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“Better-than-Being-There” Video Collaboration with Cisco [Video]
Next-generation video collaboration can transform your business. When colleagues, business associates, and clients are spread across different locations (sometimes across the globe), video conferencing and collaboration technologies can have a huge impact. Suddenly,...
Have You Seen This Interactive Undersea Internet Cabling Map?
Did you know that a multi-billion-dollar network of high-power, undersea cables carry Internet signals around the world? In fact, 99% of global Internet traffic uses these submarine cables to travel! You can actually see an interactive map of these submarine Internet...
What You Need to Know about Copper Data Cabling for Your Building
Copper cabling is currently the most installed cabling, largely because it is less expensive than other options (such as fiber-optic cabling). Business owners are also more familiar with copper data cabling and often already have some of the connecting hardware or...
What is Structured Cabling?
Every office and business environment requires structured cabling for optimal functioning and true network reliability. A structured cabling system is the wired infrastructure that transmits the data essential for your network throughout your building, ensuring...
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Are You Up-to-Date on the Latest Cisco Collaboration Solutions? [Video]
You already know that our partner, Cisco, is the world leader in networking and collaboration technologies, providing innovative communication technology solutions for businesses of all sizes. But what you may not know is how their newest technologies are vastly...
The Crisis-Resistance of Cloud Voice
Previously, we’ve discussed many of the benefits of cloud voice systems: mobility, better features, reduced costs, and so on. Another crucial advantage of cloud voice is its crisis-resistance. Most organizations consider communications to be a mission-critical...
The Pros and Cons of Premise-based and Cloud-based Unified Communications
Unified Communications (UC) integrates communications tasks to improve an organization’s productivity and collaboration. With this streamlined solution, conferencing, calling, messaging, and other useful features are all unified into one (easily manageable) system....
How is VoIP Changing Business Communications?
Voice over IP technology, or “VoIP” as it is commonly known, is a business communications solution to replace outdated telephony systems. VoIP is growing increasingly popular for all sizes and types of organizations, as it is adaptable enough to meet the specific...
What is Unified Communications?
Unified communications (UC) is a term to describe comprehensive solutions that integrate both real-time and non-real-time communication services – usually to meet the needs of business. With UC, businesses can have all of their communication needs met through one...
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The Business Case for Remote Workers with VoIP [Whitepaper]
We have discussed VoIP and its benefits at length in our blog – and for good reason! Voice over IP (VoIP) technology cuts costs, improves mobility, and offers many collaboration and productivity enhancing features. Increasingly, businesses are adopting this vastly...
