End-Users will benefit from:
• Easy-to-use collaboration services enabling the focus on getting jobs done
• Connecting beyond company walls, strengthen relationships with customers, partners and suppliers
• BYOD and the ability to use the latest mobile devices for conferencing over almost any network
• Work from anywhere, at any time for better work / life balance
• Decreased travel, which saves time and money and can reduce stress levels
• Enhanced teamwork, increased productivity, reduced miscommunication

IT Staff will benefit from:
• Business grade video without complexities of infrastructure equipment, network, rack space
• One-stop shopping for all collaboration requirements
• Easy budgeting with simple recurring costs
• Deploy on-demand, scale up or down as required
• Flexibility to support any vendor, any device, any protocol
• Works with existing video investments thanks to its adherence to global standards
• Reporting tools to simplify IT responsibilities
• Removes the load from the IT help desk

Owners/Management will benefit from:
• Minimal up-front investment
• Free up employees to focus on core business
• Enhance teamwork and collaboration
• Reduce time to market for projects
• Leverage employee skills regardless of location
• Improve employee satisfaction and retention
• Lower costs by reducing the need for travel
• Increase personal touch to doing business
• Enhance corporate image with cutting-edge technology

Want to know more ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ha5FWfjOw

Avaya Scopia Desktop – Create Conference Rooms Without Walls
Avaya Scopia Desktop extends traditional boardroom video conferencing systems to remote desktop and mobile users for voice, video and data communications. It includes HD H.264 video for both meeting participants and data collaboration and H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for error resiliency. It also supports the H.239 global data sharing standard. Avaya Scopia Desktop is a simple and free web browser plug-in that is centrally managed, distributed and deployed without complex licensing fees or installation issues. Automatic built-in firewall traversal allows anyone to participate regardless of where they are. Advanced capabilities including user provisioning and managing personal virtual conference rooms are also available.

Content Slider Feature
When viewing H.239 content, a unique content ‘slider” feature allows participants to go back and review previously shared materials without interrupting the presenter. Avaya Scopia Mobile additionally enables users to directly control and manage video conferences through their mobile devices including streaming, recording and individual audio and video control. Avaya Scopia Mobile is available as a free download for Apple iOS and Android based devices including the Apple iPhone, Apple iPad and other smartphones and tablets.

Avaya Scopia Elite MCU For H.323 & SIP Based Conference Room Systems
(Up to dual 1080p60)
The Scopia Elite 6000 harnesses revolutionary processing power for the most demanding conferencing applications. Dual 1080p/60fps channels for video and content, simultaneous H.264
High Profile for bandwidth efficiency and H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC), along with multi-stream immersive telepresence connectivity deliver uncompromised multi-party collaboration with up to 28 participants displayed concurrently.

Dedicated processing ensures participants receive the highest quality available without lowering overall conference performance. Conference participants can choose their own video layouts with up to 28 participants displayed simultaneously, while panoramic layouts enable traditional video system interoperability with immersive telepresence applications.

Avaya Scopia Mobile
Video conference from anywhere – Apple iOS & Android
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming more and more prevalent in the business world, and
Avaya Scopia Mobile is the ultimate enterprise-grade mobile video application. Avaya Scopia
Mobile is the industry’s first standards-based mobile video application to enable HD video conferencing and H.239 data collaboration with the nearly two million installed standards-based video conferencing and telepresence systems worldwide.

Want to know more ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ha5FWfjOw

ECS partners with Woodstock Media Group for all Business Music Services, including:
• On Hold Music
• On Hold Advertising
• In Office Music Options
• Professional Talent for Voice Recordings (auto-attendants, queue greetings, etc.)

Add MUSIC as entertainment or background to enhance your business environment or to provide privacy.

Did you know that research suggests over 77% of businesses interviewed believe that playing music in the workplace increases staff morale and creates a better atmosphere and working environment for staff and visitors?

In addition to specializing in on hold music & advertising, Woodstock Media Group also offers several in-office music options to enhance the time people spend in your business and to also help with OSHA compliance privacy issues by providing conversation covering background music.

With three distinctly different music services to offer, and hundreds of channel options, it’s easy to create a music package specific for your needs and budget.

Contact ECS or our partners at Woodstock Media Group to ask about current promotions and receive a quote.

info@woodstockmediagroup.com
www.woodstockmediagroup.com

800-864-6828

Xima “Chronicall with Standard Reports”

Xima’s basic package of Chronicall comes with some great tools included! Over 50 standard reports are included and cover many basic reporting needs for agent calls, group calls, abandoned calls, trunk usage, etc. These 50 standard reports can be used for historical data on all extensions and users within the IP Office and can be manually run at any time or scheduled to run automatically on a monthly, weekly, daily, or even hourly basis if necessary. A scheduled report can be sent via email, saved to a database, or printed. The 50+ standard reports also work hand in hand with Cradle to Grave which is also included in the basic package of Chronicall.

Cradle to Grave is a valuable tool that shows all calls for a given time period (day, week, month, etc.) and allows the calls to be expanded to see each event (ringing, talking, holding, queuing, park, etc.) from the beginning to the end of the call. Cradle to Grave is useful for troubleshooting call flows, quickly searching a specific call, double checking report information, etc. Within Cradle to Grave, at the top right hand corner, there is a quick search spy glass option and a more advanced filter option to really narrow the information needed.

Xima offers a FREE 14-Day trial of their software.

www.ximasoftware.com

Would you like to Retain More Tenants & Create Net-New Revenue ?

Have you considered the benefits of partnering with one exclusive technology vendor for low voltage cabling within your property?

One company you “know” will take care of your technology T.I.’s, code compliance, and not disrupt one tenant while turning up a circuit for another.    

Efficient Communication Solutions, Inc. (ECS) can help you achieve your objectives by assisting with your vital core Considerations, such as:
• Mitigating risk for you and the building owner
• Assisting you in servicing the technology needs of tenants
• Increasing your revenue opportunities
• leveraging technology to increase property/asset value.

ECS is a professional services company proficient in the integration of technology and commercial real estate property.  Our goal is to create & enhance profitable relationships between Property Management, Building Owners, & Tenants.

ECS provides a single point of contact between real estate, business, and technology providers to ensure the timely and efficient implementation of technology solutions.

Our services include:
• Circuit Extensions to suites
• Riser Management
• Voice and Data Cabling within suites
• Fiber Optic Cabling within suites
• Television Cabling within suites
• Telephone lines/Internet Access
• Service Provider/Demarc extensions
• Wireless/WiFi
• Video Surveillance

ECS is licensed, bonded, insured, certified and trained.

ECS provides and maintains a Certificate of Insurance (COI) & Additional Insured Form for Property Management, Building Owners, and/or Tenants upon request.

Did you know that ECS provides the local technical resources for some of the country’s largest Avaya business partners and national technology companies ? 

That’s right ECS (an Avaya authorized business partner) sub-contracts for multiple Avaya “Platinum”,  “Gold”, & “Silver” Business Partners to provide local technicians in both Washington & Oregon for on-site work installing and servicing Avaya Aura Servers, Gateways, Messaging, Telephones, IP Office systems, Low Voltage Cabling, WiFi, Paging, & more. 

ECS also supports many national technology companies to provide local technicians for on-site work installing and servicing a variety of voice/data equipment, ie; Low Voltage Cabling, WiFi, CCTV, POS, Paging, sound systems, & more. 

We know that our contractor’s success depends upon working with highly qualified sub-contractors. That is why ECS works diligently to maintain mutually beneficial relationships with our contractors, vendors, and consultants. We confirm the qualifications of the contractors we work with to ensure they share our commitment to quality workmanship, safety and timely completion of projects. At ECS we demand the highest standards of safety. We make sure that we meet or exceed our contractor’s safety requirements.

ECS helps Avaya Business Partners & National Contractors achieve their objectives by assisting with vital core considerations such as:
• Mitigating risk for them and their end-user customers
• Assisting them in servicing the technology needs of their end-user customers
• Increasing their revenue opportunities through quality workmanship

Some of the services that we provide to Avaya Business Partners & National Contractors are:
• Rack & Stack
• Smart-Hands
• Circuit Extensions to suites (Service Provider/Demarc extensions)
• Low Voltage Voice and Data Cabling
• Fiber Optic Cabling
• Television Cabling
• Structured Racking/Raceway systems
• Wireless/WiFi
• Video Surveillance
• Telephone systems
• Telephone lines/Internet Access
• Unified Communications
• Paging Systems

ECS is licensed, bonded, & insured in both Washington & Oregon.

ECS provides trained & certified technicians in both Washington & Oregon.

Are you using strong passwords, the very latest antivirus software, robust firewalls, and other software security tools to keep your business safe from hackers and other evil-doers intent on stealing your data or unleashing mayhem on your computers via the Internet ?

If you are, that’s great but such protections are fundamentally useless when it comes to guarding your computers or any of your business’s other tangible assets from theft. Passwords, firewalls, & software can’t tell you that someone has broken out a window or jimmied a lock and is now busy roaming around inside your place of business, stealing you blind.

An alarm system is a good idea, but you can’t activate it during business hours, when you, or your employees, and/or your customers are on the premises. If you need to monitor a location in real time and/or if you want to record what’s happening when you can’t sit and look at a monitor, then maybe a video surveillance system is the best option for your business.

You should make sure that whatever video surveillance solution you consider allows you to monitor your cameras from the monitoring station where they’ve been installed, or from anywhere you have Internet access and a computer, smartphone, or tablet.

Video Surveillance solutions are security tools that help reduce crime, protect people, and protect your property.

Video Surveillance can deter revenue loss from stolen merchandise, destruction of valuable information, and vandalism.

Video eyes never tire
With a video surveillance system, you are always in the picture, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And you don’t even have to sit in front of a TV screen. As soon as an unusual incident occurs, an alert is automatically transmitted to a predetermined location (ie; to your mobile phone). Appropriate steps can then be taken immediately to minimize damage.

At ECS, we design, install, maintain, and upgrade a wide range of Video Surveillance solutions to meet customers’ specific needs & budgets, from large commercial enterprises to simple camera systems for small offices and businesses or even a single camera installation.

We connect Computers, Servers, Printers, Scanners, Copiers, Employees and Locations with Local Area Networks (LAN), Wired (with low voltage cabling) or Wireless (WiFi) as well as Wide Area Networks (WAN).

ECS also provides Network Design, Implementation and ongoing Support. Whether your business uses two computers or 500, ECS can assist you to design, install and manage a network that is secure, reliable, scalable, enabling you to increase productivity and keep costs down.

Our support personnel are trained & certified technicians that know how to isolate and resolve network problems quickly and efficiently. The chances are good that we’ve solved the networking problem you’re having for some other business before.

If you’re an IT Manager with too much work on your hands to implement or make modifications to your network, and need a technician to implement your design or ideas, contact ECS.

If you’re an Office Manager, CFO, CEO or a Business Owner, you might find that solving your networking issues has fallen to you simply because you know more about computers than anyone else in the company. In that case, you’ll be glad to know that ECS is dedicated to collaborating with you regarding your LAN, WAN, Wireless (WiFi) networking options, and assisting you in making the best decisions for your company.

Our goal is not simply to do the technical “stuff” and leave. We will help you explore your networking and connectivity options. We’ll make recommendations related to what we believe to be your best networking choices, ones that will work with your business processes, future plans, and budget.

Ultimately, what we do is empower you to make informed decisions, and then support you to formulate a cost-effective and efficient network design, implement it and maintain it for years to come.

Low Voltage Cabling
Are you expanding your phone or data network? Are you moving to a new location? Well, we’ve got you covered. ECS has many years of experience in low voltage cabling. We can design, install, & maintain your CAT5e, CAT 6, and/or Fiber Optic cabling.

Wireless Networking (WiFi)
Has your existing wireless network stopped working? Have you purchased the parts, but need help setting up your wireless network? Or, are you thinking about putting in a wireless network and would like a wireless networking professional to assist you and give you some recommendations?

ECS can assist you with whatever your wireless need is. We can assist with security, design, installation, and troubleshooting.

Is your existing Wireless (WiFi) secure? You’d be surprised how many businesses we help that have no security or very weak security on their wireless access. A lack of or weak security means that anyone can get on your network and use your Internet connection or attack your computers.

Some of the current Premise-Based Telephone Systems can accommodate three station/telephone types; analog, digital and IP. (IP can be proprietary or SIP standards based)

IP phones are the newest and most talked about of three. IP capable telephone systems (IP-PBX’s) equipped with IP phones work by converting voice into data packets and then sending the data packets over a data network. This is often referred to as Voice over IP (VoIP).

Traditional digital and analog telephones require separate wire runs to each telephone. This means one wire run for the phone and another for a workstation/PC/computer. IP phones can share the same wiring as the workstation/PC/computer, one jack for both the phone and computer. This provides a business with primary cost savings in physical material like wiring and modular jack installations. An added benefit of running voice on the data network is decreased management costs. Because voice becomes just another application on the data network, conceivably, current IT staff can manage both voice and data systems.

The most important application provided by today’s IP (VoIP) capable systems is telecommuting. An employee no longer needs to be in the office to use the phone system. Employees equipped with a VPN connection, computer, and an IP phone can connect remotely through the internet to a company’s IP (VoIP) enabled telephone system. They can use computer applications and communicate on the company telephone system seamlessly as if they were in the office.

Considerations
Usually within your company’s local data network, Voice over IP (VoIP) quality will be excellent. If any quality issues do arise, they are usually not due to the devices themselves but to the quality of the connections between devices. Quality of service issues occur more often when using VoIP over the public internet (ie; over a VPN connection). Echo, jitter, and latency, to name a few. In today’s market though, VoIP quality is very good and the benefits of using VoIP most often outweigh any possible shortcomings.

IP telephones are an excellent option for small or large businesses today. IP (VoIP) systems create an enhanced work environment by decreasing maintenance costs and increasing telecommuting opportunities for remote users.

When purchasing an IP (VoIP) system it is important to consider use, features, price, support and warranty, but most critical is your choice of vendor. You need to select a vendor that you have confidence in and that you can see yourself working with over a long period of time.  Check references.  Listen to your gut feelings. Once these factors are all considered, figuring out which phone system to purchase will be an easy decision.

Traditional standards of telephone power  (NON-VoIP)
When using an old fashioned (copper wire) residential telephone line, the phone still functions in the event of a power outage. The reason is that the phone company (service provider) sends low voltage power over the phone line. This power is separate from the electric company’s network, so that even if the electrical power goes out, the phone will still function.

Business telephone systems power analog and digital telephone extensions in the same way. Manufacturers of these systems provide standards for sending low voltage power through digital and analog extension ports. This allows the extensions to have features such as backlit displays, general functioning, and ringing. In some cases, consoles with large displays or telephones with adjuncts like speakerphones also require a separate power supply. However, the majority of extensions use direct line power.

IP Phones and some History of PoE
IP phones are connected to an Ethernet data network and receive power differently. Because Ethernet wiring predates IP telephony, cabling standards never included requirements for directly powering devices like IP phones. The first IP telephones that were released came with external power supplies (sometimes call “Brick’s”). Because businesses typically deploy more phones than data equipment, provisions for power outlets at each workstation were required. This proved to be more difficult than traditional digital and analog phone installations which simply involved plugging the phone into the jack. 

In order to eliminate local power supply requirements for IP phones, Manufacturers started introducing technology to send power over Ethernet wiring in approximately 2000. This industry-wide innovation began the movement to standardize Power over Ethernet (PoE)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the world’s leading technical professional societies, ratified the 802.3af Power over Ethernet standard in June of 2003. It describes a system to pass electrical power safely, along with data, on Ethernet cabling.  The 802.3af PoE standard allows manufacturers of network hardware and endpoint devices to produce switches, IP telephones, wireless access points, and IP cameras with standardized PoE support. Consequently, proprietary forms of power over Ethernet are now obsolete.

Today, most IP phones support both 802.3af PoE and external power supplies. If a company has yet to deploy switches supporting PoE, then they can still use power supplies for their IP phones.