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E-MetroTel Telephony Solution – UCX

First American is a proud channel partner of E-MetroTel telephony solutions. E-MetroTel, headquartered in Plano Texas, is a cost effective telephony and contact center solution targeted at the small and mid-enterprise market. Here is where E-MetroTel excels: Perfect for companies with up to 5,000 users. […]
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Toshiba Shuts Down Telecom Division

Interesting that Toshiba did not try to sell their Telecommunications division but simply decided to shut it down. As the premise PBX market continues to shrink and as the Cloud telephony business ramps up, maybe there were just no buyers for the smaller players? Founded […]
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Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

The UCaaS market today is comprised of pure-plays, network operators, cable MSOs, ISPs, system integrators, and traditional premises-based vendors. With a multitude of options, things can be confusing for businesses trying to find the right provider and service to fit their needs,” said Diane Myers, […]
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PBX Market Share

Check out how the things have changed in the Enterprise PBX landscape over the past 10 years. In 2006 Avaya plus Nortel had 38% of the entire market. Avaya, 10 years later, and after purchasing Nortel’s Enterprise group, is down to 17%! Who is moving […]
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Who is playing in the Clouds?

Top Cloud Providers Generated $11 Billion on IaaS in 2015 The world’s top cloud providers made $11.2 billion in revenue selling raw compute and storage power as virtual services in 2015, according to a report by Structure Research. It forecasts that collectively this group will […]
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Genesys to Buy Interactive Intelligence

$1.4 Billion Deal. Amy Thomson /Melissa Mittelman August 31, 2016 Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., the maker of call-center software, has agreed to buy Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion. Genesys will pay Interactive Intelligence holders $60.50 a share in […]
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Infographic: Hosted PBX or On-Site?

The PBX debate, simplified. It’s an encouraging sign of progression when a company moves to an IP-PBX (private branch exchange) business phone system. The big question it has to ask itself then is whether to host the PBX solution on its own premises or leave […]
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Apple Reinvents Mobile UC

The new iOS 10 will allow VoIP services, including those from the UC vendors, to use the native dialing capabilities of the iPhone, spelling a new day for Mobile UC. Giving developers access to Siri along with APIs to access key elements of the address […]
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Session Manager Controls Calls

The Avaya Aura Session Manager is the core of Avaya’s SIP-based architecture, unifying all Avaya UC services. Aura Session Manager integrates with Avaya’s Aura Communication Manager, media gateways, messaging services, session border controller, conferencing, contact center and more, creating a centralized infrastructure that helps lower the total […]
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Enterprise PBX Market Continues Slide Despite Improving Economic Conditions

Campbell, CALIFORNIA —Technology market research firm Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), reported in 2015 that the global enterprise telephony and unified communications (UC) market closed down 4 percent in 2014, to $8.7 billion, as businesses continue to hold off new purchases […]
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