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Upcoming Events

Sept. 24th — ShoreTel Lunch and Learn

BTS Technologies proudly welcomes back Mr. Tom Rupp, Regional Sales Representative from ShoreTel. They will discuss VoIP technologies and how businesses can find meaningful productivities from today's VoIP technology. Lunch will be served. Time is from 11:30AM to 1PM. Please RSVP to PeggyJ@askbts.com.

October 15 — 10 Gigabit Networks

Brocade, Formerly Foundry Networks, will discuss the emergence of 10 Gigabit speeds on the network — possibilities and implications.

Seminars and Webinars

BTS Technologies Webinar Training

The following webinars will be offered this quarter:

  • Friday, September 25, 10:00-11:00: The NEC IPK II Phone System
  • Friday, October 9, 10:00-11:00: The NEC IPK Phone System
  • Friday, October 23, 10:00-11:00: InMail Voice Mail for SV8100 and IPK Systems
  • Friday, November 6, 10:00-11:00: ShoreTel Phones and Voice Mail
  • Friday, November 20: 10:00-11:00: ShoreTel Call Manager

If you are interested in attending a webinar, please contact Kim Reynolds at kimr@askbts.com in advance for further information.


New Technologies

Microsoft® Hosted Exchange

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Microsoft's Exchange platform continues to be the platform of choice for enterprise customers seeking a collaborative email solution for their company. High costs of licenses, servers, labor, and the risk associated with in-house hosting makes owning an Exchange Server prohibitive to many organizations.

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Data Recovery Plan — Not just back-up!

Did you know that 80% of companies that lose their data go out of business within one year? Why? Not just because all of them did not save their data. Many do. Rather, they did not have a plan on how to implement that data and restart their business. -Microsoft

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Announcements

Mark Rhodes Named Operations Manager

Servers

BTS is pleased to announce Mark Rhodes has accepted the position of Branch Operations Manager. In the past Mark has worked with BTS as Project Coordinator/Trainer and more recently as Customer Advocate. Mark has also recently received his degree in Business Administration with an Emphasis on Information Systems Management from Amridge University in Montgomery, Alabama. In his new position Mark will assume the day-to-day management of technical operations for the Birmingham office. I know Mark's broad experience in multiple areas of the company coupled with his training will greatly enhance the Operations Department and help fuel our drive for excellent customer satisfaction and continued growth.

— Brian Wakefield, BTS Technologies VP of Operations


NuVox Certifies NEC UNIVERGE SV8100 IP Communications Servers
with SIP Trunking Product

From NEC Unified Solutions

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Greenville, SC – NuVox, a leading communications provider across the Southeast and Midwest, announced today that its VoxIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Trunking product is now compatible with NEC's UNIVERGE SV8100 and UX5000 IP communications servers. NEC passed NuVox's strict certification program to ensure that customers will be able to quickly and easily combine NEC hardware and NuVox's SIP Service. This allows customers to test and certify the interoperability between VoxIP SIP and NEC's UNIVERGE IP communication systems.

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