
Hosted “virtual” phone system or own your own?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesWe are often asked for an opinion on the subject of what is better solution: a hosted "virtual" PBX or owning your own phone system? Lets take a look a quick look at both solutions and see if anything stands out as making one solution…

Analog lines in the 21st Century?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony ArchivesGetting old is a pain in the neck! Literally and figuratively! I am trying to figure out the benefits of getting older and I am not coming up with a very long list. You built a library of experience, I guess that must count for something.…

Live Operator or Automated Attendant?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesRemember, you never get a second chance to make a first impression! How you handle an incoming telephone call will largely define your company to the calling public, scarefully consider what image you want to project. Some businesses feel strongly…

Live Answer or Autoamted Attendant?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony Archives
The genius mathematician and founder of the area we know as Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener coined the phrase “the human use of human beings”. Writing post WW2, his frame of reference was societies growing concern with automation. The concept…

Trends - Part 2 the impact of SIP
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesLets take a look at the impact of SIP – Aide from the pure technology play, SIP represents a fundamental change in the economics of the telecommunications market. The carriage of telecommunications has been in transition with a steady migration…

Trends in the PBX equipment market - Part 1
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesFrom time to time a new technology comes along that causes a dramatic paradigm shift with significant economic impact. As it relates to the customer premise telecommunications world, there are a number of trends that have the potential of dramatically…

760 Area Code Change to 442 - San Diego
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony Archives760 AREA CODE
Who Will be Affected? All customers with a 760 number will have to change the way they dial. The new 442 area code will serve new customers in the same geographic region as the current 760 area code, which extends from Bridgeport…

Fax on VoIP IPBX systems!
Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony ArchivesWhen VoIP gateways first started hitting the market back in 98′, the vendors tried to packetize DTMF and quickly learned it did not work well. For this reason they quickly learned to “regenerate” DTMF at the outbound gateway rather…

VoIP and Microsoft Outlook Integration?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesDoes your Microsoft Outlook Integrate with your phone system? This functionality is getting to be the “minimum daily adult requirement” feature in the VoIP vendor space. We all just expect that our phone system “knows” about…

Call Center Design
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesIt is very normal to start planning a call center around the concept of DNIS, Groups, Agents and Skills. Experience has taught us, however, that call center design needs to start with a more important concept. Call Centers are performance…

VoIP System Design - Call Flow
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony ArchivesInstalling a VoIP solution has a wide range of technical issues that need to be addressed, organized and accounted for. From co-coordinating the “porting” of phone numbers from the old telephone carrier to the new carrier; to determining…
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