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Packet8 675xi VoIP for the SMB

I missed the 8x8/Packet8 news on July 16th about its new hosted small office "key" system and plug-and-play IP phones. Joan Citelli, Director of Corporate Communications emailed me asking for a briefing, but apparently I never replied since her email...

Posted on July 24, 2008 10:22 AM

BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one

Some BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one. First, TMC put out a release about BroadSoft keynoting the next ITEXPO, the leading VoIP conference: The energy behind the upcoming ITEXPO West 2008 (www.ITEXPO.com), the industry's only Major...

Posted on July 16, 2008 1:09 PM

Dell picks Fonality VoIP Phone System

I missed my early meeting today with Fonality CEO Chris Lyman about some blockbuster news he wanted to share being announced at ITEXPO. Fortunately, as administrator of the blog server I happened to be checking out Rich's blog entries to...

Posted on January 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Free IP-PBX!

Avaya is offering a free IP-PBX for SMBs that are looking for the latest and greatest in communications technology but can't afford it. Ok, it's not quite "free". It's free for the first 2 years via a 0% lease (no...

Posted on October 24, 2007 9:26 AM

Unified Communications Deployment Blues

Today, unified communications is being touted by many, including Microsoft with their Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) due out later this year and Cisco with their aptly named  Cisco Unified Communications. Unified communications often combines many or all of...

Posted on August 29, 2007 11:54 AM

Siemens targets the SMB VoIP market with P2P HiPath BizIP solution

Siemens Communications Inc. today announced its HiPath BizIP offering, a new peer-to-peer SIP VoIP phone system that negated the need for a complex enterprise network telephone system. Conceptually, this is similar to Popular Telephony or Nimcat Networks (now part of...

Posted on May 1, 2006 1:51 PM

CompUSA to offer Covad broadband

Covad and CompUSA have announced a deal to offer Covad's broadband in 168 stores nationwide. CompUSA and Covad have created what they are claiming is "a total technology solution for the very small business market". According to Covad, small business...

Posted on January 25, 2006 5:06 PM

Avaya and Vonage strange bedfellows

Today Vonage, along with three other companies, was recognized by Avaya with the new Avaya Intelligent Communications Innovation Award "for their innovative approaches to weave communications into the fabric of their business". Maybe it's just me, but Avaya and Vonage...

Posted on January 12, 2006 4:39 PM

TalkSwitch and BroadVoice target the SMB with a VoIP solution

I'm a huge fan of TalkSwitch's VoIP products designed for the SMB and have tested a few of their products. For instance, TMC Labs (of which I am a part of) reviewed the Talkswitch 48-LS about three years ago and...

Posted on December 7, 2005 12:01 PM

VoIP Guru Declares 2006 the Year of VoIP for Small and Medium Business

A VoIP "guru" is claiming 2006 as the year of VoIP for the SMB market. Yeah, tell me something I didn't know already.VoIP Guru Declares 2006 the Year of VoIP for Small and Medium BusinessIncreased use of VoIP in the...

Posted on November 16, 2005 10:39 AM

D-Link enters SMB IP-PBX market

Didn't I warn you D-Link to announce an SMB IP-PBX before Linksys? Did I not say, "Now that I have made this prediction (Linksys developing SMB IP-PBX) watch competitors D-Link or SMC Networks scramble to beat Linksys to the punch....

Posted on November 15, 2005 12:45 PM

Linksys One

On June 15, I made a bold prediction about Linksys. I predicted, "I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction that Linksys will sell a turnkey, "plug and play" SOHO IP-PBX in 2006 ". I received...

Posted on November 13, 2005 11:59 PM

Security concerns slow VoIP adoption for small and medium businesses

Looks like yet another survey is claiming SMBs are slow to deploy VoIP - with one of the major concerns being security. You wouldn't think this would be the case since SMBs tend to move faster than larger organizations. There...

Posted on October 25, 2005 8:13 PM

Cisco targets SMB

I had a conference call last week to discuss Cisco's major push into the SMB (small-to-medium)-sized market. I've been meaning to blog about the call with Cisco and Cisco targetting the SMB market with a plethora of new products, but...

Posted on September 19, 2005 9:44 PM

Linksys Loves VoIP

I came across an interesting article on Linksys that once again points to the possibility that my prediction that Linksys would enter the VoIP consumer/SMB market with a SOHO IP-PBX just may happen by the end of the year. In...

Posted on June 29, 2005 3:32 PM

Linksys Targets SMB

In a recent blog I predicted Linksys would target the SMB market with a plug-and-play SOHO /SMB IP-PBX. This bit of Linksys news comes close to that prediction .The Linksys division of Cisco is teaming up with VoIP provider engin...

Posted on June 22, 2005 10:27 PM

Linksys Secretly Developing SOHO IP-PBX?

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction that Linksys will sell a turnkey, "plug and play" SOHO IP-PBX in 2006. LinkSys will announce this as early as December of this year. How do I...

Posted on June 15, 2005 10:11 AM

SOHO VoIP Gadget

The link below is an interesting article talking about a VoIP gadget targetting the small office/home office (SOHO). It features some cool features, including the ability to use your voice remotely to access your computers, program your DVD players and...

Posted on October 6, 2004 9:58 AM