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lines. is allows seamless integration of new
employees with existing ones, over one wireless
phone system and augment your company’s new
workforce faster.
DEMETRIOU
In the event that your business development
expands across the country or overseas, you can by Demetrios Demetriou,
still seek comfort in the fact that your phone Copywriter, 3CX
system will support this addition of branches.
Standing at the helm of an expanding For instance, by adding a VoIP service provider
enterprise is no easy feat, as such modern your entire enterprise becomes available to you
CEOs want solutions within their
in one interface, whether you are in the same
businesses that are simple to manage and easy
o ce or distanced across time zones. VoIP also
to scale. Growing businesses need solutions that cuts out long distance fees resulting in a huge
can handle both the in ux of new personnel and boost in international connectivity.
increasing demands of thriving businesses.
Furthermore, with recent advancements,
Let’s take an organisation’s phone system
setting up a so ware based PBX has literally
as an example; a traditional legacy PSTN is become child’s play, especially with Windows
immensely di cult to manage and scaling is based solutions like 3CX Phone System. 3CX
absolutely impossible without physically adding is easy to install, use and manage, a phone
extra hardwired lines to the system, not only
system that is truly a revolution within the PBX
is this a hugely time-consuming procedure but industry. 3CX requires minimal processing
it’s also extremely costly. And technical issues? power, can be installed on an existing server
ey just add to the problem; unless you have
and, because of the so ware based nature of
a quali ed technician on board (something 3CX Phone System, the potential for scalability
that’s highly unlikely) then you’re doomed to is literally endless.
su er through hours and hours of downtime You may only be looking to solve your
every single time there’s a problem; before you scalability concerns, but a so ware based
get too comfortable, let’s not forget about the IP-PBX like 3CX o ers plenty of additional
monumentally high cost of getting everything bene ts, such as cost e ectiveness, decreased
back in working order.
maintenance and a full featured Uni ed
With a so ware based PBX ease of use, Communications suite which is sure to ramp up
scalability and cost reductions are prevalent your business productivity.
right of out the box. We know you’ve heard so ware-based IP-PBX. You see the beauty of a e next question you’re probably asking e bottom line? Don’t let phone wiring
great things about them, everyone’s heard so ware-based phone system is the fact that it yourself is ‘Will my employees need new phone fears halt your business goals. Your enterprise’s
great things about them, but you’re probably allows users to add phone lines via a web-based extensions if I switch to a so ware-based IP- success shouldn’t hinge on your phone system’s
wondering, is it really worth all the fuss? Well interface, eliminating the need for physical PBX?’. You’ll be happy to hear the answer is
capacity so look into making the move over to
it depends; do you value your time, money and wiring and by extension the labor associated a resounding no. Existing phone lines can be an IP-PBX where stability, scalability and ease of
sanity? If the answer is yes, then you need a
with installation and maintenance.
transferred whilst simultaneously adding new
use are the norm. ■

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in corporate data centers this is something construction by 2018. In addition, mega data
that will begin to fade as businesses adopt centers will account for approximately 44.6% Most small and Dreams Are
co-location, managed services and various of new, high-end data space in 2018.
other alternatives. This of course opens the Another important development comes
medium-sized
way for mega data centers; huge, sprawling in the form of cloud technology; large Made of;
data centers that seem to be growing in size organizations are swiftly adopting the businesses, although
and capacity as they accommodate numerous cloud,in fact many such businesses are aware of the beneits,
residents that want to move away from devoting considerable portions of their IT The Future
governing their own data centers. Research budgets to cloud technology. Most small
have yet to adopt cloud
firm IDC has stated that data indicates Mega
and medium-sized businesses, although computing services,
Data Centers will account for aware of the benefits, have yet to adopt
around 72.6% of
cloud computing services, something that something that will of WebRTC
data center
will change exponentially in 2016. Even
consumers are adopting cloud technology for change exponentially in
their own personal use. This of course brings
2016.
us to the fact that cloud technology top
dogs are looking for new, emerging
markets as well as chasing down
government contracts. is that the world is moving forward, more
The only absolute here
specifically technology is moving forward at E
an indomitable pace. As the future progresses LLIOTT
technologies are being eradicated at an
alarmingly faster pace than at any previous by Amy Elliott,
time in history. This however is by no means Marketing Executive, 3CX
a negative fact, these advancements are a
positive and welcome addition to the world. C
Faster mobile internet and an increase in omputer technology, and more
smartphone users globally means a world importantly so ware, advances
that is effectively connected in real-time, and at an astounding rate; one
by extension an increasingly more mobile such advancement is Web Real Time
workforce. Furthermore technological Communications technology or
advancements are also bringing the inevitable WebRTC for short. WebRTC works
arrival of managed service providers and
with APIs, HTML5 and Javascript
a move towards outsourcing many major to make advanced communications
aspects of running a big organisation.
technologies available through your web browser. WebRTC creates secure
Paired with the fact that cloud technology is constantly on the rise it seems that the future lines of communication by encrypting
is moving towards an ever connected, highly both data and signalling at both ends.
interchangeable technological one.
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