The Benefits of Residential Installations

Within ten years it is estimated that 40% of all employed people will not travel to a single place of work. More people are working remotely away from the traditional office environment and utilise technology to enable this. 

 

The technology infrastructure to support Remote & Mobile Working must be reliable and stable. Equally communications must be fast and efficient.

We provide & support complete IT systems to facilitate a remote working environment. In the majority of cases, there is no additional infrastructure cost. 

 

Where necessary, we can also supply high speed Broadband and Leased lines to connect distributed businesses and/or remote workers.

Home Networks


Optical Fiber, offers all the advantages without any of the challenges. Already an established medium in industrial and commercial networks due to its high reliability in even the most rugged environments, Announce has found another niche in home networks. With data rates of up to one Gigabit, and assured quality of service to every device in the residence, Optical Fiber is the most robust technology for 100 Mbps Optical Ethernet and 250 Mbps Optical for the home. These features are especially advantageous for emerging IPTV implementations and other triple play services. Fiber offers numerous advantages over other home network transmission media, including CAT5/CAT6. This means that home builders, installers, content providers, and consumers can benefit from quicker, more flexible and cost-effective installations.

 

 

High Bandwidth

Announce offers data rates of up to one Gigabit, and assured quality of service to every device in the residence. This makes it the most robust technology for 100 Mbps Optical Ethernet and 250 Mbps Optical for the home.

 

Who's there

 

Announce Installers are highly trained in all aspects of the Telecoms marketplace. This training enables them to fully assess a customers communication requirements and recommend the most efficient and cost effective system, tailored to meet their specific needs. Announce does not tie themselves to any particular manufacturer.

 

Cameras on the phones

 

We can provide cameras that allow you to see who is at the door or gate on your telephone, PC or iPhone. Cameras have pan, tilt and zoom capability, as well as motion detection, image recording and allowing two way speech.

 

Transfer the call

 

Keyphones can cover the house, staff accommodation and offices, allowing you to answer and transfer calls to any keyphone, cordless or mobile phone.

 

Cordless Telephones 

 

An integrated DECT cordless system can be installed alllowing you to cover both the house and extensive grounds, letting you receive a call or answer the gate without being out of range.

 

Paging facility

 

The telephone system has a built-in paging facility, allowing you to make announcements. This would be ideal, for instance, where you have a call for someone and you don’t know where they are, or, you just want to tell the children that dinner is ready.

 

Deal with visitors from ANY phone 

 

By integrating your gates and access control with a telephone system, a visitor arriving at your gate can ring as many or as few extensions as you want. Gate entry can be controlled from cordless handsets whilst out in your grounds. Additionally, even if you are not at home, you can still receive a ‘gate call’ to your mobile phone and allow entry.

 

We can also link the telephone to the office system and the computers to the office server making everyone feel part of the company.

 

Home workers 

 

Home workers using the Announce system you can make calls on your home line and the calls are charged to the office account without installing additional lines.

We can also link the telephone to the office system and the computers to the office server making everyone feel part of the company.

 

The benefit of IP Telephones, when on holiday's

 

With a holiday house abroad, you may still wish to stay in contact with your home. By installing an IP phone which will operate over the internet, you effectively have an extension on your home system, allowing you to answer and transfer calls as if you were at home.

This has the added benefit that calls back to your home are free, and you can make calls on the house lines at UK rates.

 

Home Workers

Home Workers

The diagram shows a typical BT Versatility homeworker set up, where there is a home workers that can access the office telephone system and computer network. Announce Telecoms can manage the complete installation & set up of your BT Versatility Homeworker. Contact Us to discuss more.

 

Home Workers or Remote extensions are ideal where a director or staff member wants to work from home or a small branch office. All intercom calls between to two sites are free. Head office can transfer any oustide caller to the home worker. It can also allow outside calls to ring at the home worker.The remote extensions operate in exactly the same way as the office extensions. Calls can be transfered from all destinations, all aplications such as voicemail can be used remotely.