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KAZOOCON, KAZOO, EVENTS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TELECOM, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, 2600HZ BLOG, CX

July 08, 2022

Recapping KAZOOcon: What’s Trending for 2022 and Beyond

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, TELECOM, BUSINESS PHONES, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, FUTURE OF TELECOM, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST, CALL ANALYTICS, CALL REPORTING

April 06, 2022

April 2022 Podcast

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, TELECOM, BUSINESS PHONES, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, FUTURE OF TELECOM, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST, BRAND LOYALTY

March 11, 2022

March 2022 Podcast

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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, BUSINESS, FEATURED, CPAAS, UC

February 24, 2022

UC Success: Scale or Niche

According to Fortune Business Insights, the global Unified Communications industry is expected to grow from $47.26 billion in 2021 to $113.81 billion by 2028, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate of 13.4%. The growth drivers in this market are an increasing integration of innovative technologies to grow businesses, boosting growth in North America, and mergers and acquisitions to consolidate...

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, TELECOM, BUSINESS PHONES, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, FUTURE OF TELECOM, CPAAS, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST, BRAND LOYALTY

February 09, 2022

February Podcast

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, 2600HZ, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CPAAS, 2600HZ BLOG, HYBRID WORK, COLLABORATION

January 24, 2022

Improve Engagement With These Helpful Asynchronous Collaboration Best Practices

As we settle into another year that looks to be defined by flexible work arrangements, there has been an uptick in conversations about asynchronous collaboration. While it’d be fair to associate asynchronous work with the hybrid office as they’re often discussed in the same breath, it’s actually quite an established idea that most have experienced in any office job. Put simply, asynchronous...

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, BUSINESS PHONES, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CPAAS, BROADSOFT, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST

January 12, 2022

January Podcast

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, BUSINESS PHONES, API, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CPAAS, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST, MICROSOFT TEAMS

December 13, 2021

December Podcast

Episode 34: The 2021 Industry Roundup Episode

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CRM, BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, FUTURE OF TELECOM, CPAAS, TELECOM BLOG

November 10, 2021

The CPaaS-Powered Future of Cloud Comms

The future of cloud communications is becoming increasingly clear, and it looks set to be driven by CPaaS, or Communications Platform as a Service. In fact, many early adopters are being proven out, with the IDC predicting the CPaaS market to grow from $4.2 billion in 2019 to $17.7 billion in 2024 and 451 Research forecasting the market to hit $21 billion in 2025. With that in mind, let’s quickly...

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, CLOUD COMPUTING, CLOUD, UCAAS, BUSINESS PHONES, API, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, PBX, FUTURE OF TELECOM, CPAAS, 2600HZ BLOG, PODCAST

November 09, 2021

November Podcast

Episode 33: CPaaS; or, How Did We Get Here?

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TELECOM, 2600HZ, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, 2600HZ BLOG, HYBRID WORK

May 31, 2021

Hybrid Work Best Practices | Part 3

Managing a Hybrid Workforce

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, TELECOM, 2600HZ, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, 2600HZ BLOG, HYBRID WORK

May 17, 2021

Hybrid Work Best Practices | Part 2

Hybrid Meetings

Following up on our first installment on technology for your hybrid workforce, this week we’re tackling how you can use those investments by focusing on hybrid meetings. We were all there for the explosion of the Zoom craze in early 2020 and, more likely than not, we all inevitably experienced “Zoom fatigue” in the months that followed. An Otter.ai study found that, of the over...

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, TELECOM, TELEPHONY, 2600HZ, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CPAAS, SECURITY VULNERABILITIES, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY, VOIP SECURITY, TELECOM SECURITY, 2600HZ BLOG, HYBRID WORK

May 03, 2021

Hybrid Work Best Practices | Part 1

Invest in Tech

As thoughts of a post-pandemic world slowly begin to emerge, return to office (RTO) plans are top of mind for many business leaders these days. The growing need to balance workplace safety with worker preferences has led to the emergence of the hybrid model for RTO. While 2020 certainly showed us that work from home is not for everyone, it also highlighted how some people really...

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COMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, 2600HZ, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, BUSINESS, UC

January 14, 2021

2600Hz 2020 Year in Review

2020 was certainly a year for the history books. It was a huge year for communication, technology, and the cloud, as businesses rapidly shifted to remote work. It was a big year for 2600Hz as we pivoted with the market and dedicated ourselves to doing everything we could to bring our partners more remote collaboration tools to help their customers stay connected. As we reflect on 2020 and look...

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, TELEWORK, REMOTE WORK

May 28, 2020

Business Agility & Reprioritizing Roadmaps

How quickly could your business pivot its roadmap if your customers' needs changed all of a sudden? If you’re like most businesses, the answer would be: not very quickly, if at all. Even in today’s world of market volatility, many organizations don’t have agility built in to their business model, which is what’s necessary to quickly shift priorities and change course when needed, and to do so...

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UCAAS, CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, FUTURE OF TELECOM, TELECOM CONFERENCE, UC, TELECOM BLOG

September 24, 2019

The State of the Market From the Cloud Comms Summit

Our team is always out and about at different industry event and we recently attended the Cloud Comms Summit in Leesburg, VA hosted by the Cloud Communications Alliance and Cavell Group. There was a lot of talk at the Cloud Comms Summit about the future of new platforms entering the market, so we wanted to share some of the insights we think you will find extremely valuable and that are pertinent...

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API, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CPAAS, UC

September 04, 2019

Guest Blog: Communication-Enabling Applications with CPaaS

Perhaps the biggest hot topic in business communications today is the integration of communication capabilities into applications, business processes, and workflows using APIs and CPaaS (communication platform as a service). Thanks to CPaaS, which provides cloud-based APIs to developers on an “as a service” basis, communications can be added to the core applications that businesses run on,...

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TELECOM, API, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, RESELLER, CPAAS, UC, 2600HZ BLOG

June 06, 2019

Guest Blog: 7 Practical Ways CPaaS Technology Can Improve Your Business

According to IDC, enterprise spend on CPaaS is forecast to grow from $2 billion in 2017 to $10.9 billion by 2022. When you consider the ease of deployment, custom solutions, and cost-savings, it’s easy to understand why so many companies are looking at CPaaS to improve their business communications.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, PROVISIONING, VOIP, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, BUSINESS, UC, TELECOM BLOGS, PROVISIONER, VOIP PROVISIONER, TELECOM BLOG

November 02, 2018

Why Provisioning Sucks

(And here’s what 2600Hz is doing about it)

If you have ever dealt with phones, chances are you hate provisioning. If you do it manually, it is exceedingly tedious. If you do it automatically, it can be disastrous. Many organizations opt for a homogeneous equipment mix, supporting only one manufacturer with a proprietary provisioning solution because it works and that’s good enough.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UCAAS, ASTERISK, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, BUSINESS, UC, TELECOM BLOGS

October 11, 2018

In Case You Missed It - Top Telecom Headlines in Q3

As summer came to a close, so did a major open source acquisition. There’s been a lot of activity disrupting the industry, so in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the top headlines that have been making waves and changing the unified communications landscape.

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