Host, Buy, or Integrate?

Host vs. Buy

In recent years the conventional thinking has been that once a telecom user group reaches a certain size, it becomes more cost-effective to purchase a voice system (PBX) and maintain it internally. However, the rapid onset of new technologies is creating a paradigm shift in this arena. Here are some of the factors at work:

• Training and re-training costs rise as new technologies emerge more rapidly.
• Shorter technology obsolescence lifecycle.
• Subsets of users require advanced applications that are difficult/costly to deploy in-house.
• Extending internal voice/IP networks to reach mobile workforce and distributed work sites is difficult.
• Ongoing maintenance and support costs of in-house systems are unpredictable.
• Modular upgrade needs often come up at inopportune times to make a purchasing decision.
• Large capital expenses becoming more difficult to justify.
• IP based technologies offer many cost-saving options in hosted configurations.

Integrated Approach

Telecom professionals managing large user populations have many new options when they take advantage of PosTrack's ability to integrate premise-based systems with PosTrack hosted services.

• Avoid costly modular upgrades with long rollout times by incrementially adding one or many users to hosted service plan.
  • Immediate roll-out.
  • Low monthly fees.
• Reach, disaster recovery, and fail-over options of a robust global network.
• Deploy advanced applications (FMC, Ekahau, Unified Communications) to user groups of any size.

Migration Strategies

Integrating hosted IP based technologies into existing infrastructure is the first step toward a fully hosted system:

• Allow your staff to focus on improving infrastructure, instead of putting out fires.
• Fixed cost model across entire communications infrastructure.
• Global reach for every user, in a completely scalable environment.
• System mantienance and upgrades happen transparently.