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the wired network providing automatic 24–7
redundancy, without the time and cost associated Connect and Communicate
Inc.
by Christina Richards, Vice with installing redundant fiber networks.
Save money by extending the life President of Marketing, AOptix
Alternately, the same wireless technology can
Constant Connectivity be deployed rapidly on an ad-hoc basis for
of your existing equipment.
immediate and short-term needs, such as a site
– Mitigating
location change, or if a disaster or emergency
damages a facility.
Offline Risk among
Though fiber will likely remain the foundation
of the enterprise communications infrastructure A1’s repair services will save you money by increasing
for quite some time, new high-capacity wireless the life of your equipment. Our technicians are fully Enterprises
technologies like Composite Optical-RF provide I
an important and needed alternative in situations where fiber is economically impractical or trained in the planning, configuration, programming n today’s hyper-connected and highly
physically impossible. It also provides service and installation of telecom systems. In addition, all competitive business environment,
providers and resellers with new and significant repairs are backed by a two-year warranty.
enterprises need to support a myriad of
opportunities to address the needs of unserved or data and telephony applications just to remain
underserved markets.
viable. Every day, hour, and even minute
in the workplace comes down to revenue ISO 9001
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infrastructure to make that possible, including see: www.aoptix.com
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email, phone, virtual private networks, and
otherwise. Any and all trademark rights associated with the manufacturers’ names and products are owned by the respective manufacturers.
cloud communications. Most importantly, these
connections must be always online, as every IntelliSIP
minute a network is down is a minute of revenue TM
potentially lost.
Among U.S.-based enterprises, fiber is the
preferred technology to reduce offline risk. Fiber
offers a strong combination of high capacity and
high availability, and can be deployed over very The
long distances. When available, fiber is often the
top choice to transport data between cell towers,
enterprises and even homes.
However, fiber has several significant
drawbacks, especially for the enterprise market. Intelligent
Existing fiber is costly to lease, and not always
available. Trenching for new fiber is time-
consuming, environmentally disruptive, and Way to Grow
obtaining right-of-way is often problematic if not
impossible. New fiber also requires a significant
upfront investment in permits, civil engineering,
and the months required to dig up streets for Your Telecom
installation.
This presents a problem to companies who
are in dire need of high capacity bandwidth,
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but don’t have the means to create the required
infrastructure. And there is a desperate need
for higher capacity among enterprises –
approximately 750,000 enterprise sites across the
U.S. do not have fiber access, but are in need of
gigabits of capacity.
As a result, service providers are turning to alternative solutions to provide high bandwidth
and high availability where fiber isn’t an option. Make Industry Leading Commissions
Solutions that can deliver fiber-like performance Add a New Recurring Revenue Stream
in a wireless solution are particularly appealing.
Unfortunately, traditional wireless offerings Cut Every Customer’s Phone Bill by up to 70%
have been unable to deliver the performance,
availability and range required; for this reason, It’s a Win-Win Proposition
new wireless solutions based on Composite They Get New Features and a Lower Phone Bill
Optical-RF (COR) technologies are a potential
industry game changer. It puts multi-gigabit You Get a New Recurring Revenue Stream
capacity and five-nines availability within reach
of the hundreds of thousands of businesses
that currently do not have fiber. And with no Up to 40 Million Lines will Convert to VoIP by 2015
trenching required, it is significantly more
affordable and can be deployed more far more Don’t Miss the Boat!
rapidly than fiber.
Composite Optical-RF (COR) is a technology
that combines light-frequency data transmission
(Free Space Optics) with radio-frequency data transmission (Millimeter-Wave RF) into a
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composites the two data streams to dramatically
increase the overall availability of the system,
creating for the first time a wireless technology
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availability across longer range.
Avaya, Toshiba, Panasonic,
And expanding enterprise capacity is not the
only application of the technology: it is also ideal Microsoft Lync Express by Sangoma
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in situations where path diversity is needed for
mission critical services. For organizations that
rely on fiber infrastructure, a network outage can
have severe operational, financial or even safety
implications. Composite Optical-RF (COR)
technology can mitigate the risks associated
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with wired network infrastructure since it can
be deployed permanently in conjunction with

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