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tl;dr: Opus encoding just got 20% faster on desktop Chromium by turning on AVX2 vectorization in libopus. Vectorization means one instruction doing the same arithmetic on a whole vector of values at once instead of one at a time. Codecs spend their hot loops running identical math across long buffers of samples, exactly where vectorization […]
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When a business starts shopping for a phone system replacement, Sangoma and 3CX tend to land on the same shortlist. Both serve businesses replacing aging phone systems. Both handle voice, video, and messaging. Both show up in the same search results. On a feature checklist, they look like close competitors. They aren’t. The two platforms […]
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Most school districts run communication on a mix of systems. The phone system is from one vendor. The PA system is from another. Emergency alerts come from a third. Digital signage, intercoms, and bells all have their own platforms, their own support contacts, and their own renewal cycles. When everything is working, it’s manageable. When […]
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If you sell UCaaS and only UCaaS, you are leaving money on the table. That is not a knock on cloud phone systems. Business phone systems are a strong product. Customers need them. They buy them. But if that is the only thing you sell, you are competing on price, fighting for attention, and starting […]
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If you’ve been in the channel long enough, you’ve probably been here: a customer calls with a problem, and you spend the first 20 minutes figuring out which vendor owns it. Then you spend the next hour on hold with that vendor, who blames a different vendor. Meanwhile, your customer is down, and you’re the […]
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If you’ve been in the channel long enough, you’ve probably been here: a customer calls with a problem, and you spend the first 20 minutes figuring out which vendor owns it. Then you spend the next hour on hold with that vendor, who blames a different vendor. Meanwhile, your customer is down, and you’re the […]
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If you sell UCaaS and only UCaaS, you are leaving money on the table. That is not a knock on cloud phone systems. Business phone systems are a strong product. Customers need them. They buy them. But if that is the only thing you sell, you are competing on price, fighting for attention, and starting […]
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Dialpad leads with AI-powered collaboration for cloud-native teams. Sangoma covers cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployment with full ownership of the stack underneath it. The right pick depends on which of those two things your operations actually need more. Why Compare Sangoma and Dialpad? Dialpad and Sangoma both show up on cloud phone shortlists, but they […]
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Most school districts run communication on a mix of systems. The phone system is from one vendor. The PA system is from another. Emergency alerts come from a third. Digital signage, intercoms, and bells all have their own platforms, their own support contacts, and their own renewal cycles. When everything is working, it’s manageable. When […]
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When a business starts shopping for a phone system replacement, Sangoma and 3CX tend to land on the same shortlist. Both serve businesses replacing aging phone systems. Both handle voice, video, and messaging. Both show up in the same search results. On a feature checklist, they look like close competitors. They aren’t. The two platforms […]
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Picture this: your phones go down on a Monday morning. Your contact center platform stops routing calls. Your managed network service provider says the issue is on the UCaaS side. Your UCaaS vendor says it looks like a network problem. Meanwhile, your team is losing sales, missing support calls, and explaining outages to your own […]
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Most partners start a customer conversation with one product. A business phone system with on-premises or hybrid deployment options. A SIP trunk. Maybe a contact center platform. They close the deal, collect the commission, and move on. That model works. It just leaves a lot of money on the table. Partners who sell across the […]
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Well, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German we would say there are Unkenrufe that WebRTC is dead. It is not. It is the infrastructure for meetings, game streaming, and voice AI, […]
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Microsoft Teams has become the default workspace for millions of businesses. Meetings, messaging, file sharing: it handles the collaboration layer well. But when it comes to business-grade voice calling, Teams alone often leaves gaps that matter: limited call routing, inconsistent reliability, and licensing costs that can creep up as your organization grows. Sangoma’s Microsoft Teams […]
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Microsoft Teams has become the default workspace for millions of businesses. Meetings, messaging, file sharing: it handles the collaboration layer well. But when it comes to business-grade voice calling, Teams alone often leaves gaps that matter: limited call routing, inconsistent reliability, and licensing costs that can creep up as your organization grows. Sangoma’s Microsoft Teams […]
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Both Sangoma and RingCentral are established UCaaS providers, but they are built on different philosophies around deployment, pricing, and support. This comparison helps SMB buyers compare deployment options, core capabilities, pricing, and support. It does not cover custom enterprise quotes or plan-specific exceptions. Why Are We Comparing Sangoma and RingCentral? RingCentral appears on almost every UCaaS […]
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Both Sangoma and RingCentral are established UCaaS providers, but they are built on different philosophies around deployment, pricing, and support. This comparison helps SMB buyers compare deployment options, core capabilities, pricing, and support. It does not cover custom enterprise quotes or plan-specific exceptions. Why Are We Comparing Sangoma and RingCentral? RingCentral appears on almost every UCaaS […]
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STIR/SHAKEN is a call authentication framework, required by the FCC, that digitally signs outbound calls so receiving networks can verify the caller ID hasn’t been faked. STIR stands for Secure Telephony Identity Revisited; SHAKEN stands for Signature-Based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs. The two work together as a technical standard and governance framework for […]
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For the past decade or so, the Unified Communications (UC) industry has been focused on improving how people connect. Vendors competed on calling features, collaboration experiences, messaging capabilities, mobility, and video conferencing. The goal was straightforward: make communication faster, easier, and more accessible from anywhere. Now, a new shift is emerging across the communications industry, […]
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STIR/SHAKEN is a call authentication framework, required by the FCC, that digitally signs outbound calls so receiving networks can verify the caller ID hasn’t been faked. STIR stands for Secure Telephony Identity Revisited; SHAKEN stands for Signature-Based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs. The two work together as a technical standard and governance framework for […]
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For the past decade or so, the Unified Communications (UC) industry has been focused on improving how people connect. Vendors competed on calling features, collaboration experiences, messaging capabilities, mobility, and video conferencing. The goal was straightforward: make communication faster, easier, and more accessible from anywhere. Now, a new shift is emerging across the communications industry, one that moves UCaaS platforms beyond enabling conversations and into […]
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Healthcare IT teams are under constant pressure. Staff need to reach each other instantly. Patients expect fast, clear communication. Regulators want airtight security. Leadership wants costs down, and they want them down now. For a long time, the answer was to add more vendors. One for phone systems. Another for network connectivity. A third for […]
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Healthcare IT teams are under constant pressure. Staff need to reach each other instantly. Patients expect fast, clear communication. Regulators want airtight security. Leadership wants costs down, and they want them down now. For a long time, the answer was to add more vendors. One for phone systems. Another for network connectivity. A third for […]
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Your customer has 20 locations. A branch in Denver loses voice calls for three hours on a Tuesday morning. By the time your customer’s IT team figures out whether the problem is the cloud calling platform, the SD-WAN, the internet circuit, or the firewall config, the damage is done. Customers couldn’t get through. Employees worked […]
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Your customer has 20 locations. A branch in Denver loses voice calls for three hours on a Tuesday morning. By the time your customer’s IT team figures out whether the problem is the cloud calling platform, the SD-WAN, the internet circuit, or the firewall config, the damage is done. Customers couldn’t get through. Employees worked […]
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When something breaks in a multi-vendor environment, the first thing that happens isn’t a fix. It’s a phone call. Then another. Then an email chain where Vendor A blames Vendor B, and your customer is stuck in the middle waiting for someone to own the problem. That’s the real cost of vendor sprawl, and it […]
The post The Business Case for One Vendor: Cost, Control, and Accountability appeared first on Sangoma Technologies.
When something breaks in a multi-vendor environment, the first thing that happens isn’t a fix. It’s a phone call. Then another. Then an email chain where Vendor A blames Vendor B, and your customer is stuck in the middle waiting for someone to own the problem. That’s the real cost of vendor sprawl, and it […]
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The contact center is the most customer-facing part of any business and, somehow, reliably the last to get modernized. The accounting software moved to the cloud years ago. Email, file storage, video calls, all cloud. But the system that actually handles your customers calling in with a problem? That one’s still running on hardware someone […]
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The contact center is the most customer-facing part of any business and, somehow, reliably the last to get modernized. The accounting software moved to the cloud years ago. Email, file storage, video calls, all cloud. But the system that actually handles your customers calling in with a problem? That one’s still running on hardware someone […]
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There is a quiet shift happening in telecom right now, and most providers (ITSPs, CSPs and MSPs) have not adjusted to it. Compliance is still widely treated as a regulatory obligation, something to revisit when rules change, or audits require it. However, that framing no longer reflects reality. Today, compliance plays a direct role in whether communications actually work. […]
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Deploying hybrid UCaaS is more involved than spinning up a pure cloud system. There’s an on-site appliance to install, failover paths to configure, and a cloud layer that needs to sync with local infrastructure before anything goes live. Most of that complexity sits on Sangoma’s side of the table — but understanding what happens at […]
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Many teams believe they have an integrated stack because they can place calls, send messages, and run meetings. Daily usage looks fine on the surface. Problems tend to appear during peak traffic, outages, or expansion into new locations. Those moments reveal how disconnected the underlying systems actually are. An integrated communications stack is less about […]
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Choosing a unified communications platform affects how teams communicate, how customers reach you, and how resilient your operations are during disruptions. Sangoma and 8×8 are both established providers in the UCaaS and CCaaS space. Both platforms cover voice, video, messaging, and contact center functionality. The real difference lies in how each platform is built, deployed, […]
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Businesses are moving away from pieced-together communications tools and toward integrated providers that combine business phone systems, connectivity, security, and managed network services under one relationship. The shift is practical. Voice quality depends on the network. Security policies depend on how traffic is routed. AI-driven workflows depend on latency and uptime. When those pieces sit […]
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Same category, different architecture. Here’s what actually separates them, and why it matters before you sign. Choosing the Right Business Communications Platform Selecting a unified business communications solution is one of those decisions that tends to reveal itself over time. The pricing looks reasonable at sign-up, the feature list looks comprehensive, and then six months […]
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UCaaS and CCaaS are both cloud communication platforms, and they often show up in the same vendor’s product lineup. That overlap is what makes the comparison worth doing carefully. Not because the two are easy to confuse, but because the decision between them (or the decision to run both) has real operational and budget consequences […]
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There is a quiet shift happening in telecom right now, and most providers (ITSPs, CSPs and MSPs) have not adjusted to it. Compliance is still widely treated as a regulatory obligation, something to revisit when rules change, or audits require it. However, that framing no longer reflects reality. Today, compliance plays a direct role in whether communications actually work. […]
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There’s no shortage of discussion around AI models and architectures, but far less focus on the underlying infrastructure and data integrity that ultimately determine whether AI can be trusted, audited, and scaled in enterprise environments. In practice, AI is only as dependable as the infrastructure and data pipelines that support it, from data capture through […]
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There’s no shortage of discussion around AI models and architectures, but far less focus on the underlying infrastructure and data integrity that ultimately determine whether AI can be trusted, audited, and scaled in enterprise environments. In practice, AI is only as dependable as the infrastructure and data pipelines that support it, from data capture through […]
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) now sits at the center of business communications. Companies use VoIP to handle calling, messaging, video, analytics, and security within a single system. It supports hybrid work, connects distributed teams, and feeds data into customer and operational workflows. The role of VoIP has expanded into a core part of IT […]
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) now sits at the center of business communications. Companies use VoIP to handle calling, messaging, video, analytics, and security within a single system. It supports hybrid work, connects distributed teams, and feeds data into customer and operational workflows. The role of VoIP has expanded into a core part of IT […]
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Contact centers have moved far beyond their original role as reactive support teams. A modern contact center now influences revenue, customer retention, product feedback loops, and brand perception in real time. IT downtime alone costs an average of $5,600 per minute (Gartner), and 32% of customers will leave a brand after a single bad experience […]
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Contact centers have moved far beyond their original role as reactive support teams. A modern contact center now influences revenue, customer retention, product feedback loops, and brand perception in real time. IT downtime alone costs an average of $5,600 per minute (Gartner), and 32% of customers will leave a brand after a single bad experience […]
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And it’s costing businesses more than they realize. There’s a quiet problem in modern business communications, one that most companies don’t notice until it’s too late. On the surface, everything appears to be working. Teams are collaborating, meetings are running smoothly, and messages are flowing across the organization. From the outside, it looks like the […]
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And it’s costing businesses more than they realize. There’s a quiet problem in modern business communications, one that most companies don’t notice until it’s too late. On the surface, everything appears to be working. Teams are collaborating, meetings are running smoothly, and messages are flowing across the organization. From the outside, it looks like the […]
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Many healthcare organizations still rely on separate systems for phones, scheduling, messaging, and network infrastructure. That setup creates gaps across every interaction. Bundled communications brings these systems together into one managed environment, helping teams operate with more clarity and fewer points of failure. What Bundled Communications Means in Healthcare Bundled communications combines voice, contact center, […]
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Healthcare IT leaders are under pressure to keep systems running at all times. Patient care depends on it. A dropped call or frozen video during a telehealth visit is not just a minor issue. It can disrupt care, delay decisions, and put trust at risk. This is why many organizations are moving away from separate […]
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Growth tends to expose the cracks in technology environments. A phone system lives in one place; networking sits with another provider; security comes from somewhere else. Each piece works, but managing them together becomes a daily exercise in coordination. Partners are seeing this challenge across retail, hospitality, and other multi-location businesses. Instead of solving each […]
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Bundled communications bring voice, networking, security, and infrastructure together into a single, coordinated system. For healthcare providers, this improves call reliability for both patients and staff by reducing downtime, simplifying support, and ensuring every layer works together. When communication systems are unified instead of pieced together, hospitals and clinics can deliver more consistent care, faster […]
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Growth tends to expose the cracks in technology environments. A phone system lives in one place; networking sits with another provider; security comes from somewhere else. Each piece works, but managing them together becomes a daily exercise in coordination. Partners are seeing this challenge across retail, hospitality, and other multi-location businesses. Instead of solving each […]
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A healthcare UCaaS bundle is an integrated healthcare communications platform that combines voice, video, messaging, contact center, managed networks for healthcare providers, and security into one managed solution. It supports hospitals, clinics, and multi-site practices that need secure, reliable communication connected directly to patient systems like EHRs. By consolidating the hospital phone system, managed firewall […]
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Bundled communications for hotel resorts bring together hotel phone systems, managed networks for hotels, security, Wi-Fi, and property integrations into one connected platform. Phones are no longer just devices on a desk. They are unified communications platforms that support voice, messaging, mobile access, and daily operations across the property. When these systems are bundled, resorts […]
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Phone bundles for hotels combine a hospitality phone system, business phone and internet, managed network services, and security into one integrated solution. Instead of managing separate vendors for UCaaS, firewalls, switches, Wi-Fi, and PMS integrations, hotels deploy a unified communications platform designed specifically for multi-property hotel communications. This approach improves uptime, protects payment data, and […]
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Bundled communications providers give hospitality IT teams one place to manage the hotel phone system, messaging, and managed networks for hotels. Instead of working across multiple vendors and platforms, everything operates as one connected hospitality IT solution. This makes it easier to support staff, respond to guest needs faster, and maintain reliable communication across properties. […]
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Your on-premises PBX has been the backbone of your business communications for years — maybe decades. It works… mostly. But somewhere between the last emergency firmware patch, the technician who’s the only person who understands the wiring closet, and the growing list of features your team keeps requesting that your legacy system simply can’t deliver, […]
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Many organizations find that neither pure cloud nor full on-premises unified communications (UC) fits cleanly. Sites have different connectivity reliability, compliance requirements vary by region, and legacy infrastructure rarely gets replaced overnight. Hybrid UCaaS is the UC deployment model chosen by IT teams that need cloud flexibility without giving up local control where it matters. […]
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A hotel UCaaS bundle helps hospitality groups manage guest communications, staff coordination, and property systems across multiple locations from a single platform. By combining a hospitality phone system, managed network for hotels, and PMS integration into one solution, operators can standardize operations while reducing IT overhead. This approach improves reliability, simplifies expansion, and ensures guests […]
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Retail runs on communication. If the phones go down, if the internet drops, if the POS freezes, revenue stops. Phone bundles for retailers combine a business phone system, internet, security, and networking into one managed solution. Instead of stitching together five vendors, you get a single unified communications solution built for how retail actually works. […]
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Nonprofit organizations depend on clear, dependable communication to deliver services, coordinate people, and stay responsive to their communities. When resources are limited, every missed call, delayed message, or unclear handoff carries a real cost. Communication systems in this context are less about adopting new technology and more about keeping daily operations steady, predictable, and manageable. […]
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