Source: www.voip-news.com

It seems like every voice solution these days is aimed at the SMB sector. Left and right, providers are aiming to provide cost-effective, scalable solutions for smaller companies.

But NextPoint and Nectar Services Corp. are different. The two companies have formed a partnership to provide high-scale solutions for large global enterprises.

The partnership brings together Nectar’s Enterprise Session Management (ESM) application and portal and NextPoint’s Unified Communications Exchange, giving companies the tools to deliver interconnection capable systems over existing and new IP-PBX deployments on WANs.

“The Nectar ESM platform is a key component to the delivery of carrier- grade services to the enterprise community,” said Anthony Servidio, CEO and Chairman of Juma Technology, Nectar’s parent company. “This solution is rock solid. It truly adds comfort to clients looking for the best solution and delivers a team of professionals with the know-how and experience to guide them through this entire process. The Nectar-NextPoint solution provides enormous value every step of the way as large enterprise organizations transition to IP-convergence and unified communications platforms.”

Source: voipcentral.org

Microsoft has made a beta release of a new IP-based phone system, code-named as Response Point, which will work as an alternative to the PBX solutions and provide small and mid-sized business enterprises a number of VoIP functions including voice mail, auto attendant, voice recognition and voice-activated user interface.

The Response Point can also be dubbed as Microsoft IP PBX software, which will support the devices such as D-Link DVX-2000, Quanta Syspine and Uniden Evolo. The software giant is now discussing with these hardware companies.

Based on Micorsofts upcoming Office Communications Server 2007, the Response Point handsets will support SIP VoIP, Instant Messaging, Presence and Conference Server. It also supports Microsofts Office Communication soft clients.

The latest PBX software also enables customers to configure new phone lines or set up call distribution lists that direct incoming calls to certain lines.

Response Point-enabled phones will also be programmable to auto-dial other internal phone lines or numbers from a users Outlook contact list.

Microsoft plans to official release the new IP-Phone system by the end of this year.