Author: James Chapman

Xorcom TwinStar: An Interview with Ruth Bridger, VP Marketing, Xorcom

Xorcom TwinStar: An Interview with Ruth Bridger, VP Marketing, Xorcom

Posted by | Dec 9, 2009 | , |

Recently, we interviewed Ruth Bridger, Xorcom’s VP of Marketing to learn a little more about Xorcom and their TwinStar appliance in particular.  Xorcom is a privately-held IP-PBX and Asterisk Hardware manufacturer that harnesses Asterisk® Open Source IP-PBX to design and produce leading-edge hardware telephony solutions for commercial installations. The following is a summary of our conversation or listen to the podcast to hear the full interview. 1) [VoIPon] So, Ruth, recently we’ve interviewed a number of vendors such as Digium, Foncordiax, 3cx and Pika, and they are all offering what they consider to be the best PBX solution on...

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Remotely Manage Your SIM Cards Using the New PORTech SBK-32 Remote SIM Card Bank

Posted by | Dec 8, 2009 | , , |

In a recent company newsletter, PORTech announced its new SBK-32 – 32 SIM Remote SIM bank. This means that you can centralize, manage and securely store all your SIM cards in one place, while deploying your GSM gateway, such as the MV-37X VoIP GSM Gateways in many different locations so that you can choose the best GSM operators for your price plan. The SIM cards no longer need to be installed directly into the VoIP gateway and it is all connected and managed over the internet. As technicians won’t need to travel to the installation site just to make a simple change, you can reduce costs and it will also minimize downtime for maintenance. Some high level specs: 1 WAN port, 1 LAN port, managed by a convenient web interface Supports 32 SIM cards per SBK-32 unit Enables you to choose the best GSM operators for your price plan DIM: 20cm x 14cm x 16.5cm Check out the VoIPon store for more...

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Some Interesting News: Snom to Enter the Audio Control System Market

Posted by | Dec 2, 2009 | , , |

Sources tell us that snom is about to go live with its new Snom PA1 Loudspeaker Amplifier.  This add on component will let SIP PBX users broadcast announcements and play background music to rooms, hallways, and office floors. From what we can tell, an announcement via the Snom PA1 will be effected simply by initiating a call from a snom telephone. It even said to transmit video, if a network video camera is connected to it, so images can be broadcast to other rooms or floors. By entering the audio control market, snom effectively begins competing with companies who have been fixtures in this space, such as Cyberdata. To learn more about what we know about this product, including preliminary technical specs, check it out on the VoIPon.co.uk new products...

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Sangoma: What’s Next? An Interview with Serge Forest, VP of Marketing, Sangoma Technologies

Posted by | Dec 2, 2009 | , , |

Broadcasting from various countries around the world, using Voice over IP Technology, this is VoIP Uncovered—a VoIPon Solutions UK Podcast.  Representing VoIPon, I’m Kathleen Reed. Today, we’re speaking with Serge Forest, Sangoma’s new Vice President of Marketing. Thanks for joining us today, Serge. It’s been an interesting year for Sangoma. In addition to providing its traditional voice and data PSTN connectivity, it ramped up its contact centre building blocks, which became part of its portfolio following the acquisition of Paraxip in July 2008. As a result there have been a lot of changes. We’re excited to take this opportunity to bring VoIPon’s listeners up to speed as to what’s happening at Sangoma and what we might expect from them in the future. [VoIPon] So Serge, what would you say has been the most significant development at Sangoma in 2009? [Serge Forest, VP Marketing, Sangoma] Well, certainly we can see advancements on three major fronts. First on the product side we’ve launched award winning NetBorder Express Gateway 2.0 both on Windows and Linux. We’ve launched a series of hybrid telephony cards, which are unique in the industry [and they] allow [you] to mix analogue and digital telephony interfaces on a single card—very popular in the IP PBX market. And we’ve delivered clustering solutions for our SS7 software, so that’s on the product front. On the PBX market side, we’ve had...

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Why VoIP Paging Instead of Analogue + ATA? Interview with Bill Majerzak, Cyberdata

Posted by | Nov 25, 2009 | , , |

[VoIPon]: Broadcasting from various countries around the world, using Voice over IP Technology, this is VoIP Uncovered–a VoIPon Solutions UK Podcast.  I’m Kathleen Reed. A company that always seems to be driving innovation in our market is Cyberdata, the IP end-point company.  They manufacture SIP products for the unified communications industry. Over the last couple of months Cyberdata had some interesting developments, and we welcome today their sales and marketing manager, Bill Majerzak. Thanks for joining us today Bill. 1.  So Bill, recently you released the “industry’s first” SIP IP paging talk back speaker and digital VoIP wall clock kit.  Where might this product be used and how does it relieve some of the customers’ challenges? [Bill Majerzak , Sales and Marketing Manager for Cyberdata]: Yes, thanks Kathleen, we’re really excited about bringing our version two speakers to market.  Our very first SIP IP speaker that now has talkback that can go into our clock kit. And we’re really positioning these products for places like schools, colleges and universities. We also see them working very well in manufacturing facilities and for local and state government. 2. [VoIPon]: I see it’s billed as an industry first. Were there obstacles in getting this product to market and why haven’t others done it sooner? [BM]: Well, of course, we had some obstacles. In fact at the very end there were several obstacles...

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