Thriving in the Economic Downturn

In the current economic climate, business owners are looking to cut costs, enhance business efficiency and improve their control over their business. Telarus has been expanding its range of products and services to support these requirements, focusing on delivering innovative yet affordable solutions for businesses of all sizes.

We are going through a significant period of change in terms of IT and telecommunications technology at present. These changes offer the potential for significant benefits to Australian businesses, however it is critical to make the right decisions. In the current climate, making the right technology decisions could mean the difference between flourishing and collapse.

Telarus takes the time to consult with customers in order to tailor a solution that best meets the individual needs of their business. Armed with an impressive array of industry leading products and services we are well placed to assist.

Key technologies to consider during this period are:

• Video Conferencing
• Unified Communications
• Cloud Computing

Video Conferencing

Telarus has partnered with LifeSize, the market leader in HD Video Conferencing to deliver solutions to our customers. Being IP based, LifeSize video conferencing solutions can cater for inter-office video conferencing via a Telarus VPN as well as enabling video conferencing to customers, suppliers and business partners via the Internet.

LifeSize offers better performance than their competitors at any bandwidth. We are able to offer better than DVD quality in just 384Kb/s, HD (720p) in just 768Kb/s and Full HD (1080p, Blu-ray Quality) in just 1.7Mb/s. In short, you don’t need to spend a fortune on your network to enable HD Video Conferencing with LifeSize.

As the Telarus MPLS network supports IP QoS (Quality of Service), video conferencing traffic between offices will be able to share your network with other services (e.g. email, file access, terminal services and web browsing) without sacrificing video quality.

As easy as making a phone call, HD video conferencing increases business productivity and makes costly and time-consuming interstate and international meetings a thing of the past.

Unified Communications

Telarus has enjoyed strong partnerships with both Mitel and Zultys, industry leaders in VoIP and Unified Communications, for a number of years. Both vendors offer systems that scale from small single site businesses up to very large enterprises with a wide array of powerful features that can be licensed as required.

Leveraging the power of Unified Communications we can help you to enhance service levels through improved call handling, cut costs by sharing reception duties across multiple sites, improve business efficiency through fast and effective collaboration and enable voicemail/fax to email integration.

By integrating Unified Communications functionality into your business, you will be able to stay ahead of competitors, reduce costs, streamline workflow and increase productivity.

Cloud Computing

Telarus has just made a significant entrance into the cloud computing space and sees this as an area in which we can offer significant value to our customers, particularly in the current climate when businesses are generally trying to avoid capital expenditure.

Telarus Virtual Server has just been officially launched and supports both Windows and Linux hosting requirements. We have partnered with leading vendors EMC, IBM and VMware to develop a high performance, robust and very scalable virtual hosting platform that is able to support everything from basic web hosting and file servers to mission critical business applications such as CRM and ERP.

By leveraging Telarus Virtual Server, our customers are able to avoid capital expenditure, improve cost efficiencies and increase their ability to respond to change. Importantly, as our hosting platform has direct connectivity to Telarus’ QoS enabled MPLS network we are able to deliver bandwidth to the applications that need it most.

Telarus is also about to release a range of services under the banner of Telarus Online Backup. These products will enable customers to backup their laptops, PC’s and servers via the network, thereby streamlining their operations and improving their disaster recovery capabilities. More news on this soon!

There is a lot that Telarus can do to assist during the current economic downturn so please take some time to discuss your needs and/or challenges with your Telarus Account Team. We are keen to see that all of our customers emerge from this period stronger than ever.