Author: David Frith

Some of the best VoIP Phones in 2015

The VoIP Phone market is as highly competitive as ever. Companies that have been at the forefront of VoIP for a long time such as Yealink, Grandstream, Gigaset and Polycom are continuing to release new models, taking advantage of the most up to date technologies within VoIP, while upcoming companies such as Fanvil and Akuvox are disrupting the market with models of their own. This blog will look at the different features of the top VoIP phones available to buy in 2015. Akuvox SP-R53P The R53P from Akuvox is a cost effective phone with 3 SIP lines and HD voice. The...

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Yealink’s VoIP Terminals Achieve Full Interoperability with PortaOne’s (MR49) of PortaSwitch B/OSS & Softswitch Platform

Yealink have announced that its T2 series of enterprise-grade IP Phones and the Yealink CP860 IP conference phone have successfully completed interoperability testing (IOT) with PortaOne’s PortaSwitch, an integrated B/OSS and softswitch platform (Maintenance Release 49). PortaOne’s PortaSwitch is a premier converged telecommunications services and subscriber management package. The diversified digital services company PortaSwitch handles complete call control, routing, proxying and converged billing functions. Yealink and PortaOne started IOT collaboration in 2011 and jointly announced expanded collaboration with an extended certified product array in 2014. Yealink offers service providers and PortaOne users a PortaSwitch-supported portfolio that provides seamless integration, advanced...

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VoIPon Discuss the Future of Communications Platforms with Comms Business Magazine

VoIPon Solutions has been featured in the August 2015 issue of Comms Business Magazine. Alexis Argent, Founder and Director of VoIPon Solutions, discusses which telephony format will prevail, Microsoft Lync and hybrid PBX solutions.  Will any one model or format for telephony really prevail? I don’t believe this will happen because customers will always have different needs and requirements. This market changes very frequently, so new ideas and developments within unified communications will continue to progress. We may find that a certain model, like Lync (soon to be Skype for Business), or a certain format like hosted, cloud or on-premises appliances...

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Yealink’s videoconferencing endpoints VC400 and VC120 achieve successful interoperability testing with Blue Jeans

Yealink has announced today that its full HD video conferencing system, the VC series that includes the VC400 (for head offices) and the VC120 (for branches), is now compatible with Blue Jeans cloud-based video conferencing service. The Yealink VC series is a range of video conferencing endpoints tailored to end the video conferencing dilemma for SMEs, which often confront relatively weak network infrastructure, limited IT resources and expensive licensing and update fees. Combining high quality, ease of use and cost efficiency, Yealink’s VC series is the reliable endpoint choice for SME’s. With the successful interoperability testing, SME users can effortlessly...

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Yealink announces enhanced integration between IP phones and Xorcom’s CompletePBX

Yealink and Xorcom are pleased to announce that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between the CompletePBX series of Xorcom IP PBX and the Diamond IP conference phone Yealink CP860 and its T2 series of enterprise-grade IP Phones that includes the Yealink T21P, Yealink T23G, Yealink T26P, Yealink T27P and Yealink T29G. In addition, all these IP phone models have been incorporated into Xorcom’s CompletePBX Endpoint Manager, an auto-provisioning tool which greatly simplifies implementation of telephony solutions in enterprises. CompletePBX is a comprehensive, business-grade VoIP telephony system based on an open source platform. It is a single product line...

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