Author: James Chapman

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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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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Patton’s SmartNode BRI VoIP Line Now Available

Posted by | Feb 17, 2012 | , , |

GAITHERSBURG, MD: Patton have announced general availability for two new members of the SmartNode family: the SmartNode 4120  Single/Dual-Port BRI VoIP gateway series and the SmartNode DTA Singe/Dual-Port BRI VoIP Digital Terminal Adapter series for ISDN BRI VoIP users and service providers. Announced June 2011, the SN-DTA and SN4120 product lines are now in full production, as Patton ships hundreds of units on a monthly basis. The new SmartNode SKUs expand the range of NT/TE port combinations and add the following enhanced features: PSTN fallback, phantom power, and a high-precision clock that eliminates common interoperability problems with DECT, PBX, and FAX in VoIP implementations. The new single-port TE gateway (SN4120/1BIS2V) and dual-port NT gateway (SN-DTA/2BIS4V) provide cost-effective solutions for specialized customer applications. The dual-port SN-DTA/2BIS4VHP offers Patton’s high-precision clock, enabling first-line IP-telephony performance with reliable fax and modem services in often-troublesome ISDN and DECT environments.  The SN-DTA/2BIS2V offers a fallback port with built-in phantom power that delivers power to connected ISDN devices whenever the fallback port is not in use or if an existing fallback line is removed. ISDN users are notoriously picky,” observed Bernhard Fluehmann, Patton’s Converged-IP Product Manager. “Yet SmartNode quality and reliability have earned great respect within the ISDN community. The new BRI solutions are very well received. We expect similar enthusiasm for the new digital-analog hybrid due out soon. Patton is currently developing an 8-to-24 call VoIP router offering up to 8...

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snom Announces Latest Version of snom ONE IP PBX

Posted by | Feb 14, 2012 | , , |

On February 1st, VoIP phones manufacturer snom announced a new version of the award winning snom ONE IP PBX. In the latest version of the snom ONE, the support has increased for the growing mobile enterprise environment, where remote workers on cell phones and off-site extensions need to be fully integrated into an organization’s communications platform, as well as fully secured. “Worker mobility is a growing issue for many of companies, and the need to have cell phones seamlessly integrated into the organization’s internal telephony platform is directly related to the productivity of a mobile workforce,” said snom COO Mike Storella. “The snom ONE IP PBX has become a cornerstone of communications for many organizations, and as those organizations move into the world of integrated enterprise mobility, the snom ONE is prepared to help them easily and securely increase employee productivity and keep the costs of a mobile workforce down.” snom ONE IP PBX release highlights include: “Cell phone as an extension”: The snom ONE allows cell phones to act as truly integrated extensions, incorporating call transfers, conferencing, internal extension dialling and other features. Broad SIP client support: The snom ONE now supports mobile SIP clients, running on popular platforms such as Android and the iPhone. Enhanced management features: The web-based interface has been enhanced to make administering the system even easier and more productive. Enhanced remote phone security: snom...

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