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What You Need to Know Before Deploying VoIP

Overview After crunching the numbers and weighing the benefits and risks, you've decided to swap out your old PBX for a VoIP system. Now comes the hard part: designing and deploying a solution that will deliver the fastest ROI for your enterprise. In this ZDNet webcast, we'll provide practical tips on how to roll out a VoIP system and we'll tell you what pitfalls to avoid.

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Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ZDNet
Live Date	14th March 2005 00:00 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Telephony Systems - PBX, ROI - TCO, VoIP - IP Telephony

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