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Business Benefits

Becoming part of the high speed communications revolution is important to businesses. It removes the need for your office locations to be close to industrial or high population centres. In some cases you can conduct your whole business online but for most companies being online has simply become a vital tool to improving efficiency, opening up new sales and marketing channels and meeting customer demands in far shorter timeframes.

So what are the specific benefits to getting broadband for your business?

• Performance	• VPN Integration	• New Activities
• Competitive Position	• Security	• Cost Savings
• Availability

Performance - Up to 30 times the download speed

Being able to send and receive information in time frames that suit your customers and your suppliers enabling your business to run smoothly. More and more information is being sent electronically for free rather than posted at cost. Saving time and money. Technology should not inhibit your business it should support and assist your responsiveness enabling you to serve more customers more effectively.

Competitive Position – Keep the competition in your sights

It is now becoming a distinct disadvantage to not be using the Internet effectively. Your competitors may beat you to delivering online responses and information and if you are not actively reviewing their activities online you may not even know why a little less business is coming in each month. From a competitive position broadband enables you to make the most of communications as you never have to connect, you are already online.

Availability – Open for business 24 hours a day

For communication to be effective it needs to be available when required, all true broadband technologies are 'always-on' so you never have to wait for a modem or ISDN line to try and get a connection and anything sent to you also gets straight to your staff rather than waiting for your system to call your service provider.

You should be careful in this area because there are some satellite solutions which are not genuinely bi-directional so only the information sent to you is received immediately, an ISDN line or modem is still required to send information.

VPN Integration – Safe data, secure remote working

Availability is also not just about your office sending and receiving information out to your customers and suppliers. It is also about remote access to your in-house resources. Whether you need remote branch offices to link back to a main site or you have teleworkers who need to access online resources a satellite solution can bring these people into your company’s network via a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) at a speed that makes teleworking effective.

Of course the traditional VPN solution for linking back to the office from hotels / conference centre facilities is also important and perhaps satellite broadband makes your head office a connected head office for the first time. Typical ISDN installations often inhibit this type of communication, but you no longer need to accept this type of solution.

Security – Protecting your business knowledge

It is important to protect your computer stored information in the same way you protect your physical assets. The risks increase as you connect permanently to the Internet and so appropriate safeguards must be in-place. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section above for where to obtain suitable firewall and anti-virus software.

New Activities – New media, new business

Having a good communication infrastructure enables you to take advantage of developing services. Have you postponed Internet business banking owing to modem speeds and intermittent connectivity? You can now embrace it.

Do you want to take advantage of online training courses or business services but the trial was too slow? Not any more.

There are further interesting business opportunities with satellite broadband where a connection is redistributed to local businesses and consumers - normally using wireless technologies. If you are well placed for reaching other users your satellite connection could become a revenue earner.

Cost Savings – Cut the cost of ISDN or Leased lines

Although satellite broadband based services are more expensive than copper or fibre based broadband solutions they still represent potential cost savings on heavy usage ISDN (where costs can exceed £500 per month / £1500 per quarter) or leased lines which can be over £1000 per month. Satellite solutions are also easily upgradeable as the same hardware is used in all current products.

Wireless distribution also helps lower the cost of service if you team up with local businesses in the same area to share the cost of a connection. Avonline provide a range of solutions for wireless access suitable for sharing out a satellite broadband connection, please click here.