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While Web 2.0 was all about social, groups, and crowd-whatever, it certainly appears that Web 3.0 is going to be about real time: real-time chat, real-time video, real-time audio, and real-time data.
How we communicate is something experiencing transformation. The omnichannel, real-time, always-on, always plugged-in world demands evolution in communications development. While deskphones of days past are still important, the ability to contact a current or perspective client, even a coworker, with multimedia content in a fashion far easier than just a few short years ago is invaluable. Empowering this shift on the backend is WebRTC.
Skype for Business offers a convenient and cost-effective way for businesses to make the leap to the cloud. But while Skype offers a host of features for business users, it's not always the easiest offering to deploy and manage within an enterprise setting. That's where AudioCodes comes in, providing practical solutions that simplify Skype and Lync for IT personnel that don't necessarily have a background in telephony.
Despite all of the technology advances in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) realm and widespread adoption of VoIP and video in the enterprise, there remain a few common quality issues that can spell disaster for any organization. And overburdened IT departments generally lack the time and resources to troubleshoot granular issues with voice and video quality - which can spell major trouble for a company relying on UC for customer, partner and internal communications.
Interoperability is still a magic word in the telecom industry, denoting clear value and the ability to work well with certain systems. Recently, some of the conference phones in Revolabs' lineup landed this prized designation, as the FLX UC 1000 and UC 1500 phones were found compatible with BroadSoft's BroadWorks SIP interface.
The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing the fastest growth in terms of information and communication technologies adoption globally. This has led the biggest service providers in the segment to establish branches throughout the region in order to capitalize on this growth. The rebranding of InterCall and West IP Communications services and solutions to West in the Asia Pacific region highlights this very point. This process is a continuation of the company's expansion and rebranding that began in North America in 2015, and now has concluded in Asia.
It may be hard to believe, but there are only a couple months left until the end of the year. Busy weeks they'll be, too, with Halloween, an election, Thanksgiving and Christmas afoot. Plus, there will be the standard year in review material to consider, and already it's started coming on thanks to Global Telecoms Business (GTB), who released its Power100 rankings for 2016.
Toll-free numbers are an invaluable sales and marketing tool for any company, offering a simple and cost effective way to engage customers, promote your organization and drive sales and profits. But even though these numbers have been in existence and widely used for decades, there are still a number of myths and complexities associated with successfully obtaining, promoting and using a toll-free number.
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