With many companies starting to adopt remote work culture in this post-COVID time, according to Owl Labs, 16% of companies globally are fully remote. And more than 70% of companies embrace the hybrid work environment. This makes it increasingly important to have all tools that support your mobility and enables you to scale and upgrade at any time, with security in mind.
When it comes to communication and network solutions, there are plenty of technologies to choose from, and communication technology is ever-evolving. On top of communication technologies, there’s VoIP technology to make and receive calls.
VoIP Combined with VPN
VoIP stands for Voice Over IP, and it’s a communication technology through which voice data is transmitted as digital data using the Internet Protocol to make and receive voice data instead of the old-fashioned public switched telephone network (PSTN), enabling businesses to communicate more efficiently and increase the productivity of your team.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, which is a network technology through which you create a private, secure network for your business. A VPN is created by establishing a virtual point-to-point connection through the use of dedicated circuits or with tunneling protocols over existing networks. A VPN available from the public Internet can provide some benefits of a wide area network (WAN).
Advantages of Using VoIP & VPN in Combination
Combining voice-over IP and virtual private network technologies to offer a method for delivering secure voice. VPN provides security and safety to your communication and data sharing.
The VoIP gateway-router first converts the voice signal to its equivalent digital form, encapsulates the digitized voice within IP packets, then encrypts the digitized voice using IPsec, and finally routes the encrypted voice packets securely through a VPN tunnel. At the remote site, another VoIP router decodes the voice and converts the digital voice to an analog signal for delivery to the phone.
Cutting Costs
VoIP and VPN solutions help SMEs to better communicate at low costs, thanks to advances in communication technology, businesses can now communicate with their customers, partners and handle any number of calls at the lowest price possible. Research conducted on the effectiveness of using VoIP solutions to cut communication costs found that using a VoIP solution helps in cutting costs by 80%.
Security
Security is a global concern for businesses of all sizes, cyberattacks are targeting businesses, especially small ones. Network security is essential to any business, to secure their data and file sharing. Firewall and content filtering, besides VPN, are important for your business protection, Firewall blocks any malicious and dangerous traffic through a predefined set of rules to control who you let in, and what traffic is allowed to enter your network by monitoring and analyzing network traffic.
Learn more on how to secure your traffic by setting up a reliable and secure network!
Increased Productivity
Bringing all your branches together through VPN, no matter where they are physically located, increases the productivity of your workspace. VoIP solutions also promotes your employees’ productivity. Using VoIP, you can install a call center system to manage, and control your calls.
Read more on how to increase the efficiency of your workspace using a call center system!
How Modn Telecom Helps Businesses Better Communicate?
Modn Telecom is an authorized distributor for many high profiles industry leaders of VoIP and Network products, providing high-end services by its highly qualified IT engineers for maintenance and configurations. Modn Store also provides you with every VoIP and Network device you might need to unify all your communication channels. Everything from IP Phones, routers, switches, access points, and PBX systems.
Modn and its globally recognized partners aim to transform how businesses in the KSA and the Gulf region communicate to offer communication mobility and promote the security and efficiency of your workplace.
DrayTek is the world's largest provider of business-level VPN and Load balancing routers, read more on how DrayTek products promote security and help you create a reliable and secure network.
Yeastar provides businesses with smart products and devices to make their communication efficient, using high-end PBX systems with call center capabilities and some cloud functionalities built-in. Read more on how Yeastar products covers all your communication needs!
Fanvil has won many international awards for its unparalleled technology. It’s leading the next generation of communications. Fanvil has multiple production lines; IP phones, Intercoms, hotel phones, and more. Read more on how high-end VoIP Communication Solutions and Products From Fanvil!
