Voice over Internet Protocol has had a huge impact on business communications. No longer is it necessary to have a PBX with a maintenance contract for each of your offices. Today the phone system for your entire organization can be housed in your data center, or for redundancy placed in an offsite, secure third party [...]
Happy New Year from Cottonwood Communications! We hope that you and your family enjoyed the holidays and have set some new goals for 2011. We believe, along with many of our peers and business partners that 2011 will be a strong recovery year for the United States. Attitudes are changing, and many seem to be going [...]
Sometimes there are things happening in our industry that have to be mentioned. There are a number of offers available right now that we believe have not gotten the coverage necessary. 1.) If your office is located in a building that has competing Ethernet offerings your can now get a 100 Mb connection to the Internet [...]
This past weekend I elected to hike a number of Colorado Fourteeners – it was awesome! When you hike 5-8 miles a day there is a lot of time to think about things. In this post I want to share 5 things that I learned about business by accomplishing my crazy goal of summiting 7 mountains [...]
We’re approaching our one year blog anniversary and thought it would be a good time to highlight a few of our favorites. Many of our readers are looking for answers about different solutions….browse below: * SIP Trunking – what is it and who can help provide answers? * Carrier Agnostic Telecommunication Agencies – what advantages [...]
If you own a company or are responsible for managing the voice and data at your company, you have to know about the Integrated T-1. VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol circuits (also called Integrated T-1′s) are a great option for many small and medium sized businesses. Many have heard of getting a VoIP phone system, [...]
Now that the snow has all melted in and around Denver it’s time for us to all be productive. Isn’t it funny though that most people that aren’t from Denver or don’t spend much time here think that there is always 8-10″ of snow on the roads and sidewalks from November 1st until sometime in [...]
Can you believe that the US ranks behind Romania and Bulgaria when broadband Internet connections are compared side by side? This is somewhat of a shock to me. I understand that in Eastern Europe things came a bit later and many of the companies implementing these solution were able to use better and more current [...]
I read an article today called “SIP Trunking – Savior during a Recession” written by Matthias, one of the Telephony Online writers. I found it outlined the current sentiment about SIP offerings available today. PRI voice T-1′s and other trunking offerings from the carriers seem to be inexpensive enough that most companies aren’t looking for [...]
OK – Here are the responses to the questions I presented in my last posting: 1.) When choosing a voice T-1 what are the advantages of a PRI over an advanced or basic DSS T-1? An Advanced T has DID (Direct Inward Dial) number capability, but can’t pass caller ID, and a Basic T can [...]
