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Is the PBX Dead?

June 9, 2015

"Global enterprise PBX revenue fell 6 percent in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15) from a year ago, according to the IHSInfoneticsEnterprise Unified Communications and Voice Equipment report from IHS," according to IHS press.

Worldwide PBX revenue (TDM, hybrid and pure IP) totaled $1.6 billion in 1Q15. And PBX line shipments were up 3% in 1Q15 from 1Q14. Yet there is a headline of SMB: Is the PBX Dead?

Edgewater-Metaswitch UC Study

May 29, 2015

I was on the Edgewater webinar yesterday where John Macario was presenting the Edgewater Hosted PBX/UC study data. Edgewater surveyed 1250 businesses about PBX, HPBX and UC. The data was good.

Metaswitch's Chris Carabello also presented.

Getting Perspective

May 14, 2015

I am heading to the Genband Perspectives15 show next week in Orlando. Going to see about Kandy and Nuvia plus some details on the fring idea. (Not to poke BSFT, but at least this show has some cool stuff to take a look at.)

While all that tech is cool, with 2000+ providers offering VoIP in the US, Marketing should be paramount.

Where is the VoIP Market is Going?

May 11, 2015

I have been working on this post for a while. I even asked a couple of people in the industry where they thought the Hosted PBX market was going. A few said that integration was going to be important for customers to realize the full impact of Unified Communications. That is certainly true especially at mid-market and larger.

News Tidbits Part 2916

February 16, 2015

Some different things happening in the VoIP industry. Let's take a look.

Phonism has come out of beta with their VoIP end-point management system.

8x8 "announced it is offering an unprecedented Service Level Agreement (SLA) to qualified enterprise customers that guarantees the industry's highest levels of service availability and voice quality for calls transmitted over the public Internet.....

Softphone From a Handset Maker

February 9, 2015

The Telecom Reseller has a report that Grandstream released an Android app.

"Grandstream Networks has announced the launch of Grandstream Wave, a free softphone application for Android devices. Grandstream Wave allows business and residential users to make and receive SIP based voice calls over Wi-Fi using any Android mobile devices running Android 4.0 or higher. This free app can be downloaded from the Google Pay Store and supports the integration of up to six SIP accounts, six-way voice conferencing and a number of telephony features."

CLECs releasing apps - like Voxox - isn't unusual.

Things You May Have Missed at ITEXPO

January 29, 2015

With the official first day of ITEXPO in the bag and the dawn of Day 2 is upon us, here are some of things you may have missed.

Bill Miller of FreedomVoice, Digium, Fujitsu fame is back in the booth at ITEXPO for Fiber Mountain where he is doing his thing in the marketing realm.

Tampa startup and former Startup Camp participant, Phonism, launched its cloud-based VoIP end-point management system out of beta this week. A big WOOT for the Tampa Bay startup community!

3 Reasons UC Deployments Fail

January 28, 2015

Just getting ink on a Unified Communications deal is just the beginning. So many deployments go wrong or worse the company doesn't leverage the value of the platform enough to justify the purchase. The users aren't using it!

One reason that UC deployments fail is that "It was sold wrong." Customer expectations were not set properly.

MITEL is Big in the Midwest

October 1, 2014

A $19B UCC Business

September 25, 2014

In a CRN article, Bob Gutschenritter, director of UCC for Ingram Micro North America, was reported: "Gutschenritter said the UCC business as a whole is already a $19 billion business, with 7 percent year over year growth. He said that while Ingram Micro has approximately 40,000 transaction resellers, he estimated 10 percent of those partners are involved in UCC solutions."

Seems bigger than any estimate I have seen until you drill down to what UCC is for Ingram (or TD for that matter): PBX, video, tele-presence and primarily Cisco distributed by the VAD. I would assume that also means Microsoft Lync licenses as well.

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