Challenge
A multinational advertising agency has offices in 32 countries. Long distance toll calls have steadily risen, in particular in about South American and South East Asian countries. Higher bandwidth applications (ex. video conferencing) have exacerbated the situation.

Solution
EXENET recommends a toll by-pass solution built upon their existing PBX infrastructure. The solution entails leveraging IP telephony to interconnect heterogeneous PBX systems at different branch offices. In addition, ongoing maintenance and quality of service are assured throughout the multi-national network.

Benefits
Toll by-pass system reduces costs and also reduces support requirements on existing PBX system. EXENET internetworking experts now support the network remotely on a 24x7 basis.

Results
Monthly long-distance costs are dramatically reduced in all locations. In one South-east Asian branch, $48 - 60K annual long-distance telephone costs are reduced to nearly zero. In addition, the $18MM proposed capital costs for a full IP telephony deployment were avoided.