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Abilita, Inc. Opens Two New Office Locations in Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, MO

Abilita, Inc. Opens Two New Office Locations in Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, MO

Fort Worth, TX (PRWEB) February 13, 2009

Abilita, a leading nationwide telecommunications consulting company announced today the opening of two more locations in Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, MO.

This brings to a total of 6 new locations in the past 2 months and reflects Abilita’s goal of strategic growth in both new and existing markets.

According to Craig Sweet, CEO and an Abilita co-founder, the growth exhibited by the addition of these offices continues to reflect the market demand for experienced consultants to provide auditing, optimization, architecture and management of telecommunications projects and services.

About Abilita

Abilita is a leading full service independent telecommunications and technology consulting company serving the needs of a wide range of clients across North America. Abilita consultants provide specialized knowledge to our clients and continuously monitor developments in the industry to keep them well informed and ahead of the curve. Abilita’s clients look to us to help them achieve greater cost efficiencies and improved performance for all their telecommunications needs – voice, data, and wireless. For additional information on Abilita, please visit our web site at http://www.abilita.com.

Abilita Contact

Craig Sweet

817-498-7295

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Hosted PBX VoIP – Virtual Office Benefits

Hosted VoIP PBX, the virtual office phone service is an extremely beneficial telecommunication alternative for small and medium-sized business firms and home-office professionals. With its high-end communication capabilities, the hosted PBX VoIP phone system enables round-the-clock communication with customers and business associates even from distant locations.

Gain Virtual Office Benefits

By equipping your small business office with a hosted PBX VoIP phone system, outbound calls to national and international locations can be made at reasonable rates, and this significantly lowers your telecommunication expenses. Moreover, several extensions can be maintained from an existing telephone connection, helping business expansion in a cost-effective manner. Using virtual phone numbers, business branches can be opened in many places without creating physical offices.

Sophisticated Communication Features

The hosted PBX VoIP phone system has stylish call management features identical to expensive premise-based systems maintained by multinationals. These include automatic call distribution, voicemail, call waiting, voice to e-mail, auto attendant, fax to e-mail, call conferencing and so on. With the hosted PBX VoIP, customers just need to call a single phone number and dial one extension to reach any staff, wherever he or she is located.

These diverse functions can be incorporated into your existing phone connection without installing any expensive onsite PBX hardware. The service providers maintain all required equipment at their premises and offer you PBX phone functions at affordable monthly charges using broadband Internet.

Execute Business Functions from Distant Locations

The auto attendant receives incoming calls with professionally recorded greetings. For instantly connecting calls to appropriate destinations, callers are presented with a menu of options including dial-by-name, dial-by extension and more. It effortlessly manages several calls incoming together and executes call routing without transmitting busy signals.

Through the sophisticated find-me/follow-me call forwarding option, business calls can be answered on your personal phone numbers including cell phones and home landlines assigned as extensions. This flexibility enables your employees to work from convenient locations and remarkably increases their efficiency. Calls that remain unattended are managed by the voicemail system, permitting callers to place voice messages. Voice messages can be verified on your e-mail account and this enables you to take decisions on business matters even while traveling.

All these virtual office benefits of the hosted PBX VoIP provide your small business organization with a Fortune 500 company image.

Office space consolidation is a great idea, regardless of the economy

Office space consolidation is a great idea, regardless of the economy. When dealing with subleasing or selling the space, however, there are a few issues you should take into consideration regarding the physical and logical segregation of your IT infrastructure.

Regarding your business, consider the following: Have you conducted an IT assets audit? A network security audit? We recommend performing an IT assets/network security audit annually and whenever major changes occur–office moves, consolidations, prior to switching accounting systems, after mass layoffs, et cetera.

Other points for consideration:

When you move your employees/staff, are you organizing them by current lines of business or future growth strategies? Make sure to leave room for staff growth, as the last thing you’d want to do is constrain your business expansion plans. An office consolidation is a disruption in your business processes. Are you poised to take advantage of it? This is a great opportunity to re-evaluate your technology needs and increase productivity. For instance, if your PCs are three to five years old, this is a great time to look at upgrading or replacing older, slower systems. And if your staffs have become more mobile, you may be better off switching over to laptops. Also, if you have legacy servers in your wiring closet or IT room, have you considered consolidating them into smaller, faster servers? Server virtualization is a great way to combine several separate systems into one or two physical systems.

When it comes to subleasing, consider the following:

Is your wiring plant (the network and telephone cables that run throughout your space and converge into the telephone closet or IT room) set up such that you can physically isolate and segregate the network and telecommunications jacks in the sublease space into their own switches? What about Internet access for the subtenants? Will they share yours, or can you segregate them and put them on their own DSL or cable modem circuit? Does your telephone system allow you to bill separately for the phones in the sublease space? Or will you charge the tenants a flat rate? Will the subtenants be allowed off-hours access to the space? What about access to the IT closet? Will the tenants have access to your printers or faxes? We find that Sharing high-end color printers, scanners, plotters, et cetera can be a real Challenge, especially if these resources are set up in the default “we Trust all network traffic modes”. Does your office have wifi (wireless Internet) access? If so, have you locked it down and secured it? Does it allow unfettered access to your network assets or is the wireless traffic shunted to an untrusted zone? Will you allow your subtenants access to your wireless network? Allow them to set up their own?

Finally, if you are selling off space, consider the following issues:

When selling off space, you must absolutely ensure that the network and telecom wiring is segregated off your network. If you can partition or physically isolate your IT closet, great. If not, you may have to get those cables re-run into a new IT closet/IT space. For a whole host of security, reliability and compliance reasons, you must ensure that no one in the sold-off space can access your network and telephone systems. You cannot control what the buyers will do in their space, so you must ensure that your wired and wireless networks, servers and desktops are safe and secure.

Overall, to maximize ROI, when performing changes to your IT infrastructure, pay attention to the operating expenses, not just capital expenditures. Over time, reasonable investments in capex can lead to significant decreases in opex.