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Audio Conference Bridge for Service Providers
Audio Conferencing Bridge for Conferencing Service Providers
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Twelve reasons to buy our audio conferencing bridge
In the age of increasing demand plus diminishing cost per minute for your conferencing service our audio conferencing bridge will help you add more capacity, provide the latest features and stay in the industry with ease
- Our audio conferencing bridge provide the features and solutions your customers require, quickly provide a self service model where your clients can come and use your system in a fully automated manner where they will sign up for conferecing minutes and services enabled right away and start using the audio conferencing system.
- Let it be a fully automated self service model, or you provide operator assisted audio conferencing our audio conferencing bridge can provide you all the features you need using the same infrastructure this is unique in the industry.
- You are not buying into a set of features, what you get is a platform that can be moulded to suit your business requirements and objectives.
- Buying an audio conferencing bridge is half the battle. The biggest issue you would face is to integrate it with your existing business process or setup a new environment that will enable you to provide conferencing services with ease, we can help you reach there with ease. In many cases making sure you have various different call flows for your customers is a very complex requirement this can be very easily acheived using our audio conferencing bridge.
- Create and provide a private labelled web interface on your audio conferencing bridge to your high volume customers, provide them with their company look and feel administration and reporting interface and custom greetings.
- Affordable and easy to maintain system, the more ports you buy the less the cost. We didn't want to adopt the traditional cost per port model, therby making it easy to control your upfront cost when you build up your infrastructure.
- Start small and scale to thousands of ports with ease, span a single conference across multiple audio conferencing bridges
- Start new services like Hosted PBX, IVR, Contact Center solutions using the telecom switching core of the audio conferencing bridge and open up additional revenue streams.
- Flexible billing options provide your clients with customized billing and accounting their usage.
- Stream your clients audio conferences real time through the network or internet.
- Provide Dial Out Conferencing and all the nice to have features as well as recording for no extra cost.
- Active Speaker indicator is another powerful feature that will assist the moderator and operator to identify who is talking and also help in troubleshooting.
Purchase options we provide you with a few choices
- Outright Purchase: This is where you can buy the Audio conferencing equipment from us and we will work with you to integrate into your existing infrastructure and processes like your billing and CRM systems. If required we can provide a new billing and CRM solutions that will suit to your needs. The price is includes licensing, installation, integration and one year of support.
- Hosted Off Premises: Here you will buy certain amount of ports of the Audio conferencing equipment setup to your specification ideally useful in situation to spill over during high capacity requirements. The conferencing bridge will be located in our datacenter and connected to our telecom infrastructure.
- Hosted On Premises: We will installed the Audio conferencing equipment inside your infrastructure, monitor and maintain it for you with options for pay as you go model based on a month basis or usage basis. In this situation you will not have to worry about any up front cost
Features of interest for a conferencing service provider
- The audio conferencing bridge is a fully customizable solution and can be quickly adapted to your needs
- Start small and scale to thousands of ports with ease or even try the hosted option for quality and service before committing to a purchase
- Connect our audio conferencing bridge to Voice over IP and TDM networks with no additional hardware
- Easily integrate our audio conferencing bridge with your call flow requirements, and connect to your existing billing systems
- Manage all the audio conference equipment even geographically dispersed from a single operator console.
- No hidden fees or costs for additional features
- One full year of hardware and software support for the installed environment is included and there are no maintenance fees, however you can buy our annual support options if required.
The components of our Audio Conferencing Solution
On a high level the solution is divided into three parts, it consists of Hardware for Conferencing, Telephony Access Interface, Software and finally Integration. Also we do not price it per port like the traditional bridge providers we give you a pricing model where your cost reduces drastically when you require more capacity.
- Hardware: The Audio Conferencing Bridge resides on any industry standard server, we provide the recommendations considering your requirements in terms of capacity, redundancy, reliability etc
- Telephony Access Interface: Depending on your access requirements we will determine the appropriate interface cards, the system supports T1/E1, ISDN PRI, SIP, H323 and IAX2 connections.
- Software: We use asterisk as the base software component for conferencing and provide the wrapper we have developed that extends asterisk into providing a full featured audio conferencing bridge
Typical installation scenarios
- Coexist with your existing systems and connect to your T1/E1 terminations as well as VoIP
- Install our system for new services or for self service model.
- SIP terminations for Voice over IP and interface directly to TDM network using T1/E1 or DS3 interfaces
- Scale out to multiple audio conferencing bridges creating a load balanced conferencing farm and still be able to span a single conference across bridges
How much does it cost or what is the cost per port?
We do not go with the traditional model adopted by other teleconferencing bridge providers of costing the bridge on a per port basis, we do not want to limit you for capacity requirements.
There are a few variables that have to be determined before we can arrive at a price for our system to you. The final price is calculated by considering these three variables, namely Hardware, Software and Integration
- Hardware: We need to understand your hardware requirements in terms of the capacity required for audio conferencing, your reliability requirements. Since we use industry standard servers we wil provide you the recommandations and want you to procure it from your regular supplier. Also we need to determine the type of telecom access required, T1/E1, SIP etc
- Software: The cost of the software is again determined by understanding your requirements, however we have flexiable per server or site licensing options available. The site licensing mode is very attractive for high capacity requirements where your per port cost is reduced drastically.
- Integration: Finally and not the least the integration costs differ from client to client.
How scalable is our solution?
We understand as a conferencing service provider you are concerned about the scalability of the system, we scale out laterally to thousands of conferencing ports and a single conference can span multiple bridges setup in the conferencing farm. Give us a call to discuss about this in more detail