Business owners and managers are continually seeking ways to improve their customer service, reduce their communications and collaboration costs and in general improve their effectiveness and efficiencies. Furthermore, as more and more employees work outside the office, they expect to be able to make use of the same communications and collaboration tools that their desk bound colleagues enjoy. This white paper explores how unified communications assists organisations achieve these goals. The paper then looks at 1toGo Mobile’s mobile Cloud unified communications and collaboration services in particular. It includes a roadmap showing how easy it is for businesses to migrate their current legacy PBX environments to 1toGo Mobile’s converged communications and collaboration services without having to ‘rip and replace’ their existing investments.

1. Better Business Communications and
Collaboration with Cloud Based Unified
Communications
November 2012

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Contents
Introduction 3
What is Unified
Communications?
3
How does Unified
Communications benefit
Small and Medium sized
Businesses and
Professional Practices?
4
What is 1toGo Mobile? 6
How will 1toGo Mobile’s
Services help your
Organisation?
8
Migrating to 1toGo
Mobile’s Services
11
In Conclusion 15
About 1toGo Mobile 15

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Introduction
Business owners and managers are continually seeking ways to improve
their customer service, reduce their communications and collaboration
costs and in general improve their effectiveness and efficiencies.
Furthermore, as more and more employees work outside the office, they
expect to be able to make use of the same communications and
collaboration tools that their desk bound colleagues enjoy.
This white paper explores how unified communications assists
organisations achieve these goals.
The paper then looks at 1toGo Mobile’s mobile Cloud unified
communications and collaboration services in particular,
It includes a roadmap showing how easy it is for businesses to migrate
their current legacy PBX environments to 1toGo Mobile’s converged
communications and collaboration services without having to ‘rip and
replace’ their existing investments.
What is Unified
Communications?
Unified Communications is the integration of communication and
collaboration technologies with business applications and processes.
Examples of communication and collaboration technologies include voice
(VoIP) and video calling, audio or video conferencing, web conferencing,
instant messaging (IM), presence, email and scheduling.
These technologies currently operate in silos with separate addresses
across multiple devices. Unified Communications removes these silos by
combining these multiple communication and collaboration technologies
into one application with presence at the core, thus enabling one to be
contacted via the most appropriate of multiple methods using the same
address, device and interface.
The ability to see a contact’s presence status, manage one’s preferred
method of receiving communications and contact colleagues, clients and
suppliers directly from one’s address book via ‘click to call’ enables
considerable time savings. Furthermore, the storage of emails, faxes and
voice mails in one inbox (Unified Messaging) facilitates easy access to
these messages from multiple locations and devices.

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The productivity benefits of Unified Communications at the user level (also
known as UCU) as described above provide compelling arguments to
converge communications in all types of organisations. The integration
however of communications with business processes and applications
(UCB) in order to reduce ‘human latency’ and improve those processes
provides customers with substantially larger returns on investment than
those obtainable from UCU.
How does Unified
Communications
benefit Small and
Medium Sized
Businesses and
Professional
Practices?
Smaller organisations often lack the resources enjoyed by their larger
counterparts. These resources include access to affordable capital,
human resources and well known brand identities that assist in the
development of markets for their products and services.
These organisations also lack the ability to negotiate favourable contract
pricing for services such as Internet services and telecoms.
Organisations such as SMEs face competition not only from other SMEs
but also from large enterprises. It is thus important for these organisations
to provide a level of service and responsiveness to their customers that
exceeds that offered by large enterprises while at the same time
increasing their margins and reducing their costs.
Unified Communications assists organisations to improve their
competitiveness by:
Improving their
relationship with their
customers, supply chain
and other business
partners
Regardless of where employees might be at the time, Unified
Communications increases the probability that they can be contacted on
the first attempt. If this is not possible, unified messaging increases the
probability that employees will receive messages timeously. In addition,
the use of real time collaboration tools like instant messaging and closed
user group calling creates a stronger community between organisations
and their business partners (including agents in direct selling
organisations) than is possible using asynchronous tools such as email.
Improving collaboration
between employees
Employees working outside of an office environment (e.g. home based
employees and ‘road warriors’) often complain that they feel forgotten by
the organisation. On the other hand, office based workers find it difficult to
reach these remote workers. Unified Communications reduces the

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perceived distance between workers in an organisation.
Improving response
times
Given that workers are able to be contacted by multiple methods, Unified
Communications reduces the time spent attempting to contact decision
makers and waiting for responses.
Improving access to
knowledge workers and
experts
The use of presence enables the availability of subject matter experts to
be communicated throughout the organisation. This increases sales
opportunities as it enables contact centre agents or sales account staff to
solve customer queries by instant messaging with available subject matter
experts regardless of their location while the customer remains on the line.
Should the expert not be able to resolve the issue without speaking to the
customer, the contact centre agent or sales account staff is able to
escalate the call to a three way conference between herself, the customer
and the expert.
Improving employee
productivity
Unified Communications reduces the time spent by workers trying to
contact other workers in the course of their duties. This improves
productivity (particularly that of mobile workers) by freeing up time for staff
to undertake additional responsibilities and improving the output of a given
staff complement if the free time generated is used productively. Given
that salary costs are often a large proportion of the operating costs of
SMEs, this can have a material impact on the organisation’s bottom line.
Improving business
processes and reducing
‘human latency’
The integration of communications with business processes and
enterprise applications enables triggers from the applications to initiate
communications automatically. Examples of these include:
 Automatic notification of the relevant staff if equipment fails
 Automatic notification of suppliers in the event of inventory
shortages or stockouts
 Automatic notification of the relevant staff if the quality of
production deviates from predefined ranges
 Self-service patient booking systems in the healthcare field with
automatic voice or SMS reminders to patients to reduce ‘no
shows’.
Reducing travel costs In a time of rising fuel costs, Web and video conferencing reduces the
need for car and plane travel. Apart from decreasing travel costs, this
reduces an enterprise’s carbon footprint at a time when organisations are
becoming more conscious of the impact that human activities have on the
environment.
Reducing the costs of
services such as
telecoms
Unified Communications enables organisations to use alternative
modalities such as instant messaging and SIP based closed user group
on-net calling and conferencing across offices to reduce their traditional
telecoms bills. In addition, Unified Communications allows the use of SIP

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trunks which in turn allow organisations to purchase extra ‘line’ capacity
quickly and incrementally as and when required instead of having to
purchase telephone lines in minimum size bundles (such as E1 and T1
PRIs) even though all the capacity purchased will not be utilised.
Reducing time to market
of products and services
Unified Communications enables shorter product development cycles and
project timeframes thus reducing time to market and value.
Attracting and retaining
qualified staff,
particularly those from
the tech savvy
‘Millennials’ or
‘Generation Y’
Staff entering the workplace participate in online communities and use
tools such as instant messaging in their private lives. They thus expect to
find these tools available to them in their work places. Given that SMEs
often cannot provide staff with the same benefits such as health insurance
and pension fund membership that larger employers can afford, it is
important for them to be able to offer their employees a stimulating work
environment in order to attract and retain their services. Unified
Communications assists SMEs to achieve this.
In spite of the benefits outlined above, SMEs will require a higher return
and quicker payback on their Unified Communications investments than
those required by larger enterprises given their limited resources.
It is thus important that Unified Communications solutions being targeted
at this segment of the market should be affordable since SMEs are often
unable to afford the cost of enterprise solutions. These solutions should
also be easy to deploy and manage given the lack of technical skills
available to SMEs.
What is 1toGo
Mobile?
1toGo Mobile is a Cloud based provider of mobile unified communications
and collaboration services.
1toGo Mobile offers a suite of easy to use and quick to implement
standards based unified communications services. These services
include:
 A corporate IP PBX allowing users to make and receive calls via
the IP PBX from / to their smartphones, tablets or PCs/Macs
 Closed user group (CUG) voice/video calling/conferencing in high
definition (HD)
 Unified messaging

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 Business grade instant messaging and presence
 Push email, calendaring, address books and tasks
 Secure storage in the Cloud for documents and files and the
ability to share these with colleagues and friends
 The ability for a user to access one version of his or her
information from anywhere or via any device
 Presentation sharing/Web conferencing
 Other tools like whiteboarding, mailing lists and a RSS feed
reader together with CRM and social media integration etc.
1toGo Mobile’s services can be enjoyed from:
 Apple and Android phones/tablets using our mobile clients
 Other smartphones supporting ActiveSync and standard mobile
VoIP clients
 PC and Mac devices on the desktop and via a Web browser

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 SIP compliant IP phones and analog phones using VoIP
gateways.
1toGo Mobile’s services are priced on a per user per month basis with no
long term contracts, thus saving an organisation from having to invest
large amounts upfront in infrastructure and thereafter in operating costs in
order to enjoy services usually only available to large organisations with
dedicated information and communications technology (ICT) staff.
Organisations that subscribe to 1toGo Mobile’s services also save
themselves the costs of a separate messaging server/service such as MS
Exchange since this functionality is incorporated in the 1toGo Mobile
service.
Furthermore, because 1toGo Mobile provides its own clients/user
interfaces, organisations need not make large investments in desk phones
and personal organisers like MS Outlook (although 1toGo Mobile’s
services do work with such tools).
How will 1toGo
Mobile’s Services
help your
Organisation?
1toGo Mobile’s services will help your organisation in many ways, thus
giving you a quick return on your investment. These include:
 Your staff can enjoy carrier grade rich communications and
collaboration tools such as:
o HD Voice and Video calling/conferencing
o IP PBX
o Secure Cloud based file server
o Presentation sharing/Web conferencing
o Unified messaging
o Mobile push email, calendaring and address book
allowing them to work productively wherever they happen to be – in the
office, on the road, at home or on the other side of the world
 1toGo Mobile gives you the tools to run a virtual office if you wish,
thus saving the costs of office rentals and giving you the flexibility
to employ home based workers including workers with disabilities
or skilled workers who are geographically distant and who would
be unavailable to your organisation in a traditional office

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environment
 1toGo Mobile provides your staff with their own telephone
number. Prospects and clients can thus call this number (at the
cost of a local call) and your staff can answer these calls on their
preferred device wherever they happen to be in the world, as long
as they have a data or phone (mobile or fixed line) connection.
Similarly, your staff can call customers via your PBX and from
their preferred device thus enabling you to record these calls for
legal purposes. Furthermore, you no longer need to manage
employees` claims for business use of private phone accounts
since all calls can be made through your PBX
 By providing staff with their own telephone number, staff need not
provide their customers with their cell phone numbers. This allows
staff to separate their personal from their private lives (since they
can just switch off their 1toGo Mobile number after work hours). In
addition, you don’t run the risk of your clients contacting
employees no longer working for your organisation
 Staff can call each other or take part in conference calls for free,
regardless of where the participants are in the world. Because
these calls are in HD, the user experience is much better than
conference calls taking place via traditional public fixed line and
mobile telephone networks.
 Staff travelling overseas needn’t pay exorbitant roaming fees to
stay in contact with fellow employees and clients
 If you do business overseas, 1toGo Mobile can give you phone
numbers in foreign countries as extensions of your 1toGo Mobile
IP PBX so that you have an overseas ‘presence’
 Because our services are offered on a per user per month basis
without any long-term contracts, you can ramp up the use of our
services (e.g. if you have to take on extra staff at the end of your
financial year) and similarly decrease your usage of our services
as and when required. This flexibility is not available to
organisations that use in-house solutions requiring up-front
commitments to financial, human and infrastructure resources
 Our services have at their core the carrier grade CommuniGate
Pro platform from CommuniGate Systems. This unified
communications platform is specifically designed to offer large
scale reliable and cost effective multi-tenant services from a
Cloud based environment. Furthermore, because it is open
standards based, you’ll be able to interact with users from other

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organisations using other unified communications solutions.
 Because 1toGo Mobile’s services are offered in the Cloud from
redundant infrastructures in secure state of the art data centers,
your staff will be able to access our services and hence your
information, business partners, customers and prospects even if
your offices have been disabled by equipment theft, natural
disasters, power outages etc.
 You can implement our services on a trial/pilot basis in one
department of your organisation where the return on investment
will be greatest before rolling it out to other departments
 It’s easy it is for you to migrate your current legacy PBX
environment to 1toGo Mobile’s converged communications and
collaboration services without having to ‘rip and replace’ your
existing investments if they haven’t reached end of life. This
enables you to take advantage of the benefits of VoIP and our SIP
trunking services before subscribing to our mobile unified
communications and collaboration services
 Because 1toGo Mobile offers a suite of Unified Communications
services, not just VoIP solutions, you’ll enjoy value added benefits
that go far further than just cheaper telephone calls whose
benefits are being eroded as interconnect pricing falls
 Scarce capital that you would have spent upfront to purchase
software, licenses and infrastructure is converted to predictable
operating expenditure
 Organisations using our services require fewer costly technical
staff since the applications and infrastructure resides in our data
centers
 1toGo Mobile’s services can be deployed much more rapidly than
premise-based solutions with a corresponding decrease in time to
value

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Migrating to 1toGo
Mobile’s Services
This section illustrates one of many ways in which your organisation can
migrate to 1toGo Mobile’s services. It enables the piloting of our services
with groups of employees such as mobile and knowledge workers where
our services will provide you with the highest returns.
Please note that one can reach the end destination shown in one step
without passing through the individual steps. An organisation can
furthermore decide where it wishes to end the process.
Status quo The figure below illustrates the common scenario of an organisation with
separate voice and data networks. In this example, the organisation has a
legacy PBX while its email is managed from a hosted mail server. This
server could of course be premise-based.
Step one The next figure shows the replacement of this email server by a 1toGo
Mobile subscription.
At this stage, employees can call each other (and business partners with
accounts on the 1toGo Mobile network) for free in HD Voice as well as
enjoy features like business grade instant messaging and presence,
mobile push email, calendaring, address books and tasks regardless of
where they are in the world as long as they have an Internet connection
and a smartphone, tablet or PC. These services can be offered over the

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public Internet or over a private IP based wide area network (WAN).
Calls to/from public telephone networks route through the organisation’s
existing PBX, desk phones and service provider as usual.
Step two In the next stage of the rollout, a VoIP gateway is placed ahead of the
existing PBX enabling outgoing telephone calls to be made to the public
telephone network (PSTN) over the WAN or Internet via 1toGo Mobile’s
SIP trunking services.
Depending on call charges in the region of the world in which the business
is based, the Internet/WAN and 1toGo Mobile’s SIP trunking services can
be used to save on international, long distance, local and inter-office call
costs.
This figure assumes that incoming calls continue to be routed to the
organisation via its existing PSTN lines given that these lines are known
or advertised to the organisation’s current and potential business partners
or clients. These PSTN lines also provide for failover for outgoing calls in
the event of a problem on the WAN.
At this stage 1toGo Mobile has 'mobile enabled' the customer’s existing
PBX since incoming and outgoing calls to/from this PBX can be received
on / made from employees' smartphones and tablets (via VoIP or GSM),
or PCs (via VoIP) as full working extensions of the existing PBX using
1toGo Mobile’s unified communications clients/user interfaces. This
enables calls to be recorded using customer's existing call recording

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mechanism and removes the need for desk phones since users’
smartphones can be utilised over the corporate WiFi network.
Depending on the needs of the organisation and the profile of its staff
however, the organisation can continue to make calls over desktop IP
phones or analog telephones connected to the corporate LAN via analog
telephone adaptors (ATAs).
Reconciliation of employee claims for business calls made from personal
phone accounts is now a thing of the past since all calls to/from the PSTN
can be made via the existing PBX. Internal calls between employees are
free and in HD Voice while outgoing calls to public telephone numbers
enjoy 1toGo Mobile's competitive call tariffs.
Please note that not all mobile providers allow voice over their data
networks since they fear cannibalisation of their existing voice revenues.
An optional final stage is represented in the figure below.
Step three In this stage, the legacy PBX has reached end of life and is removed. All
call control is now provided by the IP PBX component of 1toGo Mobile’s
Cloud service.
This final stage is also ideal as a first stage for organisations who haven't
previously enjoyed the benefits of a PBX in general and IP PBX in
particular. Such organisations can implement all of 1toGo Mobile’s
services immediately without having to consider the constraints of existing

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infrastructure.
In this scenario, SIP trunks replace the PSTN lines for incoming and
outgoing calls. Any calls made to and received from the PSTN are now
connected to the PSTN not at the organisation’s premises but via
interconnects at 1toGo Mobile. Although many calls need never travel
over the PSTN (as is explained below), the wholesale rates negotiated by
1toGo Mobile for interconnects with other carriers should provide 1toGo
Mobile’s clients with further savings.
Users in an organisation can continue to make calls over IP phones or
analog telephones connected to the LAN via analog telephone adaptors
(ATAs) if they wish since 1toGo Mobile’s services support such endpoints.
In regions of the world that have fixed line number portability, telephone
numbers originally registered by an incumbent service provider could be
reregistered to 1toGo Mobile or a local 1toGo Mobile partner, thus
enabling incoming calls to be routed to the organisation via SIP trunks.
A further advantage to the introduction of the IP PBX component of 1toGo
Mobile’s services is that many calls made to or by the organisation’s
employees and business partners need never pass over the public PSTN
network if the person being called has an Internet communications URI
such as john@example.com. In a Unified Communications environment,
this URI will be the same for all communications modalities such as email,
IM and VoIP. Should an employee’s URI be advertised in a ENUM registry
database supported by 1toGo Mobile, any call made to that person over
the PSTN by a colleague who also has an Internet communications URI
can bypass the PSTN and instead be routed via a cheaper if not free IP
network.

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Given that the PSTN lines are no longer available for failover, this
scenario assumes that the client organisation has sufficient redundancy at
the access network level.
In Conclusion
Unified communications and collaboration services provide organisations
with measurable financial benefits as well as less easily quantified ‘soft’
benefits which nevertheless improve the organisation’s business
processes.
1toGo Mobile offers organisations an affordable quick time to value mobile
Cloud unified communications service. This enables organisations of all
kinds and sizes to enjoy the cost savings and productivity / business
process benefits that are obtainable not just from VoIP but from a full suite
of unified communications and collaboration tools including an IP PBX.
You can access an online demo of 1toGo Mobile’s services by clicking
here.
About 1toGo Mobile
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1toGo Mobile offers mobile Cloud
based unified communication and collaboration services to clients such as
SMEs/SOHOs across the world. 1toGo Mobile also offers solutions to
larger businesses as well as verticals such as educational, healthcare and
government institutions via its ‘1toGo Enterprise’ services.
1toGo Mobile also offers solutions to service providers including telcos,
mobile network operators (MNOs), mobile virtual network operators
(MVNOs), Internet service providers (ISPs) and Webhosts wishing to
provide their clients with value added services in order to differentiate their
services from their peers.
1toGo Mobile is an associate of Zwana Unicom, Distributor for
CommuniGate Systems technology in Sub Saharan Africa and South
Asia.