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5 reasons to start using VoIP | Voicebuy VoIP Provider
VoIP telephone systems have become increasingly popular for residential and business use prevailing over traditional landline telephone services. Using VoIP services as a major tool of communication can bring about significant advantages providing value-added telephone services at affordable rates. The demand for mobility increases day by day and here VoIP comes as a facilitator for addressing mobility challenges.
5 Painless Ways To Make Office Communication Less Frustrating
Technology is supposed to make your life easier, but what happens when the majority of your day is spent doing work about work?. Collaboration tools like Asana allow communication and collaboration without e-mail, and leaders can assign tasks and track progress easily. For example, only email people directly involved in the project, and stop sending CC messages to keep everyone “in the loop.”.
ShoreTel Supercharges Business Intelligence for the World's #1 CRM with End-to-End Integration ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ShoreTel ® /quotes/zigman/106722/delayed /quotes/nls/shor SHOR +1.92% , the leading provider of brilliantly simple phone systems and unified communications (UC) solutions for the cloud and premises, today launched an integrated solution for the world's #1 CRM application, enabling users to have comprehensive business intelligence with a 360 degree view of sales, support and marketing customer interactions. By integrating two mission-critical platforms – the communications platform and a company's critical enterprise application – businesses now have comprehensive reporting on the effectiveness of all communications and customer interactions. ShoreTel's single source view provides insights that enable higher productivity and more effective collaboration of sales, support and marketing organizations for greater customer satisfaction and better business results.
ShoreTel's Guide to VoIP
January 15, 2014: VoIP, the Voice over Internet Protocol, is a way to use the Internet to make phone calls. A single phone call uses a set portion of a line and that line must be dedicated to that call, even if the phone’s just off the hook. Are you in the type of business where people rarely stay behind their desks?.
Miami Internet Phone Service Provider to Launch New Business ...
To keep businesses moving forward, while maintaining daily and monthly productivity demands, Telx Telecom recently announced the launch of their new powerful, easy-to-handle, phone conferencing service. With multiple telecom capabilities, the Miami business internet phone service provider offers a fiber optic digital network system designed to offer businesses with the following privileges: Reservation-less, meet-me conferencing 24/7 Unlimited Use Option Worldwide Accessibility Ability to mute, adjust volume, and disconnect participants Call recording No sign-up or per conference fees No busy signals With the a number of affordable Telx Telecom conference plans, companies now have more choices available in selecting the option which best fits their organizational structure (price ranges are based on the number of people organizations need on a single call). Clients can find themselves wasting valuable time writing emails back and forth for clarification or in discussing important business matters.
Voice Over Internet Protocol eBook Released by Local Seattle ...
It is a bright, new day in the world of telecommunications, and the Voice over Internet Protocol technology (VoIP) is alive and well. In addition, this revolutionary technology is experiencing more widespread use, resulting in a $65 billion industry in 2012. The eBook concludes by stating that, “As a business, quality telephone communication is vital to company success,” and, “A cost-effective and efficient telephone service is needed on all levels of business.”.
Alcatel in talks with Unify to sell enterprise unit: report
Alcatel-Lucent SA is in talks with potential buyers of its enterprise unit, the sale of which could help the company streamline its operations and focus on mobile technologies. According to Bloomberg, three people familiar with the matter say potential buyers include Gores Group and Siemens venture Unify GmbH & Co. KG, known as Siemens Enterprise Communications last year -- as well as two other buyers including a Chinese investor. In 2012, Alcatel announced the sale of its Genesys customer relationship management unit for $1.5bn to Permira.
MYTH BUSTER: Cisco VoIP with HP ProCurve Networking
St. Michael, MN – Hear how a southern University is making this work and saving money at the ITPX Conference and Trade Show, April 7-9 in New Orleans, LA. The University’s Network Analyst – Telecommunications, will share her unique experience and answer your questions on this surprising merger of suppliers and services at the upcoming International Telecommunication Professionals Exchange (ITPX) Conference and Trade Show. This is just one of the great learning experiences on the exciting agenda at the upcoming ITPX Conference and Trade Show which takes place April 7-9, in New Orleans.
Seven Steps to a Pain-Free Migration to VoIP | ShoreTel Blog
With a UC system that knits together VoIP telephony, instant messaging, mobility, presence, and collaboration capabilities into a seamless business environment, organizations can boost employee productivity and lower costs. Conduct a network assessment. Your network may run data just fine, but problems may arise when you run IP voice.
What's Better for Hosting Your Office Phone System: On-Premise or ...
Hopefully by now, your small business has realized the myriad benefits of a VoIP phone system and has installed one to meet your communication and collaboration needs. Plus, because everything is centered around the Internet, you can access any aspect of your office phone system from anywhere, even when you’re away from headquarters. To learn more about the different offerings, contact a Fonality sales representative today.
Hosted VoIP PBX Service: An Excellent Choice for Business ...
Virtual PBX systems establish a communication network without borders. Wherever there is an internet connection is where the network is. Just as not all business is always done in an office, not all businesses operate under one roof at a single location.
IPv6 Impact on VoIP
How well prepared are your vendors and service providers for the transition to IPv6? How well is the enterprise prepared? There are many values that IPv6 will bring to the Internet and private IPv6 networks. The roughly 40 Request for Comment (RFC) documents in existence that describe different aspects of IPv6 can be confusing, however, since not all of these RFCs will be implemented in the Internet. More are likely to be implemented on private IP networks.
Cloud-Based Software Provider, Replicon, Unifies Phone ...
Replicon, the leading provider of cloud-based time tracking solutions with 1.5 million users worldwide, replaced its traditional PBX phone system and call center solution with 8x8 Virtual Office business VoIP and Virtual Contact Center cloud-based services.
What is a SIP trunking for VoIP, and why should you care about it for ...
The traditional telephony concept of trunking has been carried across to VoIP, so that your VoIP provider can set you up with a cost-effective connection to the telephone network to carry all your company’s voice and data traffic. In the original telephone networks, going as far back as the 1890s, each telephone call was carried over its own separate copper wire pair. This arrangement was expensive to install and operate, and was later replaced trunking, that is, the sharing of multiple calls over a single cable circuit.
Moving to VoIP? 10 things you need to know before ditching the PBX
This broad term blankets a ton of technologies, from things as simple as Skype and Google Hangouts, to more business-esque offerings like Lync and IP desk phones. And chances are, based on the latest stats, your organization either has UC on the timetable or is already putting some form of it into place. The numbers behind VoIP adoption and growth back up its reputation as the up and coming attraction in the way we do business.
Vocalocity Named One of North America's Fastest Growing ...
ATLANTA, Dec 17, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vocalocity, a Vonage company, announced today that Deloitte named the company to its Technology Fast 500(TM) list for the third consecutive year. Vocalocity, a leading provider of VoIP communications services for business, ranked 188th among the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America*. "We pride ourselves on being partners with the small and mid-sized business community, and this award acknowledges that commitment.".
New MedTel Cloud PBX Provides Convenient, Cost-Effective VoIP
MedTel Services' new Cloud PBX system provides clients with all the great features of a traditional business desktop phone system without the large capital investment these systems entail, saving clients money, space and hassles involved with installation and maintenance. The new MedTel Cloud system allows users to integrate all their voice communication needs into a cloud-based VoIP platform, including IP phones, browser-based dialing, smartphone applications, call management and other telecommunications services. MedTel's Cloud system ensures that you never miss an important call, giving you the option of routing calls to your office phone, a PC softphone, your mobile phone or a remote office phone.
Skype on Windows Azure: VoIP and Messaging App is “Now ...
Back in June, we first learned that Skype’s future involved Microsoft’s Windows Azure service, bringing on the power of the cloud. The news was confirmed mere hours ago by Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s vice president for Windows Azure: “Skype, a lot of which is built here in our London developer centre, is also now running on Azure.”. The move to the Windows Azure platform is a natural move for Skype.
Bitrix24 Beefs Up Telephony, CRM and Collaboration Features for ...
Bitrix24, the fastest growing enterprise social network created specifically for small to midsized businesses, has released a new version of its popular cloud service. which functions as a free Dropbox alternative for companies that want to have full control over their data, now supports company and group files in addition to personal files. The Project Management module has been more tightly integrated with Time Management and now allows easy tracking of time spend by each employee on any particular task, making employee workload planning an easy and transparent process.
8x8's services selected by Merchant Warehouse
Dec 12, 2013 (Menafn - M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --8x8 Inc EGHT, a provider of cloud communications and collaboration solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has been selected by Merchant Warehouse, a provider of payment technologies and merchant account services, to provide cloud-based business VoIP, unified communications and hosted contact centre services. According to 8x8, its geographically redundant east and west coast US data centres will deliver services to Merchant Warehouse's domestic locations while its UK data centre and recently acquired Voicenet operation provide service and support to the company's Belfast office.