Your Business Model
Your revenues with Medusa can be substantial.
Our billing platform will calculate and alert you to excess use charges.
Revenues through Service Plans
Service Plans are a way of structuring how you charge for Internet Services. You control both bandwidth performance and data consumption to create plans that suit different groups of users.
You can read our white paper on Service Plans, which is an excellent introduction. We also have analysis tools (spreadsheet) and a PowerPoint presentation - please ask.
View White Paper on Service Plans
View White Paper on Ethernet Internet
The image, right, is from our template order form and handbook, which is available to customers in word format.
Lines of Revenue
How does Medusa create Revenue? Well, not everyone charges the same way, but here are the most common ideas.
Line of Revenue
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Description |
How Charged |
Shared Internet - Entry Level Plan
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No special needs
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By company or by workstation |
Shared Internet - Premium plans
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More performance or volume required
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By company or by workstation |
Shared Internet Excess Charges
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Companies that use over their shared-plan allowance
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charge per GByte over allowance
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Internet Guaranteed Bandwidth
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Lease line equivalent - unshared
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charge per Mbps guaranteed, with optional "exceed" bandwidth
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| Hot Desk |
Visitors, virtuals and traveling professionals
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Per hour/day/month etc
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Public IPs
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Remote access to company network via Medusa
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Charge per month per IP used |
Common Resources
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Eg print/scan/fax from desktop via Medusa
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Charge per copy
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| Max Circuits with Load Balance |
1 - 5, 6-9 as special
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1-4 |
Copier/Scanner/Fax ports
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Unlimited |
1 |
| Max Bandwidth |
100 Mbps |
25 Mbps |
Then there are additional revenues that Medusa enables. WiFi is becoming an important contributor to overall value, and we have wireless roaming.
Going forward we expect out integration with mobility solutions such as the Avaya Aura One-X will be an important driver for voice revenues.
In fact, once you investigate, you'll be surprised how many services you actually can offer with Medusa.
Managing Costs through Business Processes
With Medusa your running costs are lower. Medusa enables reception staff and centre managers to perform most operations, and many Medusa-based centres operate without any IT staff or consultants at all. Consider the following ways of saving costs:
- Labour saving with Medusa - tasks take seconds not hours
- Standardization - Medusa gives you simple, enforceable standard processes that are easy to follow
- Immediate action on client request
- 100% informational accuracy - Medusa databases determine what happens, information that is accessible to you.
- Usable by anyone
- You can check what changes the support team make
We also believe in making one infrastructure do 2 jobs. Check out the business case for voice-data convergence. Not only do you save money but you create revenue opportunities as well.
Protecting your Investment
With Medusa, we keep your system uptodate, both for security and functionality. In fact, if someone has a good idea for enhancing Medusa, pretty soon all Medusa operators get the benefit. Our original customers from 2000 have the same systems as this year's new customers. What else can you say that about?
If you build your infrastructure from boxes, pretty soon you'll have to replace some or all of them.
What you can't replace is the person who builds a custom infrastructure out of boxes. When they move on, you have to pay for someone else to learn your system. Almost certainly they'll have different ideas, as well.
Should your hardware fails (and most hardware dies eventually) we just move your configuration to a brand new Medusa.
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