Business-Growth

Growth In Hosted UCaaS and IP Telephony Not Limited To Big Providers

Frost & Sullivan has recently updated their North American Hosted IP Telephony and UCaaS Market, Forecast to 2023.  The news continues to be positive. The report shows that we can expect to continue on the current growth trajectory through 2023. In 2016, the market experienced healthy growth of 32.1 percent in terms of installed users…

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Network-Expansion

SkySwitch Announces Network Expansion

Turn-up of Las Vegas Geo-Node Increases Network Capacity By More Than Twenty-Five Percent LAKELAND, FL (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 01, 2017 SkySwitch, provider of the ultimate white label platform for hosted telecom resellers, announced a new West Coast point-of-presence today with the availability of their new Las Vegas geo-node. This is the fourth geo-node in the SkySwitch network,…

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Death of prem

The Death Rattle Of On-Premise Telecom

For the past three days, every analyst, pundit, and blogger has been putting their own spin on Cisco’s acquisition of BroadSoft. It’s about Consolidation Some are saying that the biggest impact will be fewer available customers due to consolidation.  Others say there will be new opportunity, because many companies (particularly enterprises) have gone to BroadSoft…

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Business-Meeting

Lots of Room for Revenue in UCaaS

According to Synergy Research Group, the UCaaS market continues to grow in the US at an astounding 29% a year.  Retail UCaaS services account for well over 80% of the total market. The UCaaS market is now generating revenues exceeding $400 million per quarter and approaching $2 billion annually. While the big guys like Ring…

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Two Plans

Mitel Plays Catch-up With The Acquisition of Toshiba Corporation’s Unified Communications Business

Way back in March we first heard about the demise of the Toshiba Telecommunications Systems Division and wrote a blog post about it. A Memorandum of Understanding between Mitel and Toshiba stating that Mitel would acquire certain assets, inventory and support obligations from Toshiba Corporation’s Unified Communications business was signed two months later. After another twoTmonth…

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Eating Your Own Children

BroadSoft Eats Its Own: The Death of the Channel?

BroadSoft just announce the commercial release of their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product. They are now one more in a long line of hardware vendors that have turned on their channel by going into the very service business that their products enable. In short, BroadSoft is now in competition with the very customers that have purchased BroadSoft…

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Vertical Solutions

UCCaaS Goes Vertical

In a new report from the Frost & Sullivan Digital Transformation Team, they stated that leveraging workflow integration will present opportunities and challenges for players providing Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) services. For white label resellers of Hosted PBX and Unified Communications as a Service, this means you can create more opportunity by leveraging your…

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M&A

M&A Can Ultimately Hurt UCaaS Partners and Customers

The consolidation in the hosted PBX and Unified Communications as a Service space continues with Windstream acquiring Broadview Networks last week. Late last year, Mitel acquired Shortel, and just a few months ago, NetFortris acquired Fonality. While we all realize that M&A in the space is a good indicator of a healthy sector, this kind…

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SkySwitch Integrates 888VoIP Into Their Reseller Dashboard

Resellers can now drop-ship pre-provisioned Yealink products directly from 888VoIP for the SkySwitch Network LAKELAND, FL AND BUFFALO, NY (PRWEB) MARCH 21, 2017 SkySwitch recently announced at their Vectors 2017 User Conference that SkySwitch resellers can now order and provision Yealink products directly from within the SkySwitch reseller portal. The phones are drop-shipped directly to…

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