If you are involved in network infrastructure professionally, you know the importance of routing and switching – or more specifically, the selection of the most appropriate network routers, switches and other connectivity devices. You also then know that the right or wrong selection here can mean the difference between a VoIP solutions network that is always up and one that is plagued with problems.
As officials of Teo say, “the selection of equipment must be appropriate for your size, the amount of time that you want to be up, and the amount that you want to pay.”
That might sound like common sense there, but you’d be amazed how many companies sail into the rocks by ignoring one or more of those principles. There are a number of products out there, and a number of set-ups to consider.
A good VoIP solutions network infrastructure provider will design and implement wireless products that will allow for both centralized and distributed forwarding at the same time, Teo claims. Drawing on their own products as examples, they say that based on requirements of the underlying applications, “this results in optimized traffic flows, radically reduced latency, massive scalability, and low total cost of ownership.”
Depending on whether a VoIP solution is designed for a smaller branch office, large enterprise customers or data centers, check its capability to actively track assets and locate people, equipment, expensive assets, vehicles, and Wi-Fi enabled devices such as laptops, PDAs and Wi-Fi phones.
Teo also includes as a feature in their products called Active Asset that does just that. Its scalability offers real-time tracking and monitoring of a large numbers of devices to safeguard against the potential loss of equipment and people.
Active Asset, as company officials explain, allows enterprises to use a configurable and extensible data models to support multiple asset types such as people, equipment, handsets and other mobile devices. It even lets users determine their physical location down to a specific room on a specific floor, avoid “floor hopping” with accurate and precise asset tracking and, among other capabilities, monitor all 802.11 devices in and around your facilities, 24×7.
Last autumn, TMCnet reported that Teo and Bergelectric, a national electrical engineering contractor, formed a partnership for the provision of communications services to wind farm operators.
According to officials, initial deployment had already begun at two sites by the time of the announcement in September. The location of wind turbines and the remoteness of most sites have hampered communication, yet the new partnership between Teo and Bergelectric was created to outfit each wind turbine with Internet access, as well as telephone services as it is equipped with Enhanced 911 or E911 technology.
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David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.Edited by Jamie Epstein