VoIP Preparedness
Reading on the web, just like my last post, I'm finding information and comments everywhere pointing out the importance of being prepared. That means performing that comprensive readiness assessment test I keep harping on.
Over at TMCNet, Erik Linask says this in Is Your Network VoIP-Ready?
Voice over IP (VoIP) is rapidly gaining momentum as enterprises, SMBs, service providers continue to realize the productivity enhancements and cost benefits of enhanced voice applications.
Often, however — too often, in fact — businesses roll out a new VoIP system, but find their call quality is less than they had expected or that calls are dropped too frequently. To the IT managers at those firms, the question to ask is, “Why didn’t you run a readiness assessment on your network? You could have identified trouble spots in your networks and fixed them ahead of deployment.”
The answer, more often than not, would be, “I didn’t know such an opportunity existed.”
I think Erick summed up the entire subject in a single key sentence - "Successful VoIP deployments depend on fast and effective network assessment, monitoring, and troubleshooting."
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