In today's virtual world, telecom and network services have come a long way, from being offered using locally installed, standalone monolithic servers to ethereal entities residing in the cloud. This evolution has touched every part of network service provisioning, and one of the most fascinating facets of this trend is that the network infrastructure itself can be virtualized.

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture philosophy that virtualizes the network infrastructure. In this article, we take a look at what NFV is, how it works, how it fits in with other virtualization technologies, and how it can be of benefit for enterprise networks.

Yealink, the leading global SIP phone manufacturer by market share, ranked number one in customer satisfaction among 17 VoIP telephony manufacturers rated in a survey of IT managers published by Eastern Management Group. In this article, we look at some of Yealink’s most noteworthy innovations that helped it secure the number-one spot.

The cloud is used to offer services directly to the end user, as well as to provide a platform on which vendors can develop their online applications (including VoIP) for their customers. In a previous article, we covered SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as the three most prominent cloud-based models that are used to offer services to clients. In this article, we take a more in-depth look at the various cloud deployment models that are available (including private, public and hybrid) and how they are useful for businesses of different sizes. The article concludes with the factors to consider when choosing which deployment model to use when offering VoIP and other cloud services to your customers.

Product Review

Expanding on its line of solutions for Zoom Rooms, Yealink has launched the newest model in its line of CP960-UVC Zoom Rooms Kits: The UVC30, for huddle rooms and other small meeting spaces. In this article, we review this new model and show how it fits in with the rest of the series.

TeleDynamics & netsapiens partnership supports service provider customers at every stage of growth

By Jason Beckett, VP Sales, netsapiens

TeleDynamics and netsapiens recently hosted a joint training seminar to help our distribution partners navigate the complexities of the different – and often competing – channels within the telecommunications sector, and show them how netsapiens can enable service providers at every stage of growth.

Whether you are a telephone systems installer that resells (or would like to resell) hosted VoIP services to your customers, or a hosted service provider in your own right, netsapiens has the powerful cloud communications platform and flexible pricing model that puts YOU in control and supplies everything you need to start in, expand in, and dominate in the telecommunications industry. Read on to learn how our industry-disruptive platform can enable you to boost your ROI and grow your business!

Cloud computing has had an irreversible impact on how IP telephony and other network services are delivered. In this article, we look at the three most common cloud service models and how they are used to deliver telecommunications and other services to connected businesses. By adding cloud-based services to your arsenal of offerings, you can deliver more value to your customers by proposing a wider range of services to them.

Redundancy and scalability are important for VoIP systems. Virtualization makes both of these easier, less costly, and more efficient. Coupled with cloud services, virtualization has revolutionized how network services are provided, and in particular, how VoIP deployment is executed.

In this article, we explain what virtualization is, the trends governing its newest technologies, and how all of this can be leveraged for use with VoIP services.

Sneak a peek at what Yealink is presenting at Latin America’s biggest technology event

Futurecom is Latin America’s most important technology event, bringing together more than 29,000 professionals with the purpose of increasing the engagement between telcos, corporations and stakeholders in the communications technologies space.

Yealink is there this week at booth H97 to preview its soon-to-launch T4U Series IP phones, as well as to showcase its newest IP phones and videoconferencing solutions with superior collaboration capabilities.

If you can’t get to Sao Paolo this week, not to worry – here we gather our reviews of the solutions they are showcasing, all in one place! Check out these comprehensive UC solutions for businesses of all sizes that Yealink is showing at Futurecom, below. To see the full product review or more details for a particular device, simply click on its link.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is changing the way networks are managed and designed. In this article, we take a look at how an SDN approach can be of great benefit to VoIP and video telephony deployments in particular.

Have you ever chosen to use a telephone to communicate even when a videoconferencing system was available? If so, it’s probably because videoconferencing systems have traditionally been difficult to configure and relatively cumbersome to use. This is no longer the case, thanks to Konftel’s simple video solutions.

Konftel has launched a series of videoconferencing kits with a unique and extremely attractive One Cable Connection capability. We take a look at these solutions in this article.