Interest in data, voice, and video integration is driven by short-term interest in cost savings, medium-term requirements for emerging application support, and long-term direction for complexity reduction and technology convergence.
Convergence makes particular sense for organisations that are changing in size and location, and/or witnessing an exponential growth of data traffic relative to total network traffic. Most enterprises in the future will need to place more focus on new data infrastructures and they need to make sure that any networking equipment can support not only data, but also voice and video.
Benefits of a converged network include:
- Reduced investment in multiple network infrastructures
- Reduced on-going maintenance costs
- Centralised application hosting and call processing
- Integration of business applications including CRM type solutions
- Reduced staffing and administration costs
ONI has been converging voice and data for over a decade and we have an in depth knowledge rarely matched by our competitors. The benefits that voice, data, and video integration and in particular IP telephony solutions bring to our customer base is documented throughout this web site and in a series of case studies. In short companies are seeing increased efficiency within their organisations as information reaches the key decision makers wherever they may be.
