Jon Arnold presenting a webinar on SkySwitch Web PBX Skill for Amazon Alexa, featuring a slide titled "SkySwitch Web PBX Skill for Amazon Alexa – a Better Collaboration UX," with a screenshot of the Web Centre PBX Portal displayed.

Jon Arnold Talks about Voice Assistants in the Workplace

Our friend Jon Arnold of J Arnold & Associates held an interesting webinar discussing the key drivers of digital assistants –  a term that he uses to include voice assistants (like Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa) and chatbots – used for business.  He was kind enough to mention the SkySwitch Amazon Alexa skill as an…

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SkySwitch Gives Resellers an Edge with New Mobility Solution

White-Label Resellers Can Now Deliver A Better Mobile UC Experience To Users LAKELAND, FL – JULY 18, 2017: SkySwitch today announced that it has integrated ReachUC, a suite of advanced UC applications and tools, into the SkySwitch Platform. ReachUC is now available to all SkySwitch white label resellers. Industry research shows the immediate need for the…

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SkySwitch is Now Integrated with ReachUC Mobile and Desktop Apps

We are pleased to announce that SkySwitch is now integrated with ReachUC, a suite of advanced UC applications and tools.  This integration is the our latest attempt to develop a viable soft-client replacement for the traditional SIP deskphone, and represents what we believe to be the cutting edge of what is possible with available technology.   With ReachUC and…

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New Developments at SkySwitch

At SkySwitch, we are always improving the Reseller experience.  Here are some of the things that we have been working on recently: New UC Endpoints – Our efforts to integrate the ReachUC endpoint solution into the SkySwitch platform is proceeding as planned, and is available to all SkySwitch resellers as a beta trial.  Current features of…

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Mitel Plays Catch-up With The Acquisition of Toshiba Corporation’s Unified Communications Business

Way back in March we first heard about the demise of the Toshiba Telecommunications Systems Division and wrote a blog post about it. A Memorandum of Understanding between Mitel and Toshiba stating that Mitel would acquire certain assets, inventory and support obligations from Toshiba Corporation’s Unified Communications business was signed two months later. After another twoTmonth…

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Makeup your mind Avaya – Hardware or Software

Back in January, Avaya filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  When asked why, their Corporate Treasure, John Sullivan explained that after examining their debt “we decided it was a critical next step in our transformation from a hardware company to a software and services company and the best path forward for our customers, partners and employees.”…

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The New Yealink Phones Are Here! The New Yealink Phones Are Here!

So maybe we’re not quite as excited as Navin Johnson was when he got his new phone book, but it’s pretty damn close.  SkySwitch has received “advanced shipments” of the new Yealink T52S and T54S phones.  These phones are not scheduled for official released by YeaLink until Q3 so Corey Stoker, SkySwitch Director of Support…

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BroadSoft Eats Its Own: The Death of the Channel?

BroadSoft just announce the commercial release of their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product. They are now one more in a long line of hardware vendors that have turned on their channel by going into the very service business that their products enable. In short, BroadSoft is now in competition with the very customers that have purchased BroadSoft…

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T-Mobile Broke SIP on my iPhone with IPv6 Update

A funny thing happened after my T-Mobile iPhone recently upgraded to iOS 10.3.1 … my SIP client stopped working! It seems that the OS update came along with new carrier settings that assigned my device an IPv6 address.  In my case, the carrier setting version is now T Mobile 28.3. After analyzing network captures from the switch…

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