A recent business trend called the gig economy highlights a new way of employing a more flexible, autonomous and efficient workforce. One key to providing these features is the use of unified communications (UC) and videoconferencing (VC) platforms.

In this article, we look at the gig economy and how modern UC and VC systems can help businesses tackle some of its biggest challenges.

Topics: Grandstream, Yealink, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Unified Communications, Konftel, Zoom

Security is usually one of the top three concerns of most enterprises regarding telecom services. A properly enforced security policy is essential. It can protect against breaches that are capable of threatening organizational viability.

In this article, we share some best practices for creating and maintaining a network security policy and provide an easy-to-use downloadable template to help you create one for your enterprise.

Topics: Network Security, Mobile, Business Strategy, Regulations, Collaboration

Product review

Grandstream’s carrier-grade IP phones have been a great success for several years now, delivering superior quality to employees and executives who deal with high call volumes. The company is further extending its specialization in this area with the introduction of two new phones to the series: the GRP2612G and the GRP2650.

Topics: SIP Phones, Grandstream, Product Review

The demand for videoconferencing (VC) grew substantially during the pandemic, and its importance has remained high even in our post-pandemic world. Because businesses now depend heavily on videoconferencing, VC users require the most advanced hardware and services to beat the competition.

Yealink has emerged as a fantastic option, offering highly advanced VC products and services at very competitive prices.

Topics: SIP Phones, Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Mobile, Wi-Fi, Collaboration

Product Review

With the advent of Wi-Fi 6, the performance of wireless networks has improved dramatically. The user experience of those connecting to these networks has also enhanced so significantly that wireless communications have become comparable with wired communications.

Grandstream continues to lead this trend by introducing its new high-performance, long-range, indoor/outdoor GWN7664LR access point. We provide a detailed review in this article.

Topics: Wireless, Grandstream, Trends, Product Review, Wi-Fi

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.

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

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