VoIP supporting business continuity
This caught my eye in the news feeds today
VoIP and Business Continuity Go Hand in HandThose opening words don't to much to get to the topic in the headline, but the article does delve into how VoIP solutions support business continuity efforts by bringing diversity to communications. Diversity drives mobility and VoIP enhances mobility nicely.
October 6, 2006
By Pedro Hernandez
Avaya is getting the word out that as a technology, VoIP has more going for it than just containing costs by getting networks to pull double-duty as telephony platforms.
IP telephony has come a long way since the days of the echo-filled, patchwork of sounds that threatened to torpedo the nascent technology. Now, thanks to broadband and advances in transmitting audio over IP, it's rare to discern between a traditional voice call and one that's been packetized - provided, of course, that it was deployed properly and throughput is abundant.
VoIP also untethers workers from their desks and makes the process of fetching voicemails as easy as opening a message in Outlook.
I'm involved in several business continuity initiatives. The IP network plays a big role in both disaster recovery and business continuity, in part because of the resilience of IP networks and the Internet as a whole. VoIP, and unified communications technologies are another tool in the arsenal supporting business continuty and overlooking these tools would be foolish
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