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Bell Labs launches consulting “For customers this transformation from
they not only survive but prosper well into in the Nortel Notes
division to advise industry on a physical to a complete digital delivery future.”
infrastructure for the future can be a mineield
Bell Labs has appointed Cassidy Shield as the R
path to network of 2020 to navigate, in terms of understanding the right Managing Partner of the Bell Labs Consulting UFFIN
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economic models, the key technologies, how they group.
work together to create new solution capabilities, Cassidy most recently led marketing for by Phil Rufin
and the relative priority they should have in Alcatel-Lucent’s sotware business, has held
order to optimize the TCO and drive growth and various General Management & Strategy Q:
everything and everyone, and build converged proitability.
roles with a focus on Broadband and Mobile Why do some of my phones require a
networks that capable of handling the diverse and Our intent is to provide the decision Value Added Services, and previously password and we don’t know what it is
dynamic demand patterns,” said Marcus Weldon, framework, and the set of key innovations and worked as a consultant at Cap Gemini and when trying to use redial? Doesn’t that defeat
president of Bell Labs.
sequencing of adoption that will help ensure
PriceWaterhouseCoopers. ■
the purpose of redial so we can save time?
A:
he 390x sets (at least, I think that’s what you’re talking about—this may
also apply to most of the IP sets) can be set with
a password so only the current user has access
to certain information, including the Redial YOUR TICKET TO BECOMING A CLOUD
sotkey function. I suppose that’s because you
might be dialing some super-secret government COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER
body and no one is supposed to have the
number without special government clearance
and a secret handshake.
To ix this, you need to know the TN of the Vodia's cloud-ready IPPBX software offers an unparalleled go-to-market hosted
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I seem to remember that it would change
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it in later sotware to remove the password scale and drive down startup costs by being able to serve multiple client
requirement entirely.
Q:organizations on a single hosted PBX server in the cloud, and eliminating the need
We have a department that uses call for dedicated hardware for each individual customer. The subscription-based SaaS
pickup all the time. And they don’t like
the codes and want to have a diferent code instead of *75 & *76. Can I assign a code for that pricing model is further designed to help keep IT costs consistent or even lower
group that’s diferent from the code everybody than packaged software for the end-customer while providing a steady recurring
else uses?
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A:You can use up to one hundred diferent plug-and-play endpoint set up, multi-tenancy, advanced contact center
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feature that has codes. As long as the code
doesn’t conlict with any other numbers in your the tools you need to start your own cloud communications business in no time and
dial plan, you should be able to assign them
provide a great user experience to your customers.
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additional codes will work throughout your
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Assign the group pickup codes to PUGR and
the DN pickup codes to PUDN.
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You might also consider upgrading your users  Unlimited extensions and call paths  Full control of minutes
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Q:
We have a few analog phones in our company. Recently they have started
 Full white labeling
 Plug-and-play setup
giving a weird dial tone that sounds more like a  BYOD
 Call and data security
fast busy tone. I think that means we have a bad
DTR in the system but I don’t know how to test  Full admin level control
 Pay-as-you-go
for that.

A:No, the Digitone Receivers don’t
provide dial tone. hat’s the function
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TDS. What you’re hearing is probably stutter
dial tone. It indicates a message waiting for +1-617-399-8147
that extension. Check your voicemail to see if
you have mailboxes leaving message indication
to those numbers. You can clear message
indications from a digital set if you assign a
MCK or Message Cancellation Key. Just press
the key and enter the extension. If it blinks,
press the key again to clear the message. If not, www.vodia.com +1-617-399-8147 sales@vodia.com
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