NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITY OF MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS VOICE

Microsoft Teams has tried for years to implement voice into its offering. While Microsoft is incredible at delivering an unparalleled user interface and experience, they don’t do as good a job of delivering a robust, feature-rich voice platform. Realizing this, Microsoft has recently introduced Direct Routing which allows third party carriers/providers to interface to the […]

SIX SECRETS TO SELECTING THE RIGHT SD-WAN

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) is routing technology that allows the combination of multiple kinds of connections bonded together to result in one very fast, highly resilient, fault-tolerant secure network. Since it is software-based, it is highly flexible, adaptable, and agile. But there are hundreds of vendors out there, all claiming to offer the best […]

Managing the New Digital Normal

Getting to the cloud has taken on a whole new urgency lately, changing the way traditional businesses operate. Packet Fusion has been busy helping organizations manage the new digital normal, making sure they are able to stay connected and deliver great service to their customers.  Here are a few examples:   CyberCoders is a permanent […]

SHAKEN/STIR CAN IMPROVE YOUR BOTTOM LINE AND BOOST CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

SHAKEN/STIR: it’s not a martini, but it’s already packing a punch for robocallers.   SHAKEN/STIR* is a framework of interconnected standards that digitally validates the handoff of phone calls passing through networks, enabling the carrier to authenticate and stop robocalls before they reach consumers.   In January, the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and […]

The Right Contact Center Solution—Just in Time

At Packet Fusion, we are helping clients see clearly in 2020—and as one of the longest-running lighting distributors in the US, Candela Corporation also helps people see clearly.   For three generations, Candela has supplied electrical wholesalers with lights, ballasts and sockets from their headquarters in Irvine, California and their warehouse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Great […]

WHY LAYERS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO SECURITY (HINT: IT’S NOT A PIECE OF CAKE)

Your network has layers—seven of them, actually (application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link and physical). Each layer requires specific security measures for the overall network to be secure, and while it’s not a piece of cake, it is manageable. To help, we’ve compiled this guide to the essential security you need at each layer […]

FIVE SOLUTIONS TO ENABLE YOUR (MOBILE) WORKFORCE

With growing health concerns in the workplace, it’s become critical to allow workers to be mobile and remote. Here are five ways your ShoreTel or Mitel Connect Unified Communications platform is ready to help. Mitel Connect – Edge Gateway The Edge Gateway is a virtual appliance that compliments your Mitel MiVoice Connect unified communications platform. […]

Great Customer Experiences Begin with your Contact Center

If you have customers you want them to have the best possible experience. One of the biggest key elements in creating incomparable customer experiences is the quality of your customer Contact Center. In many cases it is the Contact Center that has the most interaction with customers and owns the greatest responsibility for creating and […]

SD-WAN – What it is. Where it’s better!

(Software Defined Wide Area Networking) SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) makes a wide area network perform better at a lower cost.  We will discuss in detail how we got to this point and we will help you build your business case for SD-WAN.  What is SD-WAN? What if you could spend a lot less […]

Are You Ready for Kari’s Law and NG911?

You may have heard of Kari’s Law*, signed in 2018 to require users of multi-line phone systems in commercial facilities to be able to dial 9-1-1 directly without having to dial a prefix to reach an outside line. Dialing 9-1-1 must also alert any front desk or security office maintained by the facility. Another new […]