How to choose a router for your business If you have laptops, netbooks, or desktops that assistance a wireless regular that's older than that of your wireless router or access points, you can upgrade them with a PCI card, PCIe card, PCMCIA card, or USB wireless adapter. Read a lot more on Computerworld Australia Read more »
8×8 Celebrates 25 Years
8x8 has a birthday. They're now 25 years old. The company has had a lot of transitions, but the core to their business is a patent portfolio that puts things inside real time communications hardware and software. Here's a list of their milestones: 8x8 Highlights and Milestones: 1987 - 8x8 founded under the name Integrated Information Technology 1990 - Company establishes itself as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors used in embedded videoconferencing and videophone products 1990 - Bryan Martin hired as “Member of Technical Staff” and ultimately becomes CEO in 2002 1992 - Patented Vision Processor Chip chosen by AT&T... Read more »
8×8 Celebrates 25 Years
8x8 has a birthday. They're now 25 years old. The company has had a lot of transitions, but the core to their business is a patent portfolio that puts things inside real time communications hardware and software. Here's a list of their milestones: 8x8 Highlights and Milestones: 1987 - 8x8 founded under the name Integrated Information Technology 1990 - Company establishes itself as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors used in embedded videoconferencing and videophone products 1990 - Bryan Martin hired as “Member of Technical Staff” and ultimately becomes CEO in 2002 1992 - Patented Vision Processor Chip chosen by AT&T... Read more »
Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony Data Sheet
Understand how Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Website Telephony provides telephony backup services to assist ensure that the branch workplace has continuous telephony service. For more information: www.cisco.com Learn how Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Web site Telephony empowers branch offices to serve buyers successfully and conduct your business with no interruption. For more information pay a [...] Read more »
Why Avaya Needs Radvision or Vidyo
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago eWeek and a few others picked up on the rumor that Avaya (the spinoff of Lucent and really Bell Labs) from over a decade ago was looking to purchase Radvision, long an inventor of real time communications technology out of Israel and New Jersey. The reason for the interest in Radvision is two-fold. Video and patents. Avaya should have been in the hunt for Skype, and likely was for a bit, but they got bested by Microsoft. Their primary business is IP-PBX's and desktop IP phones. Video is a also a part of... Read more »
Alarm via IP Phone
Alarm by way of IP Telephone By ANDTEK GmbH The Swiss commune Oberwil is operating with a central, effortless and dependable alarm method management through IP phones now, with out additional installation and operation expenses. Employing "AND Telephone Broadcast" each and every employee receives an data as … Read more on Sacramento Bee VoIP Telephone [...] Read more »
CounterPath Gets Distribution
Image via CrunchBase There are four parts to marketing that we learned in Marketing 101. They are called the four P’s. Price. Product. Promotion and Place. As long as I’ve been working in technology, one of the most misunderstood and weakest areas of effort is place. And place = distribution and distribution = sales. Many companies in technology today think that sales is all about the web site. Well in technology sales two companies that sell better in the business verticals than anyone are Cisco and DELL. Cisco routers are the staple of the industry, while Dell servers power more... Read more »
Skype Deal Officially Closed – Now A Microsoft Division
After clearing all the regulatory hurdles in the EU and USA, Skype is now a division of Microsoft. For the first few months we likely won't see much change in how Skype behaves, but over time, we will. For many Skype users the change won't impact them, but for some, expect to see some things end. My predictions-no more effort on business, especially the Enterprise. The departure of David Gurle a few months back was the tell in that direction, but other moves have also been made, including an internal resturtucturing over the last few months that has realigned power... Read more »
Panasonic Gets The Cloud
Image via CrunchBase Panasonic, long only thought of as a consumer brand--which they're not only--has entered the cloud communications space with support from Broadsoft. The new entry to the market is simply called Panasonic Cloud. Simply put, the company which once rejected ad great Jerry Della Famina's ad agency to work with them when you suggested the line "from the people who brought you Pearl Harbor" is about to make a strafing run at the US Small and Medium Business market with a $39.95 a month per line charge, after the purchase of equipment that runs $299 for one corded... Read more »
Nice To See He’s Back Too-Alec Saunders
Image by brycej via Flickr He's been swamped making Calliflower a rock solid flat rate conferencing platform. And his blogging suffered. And now...HE's BACK. The he is Alec Saunders who for a while was spending more time running his business and a lot less time blogging. Well, he's back. And that's a good thing. Alec is one of the few bloggers out there who has the experience and the chops to back up what he writes about. So I say...(to the theme of Welcome Back, Kotter. Welcome Back!!! I can relate to blogging suffering while business focus takes over. In... Read more »
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