1. Unified Communications UCaaS
Unified Communications – when delivered form the Cloud is as also know as UCaaS – Unified Communications as a Service

2. Evolution of Communications to UCaaS
Where are you on the this evolution path? Moving Voice & Collaboration to the cloud have enabled mobile and remote workers to gain the same rich features as their co-workers in offices, an consolidating voice & collaboration has further increased the productivity while reducing costs.

3. Business Drivers for UCaaS
Key takeaway: Cloud communications help address IT managers’ top priorities of improving productivity, reducing costs, staying ahead of the curve and improving the customer experience.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, Primary Drivers of IT Investment – Percent of Somewhat/Very Important Responses, North America, 2014
Q6 What are the primary drivers for IT investment? Please rate the importance of each driver below. (Top: two-box scores)

4. Business Drivers for Conferencing
Workplace changes: 60% workers will hold remote working compatible jobs by 20211
Workforce changes: Millennials now account for largest segment of workforce2 with over 25% in management positions3 – prefer web and video conferencing instead of audio
Accessibility: 68% of adults have smartphones and 45% have tablets4 – driving demand for video
Technology advances: Ease of use, improved user experience and elimination of CAPEX
Driving shift from on premises conferencing infrastructure to hosted/cloud conferencing solutions
1 Frost & Sullivan: NA Conferencing Services Market, September 2015
2US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Labor Force Projections to 2024, December Forbes, 10 Workplace Trends You’ll See in 2016, Dan Schawbel, November 2015
4PEW Research: Technology Device Ownership: 2015

5. Is Your network ready to support UCaaS
Why Settle for Best Effort when you can have the Best with SD-WAN?
SD-WAN delivers:
Priority: avoid congestions and add failover protection
Visibility: real-time metrics to view performance
Control: centrally manage and deploy routing policies
Quality: forward error correction and jitter buffering
Reliability: 100% availability SLA for network
Integration: single management tool for UCaaS & network
Your UC services are only as good as the underlying network. With a dedicated EarthLink MPLS, Internet or SD-WAN, you get the best performance.

6. Key Features: EarthLink Meeting Room™
Collaboration Services
Instantaneous audio, video & web conferencing with chat
Desktop, application and document sharing 1
Mobility
Ad hoc and scheduled meetings integrated with MS Outlook
Initiate and join meetings from smartphones, tablets or desktops 2
Collaboration Tools
Record, download, store and playback meetings
Annotate – enabling attendees to add notes to document 3
Security 4
Encrypted with TLS and AES 256
Password protected sessions
Listed here are the six key features of EarthLink Meeting Room and the benefits delivered.
Integrated with Hosted Voice & MS Outlook for seamless experience
Mobile Communicator enables collaboration via smartphones, tablets and PCs
HV Integration 5
Cloud Based 6
No CAPEX or maintenance costs
Rapid deployment and no obsolescence

7. Why Unified Communications?
Increase Productivity
Stay Ahead of the Competition
Reduce Costs
Increase Productivity: Quickly unite people with simple to use collaboration and communications tools for a seamless experience from any location or device.
Stay ahead of the competition: Collaborate and share knowledge though an integrated audio, video and web conferencing for faster innovation and speed to market on new services.
Reduce Costs: Eliminate the cost and complexity of purchasing, maintaining and upgrading separate phone and collaboration systems

8. Why EarthLink for Unified Communications
Integrated Cloud-based Voice, Collaboration & Contact Center
Mobile Office integration with smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs
Analog voice - keep your phones – get cloud services
Unlimited LD for telephony
Unlimited meetings for conferencing
EarthLink Network - Connectivity flexibility
SD-WAN, MPLS, Internet, BYOB
SD-WAN visibility, performance & 100% service availability SLA*
* See SLA for full details

9. EarthLink Unified Communications
EarthLink Hosted Voice state-of-the-art, full featured phone system. EarthLink Meeting Room™ audio, video and web conferencing for all workers – office, remote and mobile Hosted Contact Center Connect with your customers via , chat, web, phone, or social media.
Hosted Voice sits on our network which delivers high performance and security.
Connect your offices directly to the EarthLink MPLS, Internet or SD-WAN.
Mobile Communicator enables your road warriors to connect to your voice network with any device via WiFi – either your private WiFi or public WiFi or though their cellular carrier. Regardless of the connection, the experience is the same as on the desk phone.

10. Ready to Experience Unified Communications and EarthLink Meeting Room?
Let an EarthLink Solution Engineers show you a demo.
Or schedule a Risk Free trial for 30 days.
We’ll provide the IP phones with all features including a phone number, E911 services voic , outbound domestic calling and access to the EarthLink Meeting Room conferencing applications.
You’ll get administrator and end user access to EarthLink CommPortal to set up your services. And telephone support to assist with installation.
You’ll need to provide the Internet Access connection and related infrastructure. (router, firewall & switch).
Your only obligation is to sign a trial agreement which requires you to return the IP phones at conclusion of the trial.