If you’ve decided you want to start selling Metaswitch hosted PBX to businesses in your service area, there’s a bunch of work to do – from marketing and product design to technical work. And it’s all important, but before you do anything else I’d recommend you set up a lab deployment. Why a lab? Is a… Continue Reading
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Does my Metaswitch support Hosted PBX?
There’s a lot of excitement about hosted PBX and UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service), and you may be dreaming about all the exciting new revenue you could bring into your business if you start offering this to your business customers. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves we have an important question… Continue Reading
How to configure VMware anti-affinity rules for Metaswitch products
We sometimes work with service providers who are nervous about deploying their Metaswitch applications in a virtual environment – and one of the most common stumbling blocks is the implementation of anti-affinity rules. In this article we will explain what these are provide step-by-step instructions for setting up these anti-affinity rules. What is an anti-affinity rule?… Continue Reading
Will over-the-top providers kill local telcos?
If you’re a regional ILEC or CLEC it’s easy to get depressed about the overall state of the telecoms market. Most younger people don’t have a landline, and if the trend of the last 5 years continues (extrapolating from the graph below) fewer than 10% of households will still have a landline by 2030. If… Continue Reading
8 reasons to sell hosted PBX rather than traditional PBXs
Why bother offering hosted PBX? Traditional PBXs work well, businesses are used to them, and service providers can make good money on the equipment sale. So why change? In this short article we’ll look at 8 reasons that more and more service providers are switching to focus on the hosted model. 1. PBXs are expensive… Continue Reading
Caller ID spoofing explained: using ancient wax seals
When I was about 4 years old, at the peak of my artistic abilities, I was inspired by my inner Banksy to take a marker and create a large mural on the wall of my parent’s living room. I don’t recall the exact details of the picture, and like many masterworks it was destroyed by powerful… Continue Reading