I'm currently in Michigan, and my office is in New Hampshire. I have a Vonage number here in Michigan with a 603 number so that clients can make a local call. I also have their optional 800 number and a local Michigan area code number that forwards to the same line.
The voice quality is great. It actually seems better then my Verizon phone. I have a very cheap cordless phone attached, and I'm usually pretty far from the base, so I get some crackles and pops, but not when I am close to the base. I have called clients in Canada several times, and I haven't noticed any lag, but I haven't really made any truly international calls.
The web interface is nice. They provide a log updated instantly of all incoming and outgoing calls. I can forward my calls, check my voice mail (which they will also email to you), check my billing, and a host of other features. They also have a bandwidth setting. I have it set to full and haven't noticed any lag when using the internet while on a call.
They do seem to be overloaded customer service wise, but they are trying their best, and when you do get through they are helpful and prompt.
I was on the Ford global Exchange project from 1998 to 2000. We converted Ford's mail system from PROFs to Microsoft Exchange. On over 250,000 machines. Most of those machines now use Office 2000 (or prehaps office XP now). There is a wide range of operating systems on the desktop at Ford. I personally worked on Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix, Linux, and OS2 machines.
1. At least 90% of the IT staff at Ford are outsourced. Very very few IT workers are actually Ford employees.
2. Ford doesn't typically support dealers machines in any way. There is a whole seperate system there from what is used in the offices and factories.
3. Each part of their network is run by a seperate company. When I was there HP ran their network and servers and Compuware was the source of most of their IT workers. The Exchange project was being handled by Compaq. The Machines themselves were being handled by Dell.
4. From a mail standpoint alone I can't see them going to Linux anytime soon. They have at least 200,000 machines that rely on MS Outlook.
5. They have other systems which typically take care of supplier communications. MS Office interoperablity would not be that much of a factor, but it would be pretty annoying.
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I'm currently in Michigan, and my office is in New Hampshire. I have a Vonage number here in Michigan with a 603 number so that clients can make a local call. I also have their optional 800 number and a local Michigan area code number that forwards to the same line.
The voice quality is great. It actually seems better then my Verizon phone. I have a very cheap cordless phone attached, and I'm usually pretty far from the base, so I get some crackles and pops, but not when I am close to the base. I have called clients in Canada several times, and I haven't noticed any lag, but I haven't really made any truly international calls.
The web interface is nice. They provide a log updated instantly of all incoming and outgoing calls. I can forward my calls, check my voice mail (which they will also email to you), check my billing, and a host of other features. They also have a bandwidth setting. I have it set to full and haven't noticed any lag when using the internet while on a call.
They do seem to be overloaded customer service wise, but they are trying their best, and when you do get through they are helpful and prompt.
This really is a great service.
I was on the Ford global Exchange project from 1998 to 2000. We converted Ford's mail system from PROFs to Microsoft Exchange. On over 250,000 machines. Most of those machines now use Office 2000 (or prehaps office XP now). There is a wide range of operating systems on the desktop at Ford. I personally worked on Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix, Linux, and OS2 machines.
1. At least 90% of the IT staff at Ford are outsourced. Very very few IT workers are actually Ford employees.
2. Ford doesn't typically support dealers machines in any way. There is a whole seperate system there from what is used in the offices and factories.
3. Each part of their network is run by a seperate company. When I was there HP ran their network and servers and Compuware was the source of most of their IT workers. The Exchange project was being handled by Compaq. The Machines themselves were being handled by Dell.
4. From a mail standpoint alone I can't see them going to Linux anytime soon. They have at least 200,000 machines that rely on MS Outlook.
5. They have other systems which typically take care of supplier communications. MS Office interoperablity would not be that much of a factor, but it would be pretty annoying.
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