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The SPA962 VoIP telephone will appeal to businesses using a hosted IP telephony service, an IP PBX, or a large scale IP Centrex deployment, with it’s array of features.

Here are some features that stand out;

• Full featured six line business class IP Phone supporting Power over Ethernet 802.3af
• Connect directly to an Internet Telephone Service Provider or connect to an IP PBX
• Dual switched Ethernet ports, Speakerphone, Caller ID, Call Hold, Conferencing, and more
• Appealing Four Inch, True Color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

I like the fact that it has a color Screen!Standard features on the SPA962 include six active lines, dual switched Ethernet ports, 802.3af PoE support, a high resolution color display, speakerphone, and a 2.5 mm head-set port. Each line can be independently configured to use a unique phone number (or extension), or can be configured to use a shared number that is assigned to multiple phones. The power supply for the SPA962 is sold separately and will be required if PoE functionality is not implemented.

Comprehensive Interoperability and SIP Based Feature Set
Based on the SIP standard, the SPA962 has been tested to ensure comprehensive interoperability with equipment from VoIP infrastructure leaders enabling service providers to quickly roll-out competitive, feature rich services to their customers. With hundreds of features and configurable service parameters, the SPA962 addresses the requirements of traditional business users while leveraging the advantages of IP telephony. Features such as easy station moves, presence, and shared line appearances (across local and geographically dispersed locations) are just some of the many advantages of the SPA962.

Carrier-Grade Security, Provisioning, and Management
The SPA962 uses standard encryption protocols to provide secure remote provisioning and unobtrusive in-service software upgrades. Linksys secure remote provisioning tools include detailed performance measurement and troubleshooting features, enabling network providers to deliver high quality support to their subscribers. Remote provisioning also saves service providers the hassle and expense of managing, pre-loading, and re-configuring customer premise equipment
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TORONTO, ON/SEOUL, KOREA – October 17, 2007 – Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com), a premier provider and leader in the design, development and deployment of OSS service management solutionsand Xener Systems, Inc., (www.xener.com), a key provider of Next Generation Networks, of Seoul, Korea, have signed a strategic alliance to accelerate and collaborate on voice over IP (VoIP) solutions in Korea and Asia Pacific.

“Softswitch vendors now recognize the value of an integrated service management platform to enable operators to deliver an end-to-end solution as an integral part of a complete service delivery model,”says Sigma Systems president and COO Tim Spencer. “As such, we have forged a strategic alliance to embark on a joint marketing and sales strategy that will provide a holistic solution for Xener’s current and prospective customers in Korea and APAC.”

“With this agreement, we gain momentum to expand into new markets by taking Sigma Systems’ residential and commercial VoIP expertise and offering a value-added solution that addresses the voice needs of cable and telecommunications companies,” adds Xener Systems CEO Yong-Gu Kang. “Through our mutually beneficial business collaboration, we will leverage our own next generation network capabilities and add Sigma’s service management solutions to expand our voice services business. We will position Sigma as a valued partner as operators expand or transition services for competitive or operations scalability opportunities.”

The Sigma VoIP Service Packages provide a robust OSS service management solution that is pre-integrated to define, provision and maintain residential VoIP and hosted commercial VoIP services on IP networks. The service package encapsulates the voice services domain expertise and best practices that Sigma has gained from working closely with some of the world’s largest communication service providers since 1996. The solution is applicable to any cable, telco or broadband IP service provider looking to offer residential and/or business voice services.

“Our solution will allow quick optimization and automation of operational processes for voice services for many of Xener’s customers,” adds Spencer. “It can rapidly create new bundles of residential and commercial services, including hosted voice service for small to medium businesses (SMBs), voice mail, unified messaging, SIP residential telephony features and Centrex and IP-Centrex call features for SMBs.”

“As the VoIP service market is quickly growing in Korea and Asia Pacific, Xener has focused its efforts in enhancing responsiveness to the customers’ needs on the diverse and differentiated subscriber services by expanding its partnerships with the industry’s best-of-breed solution providers like Sigma Systems,” adds Yong-Gu Kang. Xener has maintained its leading position in NGN and VoIP solution market, deploying the core networks for most of VoIP service providers in the Korean VoIP market such as KT, Hanaro Telecom and Korea Cable Telecom (KCT), and recently extended its coverage into the enterprise IP telephony solution market with its own IP PBX and IP-Centrex solution.

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Verizon Business has announced the availability of its full VoIP portfolio for the International market, offering a full suite of VoIP solutions on a single integrated network-based VoIP platform. New enhancements to the portfolio include a Managed IP PBX service, extended European availability, local language interfaces, local ringtones and additional access methods. The full portfolio offers customers a simple and efficient way to transition their voice and data services to IP technology at their own pace, irrespective of their stage of IP implementation.

A fully Managed IP PBX service has been added to the Verizon VoIP portfolio, complementing IP Integrated Access, Hosted IP Centrex and IP Trunking services. This enables customers to outsource the implementation and management of their premises-based IP telephony systems to Verizon Business. IP Integrated Access enables customers to implement VoIP solutions whilst keeping the traditional PABX in place, whereas IP Trunking connects an IP PBX to the Verizon Business enterprise data network and public voice network using a single IP connection. Hosted IP Centrex is a robust, flexibly scalable and feature-rich VoIP service delivered from a fully hosted and managed platform. The full suite enables customers to benefit from VoIP technology no matter what their stage of IP transition.

Portfolio availability has now been extended to six European countries (adding Belgium and Luxembourg to the U.K., France, Germany and the Netherlands), with customers now also supported by local-language customer Web interfaces and local ringtones.

In addition, a greater variety of access methods, including BRI PABX connectivity for IP Integrated Access, as well as Ethernet and DSL access for all VoIP network services, has broadened the connectivity choices available to large enterprise customers with sites of varying sizes.

John Irvine, vice president of international marketing for Verizon Business, explains: "Our VoIP portfolio is recognised as an industry-leading platform for IP transition, and we’re delighted that we can now offer our full portfolio to the international market. Our customers are increasingly moving toward an integrated IP environment, and our VoIP portfolio offers a perfect platform on which they can build their future communications solutions at their own pace.

"For Verizon Business, VoIP is an enabler in the move toward a single, network-hosted IP environment, where IP-based tools such as VoIP, conferencing and Instant Messaging will all work in harmony to enhance business collaboration and performance."

Peter Hall, research director at Ovum, the analyst and consulting company, states: "Enterprise VoIP is now seeing mainstream adoption as businesses of all types increasingly recognise the benefits of VoIP. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for enterprise VoIP, and we are now seeing a broad range of solutions from leading suppliers to address the needs and pace of adoption of most businesses."

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I have known SNOM for ages, I even beta tested their IP PBX a few years ago. Now the offshoot of SNOM, 4S newcom, has released or about to release a Mac Mini based IP PBX, iBlue®, That comes to you in a iPOD shuffle .
4S newcom focuses on delivering carrier-grade software platforms to VoIP providers, ISPs and enterprises. 4S newcom delivers system, components and know-how along the full VoIP value chain: carrier-grade class-4 "dial tone systems", (on-premise) IP PBX, hosted PBX as well as IP Centrex, based on SNOM technology.

If you are to visit VON Europe, which will be hosted in Berlin between November 6th and 8th, you will be able to see touch and if you got the bucks buy one.

According to Dr. Harry Behrens, Managing Director of 4S newcom, "We have put our complete IP PBX on it [the iPod Shuffle, It is so compact that even on the smallest iPod Shuffle (512 MB) enough room is left for 4 full hours of music." Hope it will not come with 4 hours of German music. Or if it does, it might help to expelthose thse sales calls.

The iBlue® entry level system consists of a Mac mini, the iPod Shuffle with the 4S IP PBX licensed for up to 250 users and 30 parallel calls, as well as five snom300 VoIP phones. It will be priced at 2,999.00 Euro or 3762.00 Dollars. According to 4S newcom online sales will commence on November 6th 2006 - just in time for VON Europe, which will be hosted in Berlin between November 6th and 8th.

But hold it, Andy at VOIP Watch, says;
"This is similar to a Voxilla offering based on Communigate Pro. The interesting point of distinction is how much less expensive Voxilla’s system is. So you don’t get the iPOD…."
So if you already have an iPod or similar, check out his post for Voxilla link.
Links: 4s Newcom and iBlue, SNOM, VON EUROPE, VOIP Watch