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It's been a while since I posted about progress at my company Gaisan Technologies but I can assure readers that everything is going well.
We're continuing to develop websites at the rate of 3 professional quality sites / month. These are deluxe sites that normally include groupware, animation, graphic design, branding etc.

Just to let readers know we relaunched gaisan.com over the past few weeks. The redesign reflects our new business focus on eCommerce, web design and online retail. Please check out the site if you're interested in IT services and stay posted for more changes. Our "Gaisan Tech Store" (not it's official name) will be launched within the next few weeks. This will feature a range of high-end electronic equipment at reasonable prices. It's an exciting time for us at the moment and I'd like to thank the customers & staff who've made it possible.

Just keeping readers informed. We've moved gaisan.com to one of the new dedicated servers mentioned hereon our company site. We'll now be offering fully managed web and online retail site hosting to our clients. Interested parties should drop me an email.
Some readers (including Johnny K) noticed that a few of the links on the website seem incorrect. They're actually not. Waterford Institute of Technology operates both the TSSG and the Waterford Crystal Centre for Marketing Excellence, WIT's CME. We're still working on the CME website but we've created a survey for them about the Irish Hotel sector here. Feel free to contribute to this if you have the urge. I'd like to thank the helpful staff at Total Choice Hosting who helped us with the move.

Slowly but surely we're getting there. Gaisan's online store will be launched within the next few weeks with a selection of computer hardware and consumer electronics. If you're interested in purchasing any of the following before then drop us a mail at info@gaisan.com.

• computer displays


• computer memory


• home & business networking equipment


• digital cameras


• portable storage


• audio equipment


• home cinema


• iPod Accessories


• samsung thin & light (tm) laptops


• plasma, TFT & LCD projector TV's

Followers of Gaisan will now that we have our own eCommerce package called StoreFront which combines a huge range of features with keen pricing to attract SME's. Anyway enough of this plug, here's another one! We're very proud of all our websites but especially so of our most recent design for the artist Roísín O' Shea. Roisin is an internationally renowned watercolour artist.

Gaisan is ready to launch our new VoIP Service for the South East. I'll be providing blog readers with regular feedback about our progress.
Getting the quality just right has involved testing at least 30 different models of Customer Premises equipment from phones, wireless phones to VoIP gateways. We're finally there with a range of services and equipment to suit every business and residential customer. For more information check out Gaisan FreeSpeech

We're not a major multinational organisation like Google but that doesn't mean we don't deliver high quality hardware and software. For the business community we can see several clear advantages of FreeSpeech (GFree) against Skype based on the following comments from Networking Pipeline.

"1. Skype for Business still doesn't provide centralized reporting, so business won't be able to monitor how users spend Skype credits. There's no way to monitor or prevent, for example, users from calling 900 numbers and the like.
2. Skype for Business doesn't provide hunt groups where multiple extensions ring when a phone is dialed. Skype was expected to deliver that function in this release.
3. Call transfers still aren't provided.
4. There's no attendant or IVR function, which would redirect calls to other Skype numbers based on user selection. Many IVR functions can be provided through a Web page, but that won't help users who might be calling in from the PSTN.
5. Calls are still encrypted, preventing businesses from ensuring that employees aren't passing information that might violate regulatory restrictions.
6. Forget about E-911 compliance. There is none."

• Centralised reporting as standard with statistics analysis a call/user level


• Hunt groups and Virtual PBX functionality where required


• Call Transfers available as standard


• Auto-attendant and IVR as standard


• Intra-business call's aren't encrypted. Logging software available on request


• Each box is managed. We know where your calls originated from and we can prove it using timestamped & hashed CDRs. Generally we'd manage the phones and the UPS aswell using a secure VPN connection. It's not quite E.911 compliance yet but we feel it comfortably meets the Irish Data Protection Act requirements