Tag: CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS

May 24, 2023

There was a bit of consolidation in the last mile yesterday in the northeast. Archtop Fiber says it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with Momentum Telecom to acquire Warwick Valley Telephone (WVT), continuing their regional expansion in upstate […]

April 26, 2023

A question on top of communications technology professionals’ minds is “How do we reinvigorate growth in the business communications market? What type of innovation can be monetized to justify R&D investments and catapult the industry into high-growth mode again?” Some […]

December 27, 2022

With regulatory changes to plain old telephone service (POTS) prices now in effect, many enterprises still relying on copper-based telephony services are in a vulnerable situation — one which can cost them thousands of dollars or more per month in […]

December 2, 2022

Welcome to the No Jitter Roll, the regular round-up of news dedicated to the communications and collaboration industry. This week, we look at recent executive changes made at cloud communications company 8×8, then we explore other announcements across the industry […]

November 29, 2022

According to Wall Street and the quarterly reports filed by many top technology companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, cloud growth decelerated in the quarter that just ended. “The growth of cloud computing has slowed a bit this year,” The […]

September 22, 2022

Earlier this month, cloud communications provider Bandwidth announced its new Send-To product. The native messaging app works with both Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and Operator Connect and enables users to send SMS texts directly in Microsoft Teams instead of having […]

September 21, 2022

The cloud communications space continues to be crowded and noisy, and even the established players are having difficulty breaking through to get anyone’s attention for at least 10 seconds. These days, 10 seconds of attention is actually a big deal; […]

September 16, 2022

Every technology trend winds up being more complicated than it seemed when starting out. Increasingly, I think that’s where things are heading for cloud communications. Don’t get me wrong; communications platforms are experiencing a massive shift from on-premises models to […]

August 3, 2022

Last month, Microsoft finally shared detailed adoption numbers for Teams Phone System, noting on its earnings call that there are approximately 12 million active licenses in use. While an impressive number, that represents a fairly small fraction of the overall […]

August 3, 2022

With regulatory changes to plain old telephone service (POTS) prices now in effect, many enterprises still relying on copper-based telephony services are in a vulnerable situation — one which can cost them thousands of dollars or more per month in […]

April 26, 2022

Today, Lumen launched its new cloud-native telephony offering, Lumen Cloud Communications (LCC), with the help of a partnership with Alianza. Like most large service providers, Lumen has a wide range of communications offerings that include voice and UCaaS solutions from […]

March 29, 2022

It’s a tech truism that the cloud changes everything. Channel partners can corroborate that statement. Value-added resellers (VARs) and System Integrators (SIs) have traditionally been the face to the customer, providing the communications solutions and services needed for installation, integration, […]

March 17, 2022

Over the past two years, it seems as if we haven’t heard the word “migration” as often as we used to. Migration was the default setting for how an enterprise went from one generation of strategic technology to the next. […]

March 16, 2022

Communications is moving to the cloud. That should be obvious to everyone at this time. What’s less obvious is that the definition of cloud is changing. In reality, cloud has been constantly evolving since the early 2000s. The first wave […]

February 16, 2022

Moving from a premises-based phone system to a unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) solution can be a significant change and potentially a significant investment. While many factors are involved, most of them reside in one of these three areas: features, reliability, and costs. […]

November 24, 2021

The age of cloud communications has arrived. Metrigy’s data shows that more than 47% of companies now use unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) for all or some of their calling, meeting, and messaging needs. Among those still on-premises, more than one-quarter plan […]

November 22, 2021

Telephony technology continues to iterate, yet voice remains foundational for conversations and provides immeasurable value to businesses by making communications clear and efficient. This remains as true today with the advent of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and mobility, as […]

November 10, 2021

The RingCentral world domination tour continues. This week, RingCentral and Mitel announced a strategic partnership, which will make RingCentral Mitel’s exclusive unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) partner. Under the terms of the agreement, Mitel’s UCaaS offering will move to RingCentral’s Message Video […]

October 28, 2021

Communications platform as a service (CPaaS) is currently one of the most exciting opportunities in the cloud communications space. The CPaaS market is full of fresh headlines around new capabilities and company acquisitions, and it’s forecast the CPaaS revenue will […]

October 20, 2021

Our firm has decided to move to a full work-from-home virtual office environment, so we are transitioning our IT infrastructure out of our legacy office space and moving all needed functions to the cloud. As part of this effort, we […]