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SD WAN, We can

With Colt’s award winning products and services, you can. Enterprise users are demanding connectivity services that can be delivered as quickly and flexibly…

The On Demand business: leading the way to a new digital world

Did you know? By 2020 the analyst firm IDC predicts that 67 per cent of all enterprise IT infrastructure and software spending will be on cloud-based…

Revolutionising the enterprise with Voice on Demand

The importance of voice is increasing as the most important medium for dealing with the most complicated and potentially most business-critical…

Data centre integration and federation for media

As media businesses mature into ‘viral’ services, they must adapt to audience demands or risk having customers quickly abandon their offerings for other, higher performing alternatives…

Unlocking constraints of traditional telephony

Voice adds value and is still the most efficient and intuitive method of communication. Voice capabilities exist within many enterprise business applications, while IP telephony has many cost and management advantages.
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Is VoIP replacing analogue voice networks?

Business has changed. What we expect, what customers expect and what employees expect has been altered. VoIP is transforming the way businesses interact, breaking down technological silos and creating new opportunities in communication…

SIP Trunking lets businesses save on voice costs

Gartner & Forrester show enterprises can reduce their monthly telecommunications costs by migrating from traditional ISDN services to SIP Trunking…

Five new concerns when choosing a WAN

In this white paper we highlight some of the criteria and developments you should include in any requirement documents you are producing, including essential criteria for WAN design and significant WAN developments driving change.

The right communication for your business

Voice services can no longer be considered a commodity. You have to be sure that your voice service supports and underpins your business as we all go through the massive changes the digital economy will bring.

Liquid infrastructure: Transformation innovation

Just as collaborative culture requires flexibility in the deployment of new tools, as teams grow (and shrink) dynamically, the same is true of networking requirements between sites. Businesses need to be able to flex their bandwidth accordingly.

Lessons learned from cloud computing

Current networks are not designed to meet the challenges of digital transformation–supplied as long lead-time, fixed bandwidth circuits with expensive, long-term contracts. But enterprises need a ‘liquid infrastructure’.

The public internet isn’t your WAN

Most digital transformation initiatives are doomed from the start. Why? The network won’t be good enough to support them.

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