What can cripple an SMB/SME and affect their plan to migrate toward UC?

What can cripple an SMB/SME and affect their plan to migrate toward UC are future budget considerations involving ongoing licensing fees and the network set-up, maintenance and administration. Grandstream products never require licensing fees and are specifically designed so that SMBs/SMEs internal staff or their reseller/system integrator can self-administer and manage the network versus having to hire an outside IT firm. Grandstream adheres to open-source SIP standards for product development ensuring network- and enterprise-side product and service interoperability. Ease of integration through open standards allows businesses to confidently add newer technology sooner rather than later.

Implementing UC with Grandstream

With a full range of IP endpoints and networking products designed specifically for SMBs/SMEs, Grandstream partners with customers to create enterprise-grade communication solutions for every business. These solutions offer feature-rich functionality at an affordable price that delivers recognizable business.

UCM series IP PBX

The backbone of a Grandstream UC network is the UCM series IP PBX Appliance. The UCM series is an open source, licensing-free IP PBX appliance that delivers secure and reliable voice, video, data and mobility apps. Powered by an advanced hardware platform based on Asterisk, the UCM series helps businesses to easily and affordably use VoIP to increase productivity, provide better customer service, unify communications on a single platform and save money on communications costs.

Listening to customers around the globe, Grandstream realizes that a large number of SMBs/SMEs want to adopt UC to be more competitive. The common thread or barrier to entry heard most frequently is the SMBs/SMEs ability to attain the features needed at a price they can afford— a problem that Grandstream has solved.

The UCM series offers various model options in order to offer a solution ideal for every type of business:

1. UCM6100 series– The UCM6100 series is geared specifically towards small to medium businesses as it supports up to 500 users and up to 60 concurrent calls. The UCM6100 series offers 4 different models options (UMC6102, 6104, 6108 and 6116) that differ mainly on the amount of included FXO ports and concurrent calls.
2. UCM6200 series – The UCM6200 series is ideally designed to deliver secure and reliable enterprise-grade features to SMBs at cost effective price as it supports up to 800 users and up to 100 concurrent calls. The UCM6200 series offer 3 different models (UCM6202, UCM6204 and UCM6208).
3. UCM6510 – This model is ideal for medium sized businesses and larger businesses as it supports up to 2000 users and up to 200 concurrent calls. Businesses who need support for E1/T1/J1 networks should choose the UCM6510.
4. HA100 – Failover solution for the UCM6510 to ensure maximum total system reliability and uptime.

Grandstream Results Achieved:

• New enterprise-grade UC features catered to their business operations for added cohesion and collaboration
• Reduced telecom and long-distance costs between office locations and remote workers, saves on cell phone bills by routing domestic and international calls made on a smartphone through VoIP, provide VoIP phones to remote workers
• Affordable ‘get started’ costs including all hardware and software (excluding SIP Phones)
• No annual licensing fees, recurring fees or software/firmware upgrade costs
• Web interface simplifies set-up, customization, remote management and maintenance
• Expanded voice communication options with custom voice features like IVR, call queue, call recording, call routing and conferencing features
• Unite geographically-dispersed locations on one centrally-located IP PBX, extension dialing across network; mobile and remote workers also included.
• Future expansion support
• Introduces telepresence-based video conferencing for improved workplace collaboration and real-time video communications, adds real-time video surveillance of facilities and IP door phones using a variety of video codecs
• Advanced data support through fax, fax/voicemail forwarding to email, call detail records, company phonebook integration and system backup.

For more information on UC solution, set up, Installation & Configuration you can contact our Technical team/ Sales Team or visit www.grandtsreamindia.in .