It is a mind set that you no longer need any IT staff dedicated to the phones and that's how you make up your savings in not paying the man-power to watch over a system.Ĭlearly you could just as easily host a ShoreTel UC system in a data center and create your own hosted environment or any other IP PBX for that matter. They are the only provider I have seen pushing this with their solution. ShoreTel Sky (hosted) is interesting because they do offer with all of their hosted proposals MPLS so they can gaurantee call quality. Most times you pay additional license fees for things like additional ring groups, hunt groups etc on a monthly basis too. The thing about hosted is that the costs go on indefinitely. Many times the ShoreTel is less expensive within the first 5 years regadless if you add MPLS to your hosted. if you do not provide this your voice conversations are competing with everyone under the sun who is checkin' their email, browsin' the intertubez etc.Īlso, typically when you add up the monthly costs to create a hosted environment with an actualy SLA, it costs far more than premise based solutions like ShoreTel's. You have to have MPLS or some-kind of carrier side QOS from your premise to the hosted PBX providers softswitch or data center to ensure that your voice packets get there with absolute clarity and no packet loss, jitter, delay, dropped calls etc.
Sonicwall or EdgeWater) as your IP traffic leaves to the outside world. When I am out in the field meeting with clients I try to tell them consistently that it does not matter if you are using an edge device that gives your voice priority over your internal traffic (e.g. I'd like to share some of my experience that you are going through. I herd from an engineer previously back when I first contacted RC that it may have to do with RC's new edge server not working. Our fiber isp provides us with Solarwinds Orion to monitor our connection and it doesn't show any spike in traffic around the same time of a phone call dropping packets. On our end all of our switches and hardware firewalls are setup for QOS and BWM. (I've emailed a dozen times or more to the one tech agent who help create the ticket but I haven't herd from him in two weeks). Fast forward a week and not a word from RC support. This week I called in determined to speak to a qos tech but after 105 mins on hold the operating cut in and told me that they won't be able to take my call and that they would call back the following day. We have a ticket with RC QoS team but they have left us high and dry. Recently in the past two weeks other branches have started to report having the same issue. In early March 2013 our main office with 35 phones started having calls cut out for 5 seconds then come back.
We switched our 4 offices over to RingCentral from a old Nortel PBX in November 2012.
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