Author: James Chapman

Lots of Changes at Sangoma: New Sangoma Partner Program, MFC/R2 & BRI Support — VoIPon Interviews Sangoma Management

Posted by | Mar 15, 2011 | , , , , |

Recently, Sangoma has announced the release of NetBorder Express 4.0, their innovative gateway application and we had the pleasure of interviewing Frederic Dickey, Sangoma’s director of product management and the company’s new Director of Marketing, Jeff Dworkin. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Sangoma, since 1984, the company has been a premium provider of hardware and software building blocks for telecom and data application developers and integrators. Below is a summary of our call. [VoIPon] 1. So Jeff, you’re the new Marketing Director for Sangoma. I know a little bit about your background and I think this is a fantastic coup for Sangoma. Why don’t you share some of your background with VoIPon’s listeners and what this experience will mean for Sangoma’s channel? [Jeff Dworkin, Director of Marketing, Sangoma] Thanks Kathleen. Yeah, I’ve been part of the voice industry for well over 20 years. Background as a developer, both in the enterprise and the carrier space; spent some time with Dialogic in the infrastructure hardware space, as well. I’m really looking forward to bringing this deep industry knowledge to Sangoma, as a way to build up the company, and specifically from a marketing standpoint, is through better channel development and a better partner program. To move the focus of what we’re doing onto the partners and onto the partners and onto their successes. We have a new...

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IP-PBX from Xorcom Awarded “Best of Show” at ITEXPO East 2011

Posted by | Mar 10, 2011 | |

Xorcom, a privately-held manufacturer of business telephony solutions, today announced that its new XE Series IP-PBX for VoIP and traditional business communication solutions received a “Best of Show Award” in the On-site Product Launch category at TMC’s recent ITEXPO East 2011 in Miami. Like the existing XR2000 and XR3000 series, these new PBX handle both traditional (Public Switched Telephone Network) and VoIP calls. The new series, however, features microprocessor-based temperature control with redundant fans, redundant hard disk drives, internal backup and recovery support, and an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) touch panel for easy access to system parameters. 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 rest of the crowd. TMC’s editorial staff evaluated the pre-show nominations, and met with vendors to inspect and review the displayed products on the first day of the Expo. “Feedback from our channel drove us to create the new series,” states Eran Gal, CEO and co-founder of Xorcom. “On the one hand, our current systems’ modularity created an almost unlimited number of configurations, which is attractive. However, this type of flexibility can also be confusing. We realized we could divide our customers into two groups: those with standard telephony requirements, and those...

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Broadsoft Completes Interoperability with Grandstream’s HD & Multimedia Phones for Hosted Unified Communications Solutions

Posted by | Feb 4, 2011 | , , , , |

Broadsoft Completes Interoperability with Grandstream’s High-Definition IP Phones and IP Multimedia Phones for Hosted Service Provider Unified Communications Solutions Grandstream Networks, the leading manufacturer of IP voice/video telephony and video surveillance solutions, today announced that BroadSoft, Inc., the leading global provider of IP-based communications services to the telecommunications industry, has completed interoperability testing of its BroadWorks® platform with Grandstream’s newest GXP21xx/14xx series enterprise high-definition (HD) IP phones and the GXV3175/GXV3140 next-generation IP Multimedia Phones. Product interoperability enables telecommunication service providers to offer different choices of hosted unified communication solutions using HD voice and video to SMB, enterprise and consumer customers worldwide. Grandstream solutions allow automated XML provisioning with BroadWorks device management software, making it quick and easy to mass deploy devices seamlessly and cost-effectively. The new GXP series of enterprise SIP telephones, specifically, the GXP2100, GXP2110, GXP2120, and GXP1450 feature superior HD voice quality, XML customization flexibility, and productivity applications to the enterprise and call center customers worldwide in need of advanced IP telephony functionality, secure and automated provisioning capability, crystal clear voice communications as well as broad SIP interoperability, and integrated web applications. For enterprise and residential customers seeking a more advanced, integrated multimedia communication experience with instant access to real-time web and social multimedia applications, Grandstream’s new GXV3175 IP Multimedia Phone redefines desktop multimedia communications. The sleek, tablet-like GXV3175 has a large 7” touch screen LCD, 1.3...

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Grandstream’s New 7” Touch Screen IP Multimedia Phone Has Arrived!

Posted by | Feb 4, 2011 | , , |

The new sleek, tablet-like GXV3175 is the newest member of Grandstream’s GXV31xx series VoIP multimedia phones highly popular with enterprise and SMB/SME customers. The sibling to the award-winning, Skype-certified GXV3140, the GXV3175 features a large 7” touch screen color LCD, high quality video conference, integrated PoE and WiFi, and a variety of built-in rich media applications for home or office. The GXV3175 delivers extraordinary video telephony capabilities with amazing picture sharpness, superior HD audio quality, and all the business productivity, casual entertainment, and social networking applications needed to strengthen relationships with colleagues and customers, as well as family and...

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What’s new in FreeSWITCH? VoIPon Interviews the Founders

Posted by | Feb 2, 2011 | , , , , |

Recently, VoIPon had the opportunity to interview the founders of FreeSWITCH,  Anthony Minessale, Mike Jerris and Brian West. FreeSWITCH is billed as The World’s First Cross-Platform Scalable FREE Multi-Protocol Soft Switch and certainly recently, it’s one of the most talked about. Below is a transcript of our call: [VoIPon] I’m excited to learn more about what has been going on in the community and to bring VoIPon’s listener’s up to speed with what’s new at FreeSWITCH. Thanks for joining us today guys. For those of us, like me, who have missed the last ClueCon, what are some of major achievements of FreeSWITCH in the last year or so? [Anthony Minnesale] One of the biggest ones we announced during ClueCon was failure recovery. We added a feature to our SIP endpoint to allow it to use the core of FreeSWITCH to store state data about the call, which could be shared over to another machine or on the same machine; it’s used to resurrect the channels mid call and actually allow it to recover from a complete failure, such as like a machine hardware failure or software crashing, stuff like that. And other than that it was mostly the new book that we wrote about FreeSWITCH 1.06 and we had that released shortly before the conference. [VoIPon, Kathleen Reed] Anybody have anything else to add? [AM] There is probably a...

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