Telecommunications Design Phone Systems, Telephone company choices, WAN Solutions, Internet Access. Besides planning for the right phone equipment, Alliant can evaluate your access lines in order to make sure that you have the correct infrastructure in place. Customers can save quite a bit of money by just choosing the right access lines or analyzing their current access line structure. All the transmission alternatives, T1, PRI, ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay or others, have some identifiable benefits that one must look at in order to ensure that it delivers reliable communications capabilities to your business. But one also must ensure that the type of access service chosen does not duplicates the capabilities that the internal equipment provides and that the access bought is the best service for the money. For example: Make sure that services provided by the phone company are not duplicating your internal equipment capabilities such as voice mail. At many times, the line utilization that a company may have is quite a bit less than its capabilities. Depending on how a phone system is configured, a business may be able to get a less expensive solution in order to accomplish the same goals. i.e. Caller ID An automated attendant may be used instead of using DIDs. Sometimes buying a full T1 is cheaper and gives you more capabilities than having about 12 separate lines. In addition, a business may choose to incorporate voice and data together in order to send interoffice calls over your WAN or the Net, and save toll charges (IP Trunking) or have a Distributed Networking which allows for switches at multiple locations to get networked together over tie-lines or via the Network, and work like "one big switch," permitting centralized administration and letting a single dialing plan serve multiple locations.   Return to Our Services