INTERNET TELEPHONY — June 2014

Smooth Operator: Phybridge Enables Businesses to Confidently Migrate to IP

The communications space is constantly evolving. Sometimes the changes create minimal interruption. Other times... More>>>

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EDIT SERIES

Yorktel Makes Complicated Simple
In business for more than 29 years, Yorktel has built its name as an AV integrator. As its expertise grew along with the trends in the video communications marketplace, Yorktel has evolved to meet the demand for video managed services, cloud services, and unified communications and collaboration. INTERNET TELEPHONY recently interviewed Ron Gaboury, CEO of Yorktel, to get the latest on the company and its value proposition.

Special Focus

The GLOBALINX Masterstream Solution: A Tool to Help Agents Spend Time Selling Rather Than Doing Quoting
GLOBALINX is a fast-growing, hosted services provider that offers a complete line of hosted products for agents and wholesale customers. Recently GLOBALINX changed its billing strategy - moving from a multi-line bill listing CPE and service, to combining both with a competitive single MRC pricing strategy named 1Price. Since advertised, we've decided to dive deeper to see how competitive this 1Price offer really is.

IP Camera Roundup

IP Cameras
The global market for video surveillance and video surveillance as a service is expected to be worth $42.81 billion by 2019, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 19.1 percent from 2013 to 2019, according to Transparency Market Research's November study on the matter.

On Rad’s Radar

Don't Be Like House Hunters
I'm watching House Hunters where the buyers looked at 15 homes in their budget and complain about each of them. I can relate. Due to broadband marketing and pricing, buyers get shell-shocked with the price of dedicated Internet bandwidth.

Cloud & Data Center

The Challenges of Moving Data To the Cloud
According to recent study from Cloudability, 86 percent of companies currently use more than one type of cloud services. But before you rush off to the great big service in the sky, it's vitally important to understand both the pros and the cons and ask yourself all the right questions.

Network Infrastructure

Service Control: The Obvious Answer to the OSS/BSS Conundrum
Revenues from traditional telco services are eroding rapidly. For example, the rapid disruption of SMS revenue streams by WhatsApp provides a scary preview of what will happen when OTT players enable voice. Service providers will be in trouble if they can't move to enabling and monetizing new services and service bundles quickly and cost effectively. While revenues are declining, it's no wonder telco CEO's say their number one frustration is slow time to market for new services that could increase their competitiveness.

Wireless

DAS Crazy: Distributed Antennae Systems Hit the Big Time
Small cell solutions have grabbed headlines in recent years for their ability to add capacity and indoor coverage to cellular networks. But while these offerings have gotten off to a slow start, DAS continues to make gains in large indoor environments including high-end malls like Galleria Dallas, high-rise office and residential spaces, hospitals, and sports arenas.

Getting Vertical

Transbeam Addresses the Needs of Post Acute Partners - Stat
A growing multi-division health care company with a complex IT infrastructure wanted to incorporate new data and voice services to meet its expanding needs, which included the addition of new office space. But the company needed to ensure that the new solution was able to house all of its highly confidential customer files securely. And it hoped to implement the solution in a very short timeframe and during the hectic December holiday season in New York City.