{"id":7604,"date":"2020-01-10T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2021-09-07T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:48:34","slug":"on-premise-to-cloud-migration-porting-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/on-premise-to-cloud-migration-porting-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Premise to Cloud Migration: Porting Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Caitlyn Long, Product Marketing Manager at Bandwidth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctoday.com\/unified-communications\/ucaas\/migrating-your-telephony-to-the-cloud-3-porting-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a few months back<\/a>: Porting telephone numbers doesn\u2019t have to be painful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many resellers, porting numbers is one of those unavoidable nuisances you have to get through when moving telephony services to the cloud. SkySwitch supplier Bandwidth has made the experience a bit easier and as a DID partner of SkySwitch, that means resellers can take advantage of the process that Long recommended to make migrating from on-premise to the cloud as quick and painless as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Top 3 Problems With Porting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the top issues resellers can experience with porting is <b>unpredictable downtime. <\/b>In the telecom industry, disruptions are a business killer. Especially if a client customer experiences downtime during an important meeting, phone call or big presentation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another pitfall many resellers experience when migrating a customer from on-prem to the cloud is the <b>lack of control<\/b> when it comes to migrating in a strategic way. Oftentimes, resellers find themselves stuck with the inability to move groups over all at once, like a certain department or building. This can be tedious and cause frustrating delays in migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, the final issue that many fear: <b>the update is (nearly) irreversible.<\/b> It\u2019s not that rolling back phone numbers is impossible, but it can be an incredibly lengthy and time-consuming process that can stress out even the most level-headed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a style=\"color: #d95440; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/growth-predictions-cloud-hosting-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Related Blog Post: Growth Predictions for Cloud Hosting in 2020<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Porting Solution for Seamless Migration to the Cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, how do resellers alleviate all these issues and minimize the problems associated with migrating a customer from a traditional PBX to the cloud? Simply follow the three steps below. A little prep-work ahead of time will save you from headaches galore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create a redundant path that ensures uninterrupted service while you\u2019re porting numbers. This can be achieved by plugging in a SkySwitch SIP trunk side by side with your legacy trunk.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freely port your numbers without concern of service disruption. Bandwidth powers cloud applications and platforms you move to, like SkySwitch, so by taking that step above and plugging in a SkySwitch trunk, you save yourself the headaches.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that porting\u2019s all taken care of, you can go ahead and schedule the migration based on your own custom parameters (date, time, department, location, etc.)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Bandwidth as one of SkySwitch\u2019s DID partners, SkySwitch Resellers are equipped with yet another meaningful advantage when it comes to migrating customers from on-prem to the cloud, and succeeding with UCaaS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Caitlyn Long, Product Marketing Manager at Bandwidth, wrote a few months back: Porting telephone numbers doesn\u2019t have to be painful.&nbsp; For many resellers, porting numbers is one of those unavoidable nuisances you have to get through when moving telephony services to the cloud. SkySwitch supplier Bandwidth has made the experience a bit easier and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7604","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\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}