Is company size important when deploying VoIP?
A question that often plagues IT managers is the optimum organisational size for considering VoIP implementations. Many vendors though state that this is an irrelevant consideration. “Time, geographical location and size are not barriers to investing in IP in terms of laying the foundation,” asserts Mitel’s El-Amili. Any business, small or large, public or private will not survive against the competition without taking the early steps of IP adoption. “Avaya has solutions that are designed and built to cater to every segment of the market. Each segment delivers a compelling solution and value proposition to justify costs in line with meeting customers’ business requirements,” states Avaya’s El-Tawil. El-Hage says: “Scalability, reliability and flexibility should be the deciding factors. You might start with branch communications but eventually your operations will grow and therefore you need to plan for existing reusability where current systems can be redeployed so larger capacity ones
