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Breaking down the technologies, terminologies and acroyms across telecommunications.

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What are Inbound Numbers?

Inbound Voice is a cloud-based telephony service for both geographic and non-geographic numbers that provides online access to a full range of call routing

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What is digital infrastructure?

| 15 min read What is digital infrastructure? How a flexible, secure and intelligent foundation can make the difference to your business. Check your connectivity What is digital infrastructure? Digital infrastructure is the foundation of any connected business. It enables success, powers transformation and connects people around the world. It includes connectivity, cloud, compute, security,…

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What are APIs

Get the lowdown on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) The ABCs of APIs There’s been plenty of talk and interest in APIs over the past few years, with them becoming more prevalent in our day-to-day lives as well in the business world. At Colt we use APIs across our voice and network portfolio, to increase automation…

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What is UCaaS?

In this guide, we’ll break down the implementations for UCaaS and CCaaS, their strengths, weaknesses and how you can integrate this critical functionality into your organisation. UCaaS vs CCaaS UCaaS and CCaas have many similarities which can cause confusion, but each of them are here to serve different purposes. UCaas focuses on delivering streamlined internal…

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What is SDN?

With recent exponential growth of network demand with the rise of multimedia on demand content, cloud computing and increasing mobile usage – businesses have been facing increasing pressure to reduce costs & maintain capacity to keep in line with customer demand. In this guide, we aim to break down the compontents, advantages & industry implications of moving to SDN.

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What is Hybrid Cloud?

Hybrid cloud is rapidly becoming the cloud model of choice for organisations seeking the best of all worlds. But if a hybrid or multi-cloud deployment is not supported by the right connectivity, then a poor experience can result and expected dividends fail to materialise.

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What is Universal CPE?

uCPE (or Universal Customer Premise equipment), is a general purpose platform that integrates compute, storage and networking on a commodity, off-the-shelf server, allowing it to provide network services (such as SD WAN, firewall etc.) as virtual functions to any site on a network. uCPE is the equivalent of a “Cloud for network services”, but at the customer premise.

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