“Networking and communications are a crucial part of the overall IoT business solution, even if they are likely to represent only a fraction of the cost of IoT projects. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication services are mature and have been around for years; however, not all providers are equipped to deal with the complexities introduced by IoT. Elements that influence the cost and choice of service providers include:

• The number of endpoints covered by the communication services
• The volume of data transmitted
• The networking technology adopted — standards are evolving, and new and cheaper options are becoming available
• The geographical spread — add-on services to coordinate initiatives that span across multiple geographies are starting to emerge
• The disaster recovery capabilities
• Signaling
• Communication gateways for initiatives involving multiple, nonhomogeneous endpoints
• Billing requirements
• Reliability and SLAs on latency or other characteristics on the service

Service providers are increasingly broadening their offerings to include adjacent services, such as device and system management, application management, security management, analytics and reporting, and program and financial management. Some of these activities overlap with other opex in our budgetary list.

Downtime

As complex as this may be, organizations should think what the cost of downtime for their IoT projects would be to determine the risk of investing in the initiative.

Incremental Value of IoT Initiatives

At times, the full potential of your IoT project will be realized incrementally over several implementation phases, beginning with the benefits that result from the more-localized capabilities that are subsequently expanded via ever-tighter integration with back-end systems and data. This needs to be considered, as organizations try to determine the cost and ROI of their initiatives.”

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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking

• The number of SIP trunks grew by 83% in 2012.
• 13% of firms are using SIP for 100 percent of their WAN traffic. By 2018, 42% of firms will send 100% of their traffic over SIP trunks.
• 80% of business with 20,000 employees say SIP is very important. 80% of businesses with 100-500 employees say the same.
• For the majority of businesses using SIP trunking, the connection with the PBX is made natively; while for only 31%, the connection is made via premises-based enterprise SBCs.
• The percentage of respondent companies saying they use SIP trunking grows from 38% now to 58% in 2015, while the percentage using T1 lines declines from 71% now to 55% in 2015.
• With up to 70% cost savings at stake, small and medium businesses are taking a serious look at SIP.
• By next year, Gartner predicts that 50 percent of U.S. business exchange lines will be SIP-based.

VoIP Transition and Reliability

• A recent survey of decision-makers involved in the selection of SIP trunking providers showed that quality problems are very rare.
  • 57% of survey respondents started looking into VoIP systems in 2014Only 1 respondent out of 208 reported being dissatisfied with call quality.
  • 17% percent cited lack of reliability as the primary reason why they were switching to VoIP.
  • Only 6 percent had IT job titles.
  • 14 percent of businesses without full-time IT on staff ran into networking issues with VoIP technology, even with multiple sites in their voice networks. This finding suggests that it’s eminently feasible for businesses without IT personnel to deploy VoIP technology successfully.
  • 77 percent wanted hosted systems.
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• In some cases, installing VOIP services for one person can be as easy as inserting a $15 to $20 pre-programmed dongle into a USB port in your desktop or laptop.
• 39% of employees are resistant to change.
• Quality of Service (QoS) protocols—evaluate disruptive factors like jitter, latency, and delay, and guarantee that certain resource levels are allocated to voice traffic.

VoIP and Customer Service

• 92% of 1,000 consumers surveyed in the 2015 U.S. State of Multichannel Customer Service Report say they now expect a brand or organization to offer a self-service customer support page or portal.
  • 61% have a more favorable view of the brand or organization if its online self-service offering is mobile responsive.
  • More than half of consumers now expect a response from a brand or organization within 24 hours.
  • Customers are more likely to praise a brand for great service on social media rather than complain about a poor customer service experience.
• Today, 88% of all businesses believe that they deliver “excellent” customer experience.
  • Unfortunately, only 8% of their customers believe the same thing. Such misjudgments of customer expectations can significantly impact the bottom line.
  • Brands that consistently delivered better customer experiences over the past five years produced a cumulative return of 22%.
  • The level of complexity within an operator’s network is more pronounced now than ever before.
  • By 2020 there will be 25 billion connected devices.
• With global smartphone use expected to reach two billion in 2015, it is crucial for businesses to adapt to their customers’ communication preferences.
  • 53 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 preferred electronic media (email, social media, text messaging, web chat, etc.) over traditional phone calls for customer service support.
• 87 percent said that brands must work harder to create a seamless experience for customers.
• 70% of contact centers plan to expand the use of virtual agents in 2015.

VoIP Security

• Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) lifts the lid on what’€™s really happening in cybersecurity.

It’s all in the numbers.

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“You’ve likely read A LOT of information – much of it anecdotal – about the benefits Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service and why businesses should (and are) make the switch from traditional phone service.

Unfortunately, anecdotes, while informative and interesting, don’t always make for a strong business case – especially if you have to present this business case to your partners, managers, or executive team.

Just the facts, please

We understand that. So, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most compelling statistics – the numbers, the cold, hard facts, the down and the dirty, if you will – that you can use to build your business case for VoIP.

VoIP Cost Savings

• Dell used its mobile workforce to save $39.5 million and cut carbon pollution via telecommuting.
• Businesses see average savings of between 50% and 75% after switching to VoIP.
• Integrated voice and Web conferencing can result in a 30 percent reduction in conferencing expenses
• Approximately 31% of all businesses use VoIP systems due to its productivity-boosting and cost-saving features. The reduced communication expenses and logistical benefits help companies gain a competitive edge over businesses that remain on the PSTN.
• A recent case study featured in PC World found that a business with 30 phone users reaped $1,200 in monthly savings when switching to VoIP.
• The median price for new wireless VoIP handsets is around $100 dollars, which is a bit more expensive than entry-level POTS phones. However, the reduced operating cost that VoIP offers goes great lengths to help offset this.
• Landline phone system typically costs businesses an average of $50 per line each month, and that rate only includes local and sometimes domestic calling. Monthly VoIP plans are available at under $25 dollars per line – a 50% savings over a POTS line. an price for new wireless VoIP handsets is around $100 dollars, which is a bit more expensive than entry-level POTS phones.
• Switching to VoIP can save small businesses as much as 45 percent each month over traditional phone service.
• Soft phones resulted in average savings of $1,727 per month in cell phone and long distance charges.

VoIP and Productivity

• Unified messaging saved employees 43 minutes per day due to more efficient message management while mobile workers saved 55 minutes per day.
• UC can save companies with 100 employees up to 191 company-wide hours per day, 49,660 hours/year, and up to $920,000 per year in productivity.
• Companies that invested in technology that allows their employees the flexibility to work remotely saw productivity rise by almost 20%.
• Organizations with unified communications, including VoIP, saved an average of 32 minutes per day per employee because it enabled staff to reach one another on the first try.

VoIP Growth

• The global mobile VoIP (mVoIP) market to grow at an impressive CAGR of around 28% during the forecast period, 2016-2020.
• The global market for UC and VoIP services will reach $88 billion by 2018.
  • There will be 1 billion VoIP users by 2017.
• Telecoms are losing an average of 700,000 landline customers per month.
• The number of seats for hosted business VoIP will double between 2012 and 2016.
• Combined business/residential VoIP market to grow to $76.1B during 2015.
• The number of VoIP phone lines is expected to reach 83 million by the end of 2015.
• It’s projected that the VoIP services market will expand 10% every year until 2021.
• Experts project that by the end of the year 2018 only 6% of the U.S. population will still be using the traditional landline phone network.
• According to Information Week, 70% of companies indicated they have deployed UC in the cloud or plan to do so.
• 62% of survey respondents say improved employee collaboration is a top business driver for UC.

VoIP and Mobility

• The global mobile VoIP (mVoIP) market to grow at an impressive CAGR of around 28% during the forecast period, 2016-2020.
• In 2013, 29 percent of the global workforce was considered anytime, anywhere workers.
• According to The Connected Executive, Forbes Insights, 2016 will see the tipping point in mobile technology use: 51% of organizations are expected to be doing business primarily over mobile devices.
  • Mobile VoIP users are expected to reach 1 billion by the year 2017.

• Mobile workers also saved 40 minutes each day and generated annual productivity gains of 3.5 days per year. “

 

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My Dad,

Was a factory worker who wanted the best for us and he worked hard to give us a life without struggle. He also worked hard to instill values, manners, respect and love. Love for ourselves, our family and others. He wasn’t perfect, and I was FAR from a good kid! As with all parent child relationships we had struggles, but the man I am today is molded from those lessons that love and those struggles. .

You Can Always Talk to Dad

Since I was little, my father always made sure I understood that I could talk to him about anything. He tried to stay involved. I look back now in laughter, but little things allow me to go to my dad now with everything from work gripes to money questions to life and love advice, and I know that he will try to help me as best as he can, always ready with (very) honest answers and nonjudgmental feedback.

Family Matters

My dad’s first priority is his family. Everything he does and every thought he has is for our well-being. We try to keep the family closely knit with frequent visits and phone calls and no one can come between us.

Work Hard

I grew up hearing that there is no excuse for not doing your best job and working to constantly be better. I saw dad get up at 3:30 am sometimes for work and taught me that if you work hard, you will be OK – no matter what happens. You will sleep with a clear conscience knowing that you did all you could do, and ultimately, by being true to your values, and your self good things will continue to come your way.

Believe in Yourself

In order to achieve your dreams, you need to believe that you can accomplish them. Even the slightest bit of self-doubt can throw your goals off track, so keep you head high and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to.

Never Listen to Other People

While you are believing in yourself, there are sure to be people who will try to discourage or even sabotage you. This is just jealousy on their part, surfacing because you have the strength to pursue your dreams. Naysayers should be ignored. Life is too short to worry about what other people think.

If Someone Tells You No, Ask Someone Else

My dad, was told “no” often.  “No” for jobs, “no” for loans, “no” for everything. But he never gave up and kept asking and found that first person to say “yes” – and that’s all it took! He made sure that each time I got knocked down he was there to help me up so I learned that I could eventually get up and do it again all on my own.

Enjoy The Little Things

My father doesn’t need (or like) Rolex watches or elaborate vacations or fancy gadgets. In fact, the things he goes crazy over are the little things – a bird in the backyard, a well-grilled steak, an IMAX movie, even Big Mouth Billy Bass. He can laugh for hours enjoying simple pleasures rather than surrounding himself in luxuries, and that has helped me to feel fulfilled by the little things in life.

 

Stand Up For Yourself

A pacifist, my father is not. One thing that he does not do is let people walk all over him. He has his pride and his honor and he taught me to stand up for myself and others whenever I have encountered something unjust. He helped to infuse my self-esteem and taught me to speak my mind, while also diplomatically picking my battles.

Love With All of Your Heart

Every time before I hang up, or leave my dad tells me he loves me. I know that his whole heart is in those three little words. In turn, I try to carry that sort of warmth and sincerity into my other relationships so that the people closest to me know how much I care about them. My dad makes sure I never need to question his love for me, for there is no time to leave people guessing about their importance to you.”

I apologize I stole the platform again today. This post may not be informative about Telecom and Data but I hope the reminder of some of the lessons our fathers teach, or have taught us informative enough for the day

Good luck today Dad.  You got this!

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