Business owners everywhere are discovering the advantages of implementing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)—a communication technology that offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional business telephone lines. VoIP can even integrate elements such as voicemail, instant messaging (IM), texting and video conferencing into your phone system.

It’s a question many small and midsize business (SMB) owners face, but one that isn’t always as easy to answer as it seems: How do we move from our traditional landline phones to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system? There are a number of issues and variables that should be taken into account before […]

In a world where remote workers are becoming increasingly more common, cloud-based VoIP systems are similarly becoming a necessity for today’s successful call center. According to industry analyst, Mark Haranas, “Solution providers in the unified communication and VoIP space need to start shifting from on-premise to cloud-based solutions or risk being left in the dust.”

After 20 years of quietly and steadily acclimating into the modern workplace, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has done what any incredibly talented service center employee would do in its situation: stand up.

With new stories about recent cyber attacks and security breaches becoming increasingly commonplace, the issue of security for IP telephony is one that can no longer be ignored. Even companies with large, sophisticated systems like Target have found themselves the subject of data attacks by hackers aiming to collect customer information like social security numbers, […]

Telecommuting and remote offices are on the rise and will likely continue to grow in popularity as technology that makes it easier and easier to remain in touch with coworkers improves. Currently more than three million U.S. workers work remotely at least part of the time. Workers enjoy the flexibility and convenience of working away […]

Children today have little idea what a payphone is. They’ve likely never inserted a quarter to make a three-minute call. And chances are even slimmer that they’ve ever seen, much less used, a rotary dial. Or an answering machine. To them, the telephone functionality of the past has simply been consolidated into a single mobile […]

For most small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) looking at telephony solutions, there can be many questions about whether to choose a traditional system or one that runs on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Business owners must often weigh the benefits and potential challenges of VoIP against the perceived stability and history of traditional systems. Let’s […]

It wasn’t too long ago that businesses replacing their traditional telephony service with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) were viewed as reckless. The telephone was seen as too essential and too sacred to simply be handed over to the unmoored zeroes and ones zipping about the uncharted waters of the Internet. Fast forward a decade […]

George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most seminal dystopias in all of literature. Set in an authoritarian future, one of the novel’s more fascinating details is the ubiquitous presence of a technology called the telescreen. Part television and part security camera, the telescreen is an always-connected, two-way street of thought control and personal vulnerability. […]