One of the key considerations of any business communiations system is determining not just upfront costs but your total cost of ownership (TCO) over the life of the system.  With its open source architecture and license-free pricing, Digium brings not only advanced, stable,mature technology but a long term value that's hard to beat.  Check out…

Having a Virtual PBX system means that the guts of your business telecomunications systems are hosted remotely. It's your phone system in the cloud.  With a Virtual PBX, the phone system lives in your data center, not in your office. That means that you don’t have to take care of it, upgrade it, and keep…

On June 8th, 2012 I posted an article, "Is ShoreTel the Next Nortel?" It was met with very positive comments from the public supporting Teledynamic's negative opinion of Shoretel's technology and future business prospects. We posted a short follow up article, “

According to Wikipedia, Unified Communications is defined as:  "Unified Communications (UC) is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging, voice, video, data sharing and call control with non-real-time communication services such as voicemail, e-mail, mobile messaging and fax. It's a set of products and capabilities that provides a consistent unified user interface and…

You've got lot of choices these days with business voice communications vendors. And you'll get a lot of data companies who'll say they can install your business phone system. But often they don't have the expertise, experience or relationships needed to handle this mission critical application called voice communications.   To help you find the b

One of the old pillars of the business communications industry was Nortel. At its peak, Nortel had over 1 million installations and was considered one of the best quality business telephony systems of its day.  But after Nortel went out of business in 2009, many of their customers were left with a kind of "now what"…

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about the competitive nature of PBX manufacturing and how the industry has always experienced a steady turnover of market leaders over time.  It apparently hit a nerve. The article's main point was that while every dog has

Not surprisingly, many companies have cost saving expectations when considering a new business phone system. In this informative webinar excerpt, Digium talks about recent Gartner and Aberdeen surveys of companies and how they've really improved productivity and saved big money with a unified telecommunications system.   Video Transcript Gartner Study on Unified Communications So starting…

Is your company stuck in a PBX rut? Does your boss have a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality when it comes to your business phone system? Do you know in your heart that a more up-to-date VoIP-based system will save your company money, but just haven't taken the leap?  If so, Digium gateways could…

There are so many options and things to remember when figuring out which unified communications solution to go with. To make the right decision, you first need to ask the right questions.   This webinar will help you understand what kinds of questions to ask so you can strike the right balance between price and…