Next-Generation Cisco Unified Communications Platform Accelerates Return on Investment

The global economic crisis and rapid economic shifts have forced businesses to review their most basic assumptions. Downsizing has become necessary for survival and for making more optimal use of existing resources. Current conditions, however, have not affected crucial underlying macro trends that have been evident over the past few years: globalization, increasing dependency on value-chain partners, workforce mobility, and the increased velocity of work.

Cisco Unified Communications introduces next-generation features and capabilities that create a new and exciting total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) math: Increasing ROI for deploying a unified communications platform and justifying the acceleration of a current deployment. For example, by implementing just a subset of the new capabilities (for example, IP telephony + Session Initiation Protocol [SIP] trunking), enterprises are experiencing up to a 75- percent reduction in telecom trunking bills compared to those with their traditional TDM systems.

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