If your company has been relying on hosted teleconferencing services and you find yourself paying hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of dollars each month there is a simple way to reduce teleconferencing costs. Adding in house teleconferencing system is easy and cost effective. An in house teleconferencing system can greatly reduce conferencing costs and lower your conferencing costs to the cost of a regular phone call. Most hosted conference calls are made up of inbound callers. The cost of an inbound call is on the dime of the inbound caller. If you are hosting a conference call with several customers or vendors they will be calling into the conference bridge and they are responsible for the cost of the call. Even if you were to provide an 800 number for inbound calls the rate for inbound toll free calls can run as low as .03 per minute.

An in house teleconferencing system can either be integrated with a phone system or installed as a standalone system. The cost of teleconferencing systems have been dropping and have become more affordable than ever. The features have also greatly improved and it is now easy to have an in-house system that rivals most hosted systems. An in-house conference call system can be programmed and designed for your company’s specific needs and usage. Many manufacturers like XOP Networks and Sonexis can provide very specific customization.

Some conferencing systems have also bundled in Web Conferencing, Blast Dialing, Video Conferencing, Emergency Message Notification, Voice mail and other applications that run off a single server. Running several applications can reduce costs, rack space and management over separate systems.

www.conference-bridge.com carries a large selection of large and small teleconference systems from 8 ports to 1200 ports with analog and SIP systems. For more information call 800-335-0229 ext 152.

From the Desk of Ricardo Trinidad