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OfficePort Simplifies WAN Communications for Small Businesses

Strategic Insights

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Small businesses now have a single, integrated solution for their wide-area data communications applications with the OneWorld OfficePort family of network communications appliances. These appliances integrate analog and digital wide-area communications, expand as a business grows, and are priced to fit small business budgets. "We're creating a new class of communications solutions for small businesses that cuts through the clutter of single function boxes and the hype of emerging technologies," says Robyn Aber, Vice President, Marketing at OneWorld Systems.

Key Takeaways:

  • The OneWorld OfficePort appliances are designed specifically to handle the Internet access, routing, remote access, fax, and network modem pooling needs of small businesses.
  • OfficePort appliances integrate analog and digital wide-area communications, expand as a business grows, and are priced starting as low as $1,399.
  • The appliances come pre-configured with small and medium businesses' most popular WAN and application choices, supporting analog and digital dial-up services with expansion capacity to incorporate "always-on" broadband access.
  • OfficePort's DynaPort technology provides dynamic sharing of all communications applications on all phone ports without user intervention, allowing businesses to efficiently share phone lines and reduce the total number of lines needed for data communications.
  • The systems integrate Network Address Translation (NAT), firewall, authentication (PAP and CHAP), and packet filtering capabilities for secure WAN communications.
  • OfficePort appliances are expandable and designed for companies with as few as 5 and up to 300 employees, providing investment protection to small, but growing, businesses.
  • The appliances are available in both analog and digital models, with the OfficePort Analog model being the ideal entry-level WAN solution for small and medium businesses.

Statistics:

  • Nearly 70% of small businesses still use an individual dial-up connection to the Internet (Yankee Group).
  • 30% of small businesses plan to upgrade their Internet access, remote access, and WAN connectivity within the next year.
  • OfficePort appliances support up to 300 employees.
  • The OfficePort Analog base model starts at $1,399.
  • The OfficePort Digital base model starts at $1,899.

Sources:

  • "OneWorld Systems, Inc. Announces OneWorld(R) OfficePort Family of Network Communications Appliances." PR Newswire, 11 Oct. 1999.
  • Yankee Group, "Small and Medium Business Communications Service"
  • OneWorld Systems, Inc., Press Release, "OneWorld(R) OfficePort Network Communications Appliances."

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