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Competitive Analysis
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Take out the feature set Brochure
• Note that there are Three type of competing Architecture.
• Determine which of these type you competitor is and use the feature comparison grid to see where they fall short
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The Way People Work has Changed
• Companies have spread out and outsourced parts of their organization
• More and more employees are working from their homes
• The cell phone has become an important part of the business communications process
• Broadband Internet access is now serving most small to midsized businesses and has become another important part of the communications process
• There is now an anytime, anywhere expectation for staying in communication whether we like it or not
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The Only Thing That Has Not Changed
Is The Phone System. Even After these vendors have converted them to VoIP.
Why?
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The Traditional Phone Companies Have Changed but for the Worse
• Degrading analog lines
• Customer Service unaware, uncaring, and under-staffed
• Overpriced
• No new features in the last 30 years
• People are Angry
• The Carrier Idea of VoIP is to have no customer Premise PBX which is really a poor architecture.
• Why would they think to do it this way?
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How do You Train a Flea Circus?
• It is simple:• Catch some fleas (the hard part)• Put them in a jar with a lid but air holes so they can
breath• Wait 2 days
• Pour them out onto a table and they will stay exactly in the space of the jar and not jump more than a few inches
• To feed just put your hand in there for a few minutes every few days and they stay alive
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There Are 4 Ways to Deliver Phone Service to a Business
1. Traditional phone service and a phone system (PBX) from a third party
2. VoIP PBX from one company with Internet phone service from another company
3. Hosted VoIP PBX over the Internet
4. End-to-End Competitors
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1. Traditional Phone Service and PBX Competitive Analysis
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Traditional Phone Service and a Phone System (PBX) From a Third Party
Traditional phone service and a complex, expensive traditional business phone system (PBX) from a third
party lack features and costs tens of thousands of dollars. They have missed the Paradigm Shift of
Outsourcing, Home Offices, Cell Phones and the Internet – Even after converting many of their product to do VoIP
at the customer premise.
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Competitors
• Traditional PBX Manufacturers• Mitel, Nortel, Toshiba, ESI, Cisco, Lucent,
3COM, Shoretel, COMDIAL, NEC, Siemens
• Traditional Carriers• Verizon, ATT&T, COX Communications,
Bright House, COMCAST
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Key Disadvantages
• Features cannot interoperate between locations: IVR, Remote extensions, Call Routing
• Very Expensive• Angry customers too big to care
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VoIP PBX and 3rd Party Internet Service Provider Competitive
Analysis
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Beware of the Consumer Grade, Mom and Pop and Broker Providers
• VoIP, better known as Internet Phone Service, has been offered to consumers as a cut rate service from companies such as Vonage, Comcast and Skype.
• These consumer grade services save money but lack the feature set, quality and reliability that a business requires.
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VoIP PBX from One Company with Internet Phone Service from Another
More recently you could purchase a VoIP PBX from one company and tie it to Internet phone service from another company. This approach is more of a science project than a solution and lacks features as well as quality and reliability. So much so that many
PBX manufacturers are recommending more expensive traditional phone service with their products.
Company A Turns a PC Into a PBX Company B Provides Internet Phone Service at Some Level
Internet
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Competitors
• New IP PBX Mfg Internet Phone Co’s
Fonality Vonage
Digium Proximiti
TrixBox Broadvoice
Apetela Compartners
Foundry Point One
Voxter Teleiax
Ipitomy go-to-call
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Key Disadvantages
• Not end-to-end• Features do not match up• PC Disk drives, power supplies & fans break • No End-To-End QOS or 729a CODEC• No failover system• No Monitoring• Science project – will be hard to ever get this
to work 3000 settings between phones, PBX and Service provider that need to match up with many networking issues
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Disadvantages
• Not End-To-End Which leads to:• Features do not match well between vendors• Lack in quality no end to end QoS or CODEC
pairing• No way to monitor• No Fail Over – No reliability
• Science Project (will never work)• No single point of accountability (on neck to
crush if it does not work)
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Hosted VoIP PBX and Internet Phone Service Competitive
Analysis
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Hosted VoIP PBX Over the Internet
A third option is a completely Hosted PBX with VoIP Phone Service over the Internet but this requires an
expensive T1 line with one phone line per extension and does not save any money.
Internet
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Competitors
• COVAD• Packet 8
• Pocket Rocket• Ceybond• Speakeasy• Calltower
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Disadvantages
• You must go out to the Internet and come back using two channels of bandwidth just to speak to the person in the next cube – Bad Architecture
• Multiple phones and PC competing for network bandwidth on the customer network and across the Internet without any controlling PBX and router prevent QOS and result in very low quality which then requires an expensive T1
• Expensive, You pay for a T1 and per phone per month for PBX functionality, sometimes even more for particular features like Voice Mail
• Minimum fail over and monitoring
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Key Competitor Profile – Packet 8
• PACKET 8 - Packet8 is a broadband telephone and videophone service. Designed with both residential and business customers in mind, Packet8 is a hosted PBX and needs T1 connectivity to work correctly. It is costly and if system goes down you have no back up system to keep you up running.
• System is expensive $90 per month per line with inbound/outbound call 2000 minutes. If system goes down no back solution
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The World’s Most Reliable Business Grade Internet Phone Solution
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End-to-End Competitors
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End-To-End Competitors
• Whaleback • LinksysOne
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Disadvantages
• Whaleback – Small under-funded Startup, No QoS, Proprietary Software only 2 developers, $50 per phone, cable only, 2x our cost, bad quality, requires separate cable, work only through cable companies which is a weak connection
• LinksysOne – A Year late .. So far. $62 per phone per month, Cheap hardware, Voice mail reside on each phone, cost because they have 3 tier selling, provider, dealer, distributor, promised to delivery
• Star2Star - Better Features Quality, Reliability and Lower Cost $23 per phone per month.
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Introducing Star2Star
The World’s Most Reliable Business Grade
Internet Phone Solution
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Star2Star Components
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We Make the World’s Most Reliable Business Phone PBX Called the StarBox
Starbox 2100
• Up to 100 Users
• Supports DSL, Cable or T1
• Powerful Features
•Solid State (no moving parts)
• Monitored 24x7x365
Starbox 5500
• Up to 500 Users
• Supports Up to 4 T1 Lines
• Powerful Features
•Solid State (no moving parts)
• Monitored 24x7x365
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Phones Offered By Star2Star
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Star2Star Supports Analog Phones, Fax Machines…Even Other Phone Systems
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StarService
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Superior Quality With StarPath
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Star2Star Data Center
Our Data Center houses the core telecommunication infrastructure for Star2star Communications. Located on the 16th floor of the Lykes Tower
(Colonial Bank Building) in downtown Tampa. Originally built by GTE to
house its telephone network core for Southwest Florida, this building has
become one of the nation's most active carrier neutral communications facilities, housing more than a dozen
major communications companies and having multiple redundant fiber
loops connecting the entire region to the Internet backbone.
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Around the Clock Monitoring and Service Desk
Online System Monitor Automatic Detection of
Quality or Reliability Issues
Service Tickets Can Be Created at Anytime by Automatic Detection, From Our
Web Site or By Calling our Around the Clock Support Center
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Guaranteed Reliability
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Data Center Reliability
100% Redundant Cisco Network at Tier-1 Data Center
Powered by Redundant Connections
Inergen Gas Fire Suppression System
Redundant Environment Control System
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Star2Star Nationwide Network
Our service extends far beyond our core infrastructure in the Data Center. When
you make a call, Star2Star determines the best quality route
for your call and sends your call
through that route to guarantee the
highest possible call quality.
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Powerful Features
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Find-Me/Follow-Me
We Provide Powerful Features Such As Find-Me/Follow-Me
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Call Routing
You can have as many phone numbers as you
wish. You can have multiple companies,
departments or personal numbers and
each can behave differently when people
call. You can also specify different
behavior during or after business hours for
each day of the week.
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Voice Menus
You can quickly create an unlimited set of voice
menus leading to individuals, departments,
recordings, custom applications, or other
menus.
We can even have these menus professionally
recorded for you.
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Ring Groups and Call Queues
You can create groups where the phones all ring
together or where calls are automatically distributed to
the next available agent.
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Customize Music On Hold
You can upload your own MP3 or WAV files
to customize Music On Hold.
We can even make custom recordings for you to communicate
to your captive audience.
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Integrate With Outlook and Your PC
You can integrate your phone system
with your PC.
By right clicking on any contact we will call them and also
call your extension at the same time so you do not even have to
dial the phone.
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911 Support
We Fully Support Making 911 Calls From Your Office
Phone and Remote Extensions
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Star2Star Savings
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We Cut the Typical Business Phone Bill in Half