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VoIP Week in Review from TMCNet: IT EXPO Edition TMCnet Contributing Editor INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East took place January 23-26, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The VoIP Minute Watch covered some event news you may have missed while at the show…
On Tuesday, HIS Communications Services announced it chose to deploy ClearEdge Integrated Access, a voice and broadband service offering from Covad Communications to enhance the company’s business continuity features at its Houston-based headquarters. Covad made this announcement as it prepared to be a presenter at this year’s IT EXPO.
Also on Tuesday, TalkSwitch announced at IT EXPO that its telephone systems are now fully interoperable with BandTel's (News - Alert) SIP
 Trunking architecture. The move will enable customers to chose from a set of toll-quality VoIP dialing plans from BandTel, and connect to them through a TalkSwitch (News - Alert) telephone system at their office.BandTel announced this development as the company prepared for a set of presentations by its top executives at IT EXPO. Enterprises looking for a way to add VoIP
capabilities to their contact center operations by just bundling VoIP gateways with their legacy telephone lines are in luck. At IT EXPO, CosmoCom announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with SIP Trunking service provider BandTel to now offer a combined, all-IP unified customer communications platform that will offer contact centers a way to do just that.Also at IT EXPO, on Wednesday, Digium (News - Alert) and Polycom announced that, thanks to a partnership between the companies, now it will be easier for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to purchase, configure and deploy an Asterisk VoIP system featuring Polycom IP phones.
The new, integrated system features the Digium AsteriskNOW software appliance and Polycom SoundPoint IP desktop phones—all components which the companies say are needed for businesses to deploy a “high quality VoIP solution.”
Digium introduced AsteriskNOW earlier this month and is the company's first software appliance, the open source distribution of its Asterisk (News - Alert) platform, which features a Digium-designed GUI.
Voice over Packet (VOP) technology provider AudioCodes announced at IT EXPO on Thursday that it's TrunkPack PCI and cPCI form factor SIP media gateway
products just completed interoperability testing with FaxBack's NET SatisFAXtion 8.1, a T.38 VoIP fax system. The move could enable designers to now build higher performance IP-based fax systems, while needing at the same time not only to retain their existing PSTN
infrastructure, but also to avoid purchasing expensive dedicated fax blades. Designers could do this by deploying the newly available NET SatisFAXtion and AudioCodes' (News - Alert) SIP media gateways combined.There you have it folks, another exciting week in the VoIP industry! Stay tuned and read the VoIP Minute Watch for the latest news…
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page. |