2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Awards

By: Erik Linask

With another year behind us, it’s time once again to highlight the many products that have contributed not only to the growth of the IP communications market, but have helped countless businesses continue to thrive in a year overshadowed by a global recession.

The range of products, applications, and services among this year’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year winners embody the very nature of IP networking and the innovation it has spurred. Some have evolved from their PSTN brethren, while others represent a new breed of communications technology, made possible by the convergence of voice and data packets on converged networks, both fixed and mobile.

As a whole, this list of winners also represents the growing breadth of coverage readers have come to expect in not only INTERNET TELEPHONY, but on TMCnet and at ITEXPO (News - Alert) as well. Regardless of your line of business, whether you are a carrier, a consumer-facing contact center, a distribution partner, a small business owner, or a telephony developer, among these Product of the Year winners is a selection of products that have been developed to enhance your ability to deliver quality to your customers, leveraging IP communications, from Ethernet switches to IP PBXs, from surveillance cameras to hosted VoIP solutions, from test suites to IP phones, and much more.

The editorial team of INTERNET TELEPHONY congratulates this year’s winners, a worthy starting point for finding the very best products to help your business remain competitive in today’s market. But please, do not rely on this list alone. Be sure to refer back to the INTERNET TELEPHONY Buyer’s Guide in the December issue (also available online at TMCnet.com), and do your due diligence before making a purchasing decision. IT

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