{"id":194,"date":"2006-03-15T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T09:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-03-15T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T09:36:39","slug":"gfree-v-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"GFree v Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not a major multinational organisation like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> but that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t deliver high quality hardware and software. For the business community we can see several clear advantages of FreeSpeech (GFree) against Skype based on the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkingpipeline.com\/news\/181503270\">comments<\/a> from Networking Pipeline.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;1. Skype for Business still doesn&#8217;t provide centralized reporting, so business won&#8217;t be able to monitor how users spend Skype credits. There&#8217;s no way to monitor or prevent, for example, users from calling 900 numbers and the like.<br \/>\n2. Skype for Business doesn&#8217;t provide hunt groups where multiple extensions ring when a phone is dialed. Skype was expected to deliver that function in this release.<br \/>\n3. Call transfers still aren&#8217;t provided.<br \/>\n4. There&#8217;s no attendant or IVR function, which would redirect calls to other Skype numbers based on user selection. Many IVR functions can be provided through a Web page, but that won&#8217;t help users who might be calling in from the PSTN.<br \/>\n5. Calls are still encrypted, preventing businesses from ensuring that employees aren&#8217;t passing information that might violate regulatory restrictions.<br \/>\n6. Forget about E-911 compliance. There is none.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what can a business customer expect from our GFree package?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Centralised reporting as standard with statistics analysis a call\/user level<\/li>\n<li>Hunt groups and Virtual PBX functionality where required<\/li>\n<li>Call Transfers available as standard<\/li>\n<li>Auto-attendant and IVR as standard<\/li>\n<li>Intra-business call&#8217;s aren&#8217;t encrypted. Logging software available on request<\/li>\n<li>Each box is managed. We know where your calls originated from and we can prove it using timestamped &#038; hashed CDRs. Generally we&#8217;d manage the phones and the UPS aswell using a secure VPN connection. It&#8217;s not quite E.911 compliance yet but we feel it comfortably meets the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataprotection.ie\/viewdoc.asp?m=m&#038;fn=\/documents\/guidance\/3gm4.htm\">Irish Data Protection Act<\/a> requirements <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Skype is a great technology but it has its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not a major multinational organisation like Google but that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t deliver high quality hardware and software. For the business community we can see several clear advantages of FreeSpeech (GFree) against Skype based on the following comments from Networking Pipeline. &#8220;1. Skype for Business still doesn&#8217;t provide centralized reporting, so business won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}