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Next Generation Telephone: Two Alternative Approaches to Traditional Phone Systems
7:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 10:30am Skype for Business (previously called Lync)
Speaker: Bob Williams, Director - Solutions Specialist – Unified Communications, Microsoft
Review of Skype for Business feature set – IM/P, Conferencing, VoIP
Architecture / Onsite / Hybrid / Cloud
Cloud PBX
PSTN Calling Plans
10:30am - 10:40am Break
10:40am - 12:00pm Researching, testing and piloting a new phone system
Speakers:
Ed Kohler, Networks & Systems Engineer, Siena College
Paul Sacchetti, Assistant Networks & Systems Engineer, Siena College
Angelo Santabarbara, Director Networks & Systems, Siena College
Detailed overview of how we got here, systems demoed, proof of concept and piloting FreePBX. We will cover experience with general system capabilities, production system planning and implementation, integration with Legacy ROLM System, and hard/soft phone testing and selection.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:45pm Implementing FreePBX Lessons Learned
Speakers:
Ed Kohler, Networks & Systems Engineer, Siena College
Paul Sacchetti, Assistant Networks & Systems Engineer, Siena College
Angelo Santabarbara, Director Networks & Systems, Siena College
In this session we cover our implementation strategies, redundancy planning and experience, distributed workload, security concerns, analog line support, faxing, and user buy-in. FreePBX hands on demo.
2:45pm - 3:30pm Group Activity
Questions and answers, general discussion.
3:30pm End