Darin Rohead

RingCentral: starting the year strong. • Total revenue of $612M up 5% YoY, that's the high end of guidance. • Small biz ARR up double digits in Q1. • Delivered GAAP operating profitability for the 3rd consec quarter. • Total revenue growth for CY25 expected at 4%-6% YoY.

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You don’t want a banana peel. You want Bullet Bill. When your business drops to 12th place—your primary internet fails, apps disconnect, transactions stall—you don’t need a slight edge. You need something that puts you back in the race fast. To be clear, we didn’t invent failover.  We just made it stop breaking everything. Most legacy setups—BGP, dual-WAN, LTE backups—switch you over, but drop everything in the process. Your VPN disconnects, your customers time out, and your systems scramble to catch up. This new piece breaks down why traditional failover no longer works in a cloud-first, always-on world—and how Static IP Anywhere (SIPA) gives you the modern equivalent of Bullet Bill:  Session-stable, ISP-agnostic, sub-second failover that just keeps going. If your backup knocks you offline, it’s not resilience—it’s regression. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ekyvyNMj

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Why is it so challenging to respond to the timeless question CFOs pose, "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?" 🤔 Complicated billing frameworks and cost modeling contribute to the difficulty. Lauren Basile teams up with Phillip Gervasi to explore how network telemetry can be transformed into financial insight in the latest episode of Telemetry Now. Listen to the entire podcast here:

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DigiDoc, Inc. dba PS2G Expands Government Offerings with GSA MAS Award for Key Special Item Numbers (SINs) DigiDoc, Inc. dba Public Sector Solutions Group (PS2G) is proud to announce that it has secured multiple Special Item Numbers (SINs) under its GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract, enabling federal, state, and local government agencies to procure specialized IT and records management solutions quickly and efficiently.

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Launching an MVNO used to take 6 months. Now it takes 30 days. Before: • 8-12 weeks negotiating carrier agreements • 6-8 weeks for custom billing integration • 4-6 weeks for provisioning setup • 2-4 weeks for testing • Add another month for delays Now: • Pre-negotiated wholesale agreements • Cloud-native platforms with zero custom integration • API-first architecture (provisioning in days) • Built-in compliance From building custom systems to deploying unified platforms. It matters because speed is a competitive advantage. Launch in 30 days → test your market, learn what works, iterate quickly. Launch in 6 months → you're betting everything on a single untested strategy. The operators winning aren't the ones with the most resources. They're the ones moving fastest.

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Most CIOs juggle 3+ phone platforms. I run them all through one brain…UponAI. In my world, single-platform purity is rare. Real companies grow by merger, region, and vendor. Result: One team on UCaaS A. Another on UCaaS B. A contact center on a third CCaaS stack. As founder of StratusDial, I learned early that forcing everyone onto one phone system creates risk. Vendor outage. Contract fight. Feature gap. Buy / Sells. Equity Investors. When all calls live on one platform, one bad day can shut a business down. So we built StratusDial around a different model: Risk mitigation! No emotion, just strategy. Multi-platform UCaaS and CCaaS for resilience and choice. Then I added one simple rule from UponAI: Many phone systems, one AI brain. Here is how it works in practice: 1. StratusDial supports multiple call platforms for one client → UCaaS from multiple suppliers → CCaaS in a remote center → A legacy PBX still in place in one branch 2. UponAI connects to all of them through flexible SIP → SIP trunk, for whole-system connection → SIP endpoint as a dedicated AI extension → SIP URI for routing only certain calls 3. The AI voice agent handles the heavy lifting → Answers first, in any language the business needs → Understands intent with natural language → Uses sentiment to adapt tone → Passes full context when a human must step in with a WARM transfer 4. The business keeps one AI playbook → One prompt strategy → One routing logic → One integration into CRM, POS, ticketing systems The platforms stay diverse for safety. The AI stays unified for simplicity. That is how we see up to 60% of calls move from human agents to AI without ripping out phone systems without new chaos for IT without customers feeling lost. Many platforms for risk management. One AI brain for control. Thoughts on running many phone systems under one AI brain? #PhoneBill ☎️

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📍 Behind the Connection: What Makes a Location On-Net? (And How On-Net is On-Net) Ever been burned quoting a location that was “on-net”… only to find out it wasn’t? You’re not alone—and it’s costing providers and buyers time, money, and trust. Let’s break it down 👇 In the connectivity world, few terms are used more often—or more loosely—than “on-net.” At first glance, it seems simple: a location where a provider has built infrastructure and can deliver services directly as Connectbase defines the term for our ecosystem with best practices shared to suppliers. But here’s what often gets missed: 🔹 There are degrees of on-net. Some locations are fully lit and ready to activate within minutes or hours. Others have fiber to the basement, but still require splicing, risers, equipment, or building access negotiations. Some providers are inside a building serving only one tenant under exclusive rights but not rights to serve others, and others call a site “on-net” where they lease access without owning the infrastructure or equipment and therefore can serve up to a point of capacity. 🔹 Providers sometimes defines “on-net” differently. One might label a location on-net if it’s within 300 or x ft of fiber (aka what Connectbase defines as NearNet)... Another may define OnNet if fiber is termined on property, but not already live in the building. 🔹 The business stakes are real. ✔️ Faster delivery ✔️ Lower cost ✔️ Better expectations …only if it’s truly on-net. Otherwise: 🚫 Quoting delays 🚫 Construction fallout 🚫 Lost trust 🔹 That’s why data—and definition—matters. At Connectbase, we bring Location Truth to the connectivity ecosystem. We validate infrastructure, normalize serviceability, and enable partners and providers to quote with precision and confidence. So next time someone says “on-net,” ask the follow-up: 👉 How on-net is that on-net? Because in this industry, details drive dollars—and precision builds trust. #BehindTheConnection #OnNet #ConnectivityEcosystem #Serviceability #FiberInfrastructure #ConnectedWorld #QuotingAutomation #Connectbase #DigitalInfrastructure #LocationTruth #BeFound #ecoystemledgrowth

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