With well over 80 Years of Combined Experience directly related to Business Telephone Systems and Solutions, our intent is to provide a resource that will be both informative and educational on all matters pertaining to Telecommunications which may benefit the small to medium size business environment. We encourage readers to contact us directly for questions, additional information, OR, looking to resolve or implement a unique Business Telephone Solution using Traditional Premised based PBX or the latest in Voice Over IP (VoIP) and Cloud Based Solutions to help keep your business running smoothly for remote workers or roaming sales teams using Cell Phone Apps for Mobility Solutions. We help you Connect Anytime, Anywhere with AnyOne!
Phone Bills out of control? Actual Case Study, Time for a review?
Phone Bills out of control? We recently had a customer from the California Bay Area, who's Phone Bills were out of control, to ask about a solution for the Business Telephone System with some specific Analog integration needs as well as just simply answering the...
It’s been a while, a Newsletter from Power 3!
At Power 3 we've been keeping busy helping customers setup some or all of their employees so they can work from home. The Telecom Industry has changed and Power 3 is leading the way. Our Staff has the experience to isolate and resolve issues quickly as well as...
Care to Take a SIP?
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking is Voice over IP application which provides access to the public phone network over an internet connection. Companies that offer this service are known as Internet Telephony Service Providers, and SIP trunking offers a number...
Hosted VoIP, Considerations and Comments
Nextiva, Ring Central, Vonage, 8X8 ? Perhaps these names are familiar to you or perhaps not. They all happen to be providers of hosted VoIP phone systems and have many things in common that should be of interest to anyone considering a new telephone system. Our...
Case Study: Benefits of a Hybrid Telephone System Architecture
Power 3 was recently awarded a contract for an integrated telecommunications system for a town in Massachusetts. The project involves replacing the telephone systems at five of the town's municipal buildings and four public schools. The key requirement was that the...
Case Study: Voice over IP in Action!
We have discussed Voice over IP applications in general terms in previous blogs. I had a meeting with an existing customer a couple of weeks back which I have decided to share as it illustrates the "real life " benefits VoIP technology provides. The main purpose of...
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) consists of a number of applications based upon integrating an office's telephone system with the computer network. CTI apps are designed to enhance organizational efficiency and productivity (an informational note to address a...
Unified Messaging
Unified Messaging (UM) is a great application with a very straight forward description: It provides the integration of different electronic messaging and communications media (e-mail, voicemail and fax) technologies into a single interface, the email inbox, and makes...
VoIP Network Assesment
Our last post made reference to the topic of network assessment when contrasting premise based telephone systems with hosted Voice over IP solutions. Conducting a network assessment is also important when deploying IP telephone sets with a premise based phone system...
Premise Based System or Hosted Voice over IP?
Most every organization in the market for a new telephone system has a choice: a premise based system or Hosted Voice over IP (VoIP). With Hosted VoIP, there is a monthly fee per user, the telephones are all IP handsets and all telephone traffic travels over an...
