Austen Read-McFarland, Author at Wildix Blog

26 December 202222 December 2022

Wildix in 2022: A Year-End Rundown

It’s getting dark before dinner and all the liquor stores are out of sparkling wine — which can only mean that, at long last, we’ve hit the end of another year.
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21 November 202215 November 2022

FXO vs. FXS: Differences for Telephony Setups

Analog telephony as a whole may be on its way out, but for numerous organizations, it’s still an important part of communications. For many, it’s so important that even when switching to a VoIP network, completely phasing out analog lines or devices simply isn’t an option. In those cases especially, it’s absolutely vital to understand FXO and FXS ports — in particular, the differences between them.

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17 October 202213 October 2022

Monsters of UCaaS (and How to Avoid Them)

It’s a season of frights — of ghouls, goblins and things that go bump in the dark — but for those in the tech sector, certain monsters exist the entire year round.

Yes, certainly there are the common gremlins that keep techies awake at night, and these too are important for anyone in the UCaaS business to know. Ask any IT expert, and they’ll eagerly regale you with bone-chilling tales of glitch-causing ghosts in their machines or of invisible, unspeakable creatures tangling carefully laid cabling.

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10 October 20226 October 2022

Showing Availability: Why Status-Displaying Hardware Assists Remote & Hybrid Work

Meeting with colleagues online has come a long, long way from even a few years ago. The object of meeting online, of course, is to make getting in touch with colleagues remotely just as convenient as in real life. With components like video, we’re getting nearer that status all the time.

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