Month: August 2016

Selecting the right PBX for your business can be both daunting and complicated. So we have put together a few important aspects you need to remember when deciding which Virtual PBX or PBX system to purchase. Recent studies have shown that there has been a drastic increase in the number of Virtual PBX’s purchased and […]

ECN Head Office in Midrand ECN, being one of the fastest growing businesses in the Reunert group, got the go ahead to move into new premises earlier this year. There was great care taken to ensure that each and every aspect of the new office was exactly aligned to the vision and aesthetic flow that […]

Any business looking to expand will need to adapt to the ever-growing demand of accessibility and mobility. Customers want to be provided with uninterrupted access to services, and businesses that don’t keep up, simply don’t last. The implementation of a Virtual PBX system and VoIP is the perfect solution, efficiently connecting company and customer in […]

There is no doubt that Virtual PBX systems are reliable and cost effective in the long run. Globally the PBX market is worth $40 billion (Eastern Management Group) and this is set to increase as Virtual PBX and open source options become more prevalent. So what are the signs that Virtual PBX systems are here […]

1. Moving from PSTN to VoIP Recently studies have shown that most telecommunications companies themselves are switching over from PSTN to VoIP. Why? Because it is ten times cheaper to power a VoIP data centre than a room of TDM switches. It goes without saying then that a VoIP system will be ten times cheaper to […]

There seems to be a lot of confusion around what a PABX is, what a PBX is and the difference between the two. Well there is no difference. A PABX is a Private Automatic Branch Exchange and a PBX is a Private Business eXchange. Both serve the same purpose and that is as a telephone […]

ECN, one of the largest next generation telecommunications providers in South Africa, was proud to sponsor the 2015 Best Computer Science Honours Project. The title, bestowed by the Computer Science and Applied Maths Department at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, was given to Wade Pimenta for his ingenious project titled Speech Capabilities on a TurtleBot […]