February 09, 2009
CyberData Adds Features to its VoIP Intercom
By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor
The latest release of CyberData’s VoIP Intercom includes enhanced features that differentiate the product from the existing IP intercoms in the market, and offers more secure access control functions.
Noting that they have enabled their intercoms to be intelligent, Phil Lembo, president and CEO of CyberData from his Monterey, CA (News - Alert) office said that the enhancements were made based on feedback received by their customers who have become increasingly concerned about security and want an intercom that can do more than just make or receive calls.
CyberData (News - Alert), a major OEM design and manufacturing firm, develops peripheral devices for VoIP phone systems that facilitate legacy migration to VoIP as well as provides IP equivalents to existing analog phone devices and delivers Unified Communications (News - Alert)-based Application Specific Endpoints.
CyberData’s new VoIP Intercom now includes a Peer-to-Peer feature that enables the device to call directly to another SIP endpoint without requiring a SIP server. Also, included in the product, are Door Open and Tamper Event Notification and Relay and Button Control. The former directs an audio warning message and the latter are advanced control options that can activate the relay and control of the button and its indicator light.
The company made headlines last month when Centennial School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania installed CyberData's VoIP Ceiling Speakers and AcroVista’s BellCommander to provide general paging, scheduled audio, and emergency notifications at Klinger Middle School, in the town of Southampton.
CyberData's SIP-enabled VoIP Speaker, a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE 802.3af) and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) public address loudspeaker, can easily connect into existing local area networks with a single cable connection.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi