IP remote working

IP telephony or VoIP (voice over IP) communication has quickly moved from the emerging technology sector to become a core business technology.

At NTE we aim to allow your business to take migratory approach to IP, with cost-effective solutions that maximise your existing investments but allowing your business to migrate to IP telephony when and where it is needed. Our approach ensures that your business investment is protected long into the future.

IP telephony offers your business a number of key advantages, it can:
- Reduce communication costs by converging voice, data and video onto a single network.
- Connect multi-site businesses into one flexible communications network.
- Reduce or even eliminate inter-office and long distance call charges.
- Enable low cost, fully functional home-working solutions.
- Enhance your business productivity with a range of shared applications including mobility, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and contact centre solutions.

NTE have identified two key areas in which IP technology can help your business gain a competitive edge. Click on the following links for more information:

- Fixed IP remote worker solutions
- Portable IP remote workers

For more information about IP telephony or any of our products or services please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Fixed IP remote worker solutions

The Nortel family of communicatoins systems enables businesses of all sizes to easily enjoy the benefits of remote teleworking, through a low-cost, "plug and work" solution that extends the corporate network and phone system to virtually any location.

With the Nortel range of systems IP remote working is easily implemented using a range of standard Nortel IP phones and or softphones and either the BCM or CS1000 communications system.

IP remote working provides:
- Flexibility and familiarity through using a standard telephone.
- Transparent access to corporate voice and data services.
- High levels of security and accountability.
- Seamless integration with Microsoft® Windows clients for access to the corporate data and voice network.
- Scalability with support for large numbers of remote workers.
- Plug-and-work simplicity.
- Tele-workers or agents can be monitored using call management software.

Businesses can now benefit from reduced overheads and increased employee retention, while enabling users to adopt more flexible and productive work patterns.

Portable IP remote workers - Featureplus
Featureplus is a hosted telephony solution designed for small and home offices but is equally useful for large corporates with geographically diverse or mobile workers.

Feature Plus works across any standard broadband connection and provides an Internet based phone with a fixed landline number that is both portable and unrestricted by geographic location. Simply take your phone and its number wherever you go.

With Feature Plus an employee working between Scotland and London can maintain a London 0203 number regardless of location. No configuration or setup is required, just plug your phone into any broadband connection and it will connect with your number.

Featureplus also provides complete online control of your telephone service and features such as call forwarding, call transfer and voicemail to email, you can be sure that you will never lose a call, whatever you are doing, wherever you are.

Calls are routed over a broadband connection to Network One, so you will benefit from our lower calling costs. Couple this with FREE site-to-site calls and reduced line rentals and you will see a significant reduction of your telephone bills and yet experience improved functionality with your telephone service.

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We can show you how
NTE Limited can provide a free demonstration of the power of Nortel's IP proposition.

In addition, take up our offer of a free technical audit and we can develop a clear picture of precisely what devices you have in your business and what upgrades are necessary to support a multi-site IP communications network. Our technical audit will deliver an IP communications roadmap for your business.

See also unified communications

See also Nortel phone systems

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