To answer that question you could pick a number out of the air that seems right or if you are moving to a new location decide that “since we had 4 trunk lines in the old place, 4 lines should suit us just fine when we [...]

Get leading edge technology and lower your telephone service costs.  Sound too good to be true?  Well,  as so many businesses and institutions have come to realize, those are the key advantages gained when switching from a traditional PBX phone system to a hosted VoIP [...]

Telephone paging systems have come a long way both in terms of sound quality and the variety of ancillary equipment that expand and enhance their use. You don’t have to settle for blast, blare and static or sounding like you’re 20,000 leagues under the sea when using a paging [...]

You’re looking over last month’s profit and loss statement for the business and when you come upon the line item for telephone expenses you wonder if there’s room for some cost savings.   You begin to ask yourself:   How many wasted calls are being made every day?  Do we allocate [...]

You’re on the phone with your banker discussing a preliminary plan to acquire a competitor, a matter of utmost confidentiality and though you’ve closed your door, staff members linger outside of your office discussing last night’s ball game.  How do you insure that your conversation is not overheard and [...]

You’ve selected a new telephone carrier, confident that the services offered meet the needs of your business, and a date has been set to make the cutover.  Now the clock is ticking. The cutover of business telephone service to a new carrier is a major step for [...]

One sure way to avoid damage to a business telephone system is to deploy UPS batteries.  An uninterruptible power supply, or UPS, is a battery that backs up the primary power source for a telephone system in the event of a service interruption or failure.  Depending on the size [...]

With so many businesses having facilities in far flung locations and with more and more employees working at home these days, teleconferencing has become an effective, rational way to conduct group meetings without the expense and disruption of gathering staff members in a central location. Consequently, improved technology and [...]

No doubt every enterprise is careful to arm its computers with surge protection devices, as nothing can wreak havoc on the operations of a business like damaged hard drives and fried servers.  Do telephone systems, so integral to commercial activity, receive the same level of attention?  Perhaps not, but [...]

There are few areas of technology where advances have been more profound than in video surveillance systems.  Where once video surveillance consisted of one or two fixed cameras feeding blurred video into a black and white monitor at a central location that was viewed by a security guard who may [...]