We've recently migrated from real telephone service at work to VOIP.
Really not sure why since I can't see much in the way of cost savings to make up for the loss in reliability, especially since we're actually paying to lease these cheap Cisco phones that can be purchased for less than a hundred bucks each. But then what do I know? I'm only a fiscal guy who deals with numbers all day long.
Sound quality is very tinny, so degraded service quality is also a part of the deal.
Another disadvantage is that when the network went down, you always had a phone as a backup. That will no longer be the case and we don't have anything close to 95% network reliability.
So far, I'm not too impressed and I think that the IT folks got sold a bill of goods by a vendor and they in turn retailed it to the senior decision makers.
We'll see how this probably permanent experiment works out.
I'm thankful to be very close to that permanent vacation known as retirement.
Really not sure why since I can't see much in the way of cost savings to make up for the loss in reliability, especially since we're actually paying to lease these cheap Cisco phones that can be purchased for less than a hundred bucks each. But then what do I know? I'm only a fiscal guy who deals with numbers all day long.
Sound quality is very tinny, so degraded service quality is also a part of the deal.
Another disadvantage is that when the network went down, you always had a phone as a backup. That will no longer be the case and we don't have anything close to 95% network reliability.
So far, I'm not too impressed and I think that the IT folks got sold a bill of goods by a vendor and they in turn retailed it to the senior decision makers.
We'll see how this probably permanent experiment works out.
I'm thankful to be very close to that permanent vacation known as retirement.