Xtel Communications adds a full suite of Ethernet services

October 8, MARLTON, N.J., / podcasts / - Xtel Communications announced today that is now offering complete Ethernet services to your customers.

"This will enable our wholesalers offer the benefits of Ethernet services to its clientele, expand their own brand and provide them with a new system for the distribution of income," said Brian Flynn, Vice President of communications of Xtel based Marlton, N.J..

Ethernet services have proven to be a viable and necessary option for businesses who require performance, reliability and scalability of your connection to the Internet, according to Flynn. 

One of the common benefits but often overlooked services Ethernet is the cost-effectiveness that helps everyone, background line said.

Most of the Ethernet interfaces are generally cheaper, and often costs to operate them is lower because equipment, service and operational costs are much more modest, explained Flynn.Flynn said that "customers also can increase your bandwidth incrementally,"."This is a huge benefit for companies because it can now pay for what they need and what they still can easily increase your bandwidth as they grow."

Xtel leverages its dense network footprint to provide Ethernet over copper (Eoc), Ethernet over Sonet (EoS) and services Metro Ethernet in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. markets.Ethernet services the Xtel congratulations other well established services, including VoIP, SIP Trunks and traditional voice services.

"" Due to its extensive network Xtel is positioned to meet the growing demand for wholesale customers, Ethernet services,"said Flynn.""Today, wholesale customers and their customers require more bandwidth that a DS1 or viable DS3 can provide, and more reliability and network cable options or residential fiber connections can brindar.Ethernet meets this need well."

For more information about how to save money on their telecommunications services, please contact Brian Flynn directly at (800) 438-9835 or visit xtel.net.

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Telesphere: Communications as a Service For MSPs?

Every now and then, MSPmentor gets an early tip from our readers about a company doing something really interesting in the service provider space. Enter Telesphere, which is developing a hosted PBX voice over IP (VoIP) offering for the MSP space. Here’s the lowdown on Telesphere.

Like other cloud internet telephony services, Telesphere says their business advantage is in taking the “brains” out of the phone closet and into a managed data facility where engineers watch over your phone system 24 x 7.
And with the “Telesphere Complete” service, the company will even provide the equipment and maintenance for a flat fee. And in the event of power loss at the local site, Telesphere keeps voicemail working and will reroute calls to customer-specified numbers.

Normally, I worry about oversaturation in SaaS and business services markets – everyone down to local telecoms are building hosted telephone services for the channel and otherwise. But I have a hunch that many enterprises value locality when it comes to their phone service, putting the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Telesphere in a good position in its market.

The only thing I’m left wondering is how pure voice hosted deployments can stack up against the kind of unified communications that Microsoft is pushing in the channel.

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Unified Communications and Hosted VoIP for Business

Unified communications (UC) has become a popular term used to describe the vast family of technologies and organizational practices used to streamline communication. These include different processes such as phone conversations, email, video and Web conferencing, instant messaging (IM), voicemail, fax, and SMS messages.
Hosted VoIP allows employees to instantly access and reply to messages anywhere from any type of compatible device, making VoIP an important component of unified communications. This reduces response time, making every facet of your company run more efficiently. VoIP can be used for both internal and external phone based communications, and be combined with voicemail options that can be retrieved via PC browser or mobile device.
Hosted VoIP ushered in the era of the true telecommuting worker, reducing costs of setting up work-from-home employees by allowing them to tap into the company PBX. There is no loss of effectiveness, and overhead expenses can be reduced significantly in terms of office space and equipment.
Unified communications can be implemented in some way in nearly every structured situation. Even with limited budgets, there are things you can do to streamline your operation. From large companies to small businesses, non-profits to grass root campaigns, utilizing VoIP and leveraging other types of technology to facilitate real time communication can make any organization work more efficiently and effectively.
UC strategies allow you to be ‘present’ even when you’re physically somewhere else. You can provide real time input and conference with colleagues throughout the day no matter what your physical location is. This ‘telepresence’ can be invaluable during times of crisis when you need to ‘be’ several places at once.
UC is also a valuable tool when you have several branches to your office and need team members to be able to communicate quickly and effectively. Mobile technology lets one team member access messages from home or on the road, while another team member is at their desk in a different time zone. This versatility makes it easier for employees with varying schedules to work together.

While many view unified communications as a collection of hard and software solutions that can be mixed and matched to suit the needs of their company, the term is also used to refer to best practices. Hosted VoIP can make everyone’s workday a little easier, but the concept of real time communication goes beyond the actual nuts and bolts and concerns how you run your business.

Take a look at what modes of communication your employees already use both in-office and with customers (email, voicemail, phone) and how closely they stay connected to the office when away from their desk (mobile devices, home phones connected to the office VoIP system, fax). This will help you determine exactly how to unify your own communications to work in the most cost effective and productive manner possible.
Saiju is a unified communications and business software expert specializing in hosted business VoIP services and hosted PBX implementations.


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