Author: James Chapman

Oi Selects Cisco Technology for Its New Pay TV via Satellite Platform in Brazil

The Brazilian service provider Oi has adopted Cisco Videoscape™, an end-to-end solution that enables service providers to quickly deliver digital video services to their customers. The solution, which includes Cisco Videoscape VideoGuard™ Conditional Access System (CAS), a user interface, and Videoscape™ MediaHighway, provides a highly secure platform against piracy and a wide-ranging functionality that will be offered to subscribers in the coming months. By bringing together the best components, the service provider will have the opportunity to offer a linear transmission with standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) channels, and strengthen its revenues through other services such as...

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Yealink IP Phones Certified for Interoperability With Teliax’s IVY Platform

Yealink, the global Top3 SIP phone provider, and Teliax, a voice service provider , today jointly announced interoperability certification of the Yealink desktop IP phones with Teliax’s IVY voice platform. Teliax’s partners and hosted PBX customers using the IVY platform can be assured that Yealink’s IP telephony products work seamlessly together. Teliax’s IVY platform offers a single solution for partners to sell both SIP trunk service and hosted PBX features to their customers. “Yealink phones have proven to be a big hit with both resellers and customers.” says Kerry Garrison, VP Retail Operations at Teliax. “Yealink’s certification of our...

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Yealink: Proud Platinum Sponsor of Converge SA 2014

Yealink, the Global TOP 3 SIP Phone provider, will be the platinum sponsor for Africa’s most prominent VoIP communications conference, Converge SA 2014. In this one day conference and networking event, Yealink is to unveil its pace-setting new conference phone system and showcase the Ultra-elegant IP Phones T4 Series (SIP-T41P, SIP-T42G, SIP-T46G, SIP-T48GN) and W52P DECT Phone. As the industry’s leading SIP Phone supplier, Yealink is committed to designing and manufacturing innovative, high-quality, low-carbon IP Phones. In the Converge SA exhibition, South Africa’s only industry conference that explores the landscape of SA’s evolving business communications industry, the Yealink T4...

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Ubiquiti Networks Introduces Enterprise VoIP Technology for UniFi SDN Platform

Ubiquiti Networks has announced that it has launched UniFi VoIP, a new line of Enterprise smart phone technology featuring advanced Android based touch-screen phones. The system, part of the Ubiquiti UniFi range, will be managed by a powerful PBX integrated within the UniFi Software Defined Networking (SDN) Control Plane to provide seamless, complete, scalable telephony capabilities. UniFi VoIP will be the first telephony solution of its price/performance class offering a superior user-experience at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. The new models include the UniFi UVP, the UniFI UVP-Pro and the UniFi UVP-Executive. Along with the Ubiquiti VoIP...

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VoIPon Discusses The Future of Communications Platforms, Microsoft Lync and hybrid PBX solutions with Comms Business Magazine

Alexis Argent, founder and director of VoIPon Solutions and 4Gon Solutions, is featured in the August 2014 issue of Comms Business Magazine. The demise of the CPE based PBX has been heralded and predicted more times than most people can remember, but the fact remains that a lot of resellers are still doing well selling PBX systems. Hosted telephony 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...

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