Is Skype a viable option for business use? No but the desire to have skype on the mobile phone identifies a market need that the cellular gateway, the aGATE fulfills. With one touch on your mobile phone you can make calls through the aGATE cellular trunking connected to your PBX without burning mobile minutes. How? A multichannel cellular gateway offers free mobile-to-mobile calls because the calls are all on-net. There are no handoffs to other networks; the entire call is carried on a single network where it starts. It offers better QoS than Skype. MOS scores approach ISDN quality. Skype uses peer-to-peer hopping from the computers and devices signed onto skype. That's not very secure. Quality can be deterioriated and unpredicatble. Skype limits you to calling only other Skypers. The multi-channel cellular gateway supports business voice standards,and is in the same market space as VoIP solutions. Compared to Skype, it has lower OPEX, better QoS and is designed from the start to integrate with a PBX using SIP, h.323, T1/E1 and it delivers daily CDR's to prove the calls are free. And with the one-X mobile app loaded on the phone, calls can all be made with the push of a button.
The trend is away from desk phones, away from the desk
The trend is toward Mobility
Avaya has two free one-X mobile apps for the the iPhone that make it possible to dial in and out of the corporate switch with the touch of a button.
Tomorrow, the cellphone will connect to the PBX 100% over the wireless cellular network itself. No wireline interconnect, no minutes to pay. Just mobile to mobile, unlimited. Talk until the battery quits!
It's simple. Take 300 cell phone users who spend 60 dollars a month. We can cut it to 30 dollars. I won't mention the big spenders– some of them cost a lot more than 60. You just saved 9 thousand a month for the company. Paid for the aGate in just a few months. And the savings go on, month after month.
There's two applications for the product: failover and LCR With the aGate they are now better protected against outage Once a month like clockwork their landline goes down but now the sales department can keep on talking thru the avaya system
Avaya leads in integrating cell phones with voice infrastructure. One-X mobile is the solution. Put aGate together with Avaya, and you have the best in class mobility with lower monthly costs than any solution on the market. Not even Cisco comes close!