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SimpleWan recently announced that it has integrated the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller into its dashboard. This will be welcome news for anyone that has struggled to deploy mesh Wifi and VoIP QoS on the same LAN. Now control of both networks can now be centralized from the SimpleWan dashboard. We expect to have Unifi access points available for purchase in the…

I hear all the time from customers that they would like to replace their SIP desk phone with a mobility app (like the SkySwitch PBX Fone) running on their smartphone. On its face, this seems to make sense. In practice however, it’s not a viable solution for several reasons. One of the biggest impediments to making…

The Obihai Webinar for SkySwitch resellers is now posted to our YouTube channel. One slide in the presentation really captured my attention because it demonstrates a pretty spectacular history of success from an entrepreneurial team that has used innovation (in both product and business model) to change the way that people communicate. I remember getting my hands…

The Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) market is worth $3.9 billion per year, and expected to grow 11 percent annually through 2020. Interestingly, the top 10 UCaaS providers (ranked by the Research firm IHS based on criteria such as service capabilities and development, financial stability, operational cash flow, growing revenue, market strategy, installed base of seats and…

Last week, GoDaddy jumped into the business voice space with the acquisition of FreedomVoice for $42 Million in cash (and up to $5 Million in additional milestone payments). According to Steven Aldrich, Chief Product Officer, GoDaddy. “FreedomVoice is a natural fit with GoDaddy as we both share a common goal: to harness the power of the cloud…

After a period of poor stock performance, the stock price of Hosted PBX giant 8×8 leapt 7.3% after the company announced that in the current fiscal year, it expects revenue of $251 million marking a 32% year over year increase. The success of 8×8 (an underdog in the ‘not Cisco or Microsoft’ camp) is good for…

(San Diego, CA) SkySwitch and NextLevel Internet met at the NetSapiens User Group Meeting yesterday to finalize plans for the integration of SkySwitch’s web/video conferencing platform into Nextlevel’s NetSapiens switch. Bill Green (left), Jeff Posner (right) of NextLevel Internet and Jayson Jones (center) of SkySwitch enjoyed the sunny weather, the four day NS UGM conference…

A post in Tech Crunch by Bob Goodman  (founding partner of the NY office of Bessemer Venture Partners) discusses the opportunities for start-ups in the Business Communications space. Interestingly, he enumerates 9 separate areas of the business communications landscape: Unified Communications Collaboration Contact Center Call Tracking Enterprise Messaging WebRTC Customer Service CPaaS (Collaborative Platform as a Service) Customer…