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3CX Version 20 Upgrade
The upcoming 3CX Version 20 is around the corner. The Voice Team delved into the changes and summarised them for you.
Teams Calling Playbook
The Teams Calling Playbook helps MSPs scope, design, provision, and support Teams Calling with Confidence.
The 3CX Playbook
The Playbook your team needs to scope, design, sell, provision, and support self hosted 3CX.
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48. Unlock your MSP’s value
In this episode, Nathan Hutchison, Executive Coach from Pax8 is here with Brendan to uncover some of the main obstacles MSPs will face in 2023.
illume homescreen
When you log into illume you’ll be greeted by the home screen. Here’s what your illume home screen might look like. From this view you
Cyclone Gabrielle Impact on network connectivity & installations
The devastating weather of the past few days, with the mass power outages, localised flooding, landslips, and road closures caused by the severe wind and
47. Stay Ahead of the Curve: MSP Security Landscape in 2023
Get ready for a fascinating conversation with John Milionis, Head of Channels and Alliances for ANZ at Zscaler! John joins Brendan for a discussion about
3CX Version 18: Update 6 Incoming
Groups 3CX has had the ability to group up users for some time, but Update 6 is supercharging that ability. Previously the group functionality was
46. Profit Growth through Benchmarking and Operational Maturity
Peter Kujawa is the VP, Service Leadership & Technology Service Provider Evangelist with Service Leadership, a Connectwise company. He knows a thing or two about
45. Reviewing the Harvard Business School course
Brendan attended his first course at Harvard Business School last month and gives us his review of the experience in the first episode for 2023.
Teams Calling Configuration & Setup
The blog post gives you an overview of the steps required to successfully configure a Teams instance for use with Lightwire’s SIP services. Teams configuration
How to sell Teams Calling
Teams Phone has its strengths and weaknesses. Whether it is the right fit for your clients is going to come down to cost, functionality, reliability
How 3CX Drives Client Profitability
3CX is a UCaaS platform that drives profitability, and it does that for both you as an MSP and your clients. If the features on
Teams Calling Playbook
The Teams Calling Playbook helps MSPs scope, design, provision, and support Teams Calling with Confidence.
How Teams Calling drives MSP profitability
Digital Transformation is the use of new, fast, and frequently changing digital technology to solve problems. It’s also about making smart choices. Our thinking is
nbn™ Playbook
NBN is Australia’s version of UltraFast Broadband (UFB) and it connects over 11 million premises nationwide. If you’re looking to target internet deals on both sides of the Tasman – you’ll need to understand NBN.
B2B Internet Services in NZ
Guide for Australian telcos & MSPs B2B Internet services in NZ Do you have clients with branch offices in NZ? Are you looking to target trans-Tasman deals? This guide will give you all the detail you need to make procurement easy across the ditch. No forms, no spam, no cold
Teams Calling Playbook
Teams Calling playbook This isn’t a sales doc and you won’t find much in the way of pricing or sales pitches. However, you’ll learn what Teams Calling (also known as Teams Phone); What Teams Calling can and can’t do How to configure the Microsoft Environment How Teams Calling integrates with
The 3CX Playbook
The Playbook your team needs to scope, design, sell, provision, and support self hosted 3CX.
Teams Calling Webinar
Teams Calling Webinar Get to know Teams Calling and learn if it’s something for you and your organisation (or not) in this informal no obligations on-demand webinar. Watch Webinar What’s this webinar about? After watching the Teams Calling webinar below you’ll know all about; Teams Calling (with Direct Routing) Who
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Reporting Features
You can’t add value if you don’t know what’s going on. The reporting features in illume will arm you with real-time and historic data, so you can make informed decisions.
Pulse features
Keep a “pulse” on your Lightwire services with this shareable dashboard that allows you to see the status of all your services in a blink of an eye.
tickets
Create, read, and reply to support tickets right inside of illume. All your support tickets in one organised place – say goodbye to sorting through email chains.
Finance Features
Features to reduce finance and admin overhead as possible for our clients from wholesale rebelling to activity statements – you can find it in illume.
Admin Features
Get alerted on services, set up your account, and create new contacts or edit existing contacts. Here are the basics administrative features of illume.
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3. Cloud transformation with Zack Levy
Zack Levy worked in legal and commercial roles within some of the biggest IT companies going around before buying into, and subsequently running, Strut, an
2. Getting your pricing right, big telco M&A news, and Mike Jenkins
A guide to setting the right price for MSP products/services, we run through who’s buying who in the telco world, and we have the 2nd
1. Growing a business from 2 to 200 in 8 years
In episode 1 of the “Insights as a Service” podcast, we cover key industry news, do a deep dive on the Australian Government backed purchase
3CX Hosting Requirements
There are many ways to approach hosting for 3CX. You can run 3CX on a server in your client’s office, you can run it from
What is 3CX? Breakdown for MSPs
3CX is a unified communications platform, one that can be hosted on-prem or in the cloud, whether that be private or public. 3CX first emerged
The 3CX Playbook
The Playbook your team needs to scope, design, sell, provision, and support self hosted 3CX.
Which voice solution is right for you?
Picking the right voice solution Teams Calling, 3CX Unified Communications, or SIP Trunking are all great products, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Invoice Summary Export Feature
If you need to import your Lightwire invoices into a 3rd party billing or accounting platform, then this invoice summary export feature will make your
Pulse Dashboard
We send an alert to you for any service that is down for more than 5 minutes. The question is, after receiving one of these
Control caller ID with Teams Calling
Caller ID is important for your business. Teams Calling (also known as Teams Phone) can be a little limited in how it handles caller ID.
Teams Calling eBook
You’ll probably be familiar with modern workplace apps like Teams, so we will take it as a given that you know the basics, so we
Master illume Series (Q3 – FY2022)
Drive end user experiences and efficiencies with real time connectivity insights by becoming an illumenated master. Darryl Turner, built most of the platform and will help
COVID update across the carriers
Omicron has had a small impact on fibre carrier workforces across NZ. However, it’s important to keep in mind that the upstream carriers may, for
Hyperfibre Guide
Chorus were the first to announce and release it in 2020, Tuatahi First Fibre (TFF) followed a bit later, Enable launched it in 2021, and
Hyperfibre Tail Extensions
Earlier this month, Chorus NZ Limited announced it was expanding their Bitstream Tail Extension Service (TES) to include Hyperfibre from May 7. Our clients and partners will benefit
