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  • Speedflow Releases Updated CallMax Solutions

    Speedflow Releases Updated CallMax Solutions

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    Speedflow announced the availibility of a new version of the CallMax Solution. According to the company, CallMax v. 3.4.1 has been designed to make the Solution more convenient for end-users. The subscribers can now easily manage their accounts, review statistics having personal web access to the system.

    The optimized release contains the following additional features:

    • New notifications for subscribers
    • Aggregated CDRs
    • Updated user-friendly interface

    The new version of the platform is said to allow VoIP companies to provide “high-quality, efficient, and competitive” IP PBX, Prepaid Card and Call Shop Services to their subscribers.

    CALLMAX SOLUTION ADVANTAGES:

    • Handles 500 concurrent calls per server
    • Unlimited number of subscribers and levels of resellers
    • Role-based permissions / access rights for users
    • Feature-rich multilingual web-interface

    As usual, new CallMax release is available as a free update for all existing customers.

    Learn more about CallMax.

    Also check out: Speedflow – Company Profile

  • Speedflow now supports VoIP in Africa

    Speedflow now supports VoIP in Africa

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    Speedflow announced that it now supports and develops businesses in Africa.

    To contribute to VoIP development in the region, Speedflow is offering  its hosted IP PBX, Calling Card and Call Shop solutions at an “unprecedented low price” especially for African companies.

    The company invites African VoIP providers looking to optimize their business and migrate to a more reliable software platform, to join Speedflow’s program.

    Get maximum benefit from minimum input by choosing the most convenient SaaS solution for your business, and get a high-quality hosted IP PBX, Call Shop or Calling Card Platform for only $200 per month.

    The CallMax is a reliable Linux-based platform for VoIP retail. The flexible turn key solution comes with integrated VoIP billing, supports an unlimited number of subscribers, has a user-friendly interface, convenient report generation tools, and a whole host of other effective features.

    Besides our high-class software platform, the low price also includes hosting at our data-centre, 24/7 technical support, free installation and trainings.

    You can learn more details by contacting Speedflow here.

  • snom technology Releases snom ONE IP-PBX

    snom, a German developer and manufacturer of SIP devices, has announced the release of snom ONE – a new family of IP PBX systems that runs on standard servers. According to the company, snom ONE will provide customers with an IP telephony system which supports all the functionalities of snom IP phones.

    snom ONE is the result of thorough field tests and optimisation activities, taken out on the market. It is available in 3 versions: snom ONE free (downloadable free of charge for up to 10 extensions) and the two resale systems snom ONE yellow (for up to 20 extensions) and snom ONE blue (unlimited number of extensions and multi tenant up to 5 companies). All versions offer the same features and only differ on the maximum supported quantity of extensions.

    All versions offer the full feature set, including hunt and ACD groups, mailbox, auto attendant, conference rooms and paging, and are designed to take full advantage of the hardware features of snom’s suite of desktop phones and endpoints. snom ONE blue also allows up to five separate corporate tenants, supporting multiple organizations to operate using a single IP PBX.

    The snom ONE integrates with snom desktop and DECT phones and features all the functionality of standards-based IP PBX platforms, including simultaneous ringing of desktop and cell phone, multiple extension aliases, centralized address book, hot desking, voice mail, shared line emulation and a web interface for provisioning and management.

    The ONE is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac environments and is equipped with robust web security through HTTPS and call security through TLS and SRTP. It supports mixed IPv4/IPv6 LAN and WAN environments and comes with an automatic blacklisting feature that makes it possible to expose public IP addresses.

    "In the past we’ve experienced problems with customers missing out on some of the key features delivered by our phones, due to the installed IP-PBX systems," explains Jonathan Greenwood, snom ONE Product Manager and Managing Director of snom UK Ltd.

    "With snom ONE, our customers can continue to install and run our VoIP phones on every SIP based PBX, whilst having additional access to a series of easy to install telephony systems, perfectly tailored to our phones. This is our response to the many compelling requests by resellers and users in recent years,” he added

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  • AT&T Adds IP Voice Services to Virtual Private Network Services

    AT&T announced that new and existing virtual private network (VPN) customers may add VoIP service to the network solution delivered over AT&T’s global network cloud.

    This converged solution is said to enable customers to consolidate their separate voice and data networks, reduce equipment and maintenance costs, and simplify migrating these complimentary capabilities to a common, secure infrastructure.

    By migrating to a common infrastructure, customers are able to take advantage of additional applications as AT&T makes them available, such as unified communications capabilities.

    The AT&T VoIP portfolio is certified for interoperability with leading industry providers of IP-PBX systems, such as SIP Trunking services qualified for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, providing support for businesses planning to incorporate a comprehensive unified communications solution in the future.

    The company’s portfolio of VoIP services includes AT&T IP Flexible Reach, a SIP trunking service, which "allows businesses to continue to use the capabilities of their existing IP-PBXs, optimizing their equipment investment."

    AT&T Voice DNA, another product in the VoIP portfolio, is a fully hosted network-based service with advanced features, applications and management tools for customers.

    AT&T customers can access their VPN using virtually any access technology, such as mobile, Wi-Fi, DSL, dial-up and Ethernet.

    “Voice service is as mission-critical for businesses today as it’s ever been, and customers expect their VoIP service to perform as well as their traditional telephone service,” said Shawn Conroy, vice president, AT&T Business Solutions.

    "Adding voice to the network cloud gives customers the ability to determine their optimal level of security, architecture, cost and performance objectives — key differentiators for AT&T,” he said.

    According to AT&t, Today, the company offers Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based services to 163 countries over 3,800 service nodes, and operates 38 Internet data centers around the world. These assets enable AT&T to provide customers with globally-consistent access to capacity and features – when and where they need it most.

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  • VoicePulse Announces SIP Trunking Interoperability with IPitomy PBX Products

    VoicePulse and IPitomy announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between SIP products and services. VoicePulse is now interoperable with IPitomy’s Pure IP PBX platform.

    IPitomy designs and manufactures IP telephony equipment for businesses. VoicePulse delivers SIP trunking, worldwide termination, origination, and phone service to residential and business customers.

    According to the companies, IPitomy’s PBX combined with VoicePulse’s SIP origination and termination services “create a complete phone solution for businesses of all sizes.”

    VoicePulse can now provide new customers using IPitomy’s IP PBX with official configuration guides when setting up VoicePulse VoIP services on their PBX. Businesses using IP PBXs such as Digium’s Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Fonality’s PBXtra, trixbox, FreePBX, FreeSwitch, Switchvox.

    “And now IPitomy can benefit from VoicePulse’s competitive international rates, toll-free services, and failover features all on a “Tier 1” back bone network,” as the company claims.

    “We are confident that with this new relationship, we will see an increase of resellers and new customers combining IPitomy’s IP PBX products with VoicePulse VoIP services,” said Monica Haley, Marketing Associate at VoicePulse.

    “IPitomy sets itself apart from its competitors by providing enhanced features beyond the typical key systems and PBXs of the past,” she added.

    Nick Branica, President and CEO of IPitomy, said: “IPitomy is happy to add VoicePulse to our growing list of qualified SIP providers. SIP providers are a very important component to the growth of the IP PBX market and VoicePulse adds value to our total overall product offering. Open Standards SIP based systems are all about choice.”

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  • Tadiran Telecom Eyes VoIP market in Africa, Partners Teledata


    Tadiran Telecom has signed a distribution agreement with Teledata Technologies in a collaboration aimed at targeting "vast" VoIP opportunities in the African telecom market.

    The IP business telephony and communications supplier has also announced the appointment of Zeev Aviv as acting President and CEO.

    Until recently, he served as VP Sales and Marketing.

    He will be replacing Eitan Livneh, who served as President and CEO since early 2007.

    Aviv said Africa is one of the most valuable emerging markets, with opportunities abounding in Kenya and by extension the wider East and Central Africa region.

    "It is a fertile market that has great opportunities for telecom growth," he said.

    Aviv said numerous tenders are currently advertised for corporate telephony solutions that specify IP-PBX platforms.

    He said the demand for VoIP telephony services in the region has drastically increased due to improved cost-benefit awareness.

    Many corporate organizations are decentralizing regionally (with Nairobi as the region’s hub) and are looking for converged solutions with maximum ROI.

    In many organizations, the older-generation, traditional PABXs are now being phased out due to the emerging technological trends and the related cost benefits.

    Requirements are expected to increase drastically with the advent of the TEAMS undersea fiber optic cable project (linking the East Africa region) and due to the increase of Internet bandwidth IP converged solutions.

    Duke Onkundi, of Teledata, said his company’s knowledge of the Kenyan evolving market, enabled it to determine Tadiran Telecom’s solution as the most suitable fit.

    "It will facilitate a seamless move to VOIP with no loss of investment in legacy systems and combining the best aspects of both quality and financial feasibility," he said.

  • OnRelay Releases Open Source Mobile PBX


    OnRelay has released its mobile PBX solution following successful trials in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

    Unified MBX is a software-only IP business communication system built for mobile phones.

    The Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) provider said the solution provides Unified Communications (UC) without the expense of proprietary telephony hardware or IP PBX licenses.

    It does so by pre-integrating cellular FMC software with an open source IP PBX.

    The result is that Unified MBX can be deployed on-premises, or hosted in the cloud to provide mobile business communications as Software as a Service (SaaS).

    OnRelay said customers across ten countries have so far self-installed the solution with only remote OnRelay support.

    It is built around OnRelay’s Telephony Internetworking Protocol (TINP).

    TINP uses voice and data signalling to bring full IP PBX functionality to the mobile phone, over any cellular network – 3G/GSM, EVDO and Low Power GSM.

    In an interview with smartphone.biz-news earlier this year, Ivar Plahte, CEO and co-founder of OnRelay, said he had no doubt that mobile PBX is the future – with smartphones increasingly replacing desktop phones to become the sole business phone.

  • Media5 SIP Softphone App Turns iPhone into IP-PBX Extension


    Media5 has released a SIP client application that allows the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch to be used as a IP-PBX extension.

    The company says the full-featured softphone enables the Apple devices to be used to access the same phone services and features as if they were in the office.

    That includes remote workers being able to contact other offices or employees.

    Pascal Doré, Media5’s mobility product line manager, said the new release of the Media5-Fone extends its mobile portfolio to iPhone users on the go.

    "It offers them the key features needed to integrate an easy-to-use SIP IP-PBX extension within the iPhone," she said.

    Doré said in addition to the Lite version, Media5’s engineers are working to bring the next fully featured Enterprise version of the Media5-Fone.

    She said that will embed strong Voice security encryption among the key features.

    VoIP service providers who offer calling plan can also benefit from the same SIP connectivity extension for their customers who own an iPhone.

    Enterprise users can also leverage the cost-saving benefits of VoIP by enabling their users with high quality phone calls wherever there is a broadband connection.

    Media5-Fone is now available in the Apple App Store.

    Other features of the Media5-Fone include:

    • Voice Mail Integration
    • Loudspeaker
    • VoIP over Wi-Fi
    • Native Contacts List
    • Hold
    • Easy Configuration
    • Call History
    • Mute

  • NetAlly VoIP Assessment Software Eliminates Deployment Risk


    Fluke Networks has released a new version of its NetAlly VoIP Assessment and Troubleshooting Software designed to help eliminate risk associated with deploying or expanding VoIP services.

    Version 7.0 of the package works by assessing the current state of the network and previewing the service before it is deployed on that network.

    This allows maximum call volume and call quality to be determined quickly, while saving money by reducing post-deployment troubleshooting, according to the company.

    Assessing a network, a requirement of many leading IP PBX manufacturers, makes VoIP deployments faster, more successful and less costly.

    However, a recent Gartner Research report highlighted the fact that some enterprises and integrators still do not perform proper predeployment assessments of the enterprise network.

    It said this often leads to unplanned additional costs or deployment delays.

    NetAlly claims its software shortens installation time periods by performing proper network assessments, detecting deficiencies in the network and pinpointing where corrective actions and fine-tuning need to take place.

    The company offers users a preview of the VoIP service as it will be delivered over a production IP network.

    It says that, unlike network simulation software, the package generates traffic over the actual network and provides responses based on real-world measurements.

    This allows IT professionals to determine if there is sufficient network capacity to support a proposed VoIP project.

    NetAlly version 7.0 is the result of Fluke Networks’ acquisition of key technology from Viola Networks, announced in August 2008.

    The new software version is available for immediate delivery worldwide.

  • VOICECON: 8×8 Intros Enterprise Version of Hosted IP PBX Service


    8×8 today announced the availability of an enterprise version of its hosted IP PBX phone service.

    The solution is intended for deployment in larger organizations located in either a single building, a campus environment or distributed across multiple locations.

    Called 8×8 Virtual Office Enterprise, it is the latest generation of 8×8’s broadband agnostic hosted IP PBX business phone solutions.

    Bryan Martin, 8×8 chairman and CEO, said that unlike premise-based PBX phone systems that require a significant financial investment plus management and maintenance resources, the business phone solution delivers advanced PBX calling features combined with cost-effective IP dial tone service.

    He said this eliminated the need for expensive on-site equipment.

    "Core enhancements to the Virtual Office hosted PBX platform and additional redundancy in our network now enable us to offer this solution to larger organizations that are analyzing the cost and functionality of their current telecommunications infrastructure alongside a requirement for high quality, availability and redundancy from this mission critical service," he said.

    8×8 recently upgraded its service infrastructure, deploying a new triple redundant architecture across three independent data centers with each data center connected to redundant IP access providers.

    Martin said this new architecture allows for failure of any software component, server, cluster or even a complete data center failure without affecting service to the end customer.