If your organization is considering IP desk phones as part of your UC strategy, AudioCodes' IP Phones need to be part of the conversation. They are designed in a powerful, yet simple way, with a user-friendly interface, better user experience and intuitive ergonomic design, manifesting itself with large buttons, a large screen, dedicated buttons for functionality and simple and intuitive operation. The result is a familiar ‘key system’ feel for rapid adoption while offering advanced UC functionality. Learn more in this Application Note.
During the meeting, the IT manager explained his challenges and concerns.
His company recently selected an IP phone vendor for Skype for Business.
By Nimrode Borovsky, AudioCodes
Getting ready for Ignite at Atlanta soon, and I can tell you, we have some more innovation up our sleeve. Stay tuned, we will be announcing some cool stuff before Ignite.
Once again, this year I had the privilege of attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada. Microsoft’s premier partner event generates much anticipation among its channel and technology partners who come in their droves to learn about the latest developments in Microsoft’s technology and products, as well as to network with existing and potential business partners.
By Yossi Zadah, AudioCodes
Managing heterogeneous VoIP networks in medium to large enterprises can be a nightmare. Due to the large number of vendors participating in providing the solution, there can be problems at every stage of the implementation and maintenance issues can arise in a variety of aspects including:
Distributed networks present numerous challenges and when it comes to heterogeneous networks where the devices and applications are provided by different vendors, the situation is even worse. Unified Communication systems (e.g. Skype for Business) and the various components in the network such as IP-PBX, SBC and MGW, each have their own static routing, manipulation and dial plan tables.
In a recent No Jitter blog entitled Managing IP Phones Goes Way Beyond Provisioning, I pointed out how much more powerful a managed IP Phone system is than simple provisioning and that this power and flexibility can bring considerable cost savings to an IT department. This wasn’t just marketing talk. In this blog, I want to tangibly demonstrate how this savings is achieved and what kind of numbers we are talking about.
To do this, I want to take a real-world example of a large enterprise that has deployed 20,000 IP phones amongst its employees.
"One of the values that I think men in particular have to pass on is the value of empathy. Not sympathy, empathy. And what that means is standing in somebody else’s shoes, being able to look through their eyes.” Barack Obama
Empathy – being able to feel sorry for someone else’s troubles – is a basic ingredient for good mental health. However, sometimes, when irony is involved, empathy might turn to ambivalence.
By Yaniv Kitlaru, AudioCodes
It was a freezing, snowy night, just a few days before Christmas.
I was on one of my road trips in Germany looking at the biggest Christmas tree in the world, while trying to warm my soul with a good, local Gluh Wein. Then my mobile phone disturbed the tranquility of the moment. One of my IT manager customers was calling. I had to answer.
Join our host, Eric Bauer, for an exciting play by play analysis of Migrating to Skype for Business Cloud PBX. As we walk through the plays necessary to secure the win, you will better understand what needs to be considered within your organization as you start down the path to Cloud PBX.
Key Topics for Discussion:
Guest Commentators:
Jamie Stark
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft
By Barry Spielman, Director of Marketing Operations, AudioCodes
Among the responsibilities I have in my marketing position at AudioCodes, I manage campaigns. So when I was asked to run a campaign for AudioCodes’ new appliance for Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition, I treated it like I do any of the other campaign topics. Little did I know how hot the subject would become.
Rarely have I seen such a strong response to a marketing campaign.
The rapid rise of Microsoft’s Skype for Business is a strong incentive for enterprises to consider deploying the popular Unified Communications suite. The Company’s most recent announcements regarding their on-line version and the replacement of on-premises based PBX with Cloud PBX are also compelling in a period in which the trend to the Cloud is almost universal. However, despite the technical and business advantages of Skype for Business UC, there are many reasons why organizations might want to hold on to a legacy voice system on a temporary or permanent basis. Reasons vary and can range from the need to maintain specialized functionality such as contact centers or alarm systems to investment protection for legacy equipment, to the current functionality gap between the on-premises and cloud-based offerings and even objective availability and regulatory requirements which may mean that Skype for Business Online may not be available at various locations around the world for the foreseeable future.
