Editorial

In this March 24, 2022 podcast, Christian Stredicke, CEO of Vodia, discusses the company's use of WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) to enhance business communication systems. WebRTC enables voice and video directly through browsers, solving interoperability issues common in VoIP. Christian highlights the flexibility of Vodia’s cloud phone systems, allowing seamless communication between various devices, including browsers, desktop phones, and SIP trunks. WebRTC's secure, low-latency environment is essential for improving user experience, and Christian sees it as a game-changer for future communications.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how businesses operate, particularly those already using cloud-based VoIP systems. IoT connects physical objects—anything from industrial tools to home appliances—via the internet, allowing seamless data exchange. Integrated with VoIP, IoT brings automation, asset management, remote security control, and workflow improvements. For businesses, it enhances flexibility, enabling employees to access office systems from anywhere while optimizing security. This fusion helps organizations achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, and adaptability, contributing to digital transformation in industries like agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation.

Announcement

Vodia’s feature-rich cloud phone system has been HIPAA-compliant since 2020. We give you a full suite of robust business telephony tools, including auto attendant, SMS, paging, separation of personal and work calls, conference calls, call recording, CRM integration and Microsoft Teams integration. You can move your phone system to the cloud without having to duplicate your IT infrastructure. We partner with managed service providers (“MSP”) across the USA who specialize in providing our cloud phone system to companies and organizations in healthcare – they know exactly what you need, and they know how to install it, deploy it and maintain it for you.

Editorial

Remote and hybrid work have become a lasting feature of the post-pandemic workplace, with major companies like Citigroup and Google opting for flexible models rather than mandating full-time office returns. This shift presents challenges for cities like New York, where commuter activity once fueled the economy. Mayor Eric Adams has emphasized the importance of office workers in supporting local businesses. With many workers favoring remote options, businesses must adapt by using tools like the Vodia cloud phone system, which supports dispersed teams while reducing telephony costs by up to 80%. Find out how to get your phone registered.

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Based in Stoneham, MA, northwest of Boston, Microsoft Gold Partner and the U.S. home of anynode SBC, IT pioneer TE-SYSTEMS has been on a mission for three decades “to globally connect all devices while enabling unified ways of sharing data, information and making it accessible to everyone.”

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As of 2 August 2022, this summer, telecom services providers will forever retire POTS lines, per the FCC, and their customers will have to find another type of service. In August 2019, the FCC issued order 19-72A1, mandating the replacement of all U.S. POTS lines with an alternative service by August 2, 2022.

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SIP HARMONY is a business and residential VoIP provider. The company provides VoIP services to businesses, residences, schools, hotels and Airbnb’s, giving every one of its customers telephone systems that bring together standard SIP devices and services with proprietary clients for standard mobile and PC clients. And they do it all with TLC.

Editorial

Fallout from COVID-19? The landscape hasn’t just changed, it’s almost as if it’s been dynamited and reconstructed, and dispersed teams, necessitated by the virus, are becoming the norm. Like it or not we are now in the hybrid work era, and the term “everywhere enterprise” seems to apply to almost every business and organization. The digital transformation, accelerated by the pandemic, seems to continue apace with no signs of slowing down.

Announcement

Vodia Networks (“Vodia”), maker of cutting-edge software-based telephone systems, is pleased to announce it will host a joint webinar with anynode, a software-based Session Border Controller (SBC) that enables multiple SIP-Endpoints to communicate with one another seamlessly. Vodia announced the interoperability of its best-in-class cloud PBX with the anynode configuration wizard on December 9, 2021.