Benefit's of having an In-house enterprise audio conferencing bridge

Business owners and network managers encounter overbooked meeting rooms and employees require an effective tool to communicate rapidly, implementing an audio conference system into your organization provides you a solution.

If any company is incurring high expenses for conference calls using external conferencing service providers or if you have employees spread around in multiple locations, use our audio conference bridge for the following reasons.

• Save money on conferencing compared to your current costs to an outside service provider
• Enable Audio Conference Bridge use without worry about per minute fees.
• Extend the conferencing and collaboration culture across the enterprise, so other departments like service and support, development etc can use the facility to communicate and increase productivity.
• Users of the conference bridge come together and collaborate in moments notice making decision making faster and project completed on time.
• Secure environment to discuss your business and strategies compared to using a third party audio conference bridge provider.
• Leverage the telecom switching platform that is the core of the conference bridge and extend it to host telecom applications like connecting remote offices, PBX, IVR and contact center solutions.

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Reasons to consider our audio conferencing bridge for your enterprise

• The system installs on industry standard personal computer and use Linux operating system. This makes it very cost effective to maintain in your environment.
• Low price point for entry and to provide audio conferencing in your organization.
• Every aspect of the bridge function and features are easily customizable.
• Personalized interface including company logo, message prompts and branding of the user interface
• Scalable to the conference requirement of small, medium and large businesses. The capacity is only limited to the server resource availability.
• One time licensing cost and no port or channel limitations
• The audio conference bridge provides your clients with a web interface to use and manage their own conference. Conference control and administration available over intranet and internet
• Interface with ease with your existing PBX systems using T1/E1, ISDN PRI interface and/or use SIP/H323 protocols.
• The audio conference solution's core is a telecom switching layer. This capability can be utilized to host other telecom applications like PBX, IVR systems using the same infrastructure

How Scalable is our audio conference solution for the enterprise?

The conference bridge call capacity is limited only by server capacity. The solution is installed on industry standard servers. You have the option to install and make it functional on a server that has limited resources or implement it on fault tolerant redundant servers that can support hundreds of users the choice is yours.

Our audio conference bridge is state-of-the-art and built to last, it's a long-term high-return investment. Unlike other systems that max out at a certain call capacity, we can expand with ease to include thousands of ports seamlessly, scaling out, upgrading the configuration for smooth growth, linking systems together without losing quality or efficiency. Single conferences can span multiple systems.

Connectivity options for in-house enterprise audio conferencing system:

The audio conference bridge is installed and interface to the PBX system using a T1/E1 trunk line. if the PBX supports IP, the audio conference bridge can connect using SIP or H.323. The conference bridge interface directly to T1/E1 lines from service providers as well this is useful when there are not enough capacity on your current PBX system.

Features of the Audio Conference System for the Enterprise

The enterprise version of the audio conference bridge is defined with a set of features required for proper functioning in an enterprise, however the system is highly customizable where features can be added and customized to user requirements.

The audio conference bridge includes a browser based interface for the users to self managed the conferences as well as for the administrator to manage and monitor the functioning of the bridge. The browser based interface enables the bridge to be managed from anywhere using IP access.

Users dial in and input their PIN into an interactive voice response system.

Conferences can be configured to limited or unlimited seats with no access restrictions

Two user levels available in an enterprise can be defined under departments and individuals, any number of conferences can be created for each individual.

Reservation less conference setup where the conference is available for use always

PIN based conference room access option for variable length PIN, custom PIN as well as PIN expiration available as options

Sub conference for side discussions using keypad.

Dial-out conferencing, the host can call and bring a participant into conference using keypad.

Extended keypad command set used when web dashboard access is not an option

Custom greetings and private labeling of the interface with your company logo

Recording of conference proceeding by host and later available for download

A full control meeting dashboard available to the host including active talker indicator, the list of participants, connect times, option to lock, mute and disconnect participants.

Two conference mode conversation and presentation

Extensive Conference specific settings

• Start recording automatically when conference starts
• Type of entry announcement when entering/leaving conference
• Announce number of conference members currently in conference
• Play music while only one conference member or while waiting for admin
• Prompt conference members for a second pin/password when logging in
• Only start conference once host enters
• End conference when host exits

Reporting view details on attendees' participation in individual conferences, and their call activity. Generate call detail reports, including specific account codes, call participants, call times and duration of calls, in order to bill the appropriate parties.

Conference Call Data Records available online, and in downloadable format for billing and charge back purposes.