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BOOTSTRAPPING Meeting Wheaton Illinois Febuary 9th 2006 Voice over IP (VoIP) is it right for me?
Panel DiscussionPanel members:Carol Davids, Director of VoIP Activities and Professor of ITM, IIT, Wheaton, IL.Jeff Kirchner, President, Epygi TechnologiesDaniel G. Howard, President and CEO, ISI CommunicationsAnup Manchanda, VP, Teleprime, Moderator
anupm@teleprime
847-252-7100X301
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
Telecom and IP Technologies“Global Leader Solving Legacy to IP Migration”
• About Teleprime
• In Business since 1992. Offices in IL, TX, GA, CA, NJ, India.
• Services and Products include systems engineering, signaling gateway products, network & test equipment, provisioning and on-site commissioning, legacy to IP migration.
• Channel Partners with Epygi,Encore, Patton, CBeyond.
• Telecom Expertise in Networks, Test Measurement, Legacy to IP Migration.
• Partners with IIT in providing training on VoIP
• Active Member, VPAC Council. Assisted in set up of VoIP Lab at IIT by donating VoIP and related equipment. Provided Internship Projects to Students of VoIP on VoIP related equipment and services. URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
Telecom and IP Technologies“Global Leader Solving Legacy to IP Migration”
Teleprime’s Path to IP Migration for the SOHO Environment
• Over 50+ years of collective experience in the Telecom industry.• Channel and Distribution Expertise• VAR• Entered this market 2004.• Training partnership with IIT in VoIP.• Identifying manufacturers and Service Providers who were developing
products and service offerings in the VoIP space.• Engaged with Companies who were primarily using the channels to get
to market.• Engaged with the IIT VoIP Lab to test various products and services
before bringing to market.• Members of the team got trained in VoIP technology• Set up of Demo-Lab of various products in lab in Schaumburg.• Hosting, Sponsoring of Various conferences and seminars on VoIP.
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
Telecom and IP Technologies“Global Leader Solving Legacy to IP Migration”
Teleprime’s Path to IP Migration for the SOHO Environment• Certifications in Products like Epygi• Pending Certifications in Other IP-Products eg. Polycom, Sipura etc.• Built a team of ‘subject matter experts’ • Served as host and active participation in various technical user groups
(Linux user group, Java user group, Telecom user Group)• Implemented VoIP service in TX office as a test(2004) and rolled out
company wide and worldwide(India)• Implemented IP-PBX in Chicago home office.• First sale and implementation in August, 2005.• Hired and Trained Staff in VoIP Products in India.• First sale of VoIP Product in India in November 2005• First sale of IP-PBX in India in January 2006. Implementation set for in
March 2006.• Identifying and Building Resellers in India as the market opens up for
VoIP products and services.
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
Do you need technical expertise to administer a hosted phone system?
Can you guarantee voice quality? How? How difficult is it to address the Number Portability Issue?How do you address disaster recovery?Can remote workers get same features?How do you address Moves, Adds and Changes?What about future features and upgrades?How many people can be “instantly” conference called?
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
What are my choices of IP endpoints?Are these truly open, standards-based endpoints?What are my options for mobility solutions?How is e911 handled for a multi-site distributed organization?Beyond traditional PBX features, what enhanced communications features can
I expect?How are features such as: Audio Conferencing, Video Telephony, Unified
Messaging, and Presence priced and delivered to the end user?How is reliability addressed: Power failure, Network failure, Bandwidth
Constraints, and Denial of Service attacks?
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
How closely tied to your business do you consider your communications systems?
Do you consider communications to be a competitive advantage or a commodity?
What will your application needs be? Basic contact center or speech enabled self service applications? Basic voice mail or unified messaging integrated with your email systems?
Who calls the particular site that you’re considering hosting? Internal customers or external customers?
Have you outsourced other applications before or is this your first application that you’ll source?
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100
What are the skills of your team? Are you growing or shrinking your IT staff? How is your team funded?How important is security to your business? Are you regulated or under
unique requirements due to SOX, etc.What is the age of your equipment? Can it be IP-enabled?What are the drivers to consider a change in your telephony system?What is the age/condition of the data network? Are you doing any IP Telephony today or is your network not yet ready? Who
are your data carriers?
URL: www.teleprime.com 424 East State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL-60173. PH 1-847-252-7100