More and more companies are relying on cloud technologies – also in the area of Unified Communications. Take advantage of modern cloud environments by hosting the XPhone Server on a virtual machine such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or on your own cloud hypervisor.
What XPhone offers you in the cloud
- Scalability: machines can be flexibly expanded as the load increases. Perfect for tomorrow's needs!
- Performance: call setup times and voice quality can improve in the cloud. This requires the right network infrastructure setup.
- Maintenance: the cloud provider typically takes care of updates and hardware maintenance. This reduces the maintenance effort for your own IT and frees up resources that are often urgently needed.
- Modern operating concept: do away with telephone systems and, if necessary, VPN. Cloud-based architectures can be implemented PBX- & VPN-less.
- Reliability: many cloud environments offer automatic failover and load balancing mechanisms. For all those who rely on "net & double bottom" when it comes to communication.
- Mobility benefits: thanks to their decoupled infrastructure, cloud solutions offer the ideal platform for web clients and mobile apps. And make your employees not only flexible, but literally mobile.
Out of the local data center, into the cloud!
You can operate the following XPhone components in an external or self-managed cloud environment:
- XPhone Server
- XPhone Call Controller (as a satellite or integrated)
- XPhone Client on terminal servers
Network separation from the local infrastructure and "encapsulation" from the company LAN offer advantages for externally accessible services such as the Mobile App or voice transmission via the Call Controller.
Are you planning to provide centralised services?
Our tip: for multi-site concepts, a central connection point ensures high connection speeds for all users.
Challenges? We have solutions!
Quality is king! This applies in particular to voice quality when making calls.
This could suffer in the cloud with low bandwidth. There is a risk of latency and packet loss.
XPhone offers you not just one solution. But three!
WITH VPN
A VPN tunnel ensures a stable connection between the cloud instance and the company network. But a VPN can also quickly become a bottleneck.
For the best of both worlds, XPhone offers payload separation: the voice data is routed separately from the signaling data past the VPN. This avoids potential bottlenecks.
WITHOUT VPN
Alternatively, you can use XPhone completely without VPN to reduce the load on the VPN tunnel. The voice data is encrypted using SRTP and the OPUS codec and can only be used by the XPhone Call Controller.
ALWAYS EFFICIENT
No matter what you decide: the OPUS codec not only offers security, but also efficiency. OPUS requires only a small amount of bandwidth to deliver HD audio and adjusts itself downwards. If the bandwidth decreases, the quality is automatically downsampled and the data packets are reduced in size.