{"id":5432,"date":"2007-04-23T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/hosted-communications-for-the-smb.html"},"modified":"2007-04-23T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:36:55","slug":"hosted-communications-for-the-smb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/hosted-communications-for-the-smb.html","title":{"rendered":"Hosted Communications for the SMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">We hear about hosted solutions from so many vendors these days. This area of the market is certainly experiencing tremendous growth. Companies like Covad, AccessLine and 8&#215;8\/Packet8 are doing well selling services to customers who are giving up their small phone system for a hosted solution.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In many cases the smaller companies are familiar with and more comfortable with key systems and are not happy to lose some of these features when they migrate to a hosted solution which is designed for companies the size of major auto manufacturers. The way to get around this dilemma is to sell these companies hosted key system replacements.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">How can a service provider interested in deploying such solutions learn more? Boy am I glad you asked as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/\">TMCnet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/natural-convergence.html\">Natural Convergence<\/a> and Flashpoint have teamed up to answer these questions in a webinar taking place April 25 (in 2 days) at 1:30 pm EST but you can always enjoy the archived version at your leisure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/webinar\/natural-convergence\/network-channel-sales.htm\">Register here<\/a> to learn about deploying hosted key systems solutions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear about hosted solutions from so many vendors these days. This area of the market is certainly experiencing tremendous growth. Companies like Covad, AccessLine and 8&#215;8\/Packet8 are doing well selling services to customers who are giving up their small phone system for a hosted solution. &nbsp; In many cases the smaller companies are familiar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,215,199,188,189,211,118,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}