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The New Mitel: Powering Connections [Video]
Mitel, a valued Activo partner, announced its new corporate brand yesterday. Mitel delivers a wide variety of communication and collaboration solutions that enable customers to effectively conduct business from anywhere, over any medium, and with any device....
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Everything Business Owners Need to Know About VoIP [Whitepaper]
Is your business using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology? Are you thinking about implementing VoIP? VoIP is a great choice for business owners that want to upgrade their phone system. When compared with traditional phone systems, it offers a huge number of new, useful...
VoIP Call Quality and Reliability – Can It Match Traditional Phone Networks?
Many business owners want to update their phone systems to VoIP (Voice over IP), but are held back by concerns about VoIP’s quality and reliability. Is VoIP as trustworthy as traditional PSTN (public switched telephone network) systems? The answer is yes. Cloud VoIP...
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“Better-than-Being-There” Video Collaboration with Cisco [Video]
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,...
Have You Seen This Interactive Undersea Internet Cabling Map?
Did you know that a multi-billion-dollar network of high-power, undersea cables carry Internet signals around the world? In fact, 99% of global Internet traffic uses these submarine cables to travel! You can actually see an interactive map of these submarine Internet...
What You Need to Know about Copper Data Cabling for Your Building
Copper cabling is currently the most installed cabling, largely because it is less expensive than other options (such as fiber-optic cabling). Business owners are also more familiar with copper data cabling and often already have some of the connecting hardware or...
What is Structured Cabling?
Every office and business environment requires structured cabling for optimal functioning and true network reliability. A structured cabling system is the wired infrastructure that transmits the data essential for your network throughout your building, ensuring...
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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....
