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VoIP and IP telephony are becoming increasingly popular with large corporations and consumers alike. For many people, Internet Protocol (IP) is more than just a way to transport data, it's also a tool that simplifies and streamlines a wide range of business applications. Telephony is the most obvious example. VoIP—or voice over IP—is also the foundation for more advanced unified communications applications—including Web and video conferencing—that can transform the way you do business.
Small business owners are discovering why VoIP is such a powerful tool for maintaining a competitive edge. When you switch to an IP-based unified communications system, you'll find that you'll increase productivity by combining and simplifying your communication tools. You'll secure your voice and data. And you'll make it easier for your employees to maintain access to your network, whether at work or at home.
- Why VoIP helps you cut costs
- You'll spend less money on travel by using online conferencing, easy-to-use video calls, and other tools for better collaboration
- You'll find that it's easy to add extra phone lines, because VoIP lets you send multiple phone calls across your IP network
- Why VoIP helps you improve communication with customers and employees
- Your employees will have more ways to stay connected
- By using "presence" technology, you'll be able to see if your employees are available and how to get in touch with them
- With unified communications, you'll see that it's easy to work remotely from any place with an Internet connection
- VoIP lets you have many features without paying extra fees
- Voicemail
- Caller ID
- conferencing
- forwarding
- Unlimited long distance
So why VoIP from Cisco? Because it gives you technology that's just your size. And with a unified communications system, you'll spend less time focusing on technology and more time focusing on what matters-your business.
Cisco® Unified Communications is a comprehensive IP communications system of voice, video, data, and mobility products and applications. It enables more effective, more secure, more personal communications that directly affect both sales and profitability. It brings people together by enabling a new way of communicating-where your business moves with you, security is everywhere, and information is always available...whenever and wherever it is needed. Cisco Unified Communications is part of an integrated solution that includes network infrastructure, security, mobility, network management products, lifecycle services, flexible deployment and outsourced management options, end-user and partner financing packages, and third-party communications applications.
is an enterprise-class IP telephony call-processing system that provides traditional telephony features as well as advanced capabilities, such as mobility, presence, preference, and rich conferencing services. This powerful call processing solution can help:
- Simplify your voice systems by replacing old PBX (private branch exchange) and key systems with unified communications, you can cut costs and dramatically streamline provisioning and maintenance.
- Build productivity with feature-rich unified communications that help workers spend less time chasing people, and more time being productive.
- Enable mobility with software that has embedded unified mobility capabilities so mobile workers can remain productive wherever they are.
- Improve collaboration with a click; start an IM session, initiate a phone call, and establish a videoconferencing call more easily.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager creates a unified workspace that supports a full range of communications features and applications with a solution that is highly:
- Scalable: Each Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster can support up to 30,000 users.
- Distributable: For scalability, redundancy, and load balancing.
- Available: Support business continuity and improve collaboration with high availability that provides a foundation for multiple levels of server redundancy and survivability.
Provide more effective communications for mobile employees. Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator is an easy-to-use software application for mobile handsets that extends enterprise communications applications and services to mobile phones and smartphones. It streamlines the communication experience, enabling real-time collaboration across the enterprise. .
Cisco IP Communicator—a software-based application that delivers enhanced telephony support through the PC—is designed to meet diverse customer needs by serving as a supplemental telephone when traveling, a telecommuting device, or as a primary desktop telephone. With Cisco IP Communicator, remote users don't just take their office extension with them; they also enjoy access to the same familiar phone services that they have in the office.
Simplify communications and facilitate collaboration with the easy-to-use interface of Cisco Unified CallConnector for Microsoft Windows. With this desktop application, you can communicate virtually anytime, from anywhere, and can easily escalate methods for more effective communications.
Understanding the terms is a first step toward learning the potential of this technology:
- VoIP refers to a way to carry phone calls over an IP data network, whether on the Internet or your own internal network. A primary attraction of VoIP is its ability to help reduce expenses because telephone calls travel over the data network rather than the phone company's network.
- IP telephony encompasses the full suite of VoIP enabled services including the interconnection of phones for communications; related services such as billing and dialing plans; and basic features such as conferencing, transfer, forward, and hold. These services might previously have been provided by a PBX.
- IP communications includes business applications that enhance communications to enable features such as unified messaging, integrated contact centers, and rich-media conferencing with voice, data, and video.
- Unified communications takes IP communications a step further by using such technologies as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and presence along with mobility solutions to unify and simply all forms of communications, independent of location, time, or device.
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