Month: January 2013

Sangoma Recognised for Technology Innovation and Sustainable Growth Throughout 2012

Posted by | Jan 10, 2013 | , |

Company Receives Multiple Product Excellence Awards and a Product of the Year Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine; Sangoma’s Business Growth Merits Inclusion in the 2012 Branham300 Ranking Sangoma, a leading provider of Asterisk hardware and software components that enable or enhance IP Communications Systems for both voice and data, announced it has received multiple awards from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global integrated media company and publisher of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Sangoma’s NetBorder Lync Express was awarded the INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award, and the company received INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards for its Sangoma Vega Gateway Series, the Sangoma Vega 400 Session Border Controller (SBC), and the Sangoma A116DE PCIe and Sangoma A116E PCIe Span Digital Telephony Interface Board. In addition, Sangoma has been selected by The Branham Group for inclusion in the 2012 Branham300, which recognizes Canadian technology leaders. Sangoma has a long-standing reputation for delivering well-engineered and high-quality solutions to the enterprise, service provider, and OEM markets, and we are honored to receive recognition from both TMC and The Branham Group for our ability to anticipate and address customer needs,” said Bill Wignall, president and chief executive officer of Sangoma. “Sangoma is fortunate to have an extremely talented and dedicated group of engineering, marketing and operations professionals, along with an outstanding network of partners and resellers who are singly focused on serving the needs of their customers. These...

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Patton Receives Eighth Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award

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Sustaining Patton’s eight-year winning streak, the SmartNode 4670 VoIP IAD with ADSL Interface has been named INTERNET TELEPHONY 2012 Product of the Year. Patton, has earned INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s 2012 Product of the Year Award for the Swiss designed and US-manufactured SmartNode 4670 and Patton SmartNode 4671 VoIP IAD with ADSL Interface. The 2012 product-of-the-year award, announced on the 14 December, extends the SmartNode brand’s winning streak into its eighth year. Other popular Patton products include the SmartNode 4638 and the Patton SmartNode SN4120/2BIS/EUI.  A Patton Gateway SmartNode product has earned the INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year award every year since 2005. Since market introduction in the year 2000, Patton’s VoIP Gateway, the SmartNode, has collected a dozen major industry awards.  “Once again, I congratulate the Patton team for their longstanding commitment to advancing IP communication technologies in the global market,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “For the eighth consecutive year we are pleased to recognize Patton with our Product of the Year Award”. For service providers and enterprises, the SmartNode 4670 lowers hardware costs, simplifies network architecture, and streamlines service deployment. The SN4670 offers flexible interface combinations of ISDN BRI, analog FXS/FXO, and Ethernet/IP—plus integrated ADSL broadband access—in a single device. Session border controller capability includes IP transcoding for up to 8 SIP channels. “The INTERNET TELEPHONY editorial team chose Patton’s SmartNode 4670 VoIP IAD with ADSL Interfacefor delivering the high-quality software, hardware and innovative technology the...

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IP Phone Maker Yealink Reflects on 2012, Looks Ahead to an Exciting 2013

Posted by | Jan 8, 2013 | , , |

Yealink, the Global Top 5 VoIP Phone Supplier, 2012 was an exciting year for the books. It released its powerful business IP video phone, the Yealink VP530. The VP530 boasts a complete feature set suitable for high-level administrative and enterprise use. Unlike the Yealink VP-2009P, the VP530 isn’t limited to one-way video calling, instead offering three-way video conferencing, with all conversation participants viewable on the phone’s seven-inch 800 x 480 digital LCD touch screen. Other key features of the VP530 include quality user experience, highly customizable and expandable and broad compatibility. Always looking to expand its solutions and provide its IP communications solutions to the broadest audience, Yealink announced interoperability with many brands, including Bicom Systems, Avaya DevConnect, AVSystem, BroadWorks, Alcatel-Lucent, Metaswitch, Surf Communications and Robin Telecom. It also attended many industry conferences, expos and trade shows, including ITEXPO, BroadSoft Connection, G-Force, CeBIT and Gitex. In other exciting news of 2012, Yealink achieved recognition from industry experts. It received awards for: INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award 2012 2012 Global Enterprise IP Telephony Endpoint Growth Leadership Award Best IP Multimedia Phone Provider Best IP Phone Provider Small Gold Medal for IT-SIBERIA.SIBTELECOM ITSPA’s Best VoIP Customer Premises Equipment Award Unified communications played a big role in the IP communications industry in 2012, which allows users to collaborate anywhere, anytime. IP product innovation included face-to-face IP communication, high-quality user experience and operation simplicity. VoIP communication is also...

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Digium Expands Training and Certification Offerings for Partners, Introduces Advanced Technical Training for Switchvox

Posted by | Jan 8, 2013 | , , |

New Switchvox Support Engineer (dSSE) Certification Provides Best Practices and Advanced Technical Training for Award-Winning UC Business Phone System Solution Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, today announced the availability of the Digium Switchvox Support Engineer (dSSE), a new certification within its award-winning partner program. This new curriculum focuses on advanced troubleshooting and configuration setup for Switchvox, Digium’s advanced business phone system and unified communications (UC) solution. In addition to on-demand videos and tutorials, this certification is another valuable addition to Digium’s partner program, equipping partners with the ability to build their managed service offerings. This training will be available for free to all Digium Select and Registered partners. The dSSE is an advanced troubleshooting course designed to educate partners on the correct methodology and best practices for configuring Switchvox for successful installations. Partners achieving dSSE certification will be able to provide their own enhanced on-site support, allowing for improved customer installation service time and support. As part of the certification process, partners will learn how to best install Switchvox in a local area network; provide security for their Switchvox VoIP network; identify Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) details and troubleshoot a SIP call flow; and learn best practices for troubleshooting Switchvox. As part of our rapidly expanding partner program, we want to ensure that our top-level partners have access to the tools and expertise they need to quickly and effectively...

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Grandstream IP Phones To Be Deployed With Ringio Hosted SMB Voice and Video IP Calling Solutions

Posted by | Jan 8, 2013 | |

Grandstream Networks, the leading manufacturer of VoIP Phones and IP video surveillance solutions, jointly announced with Ringio the certification of Grandstream IP Phones, DECT Cordless Phones, Gateways and ATAs (analog telephone adapters) with Ringio’s cloud-based Virtual PBX calling service, which helps SMBs improve the quality of their customer interactions. Ranging from single line to 6-lines executive solutions, Grandstream’s SIP-based phones featuring advanced voice options, LCD screens, SIP compliance and a host of other phone features are now being provided pre-configured to Ringio customers for an enriched desktop call experience. At Ringio, our primary focus is on the customer experience,” commented Sam Aparicio, CEO of Ringio. “When dealing with IP telephony hardware, it is imperative to have an easy setup, reliability, and quality. Grandstream equipment offers us the ability to provide our customers with a plug and play activation and a high quality product to deliver their business calls to. Ringio is a CRM-friendly phone solution that helps companies improve the quality of their customer interactions. Inspired by the idea of bringing the very best of large enterprise telephony to smaller companies, Ringio offers a cloud-based, feature rich, and fully extensible SaaS Telephony solution, which intelligently routes calls to any phone along with background information about the caller. The Grandstream range includes Grandstream GXP1450,  Grandstream GXP1400,  Grandstream GXP1405, Grandstream GXP1165,  Grandstream GXP1160,  Grandstream GXP1100,  Grandstream GXP2124 and  Grandstream GXP2200 Android Desk IP Phone.  Grandstream’s GXP Enterprise IP Phones offer Ringio customers...

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