AT&T Gives a Hint on When it Plans to Discontinue Key Voice Services Many Enterprise customers understand the dangers of the carriers’ online terms and changes to them, but few have time to keep up with it all. A recent move by AT&T demonstrates the importance of keeping abreast of […]
Major technology changeovers come with one great thing and one lousy thing in addition to the prospective cost savings. The great thing is the natural ability to competitively bid since you’re starting fresh with a new service that neither your incumbent nor anyone else currently has installed with you. The […]
It wasn’t so long ago that AT&T and Verizon would stall on selling you SIP Trunking until they finally realized you weren’t kidding and they had to hustle to make sure you actually bought their SIP Trunking service, not somebody else’s. Now it’s a different world. AT&T and Verizon are […]
In today’s Brave New World of enterprise telecom, MPLS has supplanted private lines, frame relay and ATM as the backbone of data networks. At the same time, SIP trunking is well on its way to replacing TDM-based PRI’s for voice. By the end of this decade – at the latest […]
Stiff competition and cloud providers’ eagerness to sell services allow enterprises to negotiate best-in-class transactions and obtain market leading services. Private cloud installations are an increasingly common component of enterprises’ data center strategies. They complement traditional data center infrastructure and public cloud services (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute […]
Over the last few years, large enterprises have begun to reap the benefits of moving from “traditional” TDM technology – PBX trunks and the like – to SIP trunking for voice services. SIP, if anyone doesn’t know it by now, is basically a way to provide voice as an application […]