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By Doug Mohney, on October 2nd, 2010 While I was running around at Metaswitch Forum last week, Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing.com) introduced Global Crossing Connect Solutions, a family of apps for collaboration built around a standard API. The pair of new apps expand how its customers can use Global Crossing Ready-Access collaboration services.
Global Crossing Connect Desktop enables users to join and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 29th, 2010 Avaya (www.avaya.com) and Skype (www.skype.com) announced much big love and a strategic partnership today. But the meat of the agreement won’t be implemented until the second half of 2011. And it’s not exclusive.
In “Phase 1,” Avaya customers will have “access” to Skype Connect, so anyone running a SIP-based IP PBX will be able [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 7th, 2010 Aculab (www.aculab.com) has rolled out AMS Server, its applications development platform.
AMS Server enables developers to access the telephony and media server functionality of Aculab’s Prosody S Host Media Processing (HMP) platform using high-level object-oriented programming languages.
Languages supported via API include C# and Python. Aculab says AMS server can reduce development time by [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 16th, 2010 Newly launched eZuce (www.ezuce.com) comes with some familiar names in the IP PBX world. Hoping onto the UC bandwagon – ok, so everyone is these days – eZuce openUC is bragging about seven years of development through SIPfoundry efforts.
Founder Steinmann started up SIPfoundry and the sipXecs project in 2004, along with morphing [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 20th, 2010 Junction Networks (www.junctionnetworks.com) has partnered with DiTech Network’s PhoneTag voicemail-to-text service.
OnSIP customers will now be able to sign up for PhoneTag V2T (voicemail-to-text) service to get the whole, well, voicemail-to-text thing directly to their email inbox; a .WAV file is attached for listening as well.
The first week is free. After [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 9th, 2010 Digium (www.digium.com) has announced the availability of Switchvox Mobile applications for iPhone and Blackbeery. The freely downloadable apps integrate with the Switchvox VoIP/UC solution to bring “advanced UC” functionality to users when they are away from the office.
The Switchvox Mobileapps are connected to an employee’s phone extension so when mobile workers make a [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 3rd, 2010 CounterPath (www.counterpath.com) has launched Bria for Linux, the latest OS the company is supporting; Mac and Windows clients are already available.
Bria for Linux is already deployed at two Fortune 500 companies and is also available for embedded products ranging from mobile handsets to set-topboxes. The new software supports Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04, multiple [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 21st, 2010 HP, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Logitech/LifeSize and Polycom have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF). The organization (www.ucif.org) “seeks to unify” the fragmented UC ecosystem by enabling standards-based inter-vendor UC communications interoperability – i.e. what enterprise customers really want.
Other companies signing up for the effort include Acme Packet, Aspect, AudioCodes, Broadcom, BroadSoft, Brocade, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 25th, 2010 Digium (www.digium.com) has formally announced dates and places for AstriCon 2010. (www.astricon.net).
This year’s event will take place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, just outside of Washington D.C., on October 26-28, 2010.
FYIs on getting to the Gaylord from local hubs
Please note travelers take my advice at their own [...]
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