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UCaaS

Unified Communications as a Service: calls, meetings, and messaging from the cloud.

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Unified Communications as a Service. The phone system, meetings, and messaging delivered from a vendor's cloud instead of hardware in your comms room. You pay per user per month, and the vendor worries about the servers. Teams, Zoom, Webex and RingCentral are the names you'll hear.

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