9 Benefits Of Multiple Office Networking Systems

When opting to install NEC phone systems Houston companies sometimes consider installing multiple office networking systems along with the business phone system.

There are many benefits to having multiple office networking systems with any brand of digital phone system, including low cost, higher speed and superior transmission quality.

1. Multiple locations

Houston business phone systems are often required to connect multiple locations. In this case, it makes sense to have the digital phone system across all facilities on a single networking system, while each facility might have its own network. This gives people located in the facility access to local resources without the confusion and productivity drain that occurs when users attempt to access resources located elsewhere.

2. Balanced traffic and resources

Having multiple office networking systems enables system administration to ensure that traffic balances properly across all resources and requirements. If the digital phone system shares a network with other applications, response time or data transmission time might suffer during periods of heavy use.

Using different networks for different purposes ensures that each network is optimized and balanced to support the needs of each application, including the enterprise phone system.

3. Redundancy

Multiple networks help to ensure that the organization always has a working network because of the built in redundancy. If the data network is down for updates or maintenance, it needn’t affect the business phone system, for example.

This makes scheduling routine maintenance simpler, and ensures that unexpected outages or routine maintenance never interrupts your company’s communications with customers and suppliers.

4. More shared resources

Multiple office networks may actually allow your organization to support more shared resources rather than fewer due to the ability of each network to manage a finite number of resources. One example is business applications integrated with a digital phone system.

The phone system might utilize one network, and the CRM or other business application run on a different network. System administration would optimize each network to support the required applications, but also ensure rapid delivery of customer data to the CSRs phone or terminal with all incoming calls to help improve productivity.

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5. Data sharing

While it seems that having all of a company’s applications on a single office network would make data sharing faster and easier, this is not always the case. Applications that are heavy bandwidth users might execute more efficiently on a separate network in order to ensure the free flow of data.

6. Security

A company might prefer to keep highly sensitive applications on a separate network. By segregating sensitive data such as trade secrets or confidential employee information, the company adds an extra layer of security that can help prevent data breaches.

7. Regional requirements

Even Houston business phone systems sometimes support facilities in other regions. Some countries and localities impose strict rules about employee information, where it can be stored. If this is the case for your business, multiple office networks not only makes sense but may also be a legal requirement.

8. Maintenance

With multiple business networks, maintenance and support is much easier. Systems administrators don’t need to shut down business applications to add new features to the enterprise phone system, and business application upgrades don’t affect voice transmission quality or voice mail access.

When repairs are necessary, the outage affects fewer systems, so it’s easier to troubleshoot and identify the problem. Users are back online faster so overall productivity is better.

9. Cost

While it may seem counterintuitive that having multiple networks can be less costly than having a single network, it is often true. With a single office network, the administrator the network must configure the network to handle peak loads for all applications, as though the peak load for very application might occur simultaneously.

With a single network, the configuration needs to support peak calling on the digital phone system, along with data intensive business applications such as month end close or supply chain simulations.

With multiple networks, system administration team can optimize the equipment for each network for the smaller number of applications that it must support. Houston business phone systems are able to work at peak efficiency without the drain of other network demands.

Consider multiple networks for the NEC phone systems Houston businesses rely on. Houston business phone systems run well on any adequate network configurations, but no business owner can afford to overlook the cost and efficiency benefits of multiple office networks

  Scott Resnick

About the Author:

Scott Resnick is a business phone systems expert and President of Today’s Telecommunications Industries, LLC (TTI) in Houston, TX. TTI is Houston’s leading provider of NEC business phone systems. To read more of Scott's work, visit www.ttihouston.com/blog.