[February 4, 2003]

Grandstream Networks To Showcase Latest Innovations At TMC Internet Telephony Conference & Expo

Grandstream Networks announced it will have the latest version of it's BudgeTone SIP phone on display at TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo, February 5-7, at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Miami, FL. Internet Telephony Conference & Expo is the nation's most widely recognized event for showcasing the industry's leading cost-saving and cutting-edge IP telephony products and services.

"Grandstream's presence at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo solidifies its position as the #1 venue to test, compare, and learn about the benefits and cost-savings inherent in IP telephony products and services for all organizations," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and conference chairman. "We are proud to have Grandstream Networks and its new BudgeTone SIP phone as a key part of this year's program."

Grandstream's BudgeTone-100 series SIP phones are innovative IP telephones that offer a rich set of functionality and superb sound quality at ultra-affordable price. Starting at a low retail price of $75/ea, Grandstream's BudgeTone SIP phones offer an extremely compelling value and extraordinary savings to consumer and corporate users.

The phone features most of the popular voice functions such as Caller ID display or block, Call Waiting, Hold, Transfer, Forward, Flash, Redial, hands-free full duplex speaker phone, 3-way conferencing, call log, volume control, voice mail indicator, echo cancellation, silence suppression, in-band and out-of-band DTMF, and support for many widely used vocoders such as G.711 (a/u-law), G.723.1, G.729A/B, G.726, and G.728.

The phone also supports Layer 2 (802.1Q VLAN and 802.1p) and Layer 3 (ToS, DiffServ) QoS and can be easily configured via keypad, Web browser, or a central configuration file. Communication protocols supported by the phone includes SIP2.0 (RFC3261), TCP/UDP/IP, RTP/RTCP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, TFTP, DIGEST/BASIC authentication with MD5 and MD5-sess algorithms, and STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP thru NAT) draft standard.

The phone comes with a universal switching power adaptor (100V-240V input AC, 5V output DC). Its software can be remotely upgraded via TFTP.

Grandstream Networks has participated in the past SIPit test event and successfully completed interoperability tests with a number of vendors. The company is working with several VoIP service providers (such as Delta3) to ensure full compliance with their VoIP production network.

BudgeTone-100 SIP phones will be available for purchase at the end of this month.

[ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]