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| Making The IP Connection |
March 16, 2005 |
By Jon Wiese
IP means connecting: connecting anyone with anyone, anywhere, at anytime. IP can also connect SMBs to incredible new efficiencies, competitive advantage and increased profitability. But most importantly, Internet Protocol connects your company to the dynamic future of business.
A simple Ethernet fibre or DSL “pipe” hooks into a high-volume “data pipeline” that carries all the amazing advantages of IP into the heart of your organization. Companies can seamlessly integrate their legacy phone and IT systems, while benefiting from a constantly growing stream of specialized and extremely powerful applications.
Dynamically integrating voice, data and video onto one simplified platform, IP represents incredible improvements in productivity, flexibility and cost control. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are a great example.
Companies can connect geographically distant offices and remote users with all the ease and economy of Voice Over Internet Protocol (Vo IP), while benefiting from instant high-volume digital data exchange and enjoying real-time team collaboration and video conferencing.
Business-class IP services, like Bell’s ProConnect, offer speed and responsiveness that match the capabilities of your largest competitors, so you can compete with the big guys at a price any business can afford. Wide Area Networks (WAN) let you link your employees, customers and suppliers, while sharing all of your mission-critical data. Use a large IP provider with a highly filtered, private IP network backbone and your most valuable asset — information — will never face the security and privacy challenges found on the public Internet.
IP is evolving so quickly that soon any distinction between telecom and IT will all-but disappear. Communications and business applications can now run far more powerfully through an IP connection than from the computer under your desk. Turnkey hosted solutions are available that enable employees to connect and interact from anywhere in the world. Find wire-line or wireless access to the IP network and all the data, application and contact resources of the “home office” instantly appear at your fingertips. You can literally make distance disappear with suites of hosted services like Bell’s Productivity Pak, which allows team members scattered around the world to function as efficiently as if they were face-to-face in the same room.
Those kinds of IP products are also easy to customize, are highly scalable and even let you take control of your own suite of applications.
Providers can either totally manage your services or, with a click of a mouse, you can directly access options like Bandwidth on Demand and adjust your data rate to accommodate “bursty” requirements like videoconferencing, while only paying for that bigger pipe for as long as you need the extra capacity.
In an IP-enabled world, a strong Internet presence will define every competitive company. Soon, offering your customers dynamic Web services won’t be optional, so a variety of solutions are available to help every organization make its IP presence felt.
Shared hosting splits the resources of a single powerful server among several companies, so each organization gets its own customized and professionally managed service at a highly affordable price.
Power users will want to go with dedicated hosting, to access all the bandwidth and flexibility provided by their own private server, loaded with a full range of constantly updated applications and supported 24/7/365 by teams of in-house experts. And this solid customer support and understanding can extend right from the server room to your boardroom.
Choose a provider that creates a dynamic IT environment by combining proven telecom strength with Internet Protocol leadership, and you’ll bring all the value of a “Virtual CIO” into your decision-making process to help you dynamically connect your company with its exciting IP future.
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