ATS Communications and FreedomVOICE Announce Strategic Partnership

ATS Communications, a very well established hosted voice & data solution provider, is pleased to announce our partnership with FreedomVOICE. FreedomVoice offers the latest in intelligent hosted telephony solutions available in the industry further broadening ATS's scope of being your Complete Voice and Data Partner. The strategic partnership is a perfect fit for both companies. ATS's solid reputation as a leading technology provider and FreedomVOICE's cost effective power technology will make a tremendous impact for the SMB market in Northern California and across the United States. FreedomVOICE's hosted VoIP PBX product, FreedomIQ, offers companies industry leading voice quality, impressive cost savings, valuable disaster recovery tools and has become vital for remote workers. The product is already making waves by being named "Product of the Year" in Unified Communications magazine in 2008. President/CEO of ATS Communications, John Zeller, had this to say about FreedomVOICE's hosted solution,"We've been interested in the FreedomIQ hosted VoIP PBX since day one," says Mr. John Zeller, President/CEO of ATS Communications. "Hosted VoIP phone systems are being adopted by business owners at an increasing rate, and FreedomIQ is a top product option for this segment. We were interested in the Freedom IQ system for many reasons, but at its core, it is a reliable, high quality product. Our customers count on us to establish partnerships with exceptional organizations, and we're thrilled to be working with the team at FreedomVOICE."

Read more about the strategic partnership between ATS and FreedomVOICE.

Converged Technology Utilizing SIP Trunks and Toshiba

Brian Metherell, Vice President and GM of Toshiba America Information Systems recently shared his expertise on the future of VoIP services which includes SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Trunking technology in a recent interview with one of the nations biggest IT marketing corporations, TMC.net.

During the interview, Brian was asked about his up and coming educational seminar which will be held at ITEXPO West October 2010. Brain made it clear his goal was to focus on why SMB markets will benefit from implement SIP Trunking. Major benefits include a high quality of service at a reduced cost to the SMB market. Brian also touched on the multiple deployment scenarios, flexibility and cost savings of SIP Trunking technology when equipped with certified Toshiba PBX equipment.

When asked to make a bold prediction for 2011, Brian confidently asserted that the U.S. market growth of SIP trunks will continue to accelerate beyond the level of growth for any other telecom carrier service, even within the SMB space. Today's great packaged pricing of high-speed internet services allows a stable back bone for voice to carry on the bandwidth, which will ultimately lower cost to the end user. To learn more about how SIP Trunking can benefit your company, please contact your VoIP experts at ATS Communications by dialing 1(800) 995-4287 option 2.

Best Practice for Disaster Recovery/Prevention

Can your business survive a disaster? Recent studies indicate that 43% of business won't, and only 1 in 10 will last longer than 2 years.

How can you keep your phones ringing immediately following a disaster? A handful of analog lines are no longer sufficient.

ATS has a Disaster Prevention Plan for the SMB market that will that will replicate your phone system infrastructure after a catastrophe. Hosted Cloud Telephony by FreedomVoice gives you the benefits of high performance, redundant servers protected offsite which allows this uninterrupted service. Reroute calls to your home office, mirror extensions or utilize cell phones as desktop phones. FreedomVoice delivers the flexibility you need after any disaster. It's time to start taking action and move away from the costly and ineffective analog back up solutions. To learn more on how this solution will protect your business, join our Disaster Recovery/Prevention webinar. You can sign up using our webinar calendar. Our first webinar will be held Friday October 22. See you there

Fall Checklist

Fall is here. Soon our sky will surrender to the damaging cold and wet weather of the new season. ATS Communications would like to point out some key measures to consider before this inevitable weather. Below is a system checklist to ensure your phone system is protected through the fall and winter.

• Phone System Battery Backup - How old is your battery back up? ATS recommends that you replace your phone systems battery back up every two years to ensure your system is up and running hours after a power failure. Request a battery replacement and receive a 10% discount of the unit price!
• Power Protection - Power spikes and brown outs are very damaging to a phone system. The sudden disruption during outages can potentially damage multiple components of the phone system. By equipping your phone system with a proper power protection unit, crippling power spikes to the PBX will no longer occur. Request this service and receive a 10% discount.
• Back up Programming - A tremendous amount of hours are invested when programming a phone system and as business needs change, the programming of the phone system changes to match new needs. Extensions, mailboxes, and how your calls are being routed are just some of the programming changes that typically take place throughout the year. Protect this investment by making proper backup precautions for your PBX or the system can potentially lose all programming due to a minor failure or catastrophic loss. ATS Communications highly recommends installing a Back up Programming solution for your PBX. Setup is very quick and easy.
  Contact an ATS Service representative today at (925) 602-1500 or email Service@ATSCommunications.com

ATS Communications highly recommends you consider this checklist before entering the new season. Wondering the age of your current battery backup? Uncertain if there is a power protection unit equipped on your phone system? Please direct your questions to your dedicated Customer Advocate, Chris Hardcastle, at (925) 363-2457 or send him an email at Christopher.Hardcastle@ATSCommunications.com for all the answers.

uMobility Now Supported on Android and Blackberry Cellular Devices!

Toshiba is enthusiastic to announce their support of their award winning uMobility solution for Android and Blackberry mobile devices. Toshiba's uMobility is now capable of running on all the industry leading mobile devices, which also includes iPhone and Windows Mobile. Toshiba's uMobility solution allows cellular users to make and receive calls as an extension on the Toshiba Strata CIX phone system. UMobility users also have all the core features of a full fledged PBX system which includes Call Transfer, Call Hold, Speed Dial and Voice Mail Access.

Continue conversations which start inside the office and end while on the road. The smooth transition of calls being carried between LAN, WiFi and Cellular networks ensures constant connectivity, alleviating dropped calls. This solution is perfect for road warriors and a fast paced working environment. "UMobility provides a compelling proposition for enterprises to achieve a cost optimization and better accessibility for its mobile users, resulting in improved business efficiency and effectiveness of the organization" (Strata CIX Bulletin). For more information about Toshiba's uMobility, please contact your dedicated sales team at
1-800-995-4287 option 2.