One of the biggest challenges facing business today is geography. With workforces, suppliers and customers often dispersed over great distances, you have to balance the advantages of personal interaction and collaboration with the need to keep costs under control.

Allstream Videoconferencing lets you make those vital face-to-face connections without spending valuable time and money. We help you increase productivity and strengthen partnerships while reducing travel expenses and shrinking your carbon footprint.

With our Videoconferencing Bridging Service, you can compound those savings by eliminating the investment in hardware and expertise required for in-house video communications. With our fully managed bridging service, as many people as you wish can join the video call from multiple locations – through an ISDN or IP connection, and from any type of video endpoint.

Allstream’s Videoconferencing capabilities can adapt and grow with you, freeing you to concentrate on what matters most to your business. Now you can erase the distance between remote locations and create a real-time interactive experience that’s the next best thing to meeting in person.

Boost productivity across your organization.
Allstream Videoconferencing minimizes the time and expense of business travel and helps your people work more effectively face to face. The benefits are clear:

• less time in transit – more time to perform essential business tasks
• seamless collaboration with remote stakeholders
• faster decision-making
• accelerated product and program development cycles.

Improve working relationships.
Whether your people are holding videoconferences in the boardroom, from their desktops or from their laptops when they’re on the move, they’ll build stronger connections with colleagues, clients, partners and suppliers. Allstream Videoconferencing can help them:

• collaborate more effectively as they conduct meetings, share documents and consult in real time
• use richer communications tools and enhanced troubleshooting to deliver better customer service
• achieve a better work-life balance, with less time spent travelling and more time devoted to what matters most, personally and professionally.

Gain the flexibility to adapt and grow.
Allstream’s suite of scalable videoconferencing products and services can adapt to the changing demands of your business.

• Connect multiple internal and external users – or just one on one.
• Link to any video endpoint without compromising the quality of the experience.
• Take advantage of flexible pricing options to ensure your videoconferencing investment keeps pace with growth.
• Let your emerging mobile workforce connect visually wherever people are.

Make everything simpler.
Integrating smoothly with the video technologies you already have in place, Allstream’s Videoconferencing Bridging Service makes videoconferencing and its adoption easier than ever.

• Eliminate the need for in-house bridging infrastructure or service teams.
• Enable sites with different videoconferencing software or data rates to participate in the same sessions.
• Count on Allstream’s certified experts to look after setup, security and quality control.
• Take advantage of our fully managed services, including detailed call and incident reporting.

Reduce travel, operating and capital costs.
Allstream’s Videoconferencing and hosted, fully managed Videoconferencing Bridging capabilities help you save in many ways:

• Reduce business travel expenses – bridge multiple endpoints simply and cost-effectively.
• Minimize capital outlay – save on the cost of bridging hardware.
• Lower your operational costs – avoid the need to invest in technical expertise.
• Leverage existing assets – increase videoconferencing usage without straining overall network bandwidth.
• Optimize videoconferencing spend – pay only for the services you need.

Increase your network ROI.
Allstream helps you get the most from your videoconferencing investment by offering products and services that are scalable, easy to use, cost effective and readily integrated with existing applications. By investing in a single comprehensive solution, you can centrally control all aspects of your on-site and remote videoconferencing systems, including design, configuration, project management, implementation, training, support, maintenance and management across your entire network.