OREANDA-NEWS. July 07, 2009. Many participants of corporate market optimized its budgets and are forced to economize on many services in conditions of world financial crisis. Corporate Sales Direction (services under brand Kazakhstan Online) actively works out and implements new communication services in that situation that allow clients not only saving but effectively develop their business, reported the press-centre of KazakhTelecom.   
 
iD Phone
New service iD Phone represents last technological attainments and enables anti crisis economy.
iD Phone is new telephony resources, organized on data transfer networks   on base of SIP. iD Phone solution is provided by means of services of broadband data transfer network access and allows organizing single virtual office station on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and using single number irrespective of user’s location. iD Phone launched in all regions of Kazakhstan.

iD Phone allows optimizing charges for industrial communication construction not only within one office but all over the Kazakhstan. Scalability and flexibility of telecommunication solution is one of the advantages of this service, at which possibility to transmit or broaden industrial (office) network saving numbering and all users’ adjustments in short terms.

All services and account control of new type of telephony is performed through easy subscriber’s web-portal www.idphone.kz. The service is designed for all users’ target groups: corporations, small and middle business, and individuals as well. 

Wide spectrum of subscribers’ SIP devices including telephones, gates, analogous terminal adapters, Softphone, video telephones are amongst iD Phone advantages. iD Phone provides for integration with Outlook address book. Also iD Phone provides for using services provided by means of SIP-platform, not limited by geographic zone and access port as in traditional ATS that allow saving number at change of address.

In figures:
iD Phone secures calls inside the corporate network, free of charge services that replaces office ATS in each office, and free of charge  data transfer channel. 

Connection of legal entity to traditional ATS composes 24 000 tenge, iD Phone connection is 7 460 tenge, economy is 16 540 tenge. User telephony charge is 950 tenge, iD Phone is 700 tenge, and economy is 150 tenge per month. Additional types of service at traditional telephony– 960 tenge, at iD Phone – 0 tenge, economy – 960 tenge per month. 20,7 tenge per 1 minute of long-distance communication at traditional telephony and 14 tenge at iD Phone, economy– 6,7 tenge.  86,7 tenge per 1 minute of international communication at traditional telephony and 33 tenge at iD Phone, economy– 53,7 tenge.

TelePresenсе
TelePresence service allows optimizing or excluding travel allowances. To communicate with business partners and hold conferences with TelePresence is more easy and cheaper than use any other technology.

TelePresence is a complex for real time remote video–conferences with an effect of personal participant’s presence. Technology joins transfer of high quality audio and video signal with interactive communication elements.

Peculiarities of TelePresence are in the following: one participants of conference being on one city can communicate with other participants by means of plasma monitors, placed on the other part of a table. Thus, an effect of presence is made: all participants “are” around one table during the conference. Moreover, an illusion of real visual contact is achieved that the voice comes from a speaker, participants talk at a usual loudness, thanks to high speeds of traffic transfer there are no delays in audio and video signals. Today within the project TelePresence provides for video conferences in two directions: Astana– Almaty, Astana – Moscow and Almaty - Moscow.

In figures:
Comparative analysis of costs to real meetings and TelePresence proves that thirty minutes TelePresence studio rent (Almaty-Astana) will cost 20 000 tenge, as flight, accommodation, daily allowances for each employee composes 53 000 tenge. Often several specialists may depart at the same time. If we multiply this sum to the required number, in result we will get considerable amount.

1 TelePresence hour in direction Almaty – Moscow or Astana– Moscow will cost 80 000 tenge, when at average costs for flight, accommodation and daily allowances will compose 140 000 tenge.

Thus, TelePresence optimizes company’s costs for often flights, securing "effect of presence " of participants in one room.

IP VPN (virtual private networks)
Creation of virtual private networks on base of MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) is a service that will allow connecting structural company’s subdivisions or company-partners networks inside the city, settlements inside the oblast, on the territory of Kazakhstan and abroad. MPLS capabilities allow IP VPN network be flexible and multi functional without considerable expenses (as compared with rent and channels laying).

Availability in more than 150 settlements of the Republic of Kazakhstan, high speeds of data transfer and data packet processing, manifold traffic integration (voice, video, data), double transmission channels reservation backup, unsanctioned access protection, 24 hours technical support and scalability flexibility are amongst IP VPN advantages. Client’s technical solution won’t change with volumes of information transmitted: network is easy to scale to gigabit speeds.

IP VPN allows organizing access to data bases, e-mail, e-documents circulation, telephony, video, securing costs reduction for safety, personnel and client’s equipment.

IP VPN services are integral elements of business processes of large banks, financial, state and oil and gas organizations. Today Corporate Sales Direction possesses over 6000 drawoff points all over the country for 120 largest companies of Kazakhstan.

Advantages of new Corporate Sales Direction services:
Network security services suppose high technological protection of key clients’ network resources for fixed monthly payment and assignment of virtual internetwork screen with many adjustments for fixed monthly payment. Videoconferences are multipoint Internet videoconferences– up to 20 participants at the same time for 18 000 tenge per month for each point connected. Data storage supposes service for 150 thousand tenge per month per 1 data TB. For comparison: analogous data storage system will require client’s flat investments in amount of 35 million tenge and monthly charges from 150 thousand tenge.

For information only:
Corporate Sales Direction (services under brand “Kazakhstan Online" www.online.kz) is the company oriented to corporate market segment. Corporate Sales Direction offers wide spectrum of telecommunication services on base of advanced high quality technologies and effective solutions for business optimization.

Last developments use in data transfer allowed to CSD realizing large commercial projects for state authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Direction was not only services supplier but clients’ infrastructure developer as well. Large networks for the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for informatization and communication, Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan are amongst realized projects.