Smartwatches: the next worthy gadget in your hosted PBX environment

After discussing several advancements in wireless technology that will improve the overall landscape of your hosted PBX environment, we now jump to the wearables section, and check how it will further sculpt and disrupt the ways communication is being done in an organization.

While smartphones provided employees and owners an augmented backbone to improve overall productivity of a cloud hosted PBX environment, smartwatches will provide the next jump in advancement.

The level of productivity that smartwatches will bring will be phenomenal

While devices such as the Moto 360, Samsung Galaxy Gear and a plethora of others are the first products stemming from the category of smartwatches, history has proved that better versions of these will make it to the market and will possess features and specifications that will dwarf their predecessors and make a nice productive addition to your cloud hosted PBX environment.

Similar to smartphones, smartwatches will possess WiFi and mobile connectivity as well. Intel, the world’s leading manufacturer of desktop and laptop computers is working on a 3G model whose design and form factor is strictly targeted towards smartwatches. The company has named the 3G modem as the XMM 6255.

In several ways, the company’s modem will outperform 3G modems present on smartphones and tablets. In addition, since smartwatches will be working on a mobile platform such as Android, iOS or Windows, users will have access to a variety of applications, specifically those that will be targeted to make the cloud hosted PBX environment even more productive.

Video chatting, video conferencing and voice calls being executed on mobile devices will also be done on smartwatches and since the device will come with the added benefit of being strapped to your wrist rather than being carried around in your hands all day, it will make the experience ever so simple.

Future advances that will smartwatches a worthy addition in cloud hosted PBX environments

After wireless advances, there are other departments where the smartwatch can thoroughly improve in a cloud hosted PBX environment. Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles that smartphones and smartwatches will have to scale is providing sufficient battery life to last at least during the duration of office hours.

In this way, users will remain productive while mobile and will not be required to stay in a single position constantly. Remaining in one position can degrade the overall health of the employee as well as make them lethargic, which is an automatic productivity killer element.

Furthermore, due to the small form factor of smartwatches, users will not able to move their hands and navigate freely across the device. While this may kill the efficiency of a smartwatch, gesture controls which are executed through voice commands, hand movement and eye movement can easily enhance that experience.

While the very first products might not be able to exhibit such a plethora of features, there is always something to look forward to in the future. Cloud hosted PBX systems are going to keep on improving thanks to improved wireless standards, mobile connectivity and of course, wearables.

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Hosted PBX: Your one stop business communication setup for all businesses

If you thought that cloud hosted PBX systems were inferior to your traditional legacy PBX systems, you should re-evaluate your skills as a business owner.

Cloud hosted PBX systems are the future of business communication and there are several reasons why this platform has started to become a popular system for majority of business owners who not only keep track of the latest and greatest platforms but also those who want to benefit the most from their organization. If you have not switched to the best replacement platform for your legacy PBX system, then here are several perks that will compel you to make the upgrade.

1. Cheap as peanuts

When we say cheap as peanuts, we literally mean that. Remember the complimentary peanuts you GET every time you fly in an aircraft? We do and guess what? They are free.

So in simple terms, switching over from your legacy PBX system to a cloud hosted PBX system will actually be as cheap as getting peanuts on the plane for free because for the longest time, you were paying exorbitant amounts of direct and indirect costs (maintenance, and acquisition of more PBX products)that was blowing a hole through your bank ACCOUNT.

Switching over a cloud hosted PBX system would actually mean that your entire equipment will be placed at the provider’s premise while all you’ll have is the ‘call making’ paraphernalia.

2. You get more office space

As stated above, all the equipment will be placed at the provider’s premise. So if you are looking to acquire a cloud hosted PBX system from WaveTel, WaveTel will set up all the necessary equipment at their own doorstep while providing you with only ‘call making’ material necessary to deliver crisp voice and video calls.

Since all the equipment will be present at an off-site location, your office space will be less cramped and you will not have to worry about maintenance costs for a microsecond as WaveTel’s proficient staff will GET them up and running in a jiffy.

3. Increase it as your business expands

After switching over to a cloud hosted PBX system, we are confident that by reducing costs and increasing overall productivity, you will be able to increase your business at a much faster than you would have if you were adamant on keeping your obsolete legacy PBX system.

Scalability is the term that we are looking for. Thanks to the scalable feature of cloud hosted PBX, you can keep on increasing it while your business thrives. It is far better than continuously adding useless costs buying up equipment for your legacy PBX system in order to accommodate for the extra employees, office space and overall infrastructure.

All it takes is three reasons to justify why a cloud hosted PBX system is your one stop to satisfy all of your business communication speeds. Legacy PBX systems only exist because people are misinformed on the advantages of WaveTel’s cloud hosted PBX and if you choose to follow them, you will not be rewarded with cost savings, sufficient office space and scalability.

IP Phones VS. Regular PBX Phones: What business owners should know?

IP PBX phones is just another fancy name given to IP Phones to make them stand out from a traditional PBX phone. While their name is different from one another, so is their functionality.

Unlike regular PBX phones, IP Phones utilize the power of VoIP and are able to deliver impressive call quality through LAN connectivity. However, that is not the only difference that business owners like yourself should be aware of. Here are some of the primary differences between IP PBX and regular PBX.

1. IP PBX provides lower cost compared to regular PBX

VoIP routing costs far less compared to a PBX line, but what is ever more important is that purchasing your own IP PBX lowers additional costs for the foreseeable future. For a startup OR even a well-established business, it is extremely important that business owners carefully monitor the costs of their organization because they never know when they would have to make drastic and egregious decisions in the face of mounting and overwhelming costs.

2. IP Phones are much easier to install than regular PBX phones.

While cost savings go a long way in ensuring that your organization will have sufficient FUNDS to last it for a long time, that perk would be of no use if your employees will be wasting precious time in figuring out how to install these devices.

Luckily for your business, IP Phones are extremely simple to install and configure. While installing an IP PBX will be a quick and painless task for the technologically edified, that in no way means that a person will negligible knowledge on networking and installing hardware would not know how to install IP Phones.

3. Unified messaging service helps easier to keep communicate

Integration between a variety of applications including your email inbox and many more will enable your employees to improve their overall business productivity in the organization. Not only this, but unified messaging will also help integrate IP Phones to work applications such a CRM packages.

4. Relocating will be far simpler for IP Phone users

Unlike traditional PBX phones, IP Phones have the capacity to be moved from one location to the other since they are connected through the organization’s local area network.

After they are connected from a whole new location, they will immediately GET connected to the PBX server, providing unhindered call making sequences to be executed. Gone are the days when you had to endure an excruciatingly long and tedious process of relocating your regular PBX phones and that too, paying the technician a substantial amount of fee in completing the operation.

Now that you have figured out the differences between IP Phones and regular PBX phones, we are thoroughly confident that you will be looking for the best interests of the organization and opt to installing an IP PBX setup. Lower costs, lowered operating costs and the flexibility of moving from one location to the other without hiring a technician is just the tip of the iceberg of the benefits that you will be receiving from IP Phones.

What will 2015 hold for business owners and their communication setups?

2014 was the year when several business owners made the prudent decision of shifting to different communication setups in order to replace theirdiminishing and unreliable legacy PBX systems.

While these business owners should have made the switch at an earlier period in time, it’s always ‘better late than never’. However, for businesses and organizations that are still hooked on to running legacy PBX systems, 2014 is about to come to an end, which only means that you get to have a fresh 12 month period to re-strategize your organization’s overall communication position.

In other words, 2015 will hold several opportunities for you. The only question is, will you will be willing to capitalize on these auspicious chances or not?

What will 2015 hold for business owners?

While it is no secret that residential Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services have been gaining immense popularity in regions where consumers pay for a very stable and reliable internet connection.

However, that popularity has also been branched out to business owners. The statistics alone with shock you. According to Infonetics Research, VoIP business services will be expected to project revenues that will have a valuation of above $76.1 billion by 2015. In addition, the same statistical data has also revealed that SIP Trunking service revenues will increase from by52 percent from 2011 to 2015.

With advanced communication platforms becoming rife with popularity, it is only a matter of time before other businesses start following the same platform shift.

Cloud hosted PBX

With 2015 about to commence, it presents an opportune moment for users to replace their existing systems with cloud hosted PBX. A business hosted PBX phone system can substantially reduce your monthly phone bill compared to a traditional business phone system.

Since the kind of service being delivered is present in the name, the PBX is hosted offsite at the provider's facilities. This allows the service to run regardless of the unforeseen power breakdown taking place at the user’s premise. Cloud hosted PBX systems will allow something that is called cloud collaboration. Cloud collaboration allows organization employees to complete their tasks away from the office building. This increases employee efficiency and provides more of a ‘work away from work’ situation for employees.

SIP Trunking

SIP Trunking has started to become the preferred platform because when a SIP Trunking is actually setup,it replaces the conventional telephone trunk, and allows an enterprise to communicate with fixed and mobile telephone subscribers worldwide.

Since organizations already have a legacy PBX that is connected to internal end users, it would provide no compatibility issues with a SIP Trunking setup. One of the most significant advantages of SIP Trunking is the platform’s ability to combine data, voice and video in a single line. In this way, the need for three separate cables for each physical media would end up being redundant.

Cloud hosted PBX and SIP Trunking platforms are on a rampage in transforming communication across all forms of businesses. Is your business going to be the latest venture to make the shift to a less expensive, more efficient and reliable platform? Your new year’s resolution should include this change.

How the ‘internet of things’ will transform business communication setups like cloud hosted PBX?

Now, the fact that cloud hosted PBX system are superior in price, performance and functionality over the legacy PBX systems is nothing that should surprise you, since the general rule is that an iteration of the same technology that is introduced several years later always happens to be better than its predecessor in one way or another.

However, while the prowess of cloud hosted PBX is well known among business owners who have upgraded their communication platforms, their thoughts will no doubt be bombarded with questions that will all reach to the same center: ‘What is the future of cloud hosted PBX?’ Platforms are always replaced by something better and before long, there will be an even more capable form of setups that will obscure the technological sophistication of cloud hosted PBX systems.

The only question is that will business owners be required to upgrade their existing communication platform every time a new platform rolls out? Not necessarily. This is because The Internet of Things, or IoT for short will eventually boost cloud hosted PBX’s capabilities to a whole new level.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario that will allow everything; ranging from mobile devices, to office equipment, wearables, machinery, networks, organizations, and even people, to be connected to each other and the aforementioned paraphernalia through an online system that will enable both individuals and objects to communicate to one another.

While the idea might zip past the heads of several readers, in a nut shell, the Internet of Things will allow a whole connected environment, boosting efficiency to overdrive levels. VoIP communication started off in 1995, and has grown in to a very popular platform when mobile applications and business communication setups are involved.

There are several advantages that the IoT will bring to business owners who have cloud hosted PBX systems installed at their premises. However, none of them will ever come close to satisfying a business owner than his / her business ushering a new level of productivity in the premises.

With machines communicating with other machines, and employees communicating with these machines too, no longer will employees be limited to a small cubicle to make and receive calls. Since the office premise and the off-site hosted PBX building were always connected from before, the extra layer of connectivity existing between office equipment, mobile devices and people will allowa continuous cycle to form allowing everything to become connected, right down to the kitchen sink.

Majority of small and medium sized business would have been extremely happy that they switched over to cloud hosted PBX systems and gained a 30-40 percent decrease in annual costs. However, what they most probably did not realize is how cloud hosted PBX’s ascension to an upgraded platform will be caused by the introduction of the Internet of Things.

While business owners will not immediately witness these upgrades, it is only a matter of time before the Internet of Things ends up connecting everything in the office, boosting new levels of productivity never experienced before.