By Doug Mohney, on February 4th, 2010
Among the news I’m catching up on from IT EXPO East 2010 is the team up between Dialogic and Ingate to build Ingate’s SIP Trunking software module into a new enterprise border element designed to connect “virtually any” (well, it is virtual…) SIP trunk with virtually any PBX.
Goodness is expected in seamless SIP trunk deployments [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 29th, 2010
Down in Miami last week, all the buzz was around FREETALK Connect, an PBX solution built to leverage Skype.
FREETALK Connect is schedule to roll out in March and will allow SBs (two to 49 users) to enable Skype calls from supported office phones, including the “free” Skype-to-Skype calls, mange Skype contact lists, and get inbound [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 9th, 2009
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Last week, I and about 26 other analysts and media were in Huntsville, Alabama as guests of ADTRAN. The company was making its introductory launch of a unified communications (UC) software solution — [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 17th, 2009
Glendale AZ & Washington DC – As Digium celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Asterisk IP telephony platform this week at the AstriCon developer’s conference with cake and funny hats, this year’s keynote presentation by IBM CTO Mike Smith drifted into the mundane and dull — a very good thing.
Smith, brought in to talk about [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 1st, 2009
ChannelWeb reports that Microsoft is wishy-washy about what will to happen with it’s Response Point SMB VoIP system.
Meeting with VoIP VARs, Response Point Program Manager John Frederickson said Microsoft doesn’t currently plan to release future versions of Response Point. It will, however, continue to maintain the product and evaluate specific feature requests. The company will [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 24th, 2009
On June 27, Fonality starts the first round of its mixed martial arts (MMA) style “Fight club” rounds. Chris Lyman, you need to cut back on the Red Bull, brother!
They call it Fonality Fight Club. As a stunt, invitation to hit the boss, and/or stress relief, 17 Fonality staff members, will “with no previous fighting [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 10th, 2009
When the axe came down at Microsoft last week, the Response Point small business phone team took a hit. How fatal it is to the business and new product releases is up for debate amongst the peanut gallery.
Whispers of Response Point’s demise started out from an anonymous post on a blog tracking Microsoft layoffs saying [...]