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April 11, 2006
Audio Conferencing Drives the Disappearance of Business Borders
By TMCnet Special Guest Praful Shah, VP Corporate Development, EagleACD and EagleTeleconferencing
Global telecom infrastructure has revolutionized the way businesses communicate and teleconferencing is now globally accepted as commonplace. The maturity of Global Telephony standards and the quality of service on telecom networks has opened up a new realm of possibilities in service opportunities, efficiencies, management, control, and cost savings. More specifically, telecommunications have brought the corporate global village much closer--making distance irrelevant. The SMB (Small Medium Business) market segment has accelerated international teleconferencing revolution.
Global business borders are opening significantly due to a free trade. Work activities for back office, services, and products are now distributed globally and performed locally. This paradigm shift has created hundreds of millions of road warriors and telecommuters who are trying to balance work and family. Teleconferencing is one of the easy and effective tools that can help them to achieve this goal.
The new Global Delivery Business Model requires constant communications among workers without traveling, except in unusual circumstances, as jobs are dynamically rotated among many workers globally on an as-needed basis. With the massive global teleconferencing infrastructure, costs for international conferencing have become very affordable. Conferencing call service is one of the key, powerful drivers because business objectives can be achieved without a face-to-face meeting. Mobility is now an integral part of business and use of communications intelligently is a necessity.
With more than 75 million companies around the world, the SMB market spends more than $800 billion each year on IT and telecommunications hardware, software and service. According to an AMI-Partners report, dated August 2004; by 2008 that figure is expected to top $1.1 trillion.
Source: AMI-Partners
In today’s competitive business environments, organizations around the world are looking for new and innovative ways to get the most of their meetings. Eagle Teleconferencing's grid type massive network infrastructure, with its global bridge capacity of 25,000 ports, provides over 10 billion minutes of annual calling traffic facility. To unleash the full power of scalability, Eagle Teleconferencing also has a worldwide network connection infrastructure, and offers a variety of conference options for productivity.
Eagle Teleconferencing is a full service audio teleconferencing company supporting busy international professionals, telecommuters, and road warriors. Eagle Teleconferencing is making easier and far more cost effective to collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers locally and globally. The audio conferencing industry is on the trajectory to more economic contributions as global productivity evolves and matures.
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Praful Shah is a seasoned telecom professional with diversified telecom management and operations experience. Currently, he is the VP-of Corporate Development at EagleACD and EagleTeleconferencing. He has held increasingly responsible positions, first in R&D at Johnson & Johnson (where he was awarded a patent for his work) and Bell Labs. Then, he shifted to marketing roles at AT&T (News - Alert) including the development of marketing strategies for Europe, India and the Middle East, video on demand for the US market and finally global data and voice network operations, establishing contracts with various telephone companies. His volunteer works includes designing, developing and implementing Computer Technology Park and Outsourcing Center for disabled youngsters in India. He has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Rider University. (source: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/conference-call-audio-web/articles/944-audio-conferencing-drives-disappearance-business-borders.htm)
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