Affordable Internet Backup When You Need It
Have you ever experienced Internet failure? A bad day, right? It’s even worse when your business has a premise-based VoIP system and your customers can’t reach you. These days almost everything relies on the Internet, be it a home-run business, an office, a factory, a restaurant, or a storefront. More than 50% of the population … Read more
A VoIP Downside That Can’t Be Escaped
As recently as August 30th, 2020, a well-known US carrier CenturyLink took a deep dive exposing some of the downsides of VoIP technology. The cause of their outage is not that important. If you MUST know, it had to do with an error in their BGP protocol, the language that allows Internet peers to talk to each other. What is essential is how THEIR problem impacted the rest of US!
Emergencies, Continuity of Business, and Remote Workers
Why businesses should consider the switch to a VoIP phone system now Coronavirus outbreaks are forcing many companies to make difficult choices. How do they continue to operate their business, provide the same level of service to our customers while utilizing remote workers? You need to remain in a position to provide your employees their … Read more
Business Continuity – How Good is Your Plan?
Hurricane season is the perfect time for businesses to be examining (or in some cases developing for the first time) their Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Business continuity planning is key to expediting the recovery of the business’ critical functions following disasters ranging from hurricanes and earthquakes to infiltration of malware into key systems thus ensuring downtime and monetary loss is minimized. The plan should be live, dynamic and ever-evolving as new threats continue to present themselves. With ever-more complex systems and technologies being implemented into companies as scaling necessitates complex telephony and network solutions for businesses, it’s difficult to keep plans up-to-date and ready to be put into action at a moments’ notice.
Building a Strategic Technology Plan Part 1
Growing pains are a natural part of a successful business. This milestone is often marked by a need for a larger space, more employees and, invariably, better technology to support it all. Part of this success comes from executing on a sound business plan developed in the early stages. Revisiting this practice not only helps … Read more
Building a Strategic Technology Plan Part 2
continued from part 1. Sound Infrastructure Choices Look for long term solutions with broad compatibility when choosing a software solutions. Generally, open source platforms are easier for other vendors to integrate their add-on solutions with and help keep costs lower. Consider that today your company may only need an accounting program with payroll software, but … Read more
Legal Firms can get more from VoIP systems
Your office phone can be a powerhouse of technological resources at your disposal if used to its fullest potential. For example, voice communications that your law firm engages in may be a good use of a Call Recording feature. This often included feature allows your law firm to document the verbal consent of any person who’s agreed to participate in a recorded call. This provides easy proof of legal compliance with specific local laws and statutes.
Bandwidth Demand Spikes – Are You Ready?
We’ve mentioned a few times on this blog that you need to make sure you adopt the Unified Communications solution that meets your organization’s needs- and part of that preparedness means making sure you provision the bandwidth your organization will require to run its telecommunication systems effectively. If your existing bandwidth supply doesn’t provide the … Read more
VoIP Bandwidth: Quality vs. Quantity
Telecommunications infrastructure growth always lags behind the demand for new telecommunications services. Many exciting data transport options such as fiber optics are making their way into SMB market. The cost of their build-out however is mostly shouldered by the medium and large business community with many paying heavy startup fees for the facilities build-out. Fiber deployment is costly and it is presently limited to densely populated parts of metropolitan areas. Logic and experience suggest that for the next few years leased lines are going to continue to remain in play for many companies.
Role of Hosted PBX in Disaster Recovery Planning
Recent events in Japan bring me back to the subject of service survivability and business continuity in the event of a natural disaster. Japan is heavily reliant on VoIP for its telephony. In a way, this has been another significant test of IP communications in a disaster and it appears that the outcome paints fairly … Read more