Month: July 2013

Digium and Schmooze Com Announce Interoperability Certification

Posted by | Jul 31, 2013 | , , , |

Digium, the Asterisk Company, and Schmooze Com, have announced that Digium’s Switchvox IP PBX has been certified to work with Schmooze Com’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking solution, SIPStation. SIPStation provides telephony services using high-speed Internet, eliminating the need for traditional phone services. This certification confirms that Digium’s Switchvox business phone system and SIPStation work seamlessly together, providing businesses further confidence when selecting their VoIP phone solution.  Digium is the developer and maintainer of Asterisk, the world’s most widely adopted open source communications platform. Digium’s Switchvox is a full-featured unified communications (UC) solution, built on the power of Asterisk and designed for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Switchvox is the industry’s best value with all UC features included at one low price. With fixed mobile convergence, Salesforce.com and SugarCRM integration, queues, IVRs, instant messaging and more, Switchvox is a phone system that will transform how businesses operate, making them more efficient and productive. Businesses are looking for VoIP solutions that are easy to configure, deploy and manage,” said Tony Lewis, CEO of Schmooze Com. “Together, Digium’s feature-rich Switchvox phone system and SIPStation’s Unlimited SIP trunks provide an affordable, high-quality VoIP solution that businesses can rapidly deploy, with unlimited local and long distance calling, and no contracts or fuss.” Businesses that choose Switchvox are now assured of full interoperability when they select SIPStation for their IP network,” said Leslie Conway,...

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Next Stop Paris: 3CX Continues its Global Expansion

Posted by | Jul 29, 2013 | , , |

3CX, developer of the award-winning Windows 3CX  Windows PBX Phone System and mobile device management solution 3CX Mobile Device Manager, today announced the opening of its new office in Paris, France in order to strengthen its market share in one of the world’s largest technology markets. By providing its partners and distributors with sales and technical support in French it plans to empower partners to sell more solutions into the French market. Furthermore, by providing regular training events and launching a local marketing campaign, 3CX aims to double its partner network.  France is a major IT and telecommunications market and as a European company we are in an ideal position to deliver the right solution to this market. France has historically been at the forefront of telecommunications and appreciates the advanced features our Unified Communications solution provides. Our new office significantly increases our presence in the French market as we are able to better support our partners and customers”, said Nick Galea, CEO 3CX. The IP PBX market is highly competitive, with manufacturers such as Xorcom, Digium Switchvox and Zycoo striving to excel with their different solutions.   Share this story with your friends or work colleagues. If you want to stay up to date with our latest products, industry news and offers you can sign up to our monthly newsletters, keep up to date with us on Facebook or follow us on...

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VoIPon Discusses the Future of CPE and PBX Solutions with Comms Business Magazine

Posted by | Jul 26, 2013 | , , , |

Alexis Argent, founder and director of VoIPon Solutions, is featured in this August 2013 issue of Comms Business Magazine.Commenting in the ‘Market Report: The Future of Communications Platforms’ feature, Alexis spoke about the demise of CPE based PBX, Microsoft Lync and Hybrid PBX Solutions.  The demise of the CPE based PBX has been heralded and predicted more times than most people can remember. Hosted telephony for example has made a lot of noise about replacing the PBX with an OPEX based solution but the market share gained by hosted solutions must be disappointing for its proponents. Today all the talk surrounds cloud based provision of applications including telephony but we wonder how much short to medium term impact this is having on the CPE market. Will any one model or format for telephony really prevail? Ultimately people will always be predicting that some technology or other is about to become defunct. At present, OPEX based hosted telephony still means more cost over the longer term. Plus all the attendant risks that can come with outsourcing, but I agree that proponents of OPEX may well be disappointed with its traction in the market. However, we’re not talking about a completely new technology here, compared to say, the mobile phone, which exploded as it met a previously unfulfilled need. OPEX is competing with an existing solution – businesses already have CPE...

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A Quick Look and Review of the Yealink T46G IP Phone

A Quick Look and Review of the Yealink T46G IP Phone

Posted by | Jul 26, 2013 | |

Yealink, the company that have brought us market leading IP Phones like the T22P, T32G, W52P and VP530 are back again with another IP Phone offering in the form of the SIP-T46G. Aimed at executive users and busy professionals, the new design features a high resolution TFT colour display to deliver a rich visual experience. The T46G comes equipped with Yealink Optima HD technology which gives rich, clear, life-like voice communications. Supporting Gigabit Ethernet, a variety of device connections including the EHS adapter, and having programmable keys, there are plenty of productivity-enhancing features to be seen here. Yealink T46G IP...

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VoIPon Interview Digium on what to expect from Asterisk 12, the benefits of upgrading, future plans and AstriCon 2013

VoIPon Interview Digium on what to expect from Asterisk 12, the benefits of upgrading, future plans and AstriCon 2013

Posted by | Jul 25, 2013 | |

Craig Herret of VoIPon interviews David Duffett, Director of the Worldwide Asterisk Community at Digium.   Craig Herrett speaks to David Duffett about what we can expect from Asterisk 12, the benefits of upgrading, future plans for Asterisk and an insight into AstriCon 2013.   You can Listen to the Digium Podcast and see the full transcript below: Craig Herrett: Broadcasting from various countries around the world using Voice Over IP Technology, this is VoIP Uncovered, a VoIPon Solutions UK Podcast. I’m Craig Herrett. Today, we are interviewing Digium, the company that founded Asterisk. Here with me is David Duffett. Hi David....

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