Archive for October, 2009

Octasic to Improve Mobile Video Consumer Experience With H.264 Video Transcoding October 21, 2009 No Comments

Yesterday, Octasic announced plans for new Vocallo MGW product capabilities to engage an ever-evolving community of mobile video users by signing a license agreement with video coding specialist, Dicas. These developments, when compete, should significantly enhance the company’s mobile video product portfolio to meet the growing demands of gateway manufactures and content adaptation solutions providers. [...]

Fritz!BOX Fon WLAN 7270 by AVM: Fast, User-friendly DSL access, Easy Networking & Inexpensive Internet Telephony No Comments

Founded in 1986 in Berlin, AVM is one of the top manufacturers of ADSL devices in Europe. The Berlin-based communications specialist has received numerous awards for its innovative FRITZ!Box product range, developed and produced in Germany. We took the opportunity to review the product following a major firmware update this past fall. This free firmware [...]

Rhino to Introduce Ceros Desktop Edition: Small Size, Low Power Solution Ideal for Small Office PBX Applications October 19, 2009 No Comments

If you are a VAR looking for a powerful processing solution but don’t want a massive, power-hungry server to sell to your small office customers, perhaps consider the new Ceros Desktop Edition, to be released by Rhino Equipment in November 2009. This “made in the USA” Ceros Desktop chassis was designed with VARs in mind. [...]

Pika WARP Enterprise to Help VARs & System Integrators Bring Customized Voice Applications to Market Faster October 13, 2009 No Comments

Today, Pika launched its WARP Enterprise Appliance, which is billed as a “step up” from its popular WARP Appliance development platform. The new appliance is designed to provide easier configuration and customization options for Asterisk VARs, system integrators and value-added SIP providers. The company reports that Asterisk VARs and system integrators asked for stepped-up version [...]

Xorcom Announces New GPL Call Recording Utility October 9, 2009 No Comments

This recent joint development between Xorcom and OrecX produced a patch for Asterisk 1.4.25 and above, which improves upon the current Asterisk built-in utility, as follows: • Captures both PSTN and IP calls • Increases recording capacity • Gathers complete identifying call information A recent joint OrecX-Xorcom webinar compared this new utility to existing options.  The recorded [...]

3CX Phone System Version 8 to Introduce Instant Messaging Features October 5, 2009 No Comments

New version 8 is slated to complete 3CX’s unified communications offering, bringing text chat, remote phone management, CRM integration and call center features. Other new features are said to include improved IP phone management & provisioning, integrated soft phone, find me follow me and support for the new low cost Cisco SMB phones. 3CX has [...]

PIKA is Doing a Market Survey to Help Plan its Product Roadmap No Comments

The company is asking for five minutes of your time to help them with the future developments of the PIKA WARP appliance and is rewarding one in five participants (who wish to enter the draw) an IPOD Nano. The company is interested in things like the region where you are located, what type of business [...]