutions.
AVOapp - the most convenient alternative to mobile roamingAlexandru Cebotari
AVO allows you to take calls to your regular number without paying for the roaming. In order to make or accept a call, you have to use local SIM card with 3G/4G connection or connect to the internet using free Wi-Fi at your hotel or cafe. Invest deck.
Smart Office USA provides various office technology solutions including phone systems, IT support, data cabling, video surveillance, internet service, and access control. The document discusses reviewing a client's existing communication costs and systems to find ways to save money and improve productivity. It also outlines assessing network infrastructure, internet bandwidth needs, and exploring how IP surveillance and access control can benefit a business. The goal is to show clients how upgrading their technology with solutions like VOIP phone systems, IT managed services, and security solutions can lower costs and enhance operations.
Smart Office USA provides various office technology solutions including phone systems, IT support, data cabling, video surveillance, internet service, and access control. The document discusses reviewing a client's existing communication costs and systems to find ways to save money and improve productivity. It also outlines assessing network infrastructure, internet bandwidth needs, and exploring how IP surveillance and access control can benefit a business. The goal is to show clients how upgrading their technology with solutions like VOIP phone systems, IT managed services, and security solutions can lower costs and enhance operations.
Smart Office USA provides various office technology solutions including phone systems, IT support, data cabling, video surveillance, internet service, and access control. The document discusses reviewing a client's existing communication costs and systems to find ways to save money and improve productivity. It also outlines assessing network infrastructure, internet bandwidth needs, and exploring how IP surveillance and access control can benefit a business. The goal is to show clients how upgrading their technology with solutions like VOIP phone systems, IT managed services, and security solutions can lower costs and enhance operations.
Hosted PBX takes care of all aspects of an advanced onsite phone system by processing calls over the Internet instead of traditional phone networks. This reduces costs by requiring fewer components and greatly lowering upfront and ongoing costs. The document provides information about the benefits of MyPBX's cloud-based phone systems, including easy setup through a web interface, flexible pricing plans, and feature-rich call handling capabilities.
This document provides details about a hosted VoIP phone service offering from Super Technologies, Inc. It allows customers to white label the service and offer phone services to their own end users over broadband and wireless networks. Key features include softswitch software, billing, provisioning, CRM tools, and the ability to manage calling plans, rates, and payments through an admin portal. Setup is quick, with a beta site provided in 48 hours and full implementation within 2 weeks. Revenue streams include monthly subscriptions and outgoing call rates set by the customer.
Modern cloud communications provide businesses with scalable and affordable phone systems that support remote work and BYOD trends. Some key benefits of cloud communications include:
1) Improved communications that enable remote work and BYOD while maintaining excellent customer service through features like virtual auto attendants.
2) Scalable services that grow with the business and allow adding or reducing features on demand without long-term commitments or hardware costs.
3) Lower overall costs of up to 40% compared to traditional phone systems which require expensive hardware and line costs.
IP PABX is a hosted PBX solution that uses the internet and IP protocols to provide phone service without needing to purchase hardware or software. It offers features like auto attendants, call forwarding, call recording, and integration with communication services. The system provides flexibility so users can access their phone extensions anywhere in the world. It aims to be more affordable and offer more features than competitors like Cisco.
The document compares basic cloud hosted VoIP providers to premium managed VoIP communications providers. Basic cloud VoIP providers offer low-cost services starting around $10 per user that include basic calling features but rely on the customer's internet and provide minimal support. Premium providers offer full-featured enterprise-grade phone systems with dedicated circuits for around $35 per user, professional installation, ongoing support, and integration with business applications to better meet the needs of companies that rely on phone quality and service. The document recommends premium services for businesses that need reliable phone systems for revenue generation or customer interactions.
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Unit 10 Assignment - Long Lesson - BabeliLianna Babeli
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The document outlines 3 tasks to practice working with processes and services in PowerShell. Task 1 creates an HTML file listing current processes and their names, IDs, VM and PM values. Task 2 exports a tab-delimited file with all services, their names, display names and statuses. Task 3 repeats Task 1 but displays the VM and PM columns in megabytes rather than bytes.
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Unit 7 - Password Policies and Procedures - BabeliLianna Babeli
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- The document describes a project to set up a virtual machine using VMware Workstation and install Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as the guest operating system.
- The author chose VMware Workstation 10.0.1 and installed it, then created a new virtual machine configured with 4GB RAM, 100GB disk space, and bridged networking.
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit was then installed on the virtual machine. Various configuration steps were taken within the guest operating system to optimize performance and security.
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The document recommends upgrading all office computers to Windows 7 Enterprise across systems for a modern and secure OS. It also recommends adding Office 365 for Small Business which includes Office Professional 2013, Outlook, SharePoint, and Lync, and training employees on their use. It suggests using SkyDrive for file storage, purchasing security software from ARX and Symantec, hiring a network specialist, implementing a star network topology, and considering small business solutions from Comcast.
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1. Lianna Babeli | Data and Networks | March 18, 2014
Hands-On Project
DATA AND NETWORKS FINAL ASSIGNMENT
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In this report, I shall give a comparison to three of the currently most trusted
sources of VoIP services that require a payment plan, subscription, or other form of
shareware-style subscription. (PRWeb, 2014) I will then compare Skype to the three as it is
a free VoIP service. There will be information in general about each company, including
quality of service, general overview, and any personal experiences/knowledge that I
might have. I will provide a financial comparison using the pricing information provided
by each company as to how cost effective it is for a small business to setup, install,
operate, and maintain a VoIP service.
Vonage (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
Vonage offers true virtual and cloud PBX/VoIP services on a professional level that
is trusted worldwide. It integrates both virtual and cloud services with physical services
and requires minimal interruption of business. They have no phone requirement. They
offer all services using any phone system. There seems to be no actual plans, simply
choosing an Unlimited Extension plan is all you have, plus choosing extra Virtual PBX and
Metered extensions and add-on features. I could not find any current QoS information on
their website or online. They give their services without any setup or activation fees, no
physical hardware fees, and no maintenance costs beyond the monthly payment plan.
This company has a VERY simple planning system and a very cost-effective
management system. $39.99 per month is most often what you pay and that includes all
the Standard Features, unlimited extensions, free calling internally with USA and Canada
calling, extremely cheap Long Distance services, and discounted prices on some
physical devices for networking and IP phones. The only other costs involved are adding
Add-On Features and possibly buying licensed routers, IP phones, and other hardware
into the pricing of your initial investment. A single year for any sized company with t he
Standard Features only is $479.88 ($39.99 * 12 months) per year. Adding call monitoring
and call recording brings the price tag up to $1,679.64 ($39.99 + $49.99 + $49.99 * 12
months) per year.
All in all, Vonage offers extremely cheap VoIP services with incredible features
and keeps things simple stupid with its inherent one plan modular design.
Pricing & Features
1. Virtual PBX Extensions: $14.99 per month per extension, requires at least one
unlimited extension and one company number already possessed by the
company through Vonage. (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
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2. Metered Extensions: $14.99 per month per extension plus $3 cents per minute,
requires at least one unlimited extension and one company number already
possessed by the company through Vonage. (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
3. Unlimited Extensions: $39.99 per month per extension, minimum order requirement
is one unlimited extension and a company number; multi-line discounts are
available (would need to contact Vonage for actual pricing information on these
discounts). (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
4. International Long Distance: available for as little as $1 cent per minute to most
European countries up to maybe $10 cents to most Asian and Middle Eastern
countries, while African and South American countries are between $1 cent and
$20 cents via a landline. Most mobile prices are between double and five times
the normal cost of landline prices, depending on the country. This is an added
feature available to all types of extension plans. (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
5. Standard Features for all extension plans: (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
a. Admin/User Portals: Manage everything from the account anywhere.
b. Phone Management: call announce, call conferencing, call continuity,
call forwarding, call hold, call logs, call park, call pass, call screening, call
transfer, call waiting, caller ID block, caller ID, click to call me, click to dial,
custom tagging, dashboard, directory assistance, do not disturb, dynamic
caller ID, emergency assistance, follow me, music on hold, never miss a
call, set caller ID, simultaneous ring, virtual receptionist, and voicemail
services (visual voicemail, voicemail to email, customizable greetings,
secure remote access)
c. Cell phone integration (non-smartphones, iOS, and Android); free
applications
d. Cloud PBX
e. Local number portability
f. Multiple devices on one extension
g. Microsoft Outlook integration
h. Seven-digit dialing
i. Unified inbox (email, fax, and voice)
j. Online backup and storage
k. Work from anywhere
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l. Desktop: a specific application provided for free by Vonage Business
Solutions as a way to integrate all their services into one place. Available
for Mac OS X 10.4 or later and Windows XP SP2 (all versions), Vista (all
versions), 7 (all versions), and 8 (all versions). {This is an optional
application, it is NOT require for Vonage services}
6. Add-on Features; these cost a specific amount per unique feature. Most are
added monthly expenses. (Vonage Business Solutions, 2014)
a. Advanced Phone Management: Call grouping ($4.99 per month), call
monitoring ($49.99 per month per account), call queues ($14.99 per
month plus $3 cents per minute), company call recording services ($49.99
per month), conference bridging ($14.99 per month plus $3 cents a
minute), on-demand call recording ($4.99 per month per extension),
paging group ($4.99 per month per group), virtual mailbox ($4.99 per
month), and voicemail transcription ($4.99 per month per extension).
b. Local Numbers ($9.99 per month)
c. Main Company Numbers ($9.99 per month)
d. Paperless Fax ($14.99 per month)
e. Toll-Free Numbers ($39.99 per month)
RingCentral (RingCentral, 2014)
RingCentral offers true virtual and cloud PBX/VoIP services on a professional level
that is trusted worldwide. It integrates both virtual and cloud services with physical
services and requires minimal interruption of business. It seems that they do not have a
specific phone type requirement for using their services. They offer all services using any
phone system. For all packages and products, there seems to be no hardware costs, no
setup or activation fees, and you don’t require a contract, even though contracts are
available.
RingCentral guarantees the highest VoIP quality of service with its own QoS
agency and cover a wide variety of routers available. It even provides a QoS test with
your current connection to see how well you would do by simulating multiple phone calls
across their VoIP service.
I’ll use their Office Premium package plan on an annual payment plan for 10
users/extensions: $34.99 per month per user ($34.99 * 10 users/extensions * 12 months)
gives a total of $4,198.80 per year. I spoke to my Mother who has experience with
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dealing in purchasing and managing costs for a normal phone system without VoIP and
she says that the aforementioned costs are extremely cheap compared to the features
you get.
Pricing & Features
1. Fax 500 Package: $7.99 per month; regular pricing is $9.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. $5.9 cents per page plus additional page costs and requirements
b. Toll free or local number
c. Dedicated fax number
d. Receive faxes on your PC, via email, or with our mobile application
e. Send faxes by email
f. Send faxes on your PC from any application
g. Web support
h. Integrated services: Box, RingCentral CloudFax, and Microsoft Outlook
i. Secure faxing
j. Edit and Sign faxes electronically
k. Fax alerts
l. Online account and fax logs
m. Power User features: preferred fax format, Groups for FaxOut, Caller ID
filtering
n. 500 free pages per month
2. Fax 1000 Package: $19.99 per month; regular price is $24.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. Includes all features of Fax 500
b. Includes phone support
c. $4.9 cents per page plus additional page costs and requirements
d. 1,000 free pages per month
3. Fax 2500 Package: $49.99 per month; regular price is $59.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. Includes all features of Fox 1000
b. $3.9 cents per page plus additional page costs and requirements
c. 2,500 free pages per month
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4. Fax Unlimited Package: $39.99 per month; regular price is $49.99 per month (can
purchase quarterly or annual payment plans) (RingCentral, 2014)
a. Includes all features of every other package or individual feature.
b. Unlimited Pages included monthly
c. Additional fax numbers available for 4.99 per month per additional
number.
d. Vanity numbers cost a one-time $30 fee; can be purchased as an add-on
regardless of package, not just Unlimited.
5. Professional Pro Package: $9.99 per month; regular price is $19.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. 300 local, long distance, or toll-free minutes per month
b. 4.9 cents per minute for additional minutes
c. 2 extensions
d. Internet fax: send and receive
e. Web support
f. Inbound call management: advanced call forwarding, call screening,
dial-by-name directory, call recording, call logs, virtual calling card,
message alerts, message alerts, missed call notification, caller ID control,
softphone, RingMe, auto-receptionist, flexible answering rules, and call
queues
g. Use with any existing phone system
h. Toll free or local number for voice and fax: directory listings
i. Voicemail with free email delivery: visual voicemail, greetings, and music
on hold
j. Mobile phone integration: iOS, Android, and Blackberry
k. Keep existing number at no cost.
l. Integration services: Box, RingCentral, and Microsoft Outlook
6. Professional Pro Plus Package: $19.99 per month; regular price is 29.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. 1,000 local, long distance or toll-free minutes
b. 4.4 cents per minute for additional minutes
c. 5 extensions
d. Dedicated fax number
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e. Phone and web support
f. Includes all features of the Professional Pro package
7. Professional ProPower Package: $24.99 per month; regular price is $39.99 per
month (can purchase quarterly or annual payment plans) (RingCentral, 2014)
a. 2,000 local, long distance, and 1,000 toll-free minutes
b. 3.9 cents per minute for additional minutes
c. 10 extensions
d. Includes all features of the Professional Pro Plus package
e. Additional virtual extensions for 2.99 per month per additional extension,
can be used with any package besides ProPower
f. Additional toll-free or local numbers for 4.99 per month per additional
number, can be used with any package besides ProPower
g. Additional fax numbers for 4.99 per month per additional number, can be
used with any package besides ProPower
h. Vanity numbers are available for an additional one-time $30 fee, can be
used with any package besides ProPower
8. Office Standard Package: $24.99 per month per user on an annual payment plan
[This is standard]; (can purchase per month contract per user or monthly per user
payment plan); if 2-19 users it costs $24.99 per month, if 20-99 users it costs $21.99
per month, if 100+ users it costs $19.99 per month; monthly contract pricing using
the standardized user limits previously mentioned: $27.99 per month, $24.99 per
month, or $22.99 per month; monthly pricing using the standardized user limits
previously mentioned: $29.99 per month, $26.99 per month, or $24.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. Call management and phone administration: answering rules, call
forwarding, call transfer, call screening, call flip, call logs, presence,
notifications, shared lines, call park, intercom, and paging
b. Mobile app integration: iOS, Android, and Blackberry
c. Unlimited calling; USA and Canada only
d. 1,000 toll-free minutes; additional minutes billed at $3.9 per minute
e. Phone rental option: desk and conference phones; available only with
multi-year contract
f. Unlimited internet fax
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g. Unlimited business SMS
h. Unlimited conferencing
i. Integrated services: Microsoft Office, Outlook, Google, Box, and DropBox
j. Cloud PBX
k. No setup or activation fees
l. 24/7 customer phone and web support
m. Free implementation advisors when a business purchases for 2 users or
more
9. Office Premium Package: $34.99 per month per user on an annual payment plan
[This is standard]; (can purchase per month contract per user or monthly per user
payment plan); if 2-19 users it costs $34.99 per month, if 20-99 users it costs $31.99
per month, if 100+ users it costs $29.99 per month; monthly contract pricing using
the standardized user limits previously mentioned: $37.99 per month, $34.99 per
month, or $32.99 per month; monthly pricing using the standardized user limits
previously mentioned: $39.99 per month, $36.99 per month, or $34.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. 2,500 toll free minutes; same additional minute pricing as Standard
package
b. Included all features from Standard package
c. Salesforce CRM integration
d. Automatic Call Recording
e. Premium Support; available only with a purchase of 10 users or more
10. Office Enterprise Package: $49.99 per month per user on an annual payment
plan [This is standard]; (can purchase per month contract per user or monthly per
user payment plan); if 2-19 users it costs $49.99 per month, if 20-99 users it costs
$44.99 per month, if 100+ users it costs $39.99 per month; monthly contract pricing
using the standardized user limits previously mentioned: $52.99 per month, $47.99
per month, or $42.99 per month; monthly pricing using the standardized user limits
previously mentioned: $54.99 per month, $49.99 per month, or $44.99 per month
(RingCentral, 2014)
a. 10,000 toll-free minutes; same additional minute pricing as Standard &
Premium
b. Included all features from Premium package
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c. Multipoint Mobile and Desktop HD video conferencing: web sharing and
up to 25 participants local, national, or international
d. Online meetings for mobile and desktop: web sharing
Jive (Jive Communications, Inc., 2014)
Jive provides enterprise-level quality VoIP services using Virtual PBX and proper
Quality of Service infrastructure. They offer no cost installation, maintenance, and setup.
They provide everything a company needs to have a fully secure, integrated VoIP
service with minimal business interruption. Their QoS is designed using a combination of
factors: physical network separation, logical network separation, and class-of-service
prioritization. This is possibly the most comprehensive of all the VoIP services I have seen.
Other than not finding pricing or plan information for their Enterprise-level offerings, it had
everything I would need to start up a VoIP service within a company and KNOW without
question what will happen, how it will happen, what does it mean for the company, and
why they do it.
Since the company does not provide any financial details concerning their
Enterprise-level (above 100 users) services, I will use their Small Business offering. For the
requested 10 extensions, the minimal cost for one year of service would be ($23.95 * 10
users/extensions/devices * 12 months) gives a total of $2,874.00 per year. If each
user/extension had multiple devices, then the cost would go up exponentially. Say if we
added a desktop and a laptop plus a smartphone to every extension: $23.95 * 40
users/extensions/devices * 12 months which gives a total of $11,496.00 per year.
This is easily the most expensive option out of everything I have reviewed thus far.
In fact, I might consider this ridiculous even for enterprises. The ROI in this would be
ridiculous for companies over 100 users. Imagine if you had a company with 5,000
employees across five sites. If we simply went with the Tier 5 pricing, as Enterprise pricing is
unavailable, that would be $19.99 * 20,000 (5,000 users/phone extensions, 5,000 desktops,
5,000 smartphones, 5,000 laptops) * 12 months gives a total of $4,797,600.00 per year!
That is beyond comprehension! I hope that their enterprise pricing is much more
competitive and financially fiscal than that because as of right now, I would go
somewhere else for the sheer cost if I had an enterprise.
I actually had a conversation with a customer support employee via live chat
while I was finishing up my references for this essay and he told me directly that Enterprise
pricing is definitely not available to the public. He was very informative and very polite.
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Pricing & Features
Small Business Offering (Jive Communications, Inc., 2014)
1. Tier 1: 1-4 users; $29.95 per device
2. Tier 2: 5-9 users; $25.95 per device
3. Tier 3: 10-24 users; $23.95 per device
4. Tier 4: 25-49 users; $21.95 per device
5. Tier 5: 50-100 users; $19.95 per device
6. Standard Features available to all Tiers (Jive Communications, Inc., 2014)
a. Basic VoIP Features: Auto attendants (unlimited), call analytics, call logs,
call recording, conference bridging (10-party), 3-way conferencing,
custom greetings, custom messages, custom hold music, custom
schedules, barge, desktop integration, dial by extension, dial by name,
dial-by-name directories, direct inward calling, direct outward calling,
directory on phone, eavesdrop, fax to email, inbound call filters, individual
call logging, intercom, last number redial, line failover, LDAP integration,
local and long distance dial-tone, message waiting indicator, presence
monitoring, ring groups (call hunt), speed dial, unlimited extensions, virtual
fax, visual dial plan editor, voicemail (voicemail to email), web-based
admin portal, web-based user portal, and whisper
b. Call Management Features: Auto-Divert, auto-reject, call forwarding, call
history, call hold, call park/pickup, call queues (automatic distribution),
call routing, call transfers, call waiting, caller ID, do not disturb, find
me/follow me, missed call indicator, and multiple calls per line
c. Call Center: Advanced ring strategies, agent login/out, custom queue
hold message, custom queue hold music, escape from call queue,
multiple queues, pre-call announcement, queue call barge, queue call
eavesdropping, queue call recording, queue call whisper, report caller
hold time, unlimited call queues, and wait time announcement
d. Phone Service: Cloud PBX, multi-site compatible, and unlimited domestic
usage
7. Additional Paid Features: International calling, Jive Desktop, mobility softphone,
and toll-free and local numbers (pricing is unavailable without contacting the
company directly)
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Enterprise Offering (Jive Communications, Inc., 2014)
I could not find a single thing on pricing or individual plans as with Small Business.
It appears that the only way to find out any pricing information is to contact the
company directly.
Skype (Microsoft Co., 2014)
Skype is a completely free VoIP service which offers comprehensive features for
non-business users and even some business users to utilize VoIP services without the
tremendous cost involved. In comparison to the paid services, Skype is a relatively
decent system that makes it extremely easy for customers and employees to integrate
calling in a way that is very cost-effective. If Skype is integrated into a VoIP then it uses
that VoIP’s QoS, otherwise, it utilizes the OS and custom security settings of its own
program. I do know, from personal use, that the QoS is pretty good these days. Jitter and
latency are low, from a system resource point of view, and dropping never happens. In
fact, I almost never get disconnected unless my connection drops or gets overloaded by
something else running in the background.
As to whether that happens in a server environment or on a smartphone? I
cannot say from personal experience. I rarely use it on my cell phone and I’ve never
implemented Skype in a server environment.
I do believe that Skype could be a pretty good replacement, but it definitely
requires some basic VoIP service already built-in OR some kind of custom setup and
installation to really make use of more features that Skype doesn’t provide. For small
businesses under 20 users, this is a PERFECT solution, imho. I think a small business of that
size could really benefit from Skype’s features particularly if they are really needing a lot
of video calling traffic. Video calling is very good on Skype, unless you have crappy
hardware and a crappy internet connection or network.
The cost is nearly negligible, but international calling is seriously not as good unless
you buy subscriptions or premium accounts with a TON of countries and regions. At $9.99
per BUSINESS per month using a Premium account with Skype Manager, the cost is
significantly cheaper even than Vonage. Out of a year, with 10 extensions, you might
have a total of $119.88 ($9.99 * 12 months)? If you buy credit for your employees, then
obviously, that cost will increase.
Out of the Step 1 parameters for this assignment, Skype could not assist 200
extensions well but it is conceivable. Skype does not have:
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1. Fax services
2. Music on hold
a. This can be modified actually. I do believe it is possible to run a music
player in the background on the environment with which Skype is installed
and do a custom sound integration into Skype using the music player. I’ve
seen it done before, but not aware of the specific steps needed to
achieve it.
Pricing & Features
Skype offers many services without the need for paying for it. In fact, the only time
you need to pay for something is when you’re making calls on landlines or mobile
phones. If you use Skype to Skype, its entirely free, regardless of the delivery system used
(voice, webcam, text chat, or full data). (Microsoft Co., 2014)
Skype uses a system called Credit to help people pay for calling mobile phones and
landlines. The pricing is as follows:
1. $10.00 worth of Skype Credit (Microsoft Co., 2014)
2. $20.00 worth of Skype Credit (Microsoft Co., 2014)
3. Pay as you go plans for the US start at 1.7 cents per minute. Countries have
specific pay as you go plans.
4. Premium accounts are advanced accounts for those who want the best that
Skype has to offer. This account upgrade costs $9.99 per month. It adds the group
video calling, group remote desktop assistance/management, removes
advertising completely, gives you live chat support, and unlimited calling to a
country or region of your choice. (Microsoft Co., 2014)
5. Subscriptions are available for every country, meaning that each country has its
own cost.
a. For example, if you were to buy a subscription just for making phone calls
to non-Skype devices, such as a landline or mobile phone, then you
would pay a minimum of $2.99 per month for unlimited nationwide calling.
If you wanted to include all of North America, it would cost $7.99 per
month. If you included unlimited International calling, it would cost $13.99
per month. (Microsoft Co., 2014)
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b. Interestingly enough, if you use Skype mobile apps for smartphones, calls
are free between cell phones as long as both users have Skype app
installed on their device.
Skype utilizes a web-based management tool for businesses called Skype
Manager. It allows the administrators to properly control who, where, how, what, and
why something happens with their Skype account, credits, access, and availability. If you
have an existing SIP-enabled PBX, you can use Skype Connect, which is a feature
integrated into Skype Manager that allows you to use Skype in reducing the cost of VoIP
on an enterprise level. (Microsoft Co., 2014)
The following features are considered Standard for Skype and Skype for Business
using Skype Manager: (Microsoft Co., 2014)
1. Call Features: Skype to Skype calls, local, national, and international calling at
customized rates, group calling, Skype numbers (an individual number assigned
to your specific Skype account or Microsoft account), call forwarding, caller ID,
roaming system, and click to call.
2. Video Features: Interpersonal video calls and group video calls (this is only
available with a premium subscription).
3. Messaging Features: Video messaging, instant messaging, SMS, voice messaging,
GroupMe (which is a sharing feature from your mobile device using Skype app).
4. Sharing Features: File and data sharing, remote desktop
assistance/management, group remote desktop assistance/management, and
contact information sharing.
5. Other Features: Skype to Facebook (which automatically connects your
Facebook account to your Skype account so you can view and respond to
everything from Facebook right in Skype), Skype WiFi (which utilizes technology to
implement WiFi Hotspots and find them more easily), Skype for
Outlook.com/Outlook, and Skype Buttons (which allows you to add Skype
features to a website or blog so a user can call or IM you right from there).
6. Skype cannot replace emergency assistance (911) on a mobile device, landline,
or normal VoIP system. At the bottom of EVERY page on Skype is this disclaimer
readily seen and coherent. (Microsoft Co., 2014)
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7. Skype uses DCCA and the latest encryption methods for protecting both the
received and transmitted data, regardless of type, and provides encryption for
the user’s account. (Microsoft Co., 2014)
In conclusion, it is apparent to me that Vonage Business Solutions provides the single
best cost versus features ratio of all the providers, including Skype. It gives you the best
bang for your buck and I think that as a corporate/small business solution, that is exactly
what people need. VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol providers certainly are very
competitive and intensely dedicated to providing exceptional services for businesses. It
has been very interesting to see what kind of intriguing or creativ e ways that they
implement certain aspects of their technologies. All in all, I believe that VoIP is a clear
alternative to normal POTS/PSTN service for all companies, large and small, for the
current and the future.
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