Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)

IPcelerate Partners With Onit Communications

IPcelerate Inc. said Tuesday it has signed a partner agreement with Onit Communications Inc., a provider of managed IP products and services including business-class hosted PBX platforms. The company said Onit Communications is its first partner to offer both a hosted and ...More
November 14, 2006
Posted in News, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
Avaya One Initiative Unites Dealer Programs

Once again, Avaya is retooling its approach to the channel – this time with an eye toward simplifying partner engagement by offering a common platform for all dealers no matter the target market or product line. The new Global Partner Program, called Avaya One, will be ...More
November 13, 2006 By Khali Henderson
Posted in News, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
Nortel Revives Channel Strategy

Nortel Networks Ltd. has unveiled a new strategy for renewing its North American enterprise channel program. Project Renaissance places VARs at the center of plans to drive growth in the SMB segment, particularly for Nortel’s VoIP solutions. Project Renaissance Principles ...More
September 1, 2006 By Tara Seals
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
CommPartners, Linksys Partner to Sell Hosted Solution Through VARs

CommPartners announced in mid-August that it has formed a strategic partnership with Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., wherein it will host the Linksys One IP telephony platform to provide hosted IP telephony services to small businesses through Linksys VARs and ...More
September 1, 2006 By Khali Henderson
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
IP PBXs Go Portable

THE NOTION OF MOBILE connectivity is no longer simply the ability to have voice conversations using a mobile phone or to use a VPN to access company data. It encompasses remote connectivity to all the features of an enterprise’s PBX and LAN using sophisticated mobile ...More
June 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
Turn Handsets Into Desksets

AS THE MOBILE WORKFORCE continues to grow — In-Stat reports there are 20-millionto- 30-million mobile workers in the United States — and rely on wireless connectivity to do their jobs, dealers have an opportunity to help those companies streamline their communications and ...More
June 1, 2006 By Khali Henderson
Posted in Articles
IADs Make Way for Business Gateways

ADTRAN’s Total Access 900 Series supports SIP trunks, hosted PBX and other voice and data services, such as DIA, to small and medium businesses without requiring new phone system investment. DEFINING AN INTEGRATED ACCESS device has never been easy, and the technological ...More
June 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
VoIP Vendors See the Light

IN THE EARLY DAYS OF ENTERPRISE VoIP, salespeople would arrive on the doorsteps of businesses like evangelists mounting the pulpit. VoIP, they preached, would be the salvation of every business owner, miraculously saving them money and outfitting them with business ...More
May 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
The Year of Living Seamlessly

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE the typical cordless home phone is your only phone. It’s a remote handset, souped up with mobile phone keypad features, and you take it everywhere. Not only does this fantastic device work with the office system, the cell network and at home, but it ...More
April 1, 2006 By Tara Seals
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
IT’S AN SMB WORLD

LEADING MANUFACTURERS CONTINUE to target smaller businesses with new telephony platforms and applications while system introductions of larger platforms decline. Database publisher and analyst group TelecomTactics finds nearly 80 percent of new enterprise telephony systems ...More
March 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony