Next-generation video collaboration can transform your business. When colleagues, business associates, and clients are spread across different locations (sometimes across the globe), video conferencing and collaboration technologies can have a huge impact. Suddenly,...
Voice and Collaboration
Are You Up-to-Date on the Latest Cisco Collaboration Solutions? [Video]
You already know that our partner, Cisco, is the world leader in networking and collaboration technologies, providing innovative communication technology solutions for businesses of all sizes. But what you may not know is how their newest technologies are vastly...
The Crisis-Resistance of Cloud Voice
Previously, we’ve discussed many of the benefits of cloud voice systems: mobility, better features, reduced costs, and so on. Another crucial advantage of cloud voice is its crisis-resistance. Most organizations consider communications to be a mission-critical...
The Pros and Cons of Premise-based and Cloud-based Unified Communications
Unified Communications (UC) integrates communications tasks to improve an organization’s productivity and collaboration. With this streamlined solution, conferencing, calling, messaging, and other useful features are all unified into one (easily manageable) system....
What is Unified Communications?
Unified communications (UC) is a term to describe comprehensive solutions that integrate both real-time and non-real-time communication services – usually to meet the needs of business. With UC, businesses can have all of their communication needs met through one...
The Business Case for Remote Workers with VoIP [Whitepaper]
We have discussed VoIP and its benefits at length in our blog – and for good reason! Voice over IP (VoIP) technology cuts costs, improves mobility, and offers many collaboration and productivity enhancing features. Increasingly, businesses are adopting this vastly...
Highlights from Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Forecast 2013-2018 [Video]
Future mobile data traffic over cellular networks and Wi-Fi is only expected to increase. Cisco’s recent Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast suggests that global mobile data traffic will increase 11 times by 2018! The momentum of wireless and...
Multi-Touch is on the Rise
Multi-touch simply refers to a surface, such as a touchscreen, that recognizes more than one point of touch. We see them everywhere, on our tablets and mobile phones. They are also becoming more prevalent in emerging technologies such as touch tables or touch walls....
4 Opportunities for Voice over IP to Enhance Reachability
An op-ed piece on Telecom Reseller, a news source for unified communications (UC), voice, cloud, collaboration, and mobility technologies, discusses how VoIP can make the unreachable reachable. The article elaborates on 4 major opportunities for VoIP to expand its...
Gain Control While Satisfying User Demand and Avoiding BYOD Madness
Activo recently partnered up with Meru Networks on a large project for Columbia College to install a comprehensive wireless network with approx 150 access points. We have completed installation on both teaching campuses Ainsliewood and Maple Hall and are in the...