The stunning Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando was the location for 2019's iteration of SkySwitch's annual user group conference, Vectors. The event gathers SkySwitch's reseller and service provider partners together for a packed four days filled with learning opportunities, platform and product updates and face to face networking that - in and increasingly disconnected world - proves invaluable.
UC Today were on hand to cover all of the news for you and bring you interviews with some of the headlines speakers. Founder and President of SkySwitch, Eric Hernaez, joined us for a video interview to give us a breakdown on all of the main news headlines from the show.
Watch the video interview here.
SD-WAN a Major Focus
SkySwitch is keen to equip its partners with cutting edge technology solutions that are going to augment their existing portfolios and no solution has proved of more interest to resellers and service providers in recent years than SD-WAN. Taking the power of software-defined networking (SDN) technology and utilising that for traditional hardware based networks offers partners a host of potential benefits. Creating more flexible networks and simplifying management processes are just two of the benefits alongside the well-publicised security amplifications.
Offering its partners an opportunity to leverage these benefits, SkySwitch announced during Vectors that it has formed a strategic relationship with Adaptiv Networks. Adaptiv Networks specialise in software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) for business-critical application traffic requiring high availability, just the demands of SkySwitch's partner network.
The partnership appears logical from a number of perspectives. Both Adaptiv and SkySwitch operate through a strict channel only go-to-market model ensuring the sovereignty of partners as a primary ethos. As well as the synergies with the market approach both SkySwitch's partners and Adaptiv are focused on helping small to medium businesses. Bernard Breton, CEO of Adaptiv Networks, told UC Today why this was so important.
"From a value proposition perspective - SD-WAN is really enabling those small and medium customers to gain access to high performance networking activity to support their digital services such as UC. So this new partnership is a marriage made in heaven for them."
The new partnership will allow SkySwitch partners to ally their industry leading UCaaS platforms with the network visibility, security and control provided by an SD-WAN solution. Offering end customers the ability to access - previously unobtainable - sophisticated networking capabilities is another strong tool to compete in such completive markets.
Now is the Best Time to Be Selling UCaaS - Jeff Pulver
As well as packing Vectors 2019 with news, SkySwitch, also provided its partners with selection of industry leading speakers to evoke new ideas and approaches that could be applied within their own businesses. One of those keynote speakers was Jeff Pulver. A successful entrepreneur - who has been involved in over 400 startup businesses - Pulver is best known for co-founding several huge communication businesses including Vonage.
Pulver spoke to the Vetcor's attendees about the opportunity they have right now in the communications market. Pulver believes that UCaaS is entering a golden window where partners have all of the features, functions and capabilities to provide truly transformative services and solutions to their end customers.
UC Today caught up with Pulver to get his thoughts on the market in general, take a look back at where the whole UC industry started and find out why now is the best time to be selling UCaaS.
Watch the video interview here.
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