The North American Numbering Plan (NANP), which is the numbering plan used in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and certain other locations, can sometimes present unusual limitations on phone number moves, adds or changes, and on certain operations of your telephony network. In this article, we provide a quick overview of these to help you ensure compliance when it comes to caller ID configurations, number portability, and more.

Topics: Business Telephone System, Regulations

The benefits that voice over IP (VoIP) provides for the communications needs of all types of organizations are almost endless, including mobility, flexibility, economy, and interoperability. One advantage that is key to the future of the technology is its ability to be easily integrated with many different software platforms using what are known as application programming interfaces (APIs).

In this article, we examine why VoIP integrations are so important and what they mean for communications, both today and in the future.

Topics: VoIP, Yealink, Software Integration, Trends, Productivity, Unified Communications

Within the context of a global pandemic and the uncertainty that comes with it, even the most basic necessity of receiving medical attention when you need it is not that straightforward anymore. New and innovative technologies are needed to ensure that everyone has access to medical services.

Topics: Peripherals, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Product Review, Unified Communications, Konftel

There’s a lot more to music on hold (MoH) than you may think. Using it to your fullest advantage can go a long way towards improving your customer’s experience with your company. In this article we take a look at how MoH works and offer some tips on how you can maximize its benefit for your business.

Topics: Customer Service, VoIP, Total Voice Solution, Software Integration, Business Strategy, Unified Communications

While certain live events have been cancelled amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many of them have been replaced with virtual counterparts that have taken place via videoconference. Some of these events have had hundreds or even thousands of participants. With such numbers, how do videoconferencing systems cope with the traffic load and processing power required?

In this article, we take a look at the concepts involved with the scaling of videoconferencing for large numbers of participants. We also examine some best practices to keep in mind that will help ensure the quality of the end user experience.

Topics: Total Voice Solution, Yealink, Videoconferencing, Network Design

Much experience has been gained over the past year when it comes to distance education and learning. The systems required to enable it have quickly developed and have been extensively streamlined. One of the most successful vendors in this process has been Konftel with its award-winning video-capable conference phones.

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

With its new T3 series IP phones, Yealink continues its tradition of providing advanced yet cost-effective enterprise telephony solutions to businesses of all sizes. Packed with a plethora of features, these entry-level phones can satisfy both the voice network administrator and the budget coordinator of most organizations. Read on to find out more about what they have to offer.

Topics: SIP Phones, Business Telephone System, Yealink, Product Review

The spike in remote working amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has caused videoconferencing systems and service usage to skyrocket at a dizzying pace. At the heart of these systems is what is known as a multipoint control unit (MCU). Knowing where your MCU resides, how many simultaneous participants it supports within a conference, and what kind of extra features it delivers is key to designing a videoconferencing network that will ensure people enjoy the best quality service possible.

Topics: Total Voice Solution, Grandstream, Yealink, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Cloud, Unified Communications

For small voice networks with only a few dozen phones that exist on a single site, design considerations for digital signal processors (DSPs) will probably not keep you up at night. In fact, you may never have to think about them at all! But for larger multi-site networks, the placement of your DSP resources is important, since when not placed appropriately they could interfere with conferencing performance. In this article, we outline what you need to know to design your network so DSPs work the most efficiently for you.

Topics: Business Telephone System, Conferencing, Network Design

Now that working from home and dispersed workforces have become the new norm, connecting employees’ or company-issued smartphones to the enterprise IP PBX offers several advantages, including the ability to reach employees via their direct inward dial (DID) landline numbers, even though they are physically off-premise.

The technology that enables this is called VoIP over cellular data networks. In this article we detail how to enable it, the advantages of doing so and some potential issues to watch out for.

Topics: OTT VOIP, IP PBX, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Mobility (including remote work), Mobile, Wi-Fi, Unified Communications