Running voice, data and video over one network, seamlessly and cost-effectively – everyone’s been talking about it for years. Now it’s time to make it happen.

It’s hard to justify maintaining multiple networks and technology interfaces when you’re under constant pressure to manage IT demands more efficiently. As long as you’re dealing with that added layer of complexity, your business communications won’t be all that they could be and – more to the point – neither will your business.

You need to converge your voice, data and multimedia applications onto one high-performance IP network that connects your people reliably, securely and seamlessly. That’s what Allstream has been delivering to Canadian businesses for two decades. Leveraging the power of advanced Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), we cost-effectively route all types of communications from multiple sites across our nationwide, high-bandwidth, fibre-optic network.

You can evolve convergence to the next level with IP Trunking. By replacing your multiple connections to the PTSN with a single, secure access point, you simplify network management and set the stage for smoothly deploying more advanced unified communications in the future.

Supporting all traffic and applications with a single IP-VPN improves the quality of communications within your organization, as well as with your customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. It significantly lowers the risk of security incidents or disruptive downtime. And it improves your bottom line by reducing equipment, long-distance and Internet charges – while helping you realize a higher overall return on your infrastructure investment.

Let Allstream simplify every aspect of your IT operations – support desk workload, vendor relationships, the full spectrum of routine management tasks – with a flexible, tailor-made convergence solution.

Streamline your network management challenges.

• Eliminate most of your WAN-PSTN and WAN-LAN interfaces.
• Do away with multiple PRI connections.
• Simplify network management and applications deployment with IP Trunking, collapsing as many as eight switches into one point of access to the PSTN.
• Decouple WAN services from geographical limitations.
• Centralize all networking equipment and connections in one location.
• Avoid needless duplication of hardware and software.
• Stop the inefficiency of upgrading voice, data and video applications separately.
• Deliver easily scalable bandwidth capacity across your organization.
• Maintain high performance levels even when you’re adding new applications, users and offices.
• Minimize the risk of network downtime.
• Free up your IT team’s time and resources so they can focus on core tasks.
• Create a single point of contact for all network support.
• Accelerate network expansion and the addition of future applications with an integrated technology roadmap.

Improve productivity and deliver a better customer experience.

• Support videoconferencing and collaboration tools to help your people work together remotely and share data across desktops, offices and mobile devices.
• Accelerate decision-making, work processes and production cycles.
• Improve customer response times.
• Raise customer satisfaction levels to build long-term loyalty.

Save money on infrastructure and staffing.

An end-to-end, converged IP network from Allstream can reduce your operating costs as well as major capital expenditures by:

• optimizing network and applications performance
• cutting IT staff hours spent on maintaining and upgrading separate networks
• simplifying the hassles of connecting new network users, offices and applications
• taking advantage of IP Trunking to further enhance management efficiency, flexibly adding or reducing capacity as needed
• reducing monthly long-distance and Internet charges
• eliminating hardware and software redundancies
• minimizing losses related to network downtime
• protecting your existing IT investments from obsolescence