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3CX: Growing for the future
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By Bianca Allery, Marketing year. Currently 3CX has 70 plus staff er players this year and is now one of the Quarterly PBX/IP PBX Analysis, said “3CX
Operations Manager of 3CX
members worldwide. There are 30,000+ fastest growing PBX companies according
is without question a significant emerging
3CX is a growing presence in the IP PBX customers and more than 10,000 partners player in the global market for IP PBX to MZA consultants.
market. 3CX is expanding at 40% each
worldwide. 3CX is overtaking several larg-
extensions and call control licenses. In terms Will Parsons, co-reporter
of MZA’s
of our latest research, 3CX is the fastest
growing vendor over the last four quarters
and in Q3 2013. Our latest research has shown that against a backdrop of a 7% year-
on-year global market decline in Q3 2013,
3CX’s volume of call control licenses grew
by 52% year-on-year. In a time of where
business budgets are often restricted due to
economic constraints, the cost savings, the
ease of maintenance and the full functional-
ity 3CX Phone System provides, has proved
to have wide appeal in the market place”

3CX Culture
The culture nurtured at 3CX at a tech-
nology level is that of being an innovator.
3CX is an innovator of communications
solutions. 3CX is a technology leader in
many areas such as mobility, productivity,
and ease of deployment. The 3CX team is comprised of hand-picked individuals who
realize the importance of our resellers and

See ALLERY, page 2
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VoIP security?

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By Nick Galea, CEO, 3CX
oIP security is a growing con-
cern for businesses and can be
costly if not addressed proper-
ly. The Communications Fraud Control
Association (CFCA) 2013 global fraud
report http://cfca.org/pdf/survey/
CFCA2013GlobalFraudLossSurvey-
pressrelease.pdf shows IP PBX and VoIP
hacking together produce losses of over $8
billion annually.
Security is not a one-time fix, but a con-
stant ongoing battle and both companies and resellers need to be ever-vigilant to
reduce the risk. This means ensuring they
secure the IP PBX and apply updates to
the operating system as well as apply the
updates of the IP PBX software itself. The
best way to achieve this is by choosing a
mainstream operating system that admin-
istrators know how to manage and an IP
PBX vendor that is committed to security
and releasing security updates as needed.
Resellers need to select an IP PBX for
customers that they are comfortable with
administering on the customer’s behalf, or
ensuring that the customer is able to admin-
ister the IP PBX.
See GALEA, page 2

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