Enterprise VoIP Market Prefers Private Cloud Over Public Cloud (Pt 2)
As previously stated, enterprise-class organizations are jumping onto the private cloud at much higher rates than the public cloud. Why are they doing this, and will this choice of private-over-public really spell the doom of a whole generation of Chief Information Officers, as some public-cloud boosters argue? Public vs Private: Defined The public cloud is … Read more
Enterprise VoIP Market Prefers Private Cloud Over Public Cloud (Pt 1)
When you hear about virtualized business environments, remote-hosted network solutions and IP telephony services, you might think that all of these terms represent a single monolithic technology. While it’s clear the qualities of these services vary from vendor to vendor, not everyone is aware of the fact there are plenty of different deployment methods for … Read more
Hosted PBX and Business Continuity in Times of Crisis
With a hosted PBX solution the phones you have in your office ring when your clients give you a call because your hosted PBX provider routes all incoming communications to them. But your provider could just as easily route all incoming calls to another phone bank, to someone’s home line, or even to a cell phone. Which means even if your office is totally decimated, even if your telephone hardware gets smashed and flooded to pieces, when you sign up with a hosted PBX solution your employees can run business as usual the next day if you simply have your provider route all incoming calls to workable phones your employees have access to.
Will the Switch to IPv6 Create VoIP and PBX Problems?
Right now the Internet is going through a massive transition, an overhaul of the addresses that will impact every network device connected to it.
What is this overhaul?
How will it change the Internet?
And how will it impact business VoIP telephony?
Hosted PBX Bundles
Depending upon the hosted PBX service provider you choose, system features and capabilities in addition to bundles and pricing will vary. If you are just beginning to research hosted PBX as an option for business telephony, this article will help you understand common practices of bundled hosted PBX pricing, the general restrictive nature of any type of service bundling, and how it can limit business choices.
How the Demand for Mobile VoIP Changes Business VoIP Market
The increased demand for mobile VoIP is changing the forecast for the global business VoIP market over the next six years. According to Global Industry Analysts Inc., a worldwide business strategy and market intelligence source, global business VoIP is being influenced by two factors which include the rapid acceptance of VoIP by businesses around the globe and the increased demand for mobile VoIP.
In terms of market segments, the fastest growing market is hosted PBX services. Additionally, the VoIP market on a global scale will be driven by the value and cost savings to companies around the world thanks to new unified communications technology. The hosted PBX market is expected to increase at a Compound Annual Growth Rate by more than twelve from 2012 to the year 2018.
Hosted PBX 4.0 Rolls Out to Customers
DLS Hosted PBX is a Unified Communications platform intended for users that are looking for versatile telephony features in single-vendor business phone service and network solutions provider. DLS Hosted PBX VoIP services are delivered over the Internet, VPN or private connection.
The Future of Unified Communications As a Service
If there’s anything standing in the way of the continued growth of hosted telephony, it is the prospect of state and federal regulation. Voice over IP services, including hosted PBX, and other really innovative telecommunications advancements aren’t neatly pigeonholed into one legal category. VoIP could be considered a telecommunications service, but it depends on the Internet, which is not. The Internet isn’t heavily regulated, which means that it would be easy for new business VoIP companies to get into the game, and create a lot of healthy market competition. If they are regulated as telecommunications carriers instead, which currently is not the case, they would become subject to stiff regulatory guidelines.
Cloud-based VoIP vs. Dedicated Hosted PBX Service
While shared infrastructure solutions offer a convenient and effective answer for certain I.T. challenges they are far from the “magic bullet” cure described by the Cloud Computing orthodoxy (whose ranks include cloud computing infrastructure service providers, I.T. consultants, hardware vendors and software developers).
Integrating Hosted PBX and Cloud Desktop Services Into Move Strategy
Hosted PBX and Cloud Computing services change what once was a daunting task of technology relocation for business by safeguarding its continuity from logistical failures – a benefit that can be easily recognized by anyone who had to deal with it in the past.