USA Voice & Data knows that upgrading your IT or telecom infrastructure can be expensive and can be difficult to achieve, particularly when budgets are being cut and business ownership is looking to minimize capital investments. Businesses find themselves trying to make equipment last for an extra year or two, but when their equipment's life cannot be extended due to a lack of manufacturer support or because of soaring maintenance costs, obtaining the needed capital financing can be difficult.
USA Voice & Data Advisory and Brokering Services provides our clients with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis in order to determine if there may be an opportunity to lower operating costs and subsidize capital upgrade expenditures.
Funding Your Equipment Upgrades
If you are facing budgetary constraints that prevent you from making a necessary upgrade to your IT or telecom infrastructure, then it is time to look at reducing operational costs to free up the necessary capital for your upgrade. We have worked with hundreds of companies just like yours.
USA Voice & Data helps businesses fund necessary upgrades with savings from their ongoing operational telecom spend. Our Advisory and Brokering services typically identify 20% to 40% telecom savings, and these savings have proven repeatedly to be more than enough to finance a major upgrade project. Whether your upgrade involves the implementation of a new IP phone system, the collocation of your core IT infrastructure in a carrier-grade data center, or even the replacement of your servers, desktops and laptops, USA Voice & Data's detailed telecom cost analysis will reveal exactly where unnecessary operational telecom spend can be eliminated.
Converting Capital Costs to Operational Costs
Just as software is now being sold as a service (SaaS), hardware also is now being sold as a service (HaaS) by many managed IT and telecom service providers. This HaaS solution option has transformed many hitherto capital expenses into operational expenses and introduced a number of alternative fully -managed service offerings into an already-crowded telecom marketplace. Within telecom for example, these offerings include Hosted and Premise-based Voice over IP (VoIP) PBX solutions that include options to rent the equipment (or just some of the equipment), thus converting what was going to be a large upfront capital expense into a much smaller monthly operational expense.
USA Voice & Data works with many of the leading national fully-managed Hosted VoIP service providers for those businesses that would rather not invest in an expensive and perhaps soon-to-be outdated phone system. However, if a business would prefer to own and manage its own Premise-based PBX equipment, then we also work with a number of service providers who can include the IT and telecom equipment costs as ongoing operational costs alongside their monthly telecom service charges. In doing so, our clients get the upgrade they are looking for while avoiding the high level of scrutiny that they would have faced were they applying for a regular business loan or line of credit.
Upgrading Your Telecom Services
New telecom technologies such as dynamically integrated T1 circuits, signal compression, (VoIP) and SIP trunks now allow businesses to get significantly more for less. When evaluating new voice services, it is critical that businesses understand what type of services will meet their specific needs and what new technologies can offer.
USA Voice & Data works with all the leading telecom service providers. Because we are fully aware of all the latest telecom technology and service options, we make sure our clients know how to take advantage of service upgrade opportunities and get maximum return for their expenditures.
Upgrading Your Internet Services
New technologies such as second generation DSL, Cable, Ethernet over Copper and Ethernet now allow many businesses to increase their bandwidth without having to increase their monthly expenses. In some cases, these technologies allow a business to even save money while significantly increasing their bandwidth at the same time.
USA Voice & Data works with over 100 different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) allowing us to provide our clients with a tremendous selection of the latest internet service offerings and technologies. When our clients' existing service internet service contracts are due to expire we proactively review their latest needs and advise them on any new savings opportunities or technology upgrades which might make sense for their specific situations.
Upgrading Your Data Network Services
MPLS is the new Wide Area Network (WAN) technology of choice and many companies have already converted their old ATM/Frame Relay and Point-to-Point networks into MPLS networks. MPLS networks provide a business with a secure private IP-VPN WAN with many-to-many connectivity, multiple classes of service and quality of service, all for a fraction of the cost of their traditional data networks.
USA Voice & Data works with all the leading US and Global MPLS service providers. This gives our clients access to a choice of different MPLS providers with a wide range of different MPLS service types (including Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP-VPN solutions) globally. We also work with specialist MPLS providers with solutions specifically for clients with extremely remote locations where adding an MPLS node might be cost prohibitive.