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| 08/21/2006 Voicecon Highlights Shifting Industry |
Voicecon Highlights Shifting Industry, New VOIP Products
By Paula Musich August 21, 2006
Along with the usual lineup of new product offerings, the buzz at the 2006's VoiceCon Fall conference on Aug. 21 will be about the changing shape of the industry, unified messaging and about securing IP Telephony applications.
With Microsoft entering the VOIP (voice over IP) space earlier in the summer of 2006 with its Unified Communications Initiative and partnership with Nortel; a new CEO at the helm of Avaya; the proposed merger of Alcatel and Lucent; and much speculation swirling about Siemens Communications Enterprise Group being acquired or merging with another company, the industry is in flux, according to VoiceCon General Manager Fred Knight. (More)
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| 08/16/2006 IP Phone Growth in 'Huge Spike' |
IP Phone Growth in 'Huge Spike'
By Paula Musich August 16, 2006
The sale of IP phones went through the roof over the last year, and especially in the second quarter, with shipments growing 53 percent over the last year and 23.8 percent from the first to the second quarter, according to report just released by Synergy Research Group.
The research report, which looked at the worldwide market for enterprise IP telephony equipment, pegged growth for the entire market at 30.4 percent year-to-year and 13.7 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2006.
Worldwide revenue for enterprise IP telephony, which includes LAN telephony, pure IP telephony, the converged market and IP phones, approached $1.2 billion. "This quarter was a huge spike just in itself," said SRG co-analyst Ryan Olsen in Reno, Nev. (More )
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| 05/23/2006 Linksys Launches 802.11g VOIP Phones |
Linksys said Thursday that it has begun shipping its WIP300 and WIP330 802.11g IP phones.
ADVERTISEMENT The WIP300 and WIP330 are available immediately through authorized Linksys distributors with estimated street prices of $219.99 and $369.99 respectively, the company said. Additional products from the Linksys family of WiFi phones will be launched in the second half of 2006.
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| 10/25/2005 VoIP for Small Business |
Recently, there has been a big push for voice over IP (VoIP) in the home. But being able to use your broadband connection to make phone calls can be good news for small businesses. We look at several options available from Avaya, Shoretel, Switchbox, and 3Com to find one that could help move your small company ahead. More
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| 10/24/2005 Shoretel 6 Is a Good VOIP Call |
Shoretel 6, the latest version of ShoreTel's distributed IP telephony platform, places new emphasis on interoperability, reliability, security and usability, making it an attractive alternative for small and midsize businesses looking for an advanced voice platform. More
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| 10/17/2005 Nortel Sets Strategy to Hone Focus on Software |
Nortel Networks says it will further hone its focus on high-margin software to boost profits as its traditional telecom hardware faces increasing competition from low-cost rivals. More
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| 10/03/2005 Skype's Next Phase |
Skype's Lenn Pryor sits down with ExtremeVOIP to discuss the company's integration plans, Skype as a development platform, and how Skype will migrate from the PC and to the mobile phone. More
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| 10/03/2005 New Skype Adds Call Forwarding, Ringtones |
Skype launches Version 1.4 of its VOIP software for the Windows platform, adding call forwarding and the ability to add customized ring tones. More
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| 10/03/2005 Regulators Give Some VOIP Operators More Time |
Thousands of VOIP subscribers won't have their service disrupted when new emergency dialing rules go into effect. More
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| 10/03/2005 N-Able Adds VOIP Service |
Voice over IP is one of those technologies that has been coming for a long time, but the market has been slow to adopt it. Now managed services platform vendor N-Able wants to accelerate VOIP adoption with a remote monitoring service for VARs. More
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| 09/26/2005 Qwest & Microsoft Partner for VoIP |
Qwest Communications International plans to be the first telephone carrier to integrate Microsoft's software for enhancing voice over IP, aiming to make the combined technology available to small and midsize businesses next year. More
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| 09/28/2005 VoIP Conference |
The VOIP and Collaboration Conference will help you understand how the transition from TDM- to IP-based voice systems will occur within the context of the enterprise network as a whole. Explore ways in which collaborative applications will use the converged voice-data infrastructure to provide greater productivity within the enterprise. Learn to recognize trends in VOIP and collaboration, and to plan strategies for implementing the right systems and architectures to get the most out of the new technologies. Discover ways to ensure investment protection and lay the groundwork for IP networks to carry future generations of voice and other real-time traffic, in conjunction with devices and applications that are not traditionally thought of as voice-centric. Enterprise networking professionals will gain a thorough understanding of the technical requirements for deploying and managing VOIP and collaborative systems. More
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