Headquarters & Main Offices

Large sites tend to have the best internal services. LAN service with high speed connections to the data centers provide highly reliable connections for the desktop, and redundant connectivity to the outside world provides the reliability and resiliency required for non-stop business. Users within buildings or campuses can use their desk phones, cell phones, conference facilities, alternate offices, hotelling (temporary shared offices) and Wi-Fi or DECT based wireless devices. Calls can be seamlessly moved from device to device without interrupting the conversation.

Remote Offices

Smaller offices may have excellent internal networks but often lack the high speed redundant network links of larger sites. Users at these site have the same capabilities as users in the larger offices but Clearspan provides edge routers (network components located between the internet connection and the site LAN) that increase the reliability and resilience while reducing cost and complexity.

Because Clearspan is a network application service, users can have phones and offices in multiple locations, use a softphone as they move about the network or simply have their calls follow them no matter what phone they are using.

Legacy PBX Offices

Adoption of IP telephony in a large organization does not happen overnight; fortunately the productivity of Clearspan does not depend on IP telephones. Clearspan can be implemented without immediately replacing all of the existing phones and PBXs in your network. Clearspan’s unique Self-Paced Migration™ strategy provides services to users behind existing PBX systems, from any manufacturer, using their existing phones. Almost all Clearspan features are available to these users and there are licensing terms available to make servicing these locations affordable.

The phones at these legacy locations can be replaced by SIP phones at the time most advantageous to the enterprise. Legacy systems are then decommissioned to maximize the savings from the transition to IP telephony.

Traveling

Regardless of where users primarily work, they frequently have to travel. Clearspan makes getting things done while travelling simpler and easier. Clearspan’s any device capability means that users can use whatever combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, public internet, hotel services and PSTN connections they have available as they move from car to airport to hotel to meeting and back. Their single number access means that callers reach them using one number of their choice. Their single voicemail box means that callers only need to leave messages once, not several times. And their outbound calls always identify them by their office number, so sensitive cell numbers do not get exposed and calls from hotels or other client sites do not confuse people being called.

Client Offices

Whether for a two hour meeting or a two month consulting engagement, Clearspan can provide services to users working in office locations owned by clients, suppliers and other business partners with the same single number access, ease of mobility and single outbound identity they enjoy when working from other locations.

Residence

Tele-work, work from home, home office - whatever it's called, more and more people are spending significant amounts of time working from their residence and Clearspan provides the services that make working from home productive and satisfying. Clearspan can provide its Work Anywhere functionality to home workers using SIP phones or softphones behind broadband internet services, cellular phones, and even existing analog service from the PSTN. All with the same functionality, productivity and security that they would enjoy if they were in a main office.

Gone are the days when most work was done at a single location represented by a single phone and number. Today a large number of jobs involve working from multiple locations. Mobility is no longer the exception, it is the rule. A basic tenet of Clearspan^® is the desire to call people not numbers. Because Clearspan is based on a patented device independent design users can work anywhere, and move from place to place; network to network and device to device with ease.

Users work in multiple locations and as they move from place to place they encounter different networks (LAN, WAN, Cellular, PSTN, Wi-Fi, etc.) and devices (SIP, analog, cellular, Wi-Fi, softphones, etc.). No one device or network works everywhere nor does any device/network combination provide the best alternative everywhere. Being able to choose the device and network best suited to the situation provides tremendous flexibility to the end user.

More important than just being able to make and receive calls from anywhere users identities move with them. A single number can reach users anywhere and outbound calls can appear as if they were being dialed from the office.