Organizations spend $1.5 trillion dollars a year, globally, on fixed and mobile telecom services.

If reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and boosting profitability are amongst the 2019 goals for your business, one area that you should be aware of is the true costs of telecom spending on your company.

If at the top of the list of your New Year’s resolutions is to save time and money, then read on! This blog will share with you a fast way to get back to focusing on growing your business and to leaving the complex arena of communications, security and cloud services to the experts – at no cost to you.

Today’s applications demand more bandwidth than ever. IT professionals constantly find themselves in the position of having to respond to those bandwidth needs reliably and affordably. To accurately determine how much bandwidth your business needs, you need to assess the factors that impact network performance.

"Cloud storage is a cloud computing model in which data is stored on remote servers accessed from the internet, or "cloud." It is maintained, operated and managed by a cloud storage service provider on a storage servers that are built on virtualization techniques" (www.techopedia.com). There are many things to consider when moving your business applications to the cloud. What kind of solution do you need? What is the environment that your solution will be hosted in? How can you access this solution? All of these factors are important to review before moving to the cloud to ensure quick and efficient deployment of cloud services.

In this day of hackers and cybercrime, business owners and executives alike may question what the safest platform is to use for their business communications. By the very design of VoIP and the utilization of the public internet to transmit voice packets, one must understand potential risks and weigh those against the many advantages offered. Rest assured, VoIP is a very safe option as long as proper precautions are implemented from the start to mitigate potential security risks.

SD-WAN is an evolutionary approach to the WAN that offers a multitude of benefits when compared to traditional approaches including:

Hosted Exchange is a cloud solution in which the service provider manages the client’s email services, which are stored in the provider’s data center(s). This includes maintaining both the hardware (servers), software (licenses) and more. Email services are delivered back to the client along with other optional services such as anti-spam/anti-virus, archiving, and upgrades.

On April 10, 2018, Richmond BizSense released its annual “2018 Generosity, Inc.” list recognizing philanthropic companies in the Richmond area. For the second year in a row, Comtel Managed Solutions, d.b.a. Simplicity VoIP was acknowledged for its contributions and investments in the local community. Out of 45 companies acknowledged, Simplicity was ranked 26 for 2017 giving - six spots higher than the prior year’s report. 

During the month of March, we had a chance to sit down with Pete Kraehmer. He is well known and respected by many providers and partners in the channel, as well the customer base that he serves.