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Manage Your Servers Before They Manage Your Call Center

Every call center has to face a tradeoff between having enough capacity to keep clients happy and keeping their costs down.

This is one of the big reasons for widespread Cloud adoption. You can get the resources you need when you need them, paying only for what you use.

Q-Suite is unique in offering an Asterisk-based system with queues that span multiple servers. This means Q-Suite can scale from very small deployments to Enterprise levels.

What about off-season, though? What about quiet times of the day or week? You don’t need to have all that capacity running, costing you money, when there aren’t that many calls. Continue reading “Manage Your Servers Before They Manage Your Call Center”

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What To Do Before Someone Lets The Smoke Out of Your Server

Who let the smoke out?

The client was worried because one of the Asterisk servers had gone down without any notice at all. The overseer process on the other Asterisk server had noticed, and had taken over as the active server. The disruption was minimal. Agents were at work. But the client wanted to know what had happened, and what we could do to prevent the issue in the first place. After 30 minutes of poring over logs, digging around, and contacting the colo, we discovered that a tech had decided to swap out the power bar connected to that server. There was no notice, and not even a courtesy three-finger salute. Continue reading “What To Do Before Someone Lets The Smoke Out of Your Server”

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Thousands helping Millions, Helping Your Federated Call Center Deployment

Thousands of volunteer experts have worked on Asterisk since 1999. This has made it into a powerhouse platform for telephony that you can use in your own system. Today it is a proven technology used by millions of users. Call centers and major PBX users are abandoning their legacy proprietary telephone switches to get the benefits offered by this Open-Source system. Continue reading “Thousands helping Millions, Helping Your Federated Call Center Deployment”

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Save the State: Data Synchronization Between Master and Backup Services

Keep your data identical between systems

When the center is actively handling calls, minimizing any disruptions is key. You don’t want to have your agents stop, log out, log back in, then attempt to continue as they were. Doing that is an efficiency killer. To avoid this, multiple copies of a single service can be set to run on different servers. However, data has to be kept current in order to avoid losing information when switching services from backup to master.  Synchronization of information is absolutely required when we are attempting to set up redundancy for high availability in the call center.
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Number management in Multi-tenant call center software

In any multi-tenant call center software, tenants must be able to create, assign and configure their DIDs (Direct Inward Dial) in order to be able to receive calls and direct them appropriately. The DID itself is a convenient way to determine which way a call should be directed; to an IVR, for example, or a specific PBX extension. Software like the Indosoft Q-Suite can be configured to use a DID and a schedule to determine how and when a call should be directed, with the ability to specify a dialplan and queue during operational hours and an after hours dialplan for when the call center ACD is closed. Continue reading “Number management in Multi-tenant call center software”

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Bringing Instances Up and Down to Improve Performance and Save Money

One of the advantages of deploying a feature rich call center software suite in the Cloud is that there are feature rich APIs and tools available for managing both software and cloud infrastructure.  The APIs of more advanced Cloud providers are of interest where they allow a call center to bring pre-configured instances up and down on demand.  This can result in a significant cost savings when a major factor in the cost of the service is CPU usage. Continue reading “Bringing Instances Up and Down to Improve Performance and Save Money”