VoIP and Universities
I spotted and interesting post on VoIP News today - Voice over IP can bolster university revenue five ways that quotes from an article in Campus Technology, an education sector monthly magazine. I had to do some hunting to find the original article bu Jospeh Panettieri, VoIP Means Revenue.
The post that caught my eye makes these five points:
- VoIP can empower your Office of Admissions.
- VoIP can drastically improve your registration and financial aid services.
- VoIP is an ideal system for all dorm rooms.
- VoIP will ultimately integrate with your students’ cell phones.
- VoIP provides fertile ground for your Office of Development to increase revenues.
The key to all this is that the ed sector is seeing that the private sector is finding tangible, measureable, quantifiable success with VoIP implementations.
TelecommunicationsEducation may be behind on the latest telecom trends, but corporate America has discovered VoIP’s promise. More than 75 percent of large US businesses have deployed VoIP somewhere within their networks, according to Heavy Reading, which tracks technology deployments. By the close of 2006, that figure will climb to almost 90 percent, the site reports. What’s more, nearly 75 percent of companies that embrace VoIP are extremely satisfied with it, according to Gartner analysts.
If you're in the education sector, I encourage you to click the links and read what people are saying. And in the private scetor, we need to keep doing what we're already doing - evolving to a converged network that meets all our users voice and data communications requirements.
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