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Voice and Data Services
If you like your current phone service, both local and long distance, you can keep them with BR. But if you are like other small and medium sized businesses you want to see what else is possible. Today there are lots of connection options for your business phone system, and for your other business needs.
Telecommunications has certainly changed over just over the past few years. Rates for telephone service – both POTS (plain old telephone service using copper which are typically found at small businesses) or digital service using a digital T1, DSL, other—have all undergone much change. Today these services are lean and mean; made to compete with Voip and other competitors. Add to this a number of carrier options for much of the country and the choices can be intimidating. What is the right solution for your business? What things should I consider before I pick up the phone and talk to my carrier about renewing or changing my service? How do I accurately compare a service from Carrier A with that offered by Carrier B?
Networking a business phone system
There are many options for connecting a phone system to PSTN (public switch telephone network) or to connect your business to the Internet. At Big Ruckus, we have the experience and competence seldom found with just any consultant.
Understanding the options and getting all the right information is not as easy as many believe. For example, there are many ways to provision a T1 like channelized, fractional, voice/data shared, broadband, dry copper, fixed wireless, and on and on. Knowing which vendor provide which service and deciding upon the right options for you is what we’re all about. And since we work for you we’re vendor agnostic so that you get the best deal from pricing to provisioning, quality of service (QOS) to quality of carrier.
New technologies to consider
New technologies and service options are always something to consider as well. Relatively new services like 2BASE-TL, an Ethernet over copper solution, provides extremely large amounts of bandwidth for relatively low cost. Where 2BASETL isn’t available, there are many metro Ethernet options to around. Be they copper, fiber or fixed wireless network service providers, you benefit from tremendous bandwidth, carrier redundancy, affordable Internet bandwidth and much more.
Put our 21 years working in telecommunications and the Internet to work for you today.