Archive for August, 2009

Advantages Disadvantages of VOIP

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

What is the world coming to? Well I can’t really say what the WORLD is coming to but I can tell you that the business world is running towards all facets of Internet Connectivity, faster than you can shake a stick at it.

Businesses are even switching over their telephone systems to be connected to the Internet through something called VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol.

So what advantages does VoIP offer? Well, one of the biggest benefits is the cost savings to the end user. Most business users of VoIP will reap a cost savings of 50% or better by switching from traditional phone systems to VoIP. Long distance is free for the continental United States and there is no need to have a metro number.

The disadvantages of VoIP is the initial cost. Full featured PBX systems can get very expensive costing 10’s of thousands of dollars. However, there is a silver lining in the clouds. KIT Services offers a feature rich hosted PBX solution that is extremely reasonable.

VoIP telephony is one of the fastest growing technologies in the communication industry today. New VoIP companies are starting up like crazy! That’s why you need to choose wisely when choosing your VoIP provider.

KIT Services, Inc. is proud to say that we have partnered with one of the leaders in VoIP technology, Vocalocity. Vocalocity helps the end user take the sting out of the costs of implementing VoIP by providing a hosted PBX solution.

Assuming that your business already has a high speed internet connection and a Local Area Network (even a small one), the only hardware you will need to purchase to get your VoIP solution going is IP Telephones!

VoIP technology has come a long way in a VERY short time. No longer will the person you call hear the staccato sound of you cutting in and out.

To test out the clarity of this fantastic technology and the quality of Vocalocity’s product, call KIT Services, Inc. today at 866.670.5487 or fill in our Contact Page. We will work up a quote for you.

Maintain your hardware

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Have you ever been driving your vehicle down the road when a warning light illuminates on the instrument panel saying “Check Engine”? What is your initial reaction? Do you panic and take it to the repair shop or do you say “Ah…it’ll be alright.”

Well…your “Check Engine” light may have never come on if you had been taking your vehicle in for regularly scheduled maintenance.

Oh sure, you may get lucky and drive another 5,000 or 10,000 miles before you finally break down. On the other hand, your vehicle may not even start the next morning, leaving you stranded. Then you have to call the repair shop, get a tow truck to take the vehicle to the shop, call your office to let them know what happened and possibly even be put in a position to where you have to call all of your appointments to reschedule.

Business waits for no one or anything else for that matter. Business can be a ruthless monster that devours everything in it’s path whether you want it to or not…so what do most people do? They keep their vehicles running smoothly by taking it in for oil changes and regularly scheduled maintenance.

So why wouldn’t you do the same for your business computers and networking equipment? Computers and other networking equipment are nothing more than machines. Machines need to be maintained. If you ignore a piece of machinery long enough, it will fail.

However, literally millions of businesses continue to ignore the warning signs that their computer equipment sends them. The error messages come and go until one day, your PC simply won’t work anymore. The result is the same as if it would be with your vehicle. You call a repairman, an appointment is scheduled and more times than not, you get your PC back running like a top some week or so later. Following the repair, you also get a repair bill that could be mistaken for a vehicle repair bill.

Have you ever stopped to think about how much that repair actually costs you? There are a few different factors to consider including, loss of productivity for your company, loss of employee productivity, loss or delay in receivables causing cash flow issues, delay in providing your deliverables…I could go on but I think you get the picture.

Of course I have taken a long time to get to the point which is, your computer equipment is machinery just like your vehicle that you drive. You MUST keep it tuned up and running efficiently in order to keep your downtime to a minimum.

Here at KIT Services, Inc., we use an extensive set of tools that allows us to keep tabs on your equipment so that we know when it is time to take the necessary precautions to keep your computer equipment running as smoothly as possible.

Check out our 10 Reasons to use a professional technology services provider.

So…call us now or fill out our contact form so that we can discuss how KIT Services, Inc. can help your company attain it’s goals through the use of technology.

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