{"id":4467,"date":"2017-03-22T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:33:48","slug":"toshiba-telecommunication-systems-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/toshiba-telecommunication-systems-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba Telecommunication Systems Division No More"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word on the street (and Reddit<\/a>) is that the Toshiba Telecommunication Systems Division is closing shop effective immediately. \u00a0\u00a0It seems that the telecom division – which was banking on momentum after launching\u00a0a new product in February – could not escape\u00a0the company’s ongoing financial difficulties (including the $500 Million bankruptcy of Westinghouse<\/a>). \u00a0This means that customers running Toshiba’s IPEdge and\u00a0Strata on-premise PBX systems \u00a0(such as the CIX40 and CIX100) will be facing uncertainty about ongoing support and service. \u00a0Toshiba dealers that have calendared\u00a0upgrades and replacements will likewise be in a bind. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The news just adds to the tumult in the PBX dealer channel following the recent news of Avaya’s bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I bet that we will continue to hear this type of news from vendors that have traditionally sold\u00a0on-premise PBX systems. \u00a0The bottom line is that premise-based telephony is going away – business owners are giving up on the CapEx model and moving to OpEx. \u00a0While the shift represents a sea-change for VARs in the channel, it also represents a great opportunity. \u00a0The core value\u00a0of companies in the dealer channel is taking care of customers – Customer Service, Tier-One Support, Training and Maintaining your Business Relationships. \u00a0 All of these skill can be leveraged by moving to the cloud, where the activities related to maintaining a platform, carrier services, quality of service issues, and dozens of other technical details can be outsourced to a White-Label partner.<\/p>\n

If you happened across\u00a0this blog because you find yourself in this position, check out SkySwitch as a potential partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The word on the street (and Reddit) is that the Toshiba Telecommunication Systems Division is closing shop effective immediately. \u00a0\u00a0It seems that the telecom division – which was banking on momentum after launching\u00a0a new product in February – could not escape\u00a0the company’s ongoing financial difficulties (including the $500 Million bankruptcy of Westinghouse). \u00a0This means that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}