Cloud Computing: When Enterprises Become Carriers

Grazed from Wired. Author: Hugh Goldstein.

Communication is a critical function for any business. Listening to customers. Negotiating with suppliers. Collaborating with teams and partners. Without it, no business can thrive or survive. In the past, businesses of all sizes were dependent on carriers for all of these services. According to Standard & Poor’s 2013 Global Sales Report, 46 percent of the S&P 500 business occurs outside of the United States, which is up from 42 percent ten years earlier.

Accordingly, telecommunications requirements are more global than ever before. Connecting these international and disparate company footholds has required a complicated and often expensive combination of voice and data carrier expertise. But the long promised convergence of voice and data networks has enabled savings as IT and Telecom requirements and functions merged into an increasingly common set of products, services and skills…

Today, the end of the PSTN and obsolescence of the Hardware PBX is clearly on the horizon, and it’s a reality that must be addressed…

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