Author: James Chapman

Sangoma at IT EXPO East 2012

Posted by | Feb 14, 2012 | , |

Sangoma had an exceptional presence at IT EXPO earlier this month in Miami. For those of you who didn’t make it to Miami to see it yourself, we had: Over 600 square feet of booth space right at the entrance to the Exhibit Hall where we featured NetBorder Express for Microsoft Lync, Sangoma Vega Gateways, our NEW  Sangoma W400 GSM Board for Asterisk, the NEW Sangoma SS7 Appliance, and the NEW Transcoding Appliance. We also turned a great spotlight on  the application partners that joined us in our Partner Pavilion; Denwa, Cudatel, ezVoice and inConcert. Training on the Vega Appliance Series of Media Gateways was offered to nearly a dozen partners attending the Expo. Our products were also well represented in the Asterisk World Pavilion by XmarteK. We visited the Snom partner training event and gave away a Sangoma Vega 50 to one of the lucky attendees of that training session. Speakers from Sangoma participated in three different panel discussion as part of the Conference Track at the Expo. We were also sponsors of the Press Room. Our new ninety-second video “Gateway to VoIP” was run a number of times before every Keynote session. We gave away thousands of dollars in prizes as part of our JACKPOT promotion at the booth. There was a great exchange of Product and Market information in the booth with hundreds of people stopping by...

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Xorcom Awarded best of show at IT Expo

Posted by | Feb 8, 2012 | , , |

Xorcom has been awarded its seventh straight “Best of Show” award at the IT EXPO held last week in Miami Beach, Florida. At the event Xorcom officially launched their video conferencing series with a live demo and announced Xorcom VoIP phones. Also on display in the Xorcom booth was the new analog lines fail-over kit, alongside our tried-and-true business telephony solutions: stand-alone IP-PBX appliances,TwinStar for full IP-PBX fail-over, the multi-PRI with 16 E1/T1 ports in a single 1U chassis, and the redundant power supply. Xorcom Continues to Expand and Enhance Product Line In line with the company’s drive to continually expand and enhance the capabilities of its business telephony solutions, Xorcom made three announcements at the event: Xorcom will be launching the XV3000, a line of multi-point video conferencing solutions bundled with its high-end IP-PBX, starting in Q2/2012. Xorcom has released a product that will allow automated fail-over of FXO lines to pre-defined FXS extensions in the event of a power outage or Asterisk malfunction. Xorcom will include two IP phone models and an expansion module in its product offering to complement the existing IP-PBX product lines. Significance of Best of Show Awards  The ITEXPO Best of Show Awards recognize innovative products and solutions that were featured in the exhibit hall during the event. This designation serves to highlight the technological achievement and creative product features that set these winners apart from the...

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Polycom Kirk to launch new DECT Butterfly Handset

Posted by | Feb 7, 2012 | , |

Polycom Kirk have announced that in March 2012 they will be launching a new range of wireless IP phone called the Polycom Kirk Butterfly Handset. The new butterfly handset is designed especially for carpeted environments, and offers the most important features and functionalities within basic voice and messaging. The new KIRK Butterfly handset will have a stylish and contemporary design, and a TFT color display that provides a clear view. It will be available in a range of fashionable colors, which enables you to choose the color that best suits your organisation. Furthermore, a range of accessories will be created for the handset in order for you to fully embrace the possibilities of being wireless. For more information and product details please view the Polycom Kirk DECT Butterfly Handset...

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Video Conferencing Solution Small and Medium Businesses Can Afford Launched by Xorcom

Posted by | Feb 2, 2012 | , |

Multi-point high quality video and voice conferencing capability in open source IP-PBX brings cost-effective functionality to small and medium sized businesses Xorcom, a privately-held manufacturer of business telephony interfaces and appliances, today announced the formal launch of an integrated, multi-point video and voice conferencing solution called the XV Series. The XV Series includes two lines: the XV3000 – a video conferencing platform bundled into a Xorcom high-end IP-PBX; and the XV0500 – a stand-alone video conferencing appliance compatible with any Asterisk-based IP-PBX. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Xorcom’s Asterisk® based IP-PBX telephony appliances, the XV Series makes video conferencing capabilities affordable and accessible to businesses of all sizes.   The Benefits Video Conferencing Brings to Enterprises Due to the enormous growth in smart phone use and the widespread adoption of multimedia applications, video conferencing is quickly becoming the natural choice for communications in the larger enterprises. The main benefits of this type of communication that immediately come to mind include: Cost-effective meetings – cut down travel expenses Improved communication – visual aspects, such as body language and object displays, promote better understanding of concepts Efficient meetings – video is engaging, increasing participants’ attention span Keeping remote workers involved – stay in better touch with tele-workers and road warriors Remote training – update staff on the fly Timely customer support – troubleshoot issues without onsite visits The larger the enterprise,...

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Grandstream Receives Two 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Awards

Posted by | Feb 2, 2012 | , , , , |

BROOKLINE, MA, (January 17, 2012) – Grandstream Networks announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Grandstream’s GXP1400 HD IP Phone and the GXV3500 IP Video Encoder/Decoder/PAS as recipients of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award. Grandstream’s GXP1400 IP Phone and GXP1405 IP Phone offers cutting edge VoIP telephony features to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with or without an IP PBX, at a revolutionary price-point. Phone users have access to an extensive set of best-in-class audio, visual, security, provisioning, and business features that allow the GXP1400/1405 to create a class of its own in the affordability segment of the IP phone market. The GXP1400/1405 features built-in TLS/SRTP security, secondary SIP server, best-inclass HD audio including an acoustically redesigned HD handset, improved double-talk performance, Acoustical Echo Cancellation on its full-duplex HD speakerphone, easy automated provisioning with TR- 069 or HTTPS, advanced XML customization and more. The GXV3500 is a first-of-its-kind security, surveillance and facility management solution for SMBs that want to preserve their investment in traditional CCTV analog cameras while adding the capability to remotely display live video on a TV, or use the device as a voice/video public announcement system (PAS) over an IP network. The GXV3500 IP Video Encoder+Decoder+PAS is a 3-in-1 combo device that combines advanced single channel H.264 real time video compression or decompression functions at up to D1...

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