SubscribeA major part of telecommunications consulting is assisting businesses with project management, such as the switch to VoIP. While VoIP can be a major cost saving tool, there are a few potential problems that businesses should consider before making the switch. Credit Card Machine Failure: Older, traditional credit card machines...
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Category Archives: VOIP
Save Money with SIP Trunking
Businesses are constantly looking for ways to cut telecom costs, and SIP trunking can be an extremely effective telecommunications expense management tool. SIP trunking uses an Internet connection from your current PBX for a VoIP connection using Session Internet Protocol, or SIP. For basic information on SIP and a brief...
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SIP 101
As one of the most popular telecommunications solutions, VoIP is receiving a lot of attention. However, there are many elements of VoIP services that are not widely understood by corporate users. One of these elements is Session Internet Protocol, or SIP. As a standardized signaling protocol, SIP is used for...
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Telecom Solutions: Faxing with VoIP
One of the biggest problems with VoIP has always been difficulties with faxing. Many businesses chose to retain a traditional copper line to accommodate faxing, but there are some things you can try that may enable you to fax more easily over a VoIP connection. The Sygnal Group would like...
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VoIP Equipment: Hardphones
As a telecommunications cost management solution, many businesses are making the switch to VoIP. Once a business has made the decision to make the move to VoIP, one of their first decisions will be whether they will use softphones or hardphones. A hardphone is a physical phone that looks much...
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Project Management: Needs Analysis for Department Changes
A major goal of telecommunications consulting is to help you determine what areas you need to upgrade and where effective utilization and management of present services and systems is appropriate. It is important that businesses do not make changes to their telecom systems based on whims, unproven technology or simply...
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Telecommuting Project Management: Employees, PCs, and Internet Connection
In the previous blog entry, “Can Your Business Benefit from Telecommuting?” we explored how telecommuting can increase productivity and can be an effective source of telecom cost management, but how do you go about implementing a new telecommunications system? The first hurdle to be jumped on the way to successful...
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Wireless Management: Over-provisioning 101
While wireless devices were once considered a luxury, over the years they have become more of a necessity. Therefore, any time a business evaluates its telecom expense management, it must take a good, hard look at its wireless spending. One of the biggest problems that arises with the use of...
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Save on Telecom Expenses with this Simple Checklist
With the time for New Year’s resolutions quickly approaching, it’s a good time to start thinking about how you can manage and reduce your corporate telecom costs for a more profitable fiscal year. Many resolutions fail because once made, people lose focus and don’t take the required steps to accomplish...
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VoIP 101
The first question people usually ask about VoIP is “What is it?” VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and is actually quite simple. When you use VoIP, your voice is broken down into tiny pieces of data, sent over the Internet to the receiving location, and reassembled into your...
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