Introduction

   

VoIP Evolution or Revolution?
In today’s business environment work is no longer defined by a location; work is something you do, not a place you go. The pace of work is faster, and the price of falling behind more costly. Business agility—the ability to react quickly to both opportunities and road blocks—is becoming just as important as sound business models and product differentiation. To improve business agility, companies require their employees to be mobile, responsive, and connected. They are expected to meet with customers, partners, and each other at any time, with all the available resources at their disposal. Many companies took their first step towards business agility with the deployment of an IP data network, which dramatically improved the flow of information. Even with this advance however, businesses tended to remain stationary because once away from the network, accessibility and communication were ineffective. With the advent of IP communications once unrealistic expectations of business agility and mobility are now reality. With an intelligent, adaptive communications infrastructure your employees can go almost anywhere and remain connected to the people, tools, and knowledge that provide the foundation of your business. Think of IP communications as a new application running on your network. Although it performs all of the functions of the traditional phone systems, it is no longer location based and through the flexibility of IP, can provide new applications that take full advantage of the power of a packet-based network.
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