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If you’re trying to figure out what it costs to replace a business phone system, you’ve probably already noticed that getting a straight answer isn’t easy. You’ll find companies advertising VoIP phones for $20 or $30 per
Read article ↗If you’re trying to budget a structured cabling project, one of the first questions is usually pretty simple: How much is this actually going to cost? Unfortunately, cabling is one of those trades where giving a price wi
Read article ↗I’ve worked around business phone systems long enough to remember when you could walk into an office, look at the phone on the receptionist’s desk and have a pretty good idea of what you were going to find when you got b
Read article ↗Walk into an older commercial building, lift a ceiling tile, and there’s a good chance you’re looking at a history lesson. CAT5 from an old network. Telephone cable from a PBX that disappeared years ago. Coax that once f
Read article ↗Walk into the back room of almost any established business and there is a good chance you will find technology that nobody quite knows what to do with. Old desk phones stacked in boxes. A phone system that was removed du
Read article ↗For years, the business phone system was something companies rarely thought about until it stopped working. A PBX sat in a closet or equipment room, desk phones sat on desks, and as long as employees could make and recei
Read article ↗There is a tendency in technology to assume that old equipment needs to be replaced simply because something newer exists. Business phone systems are a good example. We still walk into facilities running PBX systems that
Read article ↗Kommvia is making the case for a smarter move from on-premise PBX systems to VoIP There are thousands of businesses still running on-premise phone systems that have been hanging on the wall for ten, fifteen, twenty years
Read article ↗Businesses will spend thousands of dollars on network switches, firewalls, wireless access points, servers, VoIP phones, cameras, and other technology. They’ll compare specifications, evaluate manufacturers, buy support
Read article ↗There’s an access point mounted in the middle of an office somewhere that deserves a raise. It was installed years ago when the company had twelve employees, a handful of laptops, a couple of wireless printers, and maybe
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