Month: March 2012

Polycom Offers New High-Quality Business Phone VVX 500 with One-Touch Access to Multimedia Features

Polycom Offers New High-Quality Business Phone VVX 500 with One-Touch Access to Multimedia Features

Posted by | Mar 6, 2012 | , , |

The Polycom VVX 500 multimedia phone is an all-in-one, desktop productivity tool that combines a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone with streaming video, and instant access to applications and web content. An optional USB video camera, with planned availability in 2012, will transform the new phone into a fully functioning HD video conferencing system. The VVX 500 introduces the lowest price point yet to the industry’s first business media phone product line, which Polycom debuted in 2009. The Polycom VVX 500 delivers the legendary Polycom user experience with one-touch access to the essential features of a company’s UC...

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VoIPon Interviews Xorcom: Redundancy Solutions, Video Conferencing and Success Stories

Posted by | Mar 1, 2012 | , , , , |

Today we’re speaking with Ruth Bridger, Xorcom’s VP of Marketing to learn a little more about Xorcom, Redundancy Solutions, Video Conferencing and Xorcom Success Stories. Below is a transcription of the call. 1)      Given Digium’s recent announcement of their R-series redundancy solution are there any misconceptions about Xorcom’s product in the market place that you’d like to address? Well, most definitely Kathleen. I think most of the misconceptions actually are on the part of the Digium engineers. Our TwinStar Solution is field hardened. It’s been available for the last two and half years and we have so many installations around the world that I have a feeling that our partners and our end users are well aware of the advantages, the benefits, of the Xorcom TwinStar Solution. But, if I can just recap a few of the major points that need clarification as per the Digium blog that appeared in the end of the December. I would say that Xorcom has a unique solution due to our special mechanical engineering. What we’ve done is we’ve taken the telephony modules out of the server and placed them in our Astribank. All of the telephony interfaces are located in a separate chasse and that chasse is connected by USB 2.0 cable to the server and in the TwinStar configuration, there are 2 servers. There’s a primary and a backup. The fact...

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SIP Trunks, The Merits and Potential by Alexis Argent – VoIPon Solutions

Posted by | Mar 1, 2012 | , , , , |

Session Initiation Protocal (SIP) Trunks have come a long way in the last few years. Provision and availability of SIP trunks has grown enormously, as has the quality of that provision. For many, SIP trunks have become a much needed solution to age-old issues of cost and flexibility, for others the technology is considered less established or reliable than existing trunk types. Whether SIP trunks are the best form of comms connectivity for a business is subject to many factors – but the growth in this sector suggests that many businesses already look to SIP trunks as a solution, and many more will in the future. We’ve been using VoIP for ten years, initially linking our UK and US offices by SIP – using a gateway and traditional circuit switched PBXs at either end. We found that the technology improved rapidly, allowing us to quite quickly move completely to VoIP for incoming and outgoing traffic. Our experience is of a generally flawless service, and with many technological obstacles disappearing in the last few years, coupled with improvements in connections and business grade routers, we find our customers sharing the same view. Benefits The benefits of SIP trunks often lie in the areas where existing trunks fail – principally around those afore mentioned issues of cost and flexibility. For small businesses, the combined headaches of upfront connection costs, high monthly...

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Patton Scores Seven in a Row: SmartNode Wins Internet Telephony’s 2011 Product of the Year

Posted by | Mar 1, 2012 | , , , |

NTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine recognizes Patton’s SmartNode 5400 Enterprise Session Border Router with integrated four-wire G.SHDLS.bis interface for outstanding innovation. GAITHERSBURG, MD and BERN: PATTON (USA) and PATTON-INALP (Switzerland) announced today that the SmartNode 5400 Enterprise Session Border Router Enterprise (ESBR) with integrated 11.38 Mbps four-wire G.SHDLS.bis WAN interface has won the INTERNET TELEPHONY 2011 Product of the Year award, maintaining a seven-year winning streak for the VoIP-equipment brand. The Patton’s SmartNode SN5400/2GS offers service providers and enterprises a one-box CPE solution for faster, lower-cost implementation of SIP-trunking solutions. Patton reduces capital equipment expenses by eliminating the external broadband modem requirement: the SN5400/2GS comes with an integrated high-speed ITU G.991.2 WAN-access port that delivers speeds up to 11.38 Mbps over dual copper twisted pairs. Protocol Mediation: Swiss-engineered and US-manufactured, Patton’s powerful session border controller delivers secure connectivity between iPBX phone systems and Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSPs) while providing any-to-any protocol mediation for SIP and H.323 voice—plus G.711 and T.38 FAX. WAN Optimization: By transcoding all industry-standard voice CODECs, the SN5400 optimizes WAN utilization while ensuring toll-quality voice over the corporate LAN. Such WAN optimization accelerates performance of WAN applications throughout the enterprise, including file downloads, video-conferencing, and cloud-based services. Proven Interoperability: SmartNode VoIP equipment is deployed and running in carrier and enterprise networks all over the world. The product line is certified for interoperability with… • Broadsoft, Huawei, Cirpack, and an ever-growing roster of softswitch...

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