Wednesday, August 22, 2012

VoIP Explained: How To Use It Successfully in Your Office

By Emily Collins


Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short, is a technology that offers companies an unmissable opportunity: to streamline their telecommunications, as well as lower costs. VoIP allows companies, both large and small, to integrate communications into one network, helping to increase productivity, flexibility and functionality, and centralise data. It's no surprise, then, that VoIP is quickly replacing now-outdated, less responsive forms of business telecoms.

Unlike traditional telephone systems, VoIP allows users to transmit voice over a data network using a personal computer. With VoIp businesses can bypass traditional hardware and send information digitally through IP addresses, using an intranet or broadband connection. As VoIP allows access to the public network, businesses can still make calls to landlines.

Any shrewd business owners knows that reducing costs while increasing productivity is an important goal for a business. This is a win-win situation that using VoIP can offer. Business owners also face issues of access, but VoIP allows your office to be anywhere that you want it to be. Users have access to VoIP wherever they go, which is ideal for employees that need off-site facilities or mobile workforces. Users can not only communicate verbally through VoIP technology but they can also access voicemail and email - through the device of their choice.

Start-ups need as much help as possible, therefore VoIP is a no-brainer for new businesses. It bypasses superfluous and costly services and equipment. Many organisations, such as Britannic Technologies, offer unbeatable costs for set-up and network management. They will explain how technology can work for your business and work with you setting up a suitable network.

VoIP can also help large companies who may not be aware that they are using too much equipment, or even employing too many employees just because their technology needs updating. Every penny counts during this tough economic climate and with VoIP you are given the freedom to streamline.




About the Author:



No comments: