Converging your voice and data network with Cisco allows you to do just this. Cisco Business Communications Solution is specifically tailored and priced for the needs for growing businesses. It opens up new possibilities of how your business communicates, and enhances the responsiveness of staff to customers. It also provides smart software applications like Cisco MobilityManager that allow your employees to work more efficiently - whether they’re in the office, at home or constantly on the move. By transforming how you communicate, it considerably improves the way your business operates as a whole.

Here, we’ll be introducing you to the both the hardware and software that make up Cisco Business Communications Solution, and showing you how to make your company not just a growing business, but a smarter one too.

Communicating smarter with Cisco IP Phones

Cisco IP 7900 Series Phone

To see the difference Cisco IP Phones can make to your business, think of them not merely as phones, but as intelligent tools that help you communicate in numerous different ways, from voice and data to video and web conferencing. Designed to enhance business productivity, Cisco IP Phones address the specific needs of every part of your organisation, whether it’s the reception, office desk, and boardroom or retail shopfloor. Featuring pixel-based LCD displays and support for additional information services including Extensible Markup Language (XML), here are just some of their productivity enhancing capabilities:

• Greater mobility - Through Cisco MobilityManager, Cisco IP Phones intelligently work in conjunction with your employees’ mobile phones, so they stay productive, whether inside or outside the office. This seamless integration enables the use of a single number for both office and mobile calls, as well the ability to access the IP network from anywhere through a mobile phone.
• Take your office wherever you go - IP Communicator
• Video capabilities - Gone are the days when video communication was only associated with large enterprises with seemingly infinite IT resources. Featuring high-performance cameras, screens and speakers, Cisco IP Phones now empower growing businesses with the ability to hold meetings, presentations or face-to-face conversations even when thousands of miles apart.
• Access to more information - Through a diverse range of XML applications, Cisco IP Phones offer fast, easy access to almost any information that matters to business, such as stock quotes, weather and traffic reports, warehouse inventory, and more.

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From Cisco’s versatile array of IP Phones, you are sure to find a model with the features and functions that meet your company’s specific needs:

Cisco IP Phone 7911G, a basic IP phone for small to medium-sized offices
Cisco IP Phone 7920, a wireless phone featuring increased security and faster roaming for better voice quality. Click here for product details

Cisco IP Phones 7941G and 7961G, featuring new higher-resolution displays.
 7941G data sheet
 7961G data sheet

Cisco IP Video Phone 7985G, a personal desktop video phone for rich, high-touch communications. Click here for product details

Cisco routers and switches - intelligently designed to boost productivity

Cisco Catalyst Express 500
Series Switches

What makes Cisco Business Communications Solution such a powerful asset for growing businesses is the intelligence with which the network infrastructure enables all forms of communication and productivity-enhancing features to be seamlessly integrated.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series Switch

• Cisco class networking - Ideal for growing businesses, Cisco Catalyst Express 500 series runs an end-to-end Cisco network for up to 250 employees, providing the high-performance networking that’s also highly affordable.
• Network Assistant Application - explain network assistant application that allows easy management of SMB networks without requiring highly-trained IT staff.
• Automatic prioritisation with Cisco Smartports Advisor - This feature enables the switch to automatically discover connected Cisco devices and suggest appropriate Smartport roles. This means that mission-critical tasks are prioritised, voice conversations are clear, and bandwidth-intensive video traffic will not impact other communications.
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) - Even the power supply of Cisco switches is designed smarter. To power the device, all you need to do is connect it to the network, thus reducing the cost and complexity of your infrastructure.

Power over Ethernet and Intelligent Power Management Reduce Power Costs

IP Communications devices such as IP phones require power to operate, but getting power from a wall socket is not always a viable option, especially when phones scale into the thousands. In 2000, Cisco was the first company to introduce inline power (evolving to PoE, and now an 802.3af standard) that enabled the LAN switching infrastructure to provide power over an Ethernet cable to a powered device.

Cisco now offers Cisco IP phones and LAN switches that support both the 802.3af standard and Cisco prestandard PoE (inline power) for additional flexibility. Cisco provides additional levels of power control with intelligent power management. Like other unique features available with Cisco IP Communications in a Cisco infrastructure, Cisco PoE provides customers with significant power-consumption savings to powered devices that use Cisco Discovery Protocol to negotiate power.

Whereas the IEEE standard specifies that 802.3af power should be provisioned in large increments of wattage such as 7 or 15 watts of power to each device regardless of power need, the Cisco power detection and management technology allows users to provision power based on the power the device actually needs. The Cisco Intelligent Power Management feature can provide customers substantial savings in electrical costs and backup UPS and battery power systems. By providing a more precise allocation of power to devices, a total Cisco IP Communications solution also optimizes port density, reducing the need for additional deployment of switches and power supplies.

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Cisco Catalyst 3560, 3750 and 4500 Series switches

These families of high-performance switches are designed for companies whose networks require superior resilience in a device that combines sophisticated quality of service (QoS), predictable performance, advanced security, and comprehensive management.

• Integrated resiliency - This minimises network downtime, helping to ensure workforce productivity, profitability, and customer success.
• Modular architecture - The smart, scalable design of Cisco switches extends the deployment life while reducing the cost of ownership by minimising recurring operational expenses.
• Optimal control - Web-based management for the configuration and control of all ports allows for centralised management of critical network characteristics such as availability and responsiveness.
• Future-proof - Cisco switches are designed with generous amounts of hardware resources to support future features. A simple Cisco IOS software upgrade means that upgrading features doesn’t require you to upgrade the entire chassis.

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Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series switches Click here for details
Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switches Click here for details
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switches Click here for details

Cisco Integrated Service Routers (ISR)

Cisco 2800 Series Router

An essential component of the network infrastructure, the Cisco Integrated Services Router combines data, security, wireless networking, and voice and video services into a single, resilient platform that delivers secure, concurrent applications as fast as your business can operate.

• More functionality, less costs - The ISR lets you take advantage of the same applications and technologies large enterprises use, but in a compact, easy-to-manage solution designed and priced specifically for growing businesses.
• Wireless capabilities - Your staff’s productivity won’t be confined to their desks as the ISR’s proven wireless networking means they can collaborate and access network applications anywhere in the workspace.
• Embedded security - By building smart security features into the device, Cisco provides network-wide protection that is not only pervasive, but is also intelligent and proactive enough to respond to new threats.
• Activating new services - The ISR is designed to meet not only today’s needs, but also tomorrow’s. You use only the services you need now, and then activate more services in the future without incurring significant costs.

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Cisco Integrated Services Routers 2800 Series. » Click here for details
Cisco Integrated Services Routers 3800 Series. » Click here for details

Cisco Applications

Cisco applications - smart solutions to boost productivity.

You’ll be amazed at how Cisco’s diverse range of communication applications can improve the way your company works. It’s not just about how you communicate. It’s about how efficiently you operate.

• Cisco CallManager Express: The software-based call-processing application is specifically tailored to growing businesses. It delivers a robust set of features commonly used by business users, thereby enabling deployment of a cost-effective, highly reliable, IP Communications solution for your office.
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• Cisco Mobility Manager: Provides a smarter way for employees to keep in touch with business - through their desk phones and mobile phones. Working seamlessly with Cisco CallManager, it intelligently manages, filters, routes, and places calls between a worker’s IP phone and remote mobile phone.
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• Cisco Unity Express: Elevates the level of productivity and customer service through its built-in automated attendant and voice mail capabilities. With this application, calls can be answered 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, without the need of a dedicated operator.
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• MeetingPlace Express: This integrated voice and webconferencing solution improves productivity and collaboration y providing a smarter way to meet - from any place at any time with anyone. Just think of all the presentations, product demonstrations, and virtual meetings that can now take place with just a Cisco IP Phone and a web browser.
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• Unity Connection: Provides a far more intelligently way for employees to manage all their messages. It brings voice messages to your desktop e mail inbox and lets you control and respond to all messages with much greater speed and efficiency.
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