Microsoft unified communications technologies offer customers choices in how their communications and collaboration software is delivered, managed, and maintained: On-premise, Hosted by partners and Hosted by Microsoft. By uniting your existing communication systems and tools: Desktop telephone systems, Legacy PBX and IP-PBX systems, Internet, Voice mail and Faxes.
Unified Communication and Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS) is Verizon's hosted and managed service based on Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution. UCCaaS delivers business-grade communications and collaboration services from the Cloud, offering the flexibility of a premises-based solution with the simplicity of a hosted solution.