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Description:
Aside from its mainstream role as an
Information Security Tool, Xiscan is
ideally suited to a role as an inventory
management tool. With the release in
August 2008 of Xiscan 6, and further
enhancements introduced in February 2009
& March 2013, this capability has been
extended further still. Using our new and
unique scanning technology, we can not
only identify where your faxes and modems
are (with a higher degree of confidence
than ever before), but also identify
excess line capacity.
Rationale:
For a changing organisation looking to
control costs in a traditional telephony
environment, identification of excess
capacity can lead to direct cost savings.
Number ranges can be decommissioned saving
line rental charges, and telephony switch
capacity can be consolidated. Both actions
can result in significant savings in
recurring costs.
Organisations looking at migrating to a
Voice over IP (VoIP) telecomms
infrastructure can reap additional, less
obvious benefits:
- accurately mapping current line usage
facilitates early decommissioning of
existing infrastructure
- identifying exactly where legacy
analogue access (modem and fax) is still
a requirement, so it can be catered for
One of the big issues surrounding modem
access in particular is that it tends to
proliferate when unsupervised. The
last thing that you want in a VoIP
migration is to find out, after the
fact, that you have inadvertently
removed remote access to a key business
or infrastructure system in the process.
However, for an increasing number of our
VoIP customers, the real driver is the
potentially huge cost
savings that can be made in support,
licensing and maintenance by early
decommissioning of the existing telecomms
infrastructure.
For example, an organisation with a
combination of less than 10000 VoIP
extensions and fixed lines were able to
realise ongoing annual savings of €20000
in line rental alone
from unused capacity identified in a
single audit that we conducted for them.
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