{"id":3104,"date":"2005-03-23T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/small-business-voip.html"},"modified":"2005-03-23T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T18:52:42","slug":"small-business-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/small-business-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"Small Business VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Here is a great article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/articles\/2005\/voip-ip-telephony-small-business-messinger-vector.htm\">IP Telephony for Small Business: When Failure Is Not an Option<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is a good read because it points out questions worth asking such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are the business goals of considering an IP telephony system \u2013 improved services, decreased costs, integrated network, for example?<\/span><\/li>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/p>\n<li>What services will employees need today and in the future?<\/li>\n<li>What type of training will be necessary to ensure employees use the system as effectively as possible?<\/li>\n<li>Can the existing data network handle the increased bandwidth that are required from an IP telephony system?<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore it discusses some of the approaches you can take.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"COLOR: black\">Hybrid \u2013 An IP card is attached to an existing PBX and the user receives a IP phone. This approach allows the user to get phone calls over an IP phone, but not the other services available through IP telephony.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"COLOR: black\">Island \u2013 A complete IP-based system is implemented, but only at one facility or one department. This scenario enables the \u201clucky\u201d group to receive all the benefits of IP telephony, but their colleagues miss out. And, this approach taxes the resources of the company\u2019s IT staff, since they are now maintaining a new system on top of existing systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"COLOR: black\">All IP \u2013 This approach includes removing the PSTN system and implementing a complete IP telephony system across the entire small business.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Why is this important? <\/b><\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">The largest market for IP PBXs is the small business segment yet ironically this group is the least advised on how to implement VoIP solutions. Content such as this article is a step in the right direction.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great article titled IP Telephony for Small Business: When Failure Is Not an Option The article is a good read because it points out questions worth asking such as: What are the business goals of considering an IP telephony system \u2013 improved services, decreased costs, integrated network, for example? 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