Soldato
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Hi All,
I had one of those dreaded mid week emails tasking me to come up with a disaster mitigation plan for a clients 15yr+ phone system. The client is mid sized, three sites, 20,000 users etc etc
My priority is obviously focused on what's been asked, but I am going to propose a second option for them (that's the salesman in me). This led me to look at the new Microsoft offering of the new Office 365 phone system. The reason is that this client has no funding available for a PBX replacement, hence the initial request.
Has anyone looked into this yet?
It seems perfect for certain clients, especially those operating in the public sector.
for those who have not heard of it (shame on you all for not keeping up to date with tech news
) it's a way to entirely replace your on-premise phone system including phone lines and sip trunks and using it via Office 365. The calling plans have just launched in the US, with the UK following shortly.
I've been in touch with Microsoft, and I'm down there way next week for a meeting.
So anyway, has anyone looked into this yet?
Luckily this client already has Office365/Exchange365 with dual active/active 1gb Internet connection hosted from two different nodes.
Cheers!
I had one of those dreaded mid week emails tasking me to come up with a disaster mitigation plan for a clients 15yr+ phone system. The client is mid sized, three sites, 20,000 users etc etc
My priority is obviously focused on what's been asked, but I am going to propose a second option for them (that's the salesman in me). This led me to look at the new Microsoft offering of the new Office 365 phone system. The reason is that this client has no funding available for a PBX replacement, hence the initial request.
Has anyone looked into this yet?
It seems perfect for certain clients, especially those operating in the public sector.
for those who have not heard of it (shame on you all for not keeping up to date with tech news
) it's a way to entirely replace your on-premise phone system including phone lines and sip trunks and using it via Office 365. The calling plans have just launched in the US, with the UK following shortly.I've been in touch with Microsoft, and I'm down there way next week for a meeting.
So anyway, has anyone looked into this yet?
Luckily this client already has Office365/Exchange365 with dual active/active 1gb Internet connection hosted from two different nodes.
Cheers!
