Author: James Chapman

Xorcom to Announce Product Enhancements at IT EXPO

Posted by | Jan 12, 2010 | |

Next Week in Miami, FL, USA, Xorcom will be exhibiting at Asterisk World at the IT EXPO event. According to a recent Xorcom newsletter, the company is planning to reveal new product enhancements that will make the Xorcom line of products more reliable and robust for enterprise users. For those attending the event, a free IT Expo Access pass can be downloaded from their site and visitors can stop by booth #D-07 to view the enhanced products, which are said to include: An integrated touch panel for PBX administration Multiple Redundant Power Supply Unit with built-in USB hubs 16-port PRI unit for CLECs. These enhanced products will be available from VoIPon following their official...

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Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone, Asterisk & OCS: An Interview with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s EMEA VoIP Sales Manager

Posted by | Dec 18, 2009 | , , |

Recently, Polycom took home an award for “Best VoIP Hardware” at the the Internet Telephony Service Providers Awards held this past week in London, UK.  Recently, we spoke with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s VoIP Sales Manager for the EMEA about the company, its award winning product, and where Polycom is headed. Below is a transcription of our call. [VoIPon] Chris, first off congratulations on your recent award win, that’s fantastic! Why do you think the Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone was given the award for Best VoIP Hardware. Perhaps you can tell VoIPon’s listeners what makes it unique? [Chris Wortt, Polycom’s VoIP Sales Manager, EMEA]Well, thank you Kathleen, and thanks very much for noting the award. We’re very pleased to receive that so it’s great news for Polycom. Good question on the business media phone, the Polycom VVX 1500. Some of the reasons why, I think, are many of the qualities that Polycom is synonymous with in terms of the quality, in terms of ease of use, user interface etc., etc., have got to play a fairly major part in that. And the reliability, but probably more importantly, the organizations that have adopted this product, and the organizations that continue to find ways to adopt this product are realizing that VoIP is not a commodity market, although certainly in some areas it is, and this is actually something called a...

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VegaStream Announces New ADSL Gateways

Posted by | Dec 15, 2009 | , , , |

As recently reported in Comms Business, VegaStream is bringing its new line of VoIP gateways with integrated ADSL modems to the UK, effective 1st January 2010, when the product will be shipping. “I am very excited by these new products’ commented Steve Davis, VP Sales and Marketing at VegaStream. ‘We have been testing them extensively with a number of customers with some excellent results. The new ADSL gateways come complete with firewall, 3 LAN ports, support for up to 8 on-board voice calls and up to 120 IP-phone connections. The product will be available from VoIPon at that time. Check out the full article on Comms...

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Polycom VVX1500 Now Officially Interoperable with Asterisk

Posted by | Dec 15, 2009 | , |

It’s official. The following versions of Asterisk support Video Communications on the Polycom VVX1500. Asterisk Business Edition C3.2.1 has the VVX interop fix Switchvox SMB 4.0 18313 build or later will have the interop fix (auto-provisioning from Switchvox will not be available until Q1 2010) Asterisk 1.4 (26.2) or later has it Asterisk 1.6.0 (15) or later has it Asterisk 1.6.1 (8) or later has it Asterisk 1.6.2 (rc3) TBD Asterisk BE C3.3 TBD For more information please visit the Polycom Support pages, specifically the VVX1500 Knowledge...

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Polycom VVX1500 Wins Award for Best VoIP Hardware, snom 870 Highly Commended at ITSPA Awards for Most Innovative VoIP Product

Posted by | Dec 11, 2009 | , , , |

Last Evening, VoIPon attended the ITSPA Awards celebration. The event was well attended by leading companies in our industry, such as Snom, Digium and Polycom, and all in all over one hundred people including parliamentarians, civil servants and industry representatives attended. The awards were presented in five categories, representing different areas of the VoIP and Unified Communications industry. The ITSPA is the UK’s industry body for Internet Telephony Service Providers. Founded in 2004 with over 60 members that range from the largest Tier one operators to the newest entrants, members provide services to millions of consumers and businesses. We want to offer our congratulations to all the ITSPA Award Winners. We want to especially congratulate Polycom, who took home the award for Best VoIP hardware for its Polycom VVX1500.   We’ll cover this product in more detail in an upcoming VoIP Uncovered podcast. Another product that deserves coverage in more detail snom’s 870. Although only receiving what amounts to second place at the awards, coming in behind the award winner BT’s IP Exchange, the snom 870 is a particularly innovative product and we think it deserves special mention. The snom 870’s screen design is extra large and can be viewed at many angles, while allowing users to easily handle complex tasks like swapping calls or creating conference calls for three callers via a simple “drag and drop” arrangement. A structured address book ensures...

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