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How to Use VoIP for Agency

Using VoIP for agency can be a great way to take the small business to the next level of service and communication. The introduction of voice over internet protocol, nonetheless, can be a challenging …

In-Stat Report Forecasts 40 Million IP Phone Shipments by 2015

A new In-Stat forecasts report has predicted that IP phone shipments, both consumer and business IP phones, will be in excess of 40 million units by 2015. The market movement towards IP telephone syst…

Avaya Launches IP Office 6.0

Avaya has introduced the latest version of its SMB unified communications suite, IP Office 6.0.
"Though the provider has doubled multi-site network support capacity to scale up to 1,000 users, A…

CounterPath Introduces Bria 3.0

CounterPath has introduced version 3.0 of its Bria softphone.
"Over the past year, Bria's enterprise users made three things clear: They're adding Macs, they're committed to OS X and…

CTI and CommPartners Bring Hosted Call Recording to SMB Market

CTI Group this week announced a partnership with CommPartners Connect to bring CTI's SmartRecord IP hosted VoIP call recording solution to the small and medium sized business markets.
"By par…

BroadSoft and Acme Packet Enhance Joint SIP Trunking Solution

I published an article today at VoIP Planet looking at BroadSoft and Acme Packet's recent announcement of a series of enhancements to their joint SIP trunking solution for large enterprise custome…

Verizon Business Launches Hosted OCS Offering

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At VoIP Planet, I published an article this week looking at Verizon Business' launch of a new managed service which offers a hosted version of Microso…

Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype

Belkin announced in January that they were releasing a Desktop Internet Phone for Skype. It has a color screen, supports "over 500" Skype contacts, and supports SkypeIn and SkypeOut. The pho…

Trixbox Goes 2.0, Gets More Hands Off!

Trixbox has evolved quite a bit from it's formerly Asterisk@Home, open-source roots. While it's still the open-source PBX Asterisk at it's core, there are two editions: a community-support…

Grandstream GXE 502x IP PBX

I've always been impressed at the ambition of Grandstream's IP telephones. However, I always found myself wanting more in terms of overall product stability and build quality from these two ph…