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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, (JANUARY 23, 2008) — Multi-Tech® Systems, Inc. today announced it will have the latest version of its unified communications solutions product portfolio on display at TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO East 2008, January 23-25, 2008 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida (www.itexpo.com).

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held January 23-25, 2008, is the world’s largest and best-attended IP Communications trade show. Last year’s east coast event, held in South Florida in January, drew over 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. The upcoming show in January will be the 17th INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and TMC projects total attendance to exceed 7,500.

"Multi-Tech’s participation at INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO exemplifies why this show is widely recognized as the #1 venue where service providers, enterprises, government agencies, developers and resellers gather to learn about the benefits inherent in IP Communications products and services," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President. "The evolution in this industry has been monumental and it still continues to grow. We are proud to have Multi-Tech and its unified communications solutions as a key part of this year’s program."Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., a leading data communications and telecommunications technology company based in suburban Minneapolis provides a number of unified communications elements within its product line. For the multiple location business, there is the opportunity to network existing phone systems together using MultiVOIP® Gateways. From the fax perspective, if a company is not currently sending faxes directly to the desktop, the FaxFinder® Fax Server can enhance existing phone systems to allow inbound faxes to be delivered to the desktop while enabling outbound faxes to be sent from the desktop. And with the heavy use of cellular phones in today’s business environment, the CallFinder® Cellular Gateways enable voice call toll reduction by routing calls over less expensive cellular networks. The CallFinder also provides emergency calling in case PSTN service is not available.

"INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO has always been all about communications technologies that will help ensure future success to organizations of all sizes including SMBs," states Mike Kydd, Vice President of Sales for Multi-Tech Systems. "At this year’s show we are all about how to add different aspects of unified communications to your existing telephony equipment. The three unified communications elements described here can be added to existing phone systems today. Some or all are appropriate for existing systems depending on the nature of the data infrastructure, the kind of phone systems used, and whether cellular phones are involved. Typically, all are in play with more possibilities from Multi-Tech on the horizon. For instance, we have a product called the SMSFinder™ which is a turnkey SMS Server that brings SMS communications to SMBs. It allows companies to use SMS for business communications, and we will soon add the tools to make those communications part of an integrated unified communications system using existing telephone equipment. The point is that our products allow customers to start gaining some of the benefits of unified communications today without replacing expensive telephone equipment, and those benefits can save money and increase productivity."

For additional information on Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., please visit our Web site at www.multitech.com.

Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or at drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

About Multi-Tech

Multi-Tech Systems is an ISO 9001:2000 certified global manufacturer of telephony, Internet and device networking products connecting voice and data over IP networks. Multi-Tech Systems has 75 U.S. patents and numerous international patents. Contact Multi-Tech in the U.S. at 800/328-9717 or +763/785-3500, via fax at +763/785-9874, EMEA at T: +(44) 118 959 7774 (UK) or T: +(33) 1 49 19 22 06 (France), or via fax at F: +(44) 118 959 7775 (UK) or F: +(33) 1 49 19 21 00 (France)

About TMC®

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 1,600 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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With VoIP IP Telephony services taking over the world,(Just Kidding). Jokes aside the VoIP is set to become part of the day to day life like telephone and TV did a while ago in our society. As with any service or product that is going to be used every house hold, VoIP reseller business opportunities are increasing along with it. The general populace is bitting into VoIP IP Telephony, bite at a time due to rich bundled capabilities of the service.
So how do I get in to this VoIP IP Telephony Business? TMCNet, a longtime VoIP and Internet Telephony expert house, tell you how to.
Follow The best way to step into the field of VoIP.

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A few months ago, there was a Splogger, a person who steals other peoples posts word for word, started copying my posts but without any reference. I was sad and angry. The splogger was voipniche dot com. This splogger has been copying other people’s posts as well. It was clearly a site developed for adsense and I left a few comments to him asking not to do it but did not stop. But suddenly Adsense was gone and he stopped taking my posts. I was happy for it.
Today I read at Tom Keating’s blog about another splogger (solokay @ Solomon’s VoIP World), Copying TMCNet’s blog posts, including, well respected Rich Tehrani’s posts. This guy is so good that he managed even to get in to Tom’s blog roll!
I myself have referenced both Tom’s and Rich’s blog article and continue to read their blogs (and TMCNet) as they provide you with a wealth of information. I hope Solomon comes to his senses and stop what he is doing. I learned to reference other from Andy’s VoIPWatch, I like his style.
Tom Keatings post
Rich reacts; ( also read his article, how to beat your wife properly! ;))

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A few months ago, there was a Splogger, a person who steals other peoples posts word for word, started copying my posts but without any reference. I was sad and angry. The splogger was voipniche dot com. This splogger has been copying other people’s posts as well. It was clearly a site developed for adsense and I left a few comments to him asking not to do it but did not stop. But suddenly Adsense was gone and he stopped taking my posts. I was happy for it.
Today I read at Tom Keating’s blog about another splogger (solokay @ Solomon’s VoIP World), Copying TMCNet’s blog posts, including, well respected Rich Tehrani’s posts. This guy is so good that he managed even to get in to Tom’s blog roll!
I myself have referenced both Tom’s and Rich’s blog article and continue to read their blogs (and TMCNet) as they provide you with a wealth of information. I hope Solomon comes to his senses and stop what he is doing. I learned to reference other from Andy’s VoIPWatch, I like his style.
Tom Keatings post
Rich reacts; ( also read his article, how to beat your wife properly! ;))

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

A few months ago, there was a Splogger, a person who steals other peoples posts word for word, started copying my posts but without any reference. I was sad and angry. The splogger was voipniche dot com. This splogger has been copying other people’s posts as well. It was clearly a site developed for adsense and I left a few comments to him asking not to do it but did not stop. But suddenly Adsense was gone and he stopped taking my posts. I was happy for it.
Today I read at Tom Keating’s blog about another splogger (solokay @ Solomon’s VoIP World), Copying TMCNet’s blog posts, including, well respected Rich Tehrani’s posts. This guy is so good that he managed even to get in to Tom’s blog roll!
I myself have referenced both Tom’s and Rich’s blog article and continue to read their blogs (and TMCNet) as they provide you with a wealth of information. I hope Solomon comes to his senses and stop what he is doing. I learned to reference other from Andy’s VoIPWatch, I like his style.
Tom Keatings post
Rich reacts; ( also read his article, how to beat your wife properly! ;))

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Security and managing threats are the last thing you want to consider when you are bringing up a Unified Communications (UC) project or Enterprise wide VoIP deployment. Because you would think that the security and firewalls already enabled will take care of and this sort of things will come around when necessary.
But the potential security implications of extending their VoIP/UC network over public and/or untrusted networks need to be addressed in very unique way. VoIP/UC threats are very different from data threats, and your usual firewalls and security measures might allow hackers to carry out spoofing and denial-of-service attacks, unwanted reboots, unauthorized toll calls (toll fraud), and to take over the device to either steal or delete confidential data.
(There were two hackers who made more than 500,000 calls through well known VoIP service providers.)

So to deploy VoIP/UC securely, there are a number of security best practices that must be followed to prevent attacks and minimize risk.
Best practices exist that allow enterprises to benefit from UC and maintain secure networks. These best practices are the topic of an upcoming Webinar, “VoIP Security Best Practices: Preventing Attacks and Managing Risk,” hosted by Sipera Systems.

The Webinar will guide you through;

• the unique threats that target the enterprise VoIP/UC networks and users;
• the new VoIP/UC security best practices and the data security ones needed for VoIP/UC;
• the shortcomings of existing data security products in satisfying all best practices; and
• the requirements for a comprehensive VoIP/UC security solution.

Presenter

Eric Winsborrow Chief Marketing Officer Sipera Systems

Eric Winsborrow joined Sipera Systems in 2007 with 20 years of experience in both security and unified communications. As Chief Marketing Officer, Eric is responsible for Sipera’s marketing, product management and business development.

Prior to Sipera, Eric was the VP of Product Marketing for McAfee, where he conceived and executed the most successful launch in company history, Total Protection solutions, repositioning the company from anti-virus to security risk management. Eric also held executive positions at security companies, including Symantec and Sygate, and unified communications vendors Cisco, Lucent and Nortel.

Eric conducted his undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics and Economics at McMaster University in Canada, and completed his MBA in International Business and Marketing in Japan.

Erik Linas Associate Editor,Technology Marketing Corporation

In addition to his work with TMC’s IP Communications publications, Erik is a contributor to TMCnet. Prior to joining the TMC team, he was Managing Editor at Global Custodian, a global securities services publication, where he also managed the magazine’s survey research. Erik began his professional career at management consulting firm Leadership Research Institute.The Webinar, led by Eric Winsborrow at Sipera and Erik Linask at Technology Marketing Corporation, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 6, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT).

Please Register for the Webinar here.

I found about this first at TMCNet

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Waiting for Microsoft VoIP solutions, two my favorite news publishers said that people better get ready for it and the SPs, service providers are getting ready for supporting OCS systems. Tech Republic said in it’s summary of a long article;
"Microsoft OCS 2007 provides enterprise-level VoIP and integrates with Exchange 2007 for full-fledged unified communications. However, as with other enterprise services, deployment can be a complex process. Many businesses will probably find it best to engage the services of a specialist to get it up and running."
CRN said that "Channel partners are gearing up for the flood of new business opportunities expected to flow their way as Microsoft jumps into the VoIP market with its long-awaited unified communications portfolio."
TMCnet did even better, it went out and interviewed one such service provider, Nuvio;
"With the release of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 right around the corner, TMCnet got curious how the new software will affect other IP communications vendors. One such company is Nuvio, provider of the nPBX phone system for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Jason Talley, co-founder and CEO at Nuvio, shared his perspective on the OCS launch and the broader unified communications market.", a must read to even a get an idea how these people view OCS.I hope these people become Windows Experts too. I have seen how windows servers got bloated since I beta tested Windows Server 4. I have seen people trying very hard to get exchange server and portal server working together. (Just ask Cisco why they moved Call Manager to Linux platform.)By experts I mean not those carry the badge MCSE and the like. (Just last month I saw a person who just barely knew windows becoming a MCSE, just after a week at a boot camp. Even the person who passed it felt let down.) People who knows how to handle those Window servers will be really needed. Because incompetent engineer trying to bring such complex system together only will drive most of the customers in the Asterisk or Digium way!

Tech Republic Is Microsoft VoIP ready for prime time?

CRN Partners Bulking Up Ahead Of Microsoft VoIP Launch

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NTERNET TELEPHONY, a leading VoIP authority since 1998, is awarding the product of the year in many a fields related to VoIP IP Telephony during TMC’s IMS Expo is recognized as a distinctly important forum on next generation networks, and is being held at the Broward County Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

"INTERNET TELEPHONY is the only magazine that focuses on providing information in IP communications technologies. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software and services. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that’s 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, INTERNET TELEPHONY has 55,000 dedicated readers." And the Editor-in-Chief, Rich Tehrani, has been a leading figure in the communications field for a long time.
Internet Telephony Mag will have full list of awards on it’s February issue. Many a companies and products have been recognized and awarded for their work in the field of VoIP IP Telephony.
I have been a reader of the magazine for almost a decade and it is one of the print magazines that I still read!
The 2006 award receivers include;
Dialogic, Teletech, Nominium, Patton, SIPdev.org, objectworld, Centillium, CTI Group to name a few.
The complete list will be available online at ITMAG site. Follow the links.

Internet Telephony Magazine
TMCnet

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The Internet Telephony Magazines Internet Telephony Conference and Expo will be held in Fort Laurdale, Florida, Broward County Convention Center.
The dates are;
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East
Conference Dates: January 23-26, 2007
Exhibit Dates: January 24-26, 2007

Rich Tehrani has an exclusive Show Blog that keep you updated as things happen. See links for the Show Blog.
Also Rich tells us that already people from 68 countries have registered for the show. From the past experiences, I have been very happy with Internet Telephony conferences and always try to be at every show due to the rich resources that are in the communication field gathered in one place. A visit to the Show’s web site (Links will take you there) will show you the list of sponsors and exibitors. So mark your Calendar, and be there. There is still time to register and find a hotel!
The Conference and Expo will be co hosted with Call Center 2.0, The Premier Technology Event for Call Center Decision Makers and IMS EXPO, The Premier Global Event on IP Multimedia Subsystem.
Links
Rich’s article about 68 countries
Rich Tehrani’s show Blog
Internet Telephony Conference and Expo

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TMCnets Cindy Waxer reports that Yahoo has selected VSNL Singapore Pte Ltd., the international arm of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, and its voice peering and termination services to exchange high quality VoIP traffic on a global basis and provide premium international retail call termination for Yahoo!’s VOIP IP Telephony services.
For the complete report follow the link.

Links;
TMCnet article
Cindy Waxer’s column

Source: voipcentral.org

Hub of Bloggers like Tom Keating, Rich Tehrani, Greg Galitzine, Erik Lagerway, Al Bredenberg and likes launched an portal on Information Technology Today. A great place to find news, articles and stories.

Via VoIP Blog