Archive for December, 2009

Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone, Asterisk & OCS: An Interview with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s EMEA VoIP Sales Manager December 18, 2009 No Comments

Recently, Polycom took home an award for “Best VoIP Hardware” at the the Internet Telephony Service Providers Awards held this past week in London, UK.  Recently, we spoke with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s VoIP Sales Manager for the EMEA about the company, its award winning product, and where Polycom is headed. Below is a transcription of [...]

VegaStream Announces New ADSL Gateways December 15, 2009 No Comments

As recently reported in Comms Business, VegaStream is bringing its new line of VoIP gateways with integrated ADSL modems to the UK, effective 1st January 2010, when the product will be shipping. “I am very excited by these new products’ commented Steve Davis, VP Sales and Marketing at VegaStream. ‘We have been testing them extensively [...]

Polycom VVX1500 Now Officially Interoperable with Asterisk No Comments

It’s official. The following versions of Asterisk support Video Communications on the Polycom VVX1500. Asterisk Business Edition C3.2.1 has the VVX interop fix Switchvox SMB 4.0 18313 build or later will have the interop fix (auto-provisioning from Switchvox will not be available until Q1 2010) Asterisk 1.4 (26.2) or later has it Asterisk 1.6.0 (15) [...]

Polycom VVX1500 Wins Award for Best VoIP Hardware, snom 870 Highly Commended at ITSPA Awards for Most Innovative VoIP Product December 11, 2009 No Comments

Last Evening, VoIPon attended the ITSPA Awards celebration. The event was well attended by leading companies in our industry, such as Snom, Digium and Polycom, and all in all over one hundred people including parliamentarians, civil servants and industry representatives attended. The awards were presented in five categories, representing different areas of the VoIP and [...]

Xorcom TwinStar: An Interview with Ruth Bridger, VP Marketing, Xorcom December 9, 2009 No Comments

Recently, we interviewed Ruth Bridger, Xorcom’s VP of Marketing to learn a little more about Xorcom and their TwinStar appliance in particular.  Xorcom is a privately-held IP-PBX and Asterisk Hardware manufacturer that harnesses Asterisk® Open Source IP-PBX to design and produce leading-edge hardware telephony solutions for commercial installations. The following is a summary of our [...]

Remotely Manage Your SIM Cards Using the New PORTech SBK-32 Remote SIM Card Bank December 8, 2009 No Comments

In a recent company newsletter, PORTech announced its new SBK-32 – 32 SIM Remote SIM bank. This means that you can centralize, manage and securely store all your SIM cards in one place, while deploying your GSM gateway, such as the MV-37X VoIP GSM Gateways in many different locations so that you can choose the [...]

Some Interesting News: Snom to Enter the Audio Control System Market December 2, 2009 1 Comment

Sources tell us that snom is about to go live with its new Snom PA1 Loudspeaker Amplifier.  This add on component will let SIP PBX users broadcast announcements and play background music to rooms, hallways, and office floors. From what we can tell, an announcement via the Snom PA1 will be effected simply by initiating [...]

Sangoma: What’s Next? An Interview with Serge Forest, VP of Marketing, Sangoma Technologies No Comments

Broadcasting from various countries around the world, using Voice over IP Technology, this is VoIP Uncovered—a VoIPon Solutions UK Podcast.  Representing VoIPon, I’m Kathleen Reed. Today, we’re speaking with Serge Forest, Sangoma’s new Vice President of Marketing. Thanks for joining us today, Serge. It’s been an interesting year for Sangoma. In addition to providing its [...]