{"id":36022,"date":"2011-08-16T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=36022"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:05:57","slug":"unified-communications-not-just-for-saving-money-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/unified-communications-not-just-for-saving-money-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified Communications Not Just For Saving Money Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/manufacturer\/cisco\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'image1');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Cisco Unified IP Phone Family\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/solutions\/collateral\/ns340\/ns517\/ns477\/ns296\/images\/data_sheet_c78_459003-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>VoIP Supply&#8217;s CMO <a title=\"Smith On VoIP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diypbx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Smith\u00a0<\/a>shared his thoughts recently with TMC&#8217;s CEO <a title=\"Rich Tehrani TMCnet Bloggers\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Tehrani<\/a><a title=\"Rich Tehrani TMCnet Bloggers\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>about how recent trends are affecting VoIP equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith will be speaking at next month&#8217;s ITEXPO about the benefits of unified communictions for business and <a title=\"VoIP Equipment Leader VoIP Supply Readies for ITEXPO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/voip-equipment\/articles\/208163-voip-equipment-leader-voip-supply-readies-itexpo.htm\">explained to Tehrani why it&#8217;s important<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMost organizations used to think of IP based communications as a way to save money, but today it\u2019s really more about what IP\/unified communications can enable from an efficiency and productivity standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Properly integrating and deploying unified communications is still a hurdle for some, but the potential benefits that come from leveraging it definitely justify the costs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Cell Phone Effect &amp; Disruptive Forces<\/h2>\n<p>In the last few years the applications for VoIP technology have evolved while the VoIP hardware has remained relatively unchanged.\u00a0 There&#8217;s now a growing demand for <a title=\"Mobile VoIP\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/category\/mobile-voip\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'mobile VoIP');\">mobile VoIP<\/a> solutions that&#8217;s isn&#8217;t just limited to road warriors and international callers.\u00a0\u00a0Smith calls\u00a0this the &#8220;cell phone effect,&#8221; whereby intra-office users feel the need to be constantly connected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Carrie Schmelkin&#8217;s full transcript of the interview, <a title=\"VoIP Equipment Leader VoIP Supply Readies for ITEXPO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/voip-equipment\/articles\/208163-voip-equipment-leader-voip-supply-readies-itexpo.htm\">VoIP Equipment Leader VoIP Supply Readies for ITEXPO<\/a>, for more on\u00a0the rising mobile VoIP\u00a0demand\u00a0and why hosted and cloud-based communication services are the next disruptive force in technology.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to catch Garrett Smith as he <a title=\"The Business Case for VoIP and UC at ITEXPO 2011\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/the-business-case-for-voip-and-uc-at-itexpo-2011\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'makes the business case for VoIP and UC at the ITEXPO');\">makes the business case for VoIP and UC at the ITEXPO <\/a>next month on September 14, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"TMCnet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/voip-equipment\/articles\/208163-voip-equipment-leader-voip-supply-readies-itexpo.htm\">TMCnet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VoIP Supply&#8217;s CMO Garrett Smith\u00a0shared his thoughts recently with TMC&#8217;s CEO Rich Tehrani about how recent trends are affecting VoIP equipment.\u00a0 Smith will be speaking at next month&#8217;s ITEXPO about the benefits of unified communictions for business and explained to Tehrani why it&#8217;s important:\u00a0 \u201cMost organizations used to think of IP based communications as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,1054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-voip","category-voip-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181873,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions\/181873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}