Why CIOs are migrating from MCUs to Cloud Video Conferencing Solutions

These days, CIOs are not leaving a stone unturned in expanding the boundaries of business communications. The arrival of video conferencing solutions has created a buzz in the technological and business world, enabling them to have face-to-face communications internally as well as externally with partners, clients, suppliers, and investors.  Reasons Why CIOs are Looking for Greater Investments in Video Conferencing Solutions  1. Reduced Travel Costs & Save Time: Video conferencing solutions bring any number of geographically dispersed employees together. Thus, different branches of the organization or remote employees can easily get connected together. 2. Strong Business Relations : An enterprise ...

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Smart Classrooms for New Generation Education(2019)

Technology enabled education is peeping deep into the classrooms, paving a way to smart-education. The concept of smart classrooms has arrived at the forefront with the integration of advanced hardware and innovative software technology to enhance the way of teaching and to keep a check on students learning.  Moreover, smart classrooms foster creativity and interactive environment would help in bringing in more innovative ideas, more queries and more solutions. Consequently, there is a broadening of the domain of knowledge that a person acquires and encouragement in informal learning.  Talking about the general components of a smart classroom, they consist of ...

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Benefits of SD-WAN over MPLS

With the changing business requirements and to keep in pace with the fast-transforming world, there is a need to distance oneself from the traditional approaches and make a move towards newer ones. This blog aims to tell how the newer wide area network approach (SD-WAN technology) is on the upper-ground as compared to the traditional MPLS. What is traditional MPLS? MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching is a routing technique used in high-performing networks that redefines traffic flows across enterprises WAN and service provider networks, to avoid complex lookups in the routing table. It is a technique to speedily ...

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Migration from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams (Teams & VC end points Interoperabililty)

In 2017, Microsoft announced a major news that Microsoft Teams would become a primary client for intelligent communications in Office 365, replacing Skype for Business. The existing users of Skype for Business can upgrade to Microsoft Teams, to avail the benefits of complete communication and collaboration capabilities and create a "single hub for teamwork."  The goal of this migration to Microsoft Teams  is giving the users a single place for their conversations, contacts and content and revolutionizing calling and meeting experiences.  Why Microsoft Teams ? Primarily, Microsoft Teams is a new chat based collaboration tool, that enables the teams, ...

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Top 5 Video Conferencing Solutions for your Business

Video conferencing solutions in the contemporary corporate world have become a prominent tool for keeping teams intact and for enhancing the level of connectivity. No doubt, video conferencing has been able to diminish the gap between real and virtual. Teams located in disparate geographical locations are brought together seamlessly enhancing interaction and engagement.  For that, one needs to choose the right video conferencing solution that goes compatible with the business requirements. You need to interrogate yourself about your business requirements and which Video Conferencing solution is able to accomplish them greatly.  This blog aims to tell you two important things. ...

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Video Conferencing Solutions for Smarter Boardroom / Conference Room

Today, organizations of all sizes are looking for video conferencing solutions that not only accomplish their business requirements but also deliver best-in-class experience. This blog aims to give a detailed picture of boardroom/conference room video conferencing solutions. What requirements and features are expected from  conference room/ boardroom video conferencing solutions is what is taken into consideration here.  Here are some things to consider while deciding an appropriate video conferencing solution for your boardroom.  1. Video Screens/Display Size: Primarily, you need to decide the size of the screen depending upon the size of the room for video conferencing so that everyone ...

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Video Conferencing Solutions for Small Businesses/Startups

Every small or mid-sized enterprises look out for technology that accomplishes their goal of developing a collaborative working environment and that too at the most affordable costs. This blog aims at discussing the video conferencing solutions for small businesses (SMBs small or mid-sized businesses).   Before moving on to decide the best video conferencing solution for your enterprise, there are few parameters to consider in order to make a better judgement. 1. Number of Participants : First of all, you need to decide the number of participants for video conferencing. For a small requirement, there are solutions for personal and huddle rooms ...

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Best Softphones for Business – Features & Benefits

Small, mid-sized or large enterprises are continuously looking for solutions to enhance business communications and expand their business potentials. The present scenario is that PBX systems or VoIP desk-phones are ruling the market in the realms of communication and collaboration. With globalization, the world is turning into a much more interconnected place and with the way, businesses operate today, there is need to build up a unified communication system that is much more than just PBX voice services and that supports the contemporary mobile workforce. This welcomes the arrival of softphones.   Contemporary Workplace  Today, a workplace is not restricted to ...

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IP-PBX vs EPABX – Why to choose IP-PBX over traditional EPABX system?

For many decades, EPABX was considered as the most viable mode of business communications. They were built on copper wires and run on POTS (plain old telephone services). Talking about the contemporary scenario, businesses want to expand their potentials and revamp internal and external communications. Therefore, the arrival of IP PBX has turned around the tables. An IP PBX is a PBX phone system using internet protocol instead of the traditional analog services. This blog will help you give a comprehensive discussion on IP-PBX vs EPABX or why to choose IP telephony (VoIP phones) over traditional PBX system to carry out ...

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All about video conferencing protocols and video codecs [Infographic]

The last few years have witnessed an explosive growth in video conferencing solutions to enhance business communication and collaboration. Before having a discussion on various video conferencing codecs, let us comprehend what a codec is. A codec is a hardware or software based process for encoding and decoding large chunks of audio and visual information. From the traditional H.261 video conferencing industry standard, the move has been taken forward to advanced video conferencing codecs like H.264, RTV and VP8/9.    Conclusion : The emergence of advanced video conferencing codecs has not only supported HD audio, video and content over a ...

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