Tag Archive for: Cost Planning

Compare ShoreTel and 3CX - Part 1 License Strategy
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor TelephonyThe trend in the Unified Communications industry is to charge a "per seat" license for access to VoIP Business Phone Solutions. In large part a legacy "flat tax" from the old TDM world, phone system suppliers continue to license based on…

Virtualizing your ShoreTel or CISCO VoIP Deployment!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
Virtualization is an emerging area that is making a significant change in enterprise infrastructure planning, implementation and operation. The pressure comes from several areas. First, the operating costs of even a small business can…

How does a ShoreTel SBS compare to a CISCO CCME in $?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers I am always being asked to compare ShoreTel and CISCO in one or another area. CISCO has a family of products that range from the UC500 through the CCME and on to the full blown Unified Communications Call Manager. One way to compare…

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…

Least Cost Routing?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersAt one point in the evolution of telecommunications features, least cost routing was so sophisticated a function that it required an external processor. In the early 80’s when most large multi site telephone system installations were based…

ShoreTel compatible audio conference server?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersSIP trunks can be used for a wide variety of call processing solutions, some of which are very cost effective as in Free! We have used SIP tunks to interconnect ShoreTel systems over the Internet, complete with four digit dialing between…
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