Communications Solutions      In today’s business world, communication is not a luxury; it’s a necessity for survival. Complexity and the cost associated with communications solutions prohibit some organizations from taking full advantage of the benefits of technology. Hi-Tech Gateway solves the complexity problem by bringing all your solutions to one platform by emerging voice, data and videoconferencing onto your existing data platform. By partnering with the communications giants, Hi-Tech Gateway is able to bring down the total cost of ownership of your communications solutions.      Hi-Tech Gateway provides the following communications solutions: IP Connectivity VPN VoIP Security Solutions      IP Telephony allows data, voice, and video to be transmitted over a single network infrastructure. Enterprise technologies such as IP telephony are enabled and provide converged applications such as unified communications and contact center solutions.      IP telephony offers: Reduced administrative costs More flexibility in application deployment to the desktop Increased personal and workgroup productivity Improved customer care capabilities      In addition, VoIP offers enterprises the choice to adopt centralized voice services, which provide the ability to extend the functionality of the corporate IP voice, video and data solutions to remote office locations. At the same time, VoIP can also enable remote offices the same applications as the main branch without having to invest in their own infrastructure and software. Furthermore, VoIP can provide the central office a greater degree of control over what is added to the network, thereby insuring better systems integration and security      This functionality adds to the distributed call-processing model with inter-site networking across multiple corporate and remote sites. Enterprises of all sizes now have the flexibility to both host all of their IP-based solutions in the corporate office and extend these services across IP to branch offices, or deploy distributed solutions across multiple different sites.      Growth in the VoIP market is expected to be considerable over the next 5 years. Estimations put the annual growth rate for IP-enabled telephone equipment at 132% with an expected market of some $3.16B in 2002.      The main justifications for development of VoIP can be summarized as follows: Cost reduction. There can be a real savings in long distance telephone costs, which is extremely important to most companies, particularly those with international markets Simplification. An integrated voice/data network allows more standardization and reduces total equipment needs Consolidation. The ability to eliminate points of failure, consolidate accounting systems and combine operations is obviously more efficient Advanced Applications. The long run benefits of VoIP include support for multimedia and multiservice applications; something which today's telephone system can't compete with      Hi-Tech Gateway will consult, analyze, design and implement to cater all of your communications needs such as connecting your corporate/satellite offices with emerging data, voice and video conference capabilities, while providing you with your customized extensive solution from equipment and software all the way to connectivity and beyond.