Apple Announces 27th March Education Event at a High School! What To Expect

Apple Announces 27th March Education Event at a High School! What To Expect

Apple just announced another keynote shortly after their announcement of the WWDC one in June they just announced early today that there's gonna be another one in March on the 27th at 10:00 a.m. this one's taking place at a Lane Tech College Prep high school in Chicago which is a bit unusual because Apple doesn't usually do them there but the whole point of this keynote is education and moving that forward and I'm sure education revolves a lot around budget and models stuff that you can afford when you're a student so we can expect some of that but let's go ahead and talk about what this event is what can we expect there and first let's take a look at that's banner so this is the official image that Apple sent out and actual early.

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Shared Access to Limited Resources

Rather than having a separate line for each phone, a PBX allows a business to share a smaller pool of lines across the entire business.

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What is an IP-PBX

What is an IP-PBX

PBX = Private Branch Exchange

The central switching system for phone calls, video calls, email, fax, instant messaging, conferencing solutions, SMS, and mobile telephony within a business. The PBX handles internal traffic between stations and acts as a gatekeeper to the outside world.

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Advantages of IP PBXs

1.  Single Network 

 •      Easy installation an setup  
 •      Traditional PBXs require their own network and it is quite expensive/time consuming to build a separate telephone network spanning the entire business location(s). With IP Telephony, the Computer Network can be used to carry voice, video, data, and mobility features 

2.  Multiple Office Peering  

•      IP PBXs transmit voice calls over the WAN IP Network

 3. GIGANTIC Cost Savings 

 •      No Long distance with VoIP
 •      Sip Trunking

 4. Much easier System Management  

 •      Web User Interface
 •      Hosted IP PBX (managed by provider)

5. Soft switches 

 •      Some IP PBXs are software that can be run on exisiting computers/servers
 •      Asterisk, Tribox, FreePBX

6. Integration of multiple technologies

 •      Unified Communications (voice, video, data, and mobility
 •      Mobile – softphone use
 •      Fax
 •      CRM software

7. State-of-the-art Security  

 •      Encryption (TLS and SRTP)

8. Scalable  

•      Add more users/extensions as you need them
•      Choose and customize the features you need

 9. SIP!!!  

 •      Open source technology eliminates vendor lock-in

10. SIP Endpoints rock!  

 •      Power of the internet and mobile devices in one

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