What Does It Take to Activate Smart Working in a Company, from a Technical Standpoint?

Activating smart working in a company in just one working day — is it technically possible, or it is just another marketing trick? In the recent weeks and months, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many companies around the world have been struggling to

Six common customer service problems that are killing the business growth

How to boost the performance of your customer service department and make your customers happy Any company interested in growing is striving to win new customers and retain their existing ones. Your customers, in fact, have the same need. Let’s see how you

What’s Next? Chatbots and Workstreams

Today, successful organizations must be dynamic and able to respond quickly to feedback. A new UC platform is the information system of this lean revolution. Team members will be able to communicate and make decisions faster and more effectively, and customers will be

Start Simple, Add Later

In one of the previous blog articles (Introducing Lean Communications), I explained how lean communication can improve the way organizations work. This approach must also be applied to the deployment phase by making it as incremental and simple as possible. The adoption of

How To Manage Accounts Creation

When installing a new system, it is hard to escape the paradigm of creating yet another user database and new passwords for each one of these users. How does this happen? The engineer who configures the system usually starts by adding a few

Reviewing Service Continuity Scenarios

Depending on how critical the UC service is for the organization, it might be necessary to put service continuity scenarios in place, including: Failover: a secondary server is used in case the primary server fails. Load Sharing: both systems work at the same

Selecting PoE Switches

In the previous article we discussed why network reliability is crucial for UC solutions. This time I will explain why PoE switches are important to grant power continuity of the phone service to match those of traditional PSTN systems. When switching from a legacy

What is Network Reliability in UC Platform

Besides the platform, a key component to success is the quality of the network on which the platform will function. In this blog article we will analyze which network devices must be chosen carefully, and which technologies we need to be familiar with

Using SIP Trunking In A Modern UC Solution

SIP Trunking SIP Trunking is the most popular way to add PSTN connectivity to a modern UC solution. A few words of advice: Fax support: if the UC solution will need to transfer faxes, you need to make sure the operator has official

Getting To Know VoIP Devices Of UC Solution

The biggest factors to consider when choosing devices that will connect to your UC solution are: determining the required installation time and avoiding installation-related issues (lengthy installations, device-related errors, etc.). FXS / ATAs Ideally, all devices connected to a modern UC server should

How to extend the functionality of SIP phones

In the previous blog article (Insight into the user endpoint) I listed user endpoints. This time I am going to characterize what advanced services can be implemented via SIP phones. Feature Keys On legacy systems and modern VoIP systems, feature keys can implement

Insight into the user endpoint

The user endpoint subject will be covered in this blog article. And I will also describe the importance of collaboration tools and desk phones. Collaboration Utility / Softphone In a modern UC solution, a single application should incorporate all services: audio calls, video

Deployment Planning

In this blog article I will provide some best practices for deployment planning that our UC platform will need, to work as expected. When a new UC system is installed, users will need to spend a considerable amount of time and resources learning

Overview of Platforms with SIP / XMPP Support

What follows is an incomplete list of leading vendors who are using the main protocols described in one of the previous blog articles: SIP and XMPP. This list is based on my personal knowledge. I apologize in advance for any exclusions. The goal