Making The Connection
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The document emphasizes the importance of unified communications (UC) in modern businesses, particularly as they become more decentralized and reliant on innovation. It discusses the benefits of UC as a Service (UCaaS), including improved flexibility, efficiency, and security through seamless integration of voice, data, and video communications. Additionally, it highlights the role of mobile-first approaches and 5G technology in enhancing UC, while suggesting that SD-WAN can optimize existing MPLS networks to support these advancements.
Making The Connection
- 1. MAKING THE CONNECTIONThe power of next generation communications… and the pressure this adds to your network
- 2. Effective communications have always been the lifeblood of a successful business.
- 3. But, as customer service and product innovation accelerate - and teams become decentralised - flexible and reliable Unified Communications is now an essential requirement.
- 4. “Now is the time to choose a Unified Communications (UC) solution that moves your business forward.” Unlocking the Value of Unified Communication Frost & Sullivan
- 5. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must:
- 6. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must: Offer seamless connections between offices and individuals
- 7. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must: Offer seamless connections between offices and individuals Ensure security is maintained across each communications channel
- 8. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must: Offer seamless connections between offices and individuals Ensure security is maintained across each communications channel Integrate voice, data and video communications together
- 9. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must: Offer seamless connections between offices and individuals Leverage the latest hosted IP service infrastructures Ensure security is maintained across each communications channel Integrate voice, data and video communications together
- 10. Improve Security and Collaboration If businesses are to move quickly and innovate, communications must: Offer seamless connections between offices and individuals Leverage the latest hosted IP service infrastructures Ensure security is maintained across each communications channel Empower employees to collaborate more easily Integrate voice, data and video communications together
- 11. Join the future. You don’t have to own everything these days. Businesses can rent Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to deliver:
- 17. And there’s another thing! Mobile First UC
- 18. Until now, the delivery of UC services has meant using a range of different platforms for voice, data and video.
- 19. Until now, the delivery of UC services has meant using a range of different platforms for voice, data and video. UC is moving towards more mobile-first services which use native apps to replace PBX with a single number, able to handle all types of communication.
- 21. The development of the mobile-first approach will expand as 5G approaches, allowing users to seamlessly move from one device to another to continue their conversations or collaborations. Networks will increasingly need to focus on supporting mobile devices to expand and extend their support of UCaaS.
- 22. 5G is an opportunity for a new way of servicing customers, but also adds complexity.
- 23. This, alongside modern applications having an ever-increasing hunger for bandwidth, will significantly boost the bandwidth requirements across the network, leading to a potential higher spend. Extending an existing MPLS solution with SD-WAN can help ensure that you are getting value for money out of your network.
- 24. How? Businesses already understand how their MPLS network provides the backbone of their enterprise’s network capability.
- 25. Why SD-WAN? Before spending money on bandwidth increases you need to ask yourself, are you using your current bandwidth effectively? Would segregating MPLS and direct-to-web services, for example, provide a value for money alternative? How about separating voice and video from browsing and web applications?
- 26. So... SD-WAN can free up an MPLS network to carry business- critical applications, ensuring non-critical, non-MPLS traffic is intelligently routed direct-to-web and providing UC applications access to sufficient MPLS bandwidth to deliver the best possible user experience. This can be done with any existing links, such as redundant or backup links or with new, lower cost links.
- 28. Transforming Business Integrating communications systems to deliver scalable and secure services enables businesses to innovate quickly.
- 29. Transforming Business Remote working practices are now the norm. Only UCaaS can offer communications systems that are flexible enough to meet the demands of this new working environment.
- 30. Transforming Business Embracing UC enables businesses to streamline processes, which ultimately increase efficiencies and reduce costs. The superior reliability of UCaaS is now the cornerstone of modern agile enterprises.
- 31. Network complexity is only increasing More intelligence is required in the network to prioritise critical applications You need to get the network right when considering UCaaS SD-WAN isn’t a replacement for MPLS, it adds value to it Takeaways Next generation communications are needed but there are implications for your network:
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