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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

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8x8 XCaaS Sets New Industry Standard for Reliability; Delivers First Financially-Backed, Platform-wide 99.999% Global SLA Across Both UCaaS and CCaaS

8x8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT), a leading integrated cloud communications platform, today announced the first financially-backed, platform-wide 99.999 percent global uptime SLA across an integrated cloud UCaaS and CCaaS solution, setting a new industry benchmark for cloud communications reliability. 8x8 XCaaS (eXperience Communications as a Service), which is built on the resilient, secure and compliant 8x8 eXperience Communications Platform, now offers an enhanced uptime guarantee for organizations requiring the highest levels of reliability across distributed offices and workforce.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210811005294/en/

8x8 XCaaS Sets New Industry Standard for Reliability; Delivers First Financially-Backed, Platform-wide 99.999% Global SLA Across Both UCaaS and CCaaS (Graphic: Business Wire)

8x8 XCaaS Sets New Industry Standard for Reliability; Delivers First Financially-Backed, Platform-wide 99.999% Global SLA Across Both UCaaS and CCaaS (Graphic: Business Wire)

"Guaranteeing our more than 3,500 distributed employees and over 700 offices in the U.S. are always connected is paramount in maintaining the everyday high level of service our clients expect," said Mobashir Ahmed, IT Manager at the Loya Insurance Group. "The 8x8 XCaaS platform-wide uptime SLA gives us peace of mind by providing us the quality of service and reliability we require to allow our employees and contact center agents to stay productive and enhance customer experience."

Operating a geographically-redundant cloud infrastructure spanning 35 regions worldwide, 8x8 delivers high quality and reliable global connectivity for superior business resilience and data residency adherence. 8x8’s state-of-the-art architecture and patented Global Reach™ routing technology delivers the top-level service reliability and assurance guarantees that organizations require for operational success. Highlights include:

  • Four levels of redundancy at the infrastructure, platform, data, and geographic layers.
  • Patented Global Reach™ routing technology provides high availability and superior voice and video quality across the globe.
  • Connectivity with over 40 top-tier Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) carriers around the world for optimal voice quality, coverage, and redundancy, delivering full PSTN replacement services and global calling plans in 43 countries.
  • 35 redundant, cloud-agnostic regions providing high availability active-active service delivery and global coverage.
  • Real-time metrics and 24x7 observability with two redundant Network Operations Centers in the U.S. and EU.
  • Transparent, public site providing detailed current status for monitoring the latest network and service conditions.

“Now more than ever, organizations recognize that employee communications and contact center uptime and reliability is critical for success, especially as they shift to a hybrid workforce,” said Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “They expect the highest levels of service, and the 8x8 XCaaS global SLA across both employee communications and contact center provides organizations with a single point of accountability and confidence.”

8x8 XCaaS is a single-vendor cloud solution for both employee and customer engagement, and includes fully integrated contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat and CPaaS APIs and embeddable apps.

“Global organizations driving hybrid workforce initiatives recognize the critical importance of maximizing productivity and responsiveness while also ensuring operational resilience,” said Dejan Deklich, Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. “Offering a 99.999 percent uptime SLA across both UCaaS and CCaaS is a major industry achievement that raises the bar for cloud communications. It is only made possible because 8x8 XCaaS is built on a single-vendor, integrated technology platform, which enables organizations around the world to focus on driving their business forward by exceeding their employee communications and customer engagement objectives.”

About 8x8, Inc.

8x8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT) is transforming the future of business communications as a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of 8x8 XCaaS, an integrated contact center, voice communications, video, chat and API solution built on one global cloud communications platform. 8x8 is powering all employees globally to connect individuals and teams so they can collaborate faster and work smarter. Real-time business analytics and intelligence provide businesses unique insights across all interactions and channels so they can delight end-customers and accelerate their business. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

8x8® and 8x8 X Series™ are trademarks of 8x8, Inc.

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