UCaaS and the Cloud

We have covered the three major benefits of moving to the Cloud before, but let’s examine two of those benefits again to better understand UCaaS. United Communications as a Service (UCaaS) takes many forms of communication and bundles them all together. This technology is Cloud-based and it utilizes the Cloud’s high availability and lower costs, especially when compared to older forms of communications.

All Services in One Place

UCaaS offers a myriad of communication services all in one place. Think of it as one provider, one monthly subscription fee, one platform, and all the services provided. Back in the 2000s bandwidth was sparse and most groups were only selling one communication product. Now, with the Cloud’s HA, multiple devices can be working at the same time with even back up switches available to pick up calls in case of failure. The ease and efficiency that comes from operating multiple queues, voice mailboxes, and video conferences all at the same time can not be stressed enough.

“UCaaS offers one provider, one monthly subscription fee, one platform and all services provided.”

Better Costs Saving

UCaaS also brings about lower costs in its one monthly subscription fee. Older, Cloud-less models had very high to maintain costs. POTS lines for example needed to have as many phone lines as there were phones and each line cost about $80 to maintain, and only had a shelf life of 6 to 7 years.

Despite almost every communication service being wrapped up in UCaaS, the price is only a monthly subscription fee. Before there was no way that small companies could ever have enough capital to maintain such a feature-rich service. With UCaaS a 15-man operation can tap into this large corporate communications array. All the bells and whistles that any sized company needs to succeed are now affordable with the Cloud-based UCaaS.

For further questions cornering UCaaS, the Cloud, and how your business can leverage these technologies, reach out to Conectrix today.