Say you manage a global contact center business - offering valuable customer contact services to a range of companies. One of those companies offers you an opportunity to dramatically expand your business with them, but where do you find the educated and...
An E-SBC plays a number of important roles when integrating SIPTrunking service providers to SIP-based Unified Communications systems - including Microsoft Lync, Avaya Aura, IBM SUT and others: 1. Interoperability – using the Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) features of...
Earlier this month I was happy to meet with Jeff Heibert, CEO of ROI Networks to LA for ITExpo for a discussion on a case study customer of theirs using Skype Connect in an Avaya environment using the AudioCodes Mediant...
Earlier this summer, I was fortunate to meet Cameron Symonds, Director of IT/TS at Triton Technologies. Cameron had just begun the process of converting his Interactive Intelligence contact center over to SIPTrunking and in need of some help with...
I've been a Skype account holder for years and it sure has come in handy for communicating back to the office and home from my far-flung travels. It was real useful communicating with my older son while he was studying abroad...
I'm seeing an ever-growing cross section of SME and Enterprise buyers listening and learning about SIPTrunking with the cost savings and flexibility piquing their interest. However, many of the security, interoperability and survivability issues of SIP I have pointed...
Security, Survivability and Choice - words that are very near and dear to most IT managers, but what do they mean in Microsoft Communication Server deployments? Security - knowing that your business is protected from malicious attack by outsiders that might have an axe...
Earlier this week I shared with you a few thoughts on SIP Interoperability discussing what I felt where the root causes of incompatibility between two or more SIP-based systems. I clearly hit a raw nerve with a few of you,...
For those of you that have deployed SIP-based solutions or SIPTrunking, there is a pretty good chance that you've had to navigate your way through the maze of SIP interoperability, wondering why it is so difficult to get a...
While on the road this spring I had a number of very active conversations with our partners and customers about the delivery mechanisms, services and bundling of SIPTrunking here in the US. It seem there are some patterns that I thought...
As noted in yesterday's post about VoiceCon, our opening speaker in the AudioCodes / ScanSource Solutions Theater will be Joel Maloff, Vice President of Marketing for BandTel. BandTel is a pure SIPTrunking service provider that utilizes AudioCodes gateways to...
The week of February 2nd takes me to ITExpo in Miami Beach. A much needed break after the big snowstorm that hit the Northeast and a chance to meet face-to-face with others in the industry.After spending a couple years of...
If you remember a few weeks back, I mentioned that we were seeing a growing opportunity in the market for SIPTrunking providers connecting their services to the very large installed base of TDM PBXs, KSUs, Contact Centers, etc. In...
Some great questions were raised during the most recent webinar titled "IP Communications - an opportunity in a down economy" and I thought sharing the entire list would be valuable. So here it goes:Q: What needs to be done to the...
Thanks everyone that participated in yesterday's webinar. It was interesting to see the diverse range of participants and responses from the session.If you missed it, here is some background on the topic:This most recent economic downturn has far reaching impact...
This last few months we've started to see growing opportunities with SIPTrunking partners, helping them with media gateways to connect their services with end-customers that want to retain their legacy TDM PBXs. There are a number of reasons for this interest:Cost Reduction...
After spending this fall at a number of industry events, talking to customers and giving some serious thought to the topic, it's now becoming clearer how SIPtrunking will really play a role going forward. First, a couple observations /...
Today marks the first day of VON here in Boston. As always, I'm looking forward to spending the week listening, learning and sharing about our industry. As I spend most of my time working with companies that build enterprise applications,...
I'm back in the office and as promised, thought I would share some observations from this week at Internet Telephony. While I spent most of my non-meeting in the IP Communications Conference - Conferences SIP sessions trying to get a pulse...
Most of us are headed to LA on Sunday and time is running out for those last minute presentation preparations. This week has included a flurry of conference calls with the various panelists, making sure that our logistics and presentations...