The Call Is Coming
From Inside the Cloud
Cloud voice sounds risky. For one rural county, it was the safest call they made. Everything from the session is here: the playbook, the full case study, and the checklists to run it yourself.
Eric Fritts, Network Analyst, Okanogan County
Ellie Becker, Technology Advisor, Maverick Networks
Voice Modernization, Without the Chaos.
Okanogan County replaced an end-of-life phone system across sites hours apart, with little cell service in between. These are the five moves that got them there, and they work for any agency, large or small.
Procurement
Skip the RFP with cooperative contracts. The competition already happened nationally.
Teams Voice
Voice-enable Microsoft Teams with an embedded dialer, no new Microsoft licensing.
Redundancy
Build a backup that does not share fate with the fiber, and fail over automatically.
Life Safety
Move elevators, fire alarms, and emergency phones off dying analog lines.
Compliance
Confirm Kari's Law and Ray Baum's Act compliance before you buy, not after.
Okanogan County Ran This Playbook.
From Two-Day Outages to Always-On Cloud Voice
The largest county by area in Washington was running an end-of-life phone system across dozens of sites, with outages that could last two days and vendors that pointed fingers. Roughly 300 users now work on cloud voice inside Microsoft Teams, with satellite backup behind the fiber, life-safety lines on a modern connection, and E911 built in.
It was a flip of a switch, and boom, we were up and running. Karen Beatty, Director of Central Services, Okanogan CountyRead the Full Case Study
Checklists for Your Own Project.
Working documents, not brochures. Use them to scope the project, build the business case, and check compliance before you buy.
Know What You Are Walking Into
Find the analog lines nobody has inventoried. Stop paying for seats that belong to people who left. Score your E911 exposure before an inspection does it for you. Five checklists you can mark up in your next project meeting. Enter your email address to gain access.
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How to move faster and stay compliant using cooperative contract vehicles, and how to run a real evaluation without a twelve-month RFP cycle.
Locked DownloadWhat to inventory and document before you move: systems and contracts, user requirements, call flows, integrations, and regulatory obligations.
Locked DownloadA week-by-week plan for retiring analog lines, from the ghost-line audit through POTS-in-a-box selection, number porting, and cutover.
Locked DownloadA three-minute self-assessment that scores your voice infrastructure on patching, access control, and compliance, then tells you where the risk sits.
Locked DownloadFind the zombie licenses you are still paying for, calculate true cost of ownership, and confirm life-safety compliance across the organization.
Locked DownloadTalk Through Your Own Project.
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