Case study - typical use of VoiceBlue Enterprise for a company with employees travelling abroad

Equipment description:

VoiceBlue Enterprise with 2 or 4 GSM channels, IP PBX installed in the HQ, notebooks for employees, soft phones, head sets

Description of application:

By installing a VoiceBlue Enterprise GSM gateway in your head office you relieve your employees on home or foreign business trips of the necessity to think of their telephone costs.

Imagine a company that sells its products mainly abroad. The employees of such a company travel very often and stay at hotels all around the world. It is very important for these employees to remain connected to the HQ not only for data transfers but also for calling other people at home or in the office without being limited by enormous mobile call costs.

The productivity of such employees can double by an unlimited use of notebooks and telephones and this can bring the company an incredible growth. These days all high-quality hotels offer the ADSL connection from rooms at a minimal cost. An employee comes to the hotel and connects his notebook to a high speed Internet. He can start sending emails and browsing through the Internet instantly. At the same time, his soft phone gets registered to the SIP proxy inside VoiceBlue Enterprise. From this moment on, the employee can call from the soft phone using a head set to any GSM phone in the home country paying just a local GSM - GSM call charge. But this is not the only advantage.

Since VoiceBlue Enterprise is connected to a company IP PBX, the employee can also call his colleagues connected to normal extensions (no matter whether they use IP phones, analog phones or key phones) and the company pays nothing. The employee can also see a list of people whose soft phones are registered at the moment and so he or she can, without any limitation, call colleagues staying at a similar hotel room in another country. As VoiceBlue Enterprise has an in-built web interface for sending SMS, the employee can obviously log on to this website from his notebook and send SMS to friends or relatives without the company paying a fortune for it.

Travelling abroad and doing sales is a quite demanding job and your employees may be closed in a hotel room without seeing their friends and beloved ones for days, maybe weeks. They need to call them quite often, you can't blame them and stop them from doing so. What you can do is minimise the cost of such calls for the company. To do this you need a VoiceBlue Enterprise unit.