The business world has focused a great deal of time and effort recently on hybrid workplace culture. Ensuring the best possible communications services, including videoconferencing (VC) and unified communications (UC), is vital for reaping the rewards that the hybrid workplace promises. This article examines the hybrid office approach and some of the most significant VC and UC tools to maximize its benefits.
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Videoconferencing and UC solutions for remote users
Topics: Grandstream, Yealink, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Productivity, Unified Communications, Konftel, Collaboration, Boom Collaboration
Securing voice services is among the most essential measures any business can take to mitigate attacks involving toll fraud, denial of service or corporate espionage. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) encompasses a robust and fully developed set of technologies that incorporate strong security features sufficient to deal with virtually all such attacks. Nevertheless, even with the most secured VoIP services, malicious hackers often find alternative attack vectors to achieve their goals.
In this article, we examine those attack vectors and the best practices to defend against them.
Topics: IP PBX, VoIP, SIP, Network Security, Firewall
VoIP security: Keeping conversations confidential
When you speak on the phone, it’s natural to believe that it’s a private conversation between you and the person on the other end of the line. However, do you know what mechanisms are employed to deliver this confidentiality? And how confident can you truly be in these security measures?
In this article, we take a detailed look at Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security technologies and how they keep conversations confidential.
Topics: SIP Phones, IP PBX, VoIP, SIP, Network Security, Voice Protocols
Product Review
Experienced telecom administrators know it’s challenging to provide ironclad security while maintaining speed on a communications network. This is especially true for enterprises with large mobile workforces, where users have internal telephone extensions on their mobile devices or home computers.
To make achieving these essential goals easier, Grandstream has introduced UCM RemoteConnect. This service caters to provisioning extensions for remote users of on-premises UCM6300 IP PBXs securely and lightning-fast.
Topics: IP PBX, VoIP, Grandstream, Network Security, Mobile, Product Review, Firewall
In previous articles, we've discussed the high reliability of VoIP technology. That said, achieving high reliability is only possible when built into the design of the VoIP network and the underlying network infrastructure supporting the service. One of the fundamental requirements to ensure such reliability is the implementation of VoIP failover. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: VoIP, SIP, Business Continuity, Mobile, Network Design, Cloud, SD-WAN, Unified Communications, WAN Technology
One of the primary questions that today’s businesses ask when choosing a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) system is: “How fast can we get up and running?” Yeastar’s UCaaS Turnkey Solutions has an answer most will love to hear: “As fast as you can get your business up and running.” Yeastar can deliver your UCaaS when you need it, which is an attractive selling point for end users. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: IP PBX, Business Telephone System, Cloud, Yeastar, Unified Communications
How to design the best support structure for VoIP deployments
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) often comprises a substantial portion of the budget for many businesses, a large part of which goes to paying the wages of support staff. Larger enterprises may need to employ a full-time, in-house team of professionals to support all their ICT services and assets, including VoIP communications systems.
However, smaller businesses have limited budgets and few ICT-related tasks to justify a full-time or even a part-time ICT position. It’s more difficult for these firms to support their communications systems without wasting valuable and often scarce resources.
In this article, we hope to provide you with insight on how to design the best support structure for your VoIP communications services without overextending your budget.
Topics: VoIP, Network Design, Cloud, Business Strategy
Yealink productivity-enhancing solutions for the manufacturing sector
Every area of business has unique communications needs. Yealink knows this well and has honed its products and services to meet the needs of various industry sectors. Some industries that Yealink has chosen to focus on include education, finance, government, retail and manufacturing.
In this article, we discuss the manufacturing industry and how Yealink’s solutions help businesses contend with communications challenges inherent to this industry sector.
Topics: Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Productivity, Business Strategy, Unified Communications, Collaboration
Using blockchain to simplify number portability
Blockchain is a technology used to store records of various types of data. The technology can be used for practically anything, including monetary transactions, music distribution, insurance and peer-to-peer energy trading. The list goes on.
One innovative application of blockchain currently under consideration is using the technology for managing and implementing telephone number portability between telephony service providers. This would save many ICT (information and communications technology) managers a lot of headaches.
In this article, we illustrate how this idea would work, and we also touch upon the implications that it would have for ITSPs (internet telephony service providers) and enterprise telephony users.
Topics: Business Telephone System, Software Integration, Trends
Yeastar is once again at the top in customer satisfaction
Once again, Yeastar has lived up to its reputation. Yeastar was ranked number one in customer satisfaction for 2022 among 44 of the most prominent on-premises and cloud-based UC providers, according to a survey of 5,000 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) managers. Yeastar achieved this milestone in 2020, and this year's recognition confirms the company’s long-standing commitment to delivering the best possible service to its customers.
Topics: IP PBX, Business Telephone System, Trends, Conferencing, News, Yeastar
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