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Comcast Corporation has announced the Comcast Business VoiceEdge, a cloud-based voice and unified communications solution managed over Comcast's network. With Business VoiceEdge, there's no need for expensive on-site equipment, while high service quality and customer experience, HD voice service, and a full suite of UC features are provided at a single monthly cost.
Business VoiceEdge gives customers a solution with unlimited nationwide calling, HD audio, and advanced unified communications and mobility features, along with Polycom phones at no additional cost. Included in its features are voicemail-to-email features, a telephony toolbar, multi-location simplicity and commonality, and more.
"Comcast's announcement reflects the communications services movement into UC-enabled applications," says Arthur Rosenberg, UC Expert for UCStrategies. "In this case, Comcast is targeting the SMB market and current customers, who are less likely to be concerned with legacy telephone system investments and want to become both more flexible with location-independent voice call management and messaging, as well as less dependent on costly premise-based equipment and internal IT support staffing. The cloud-based Business VoiceEdge service even provides a key UC integration capability to contextually initiate a phone call with click-to-call. While the new service enables voicemail messages to be retrieved from an email mailbox, they don't (yet) convert those voice messages for more efficient retrieval as text messages."
Rosenberg adds, "Needless to say, the SMB market is huge and offers great opportunities to expand basic IP telephony services into other cloud-based business applications for both internal users as well as external customers and business partners. So as a simple but cost-efficient first step towards UC, this offering is similar to other network service provider offerings that open the door for any size organization to start a cost effective migration to all the potentials of UC-enabled business communications."
Business VoiceEdge is available now in Michigan. It will be made available nationwide near the end of 2012.
For more information, visit http://business.comcast.com.