snom adjusts 8 series VoIP phone pricing
Getting into one of snom’s great new 8 series phones just got a lot less expensive.
Earlier this week snom sent notice to its channel partners that they’ve changed the MSRP and street pricing for both the snom 820 and snom 870. These new price points make snom’s top of the line VoIP phones more competitive against similar offerings from the likes of Cisco and Polycom.
Effective immediately, you’ll see the following pricing:
- snom 820 – MSRP $279, Street $249
- snom 870 – MSRP $349, Street $319
ClueCon two weeks away
July 21, 2009 by Garrett Smith
ClueCon 09, the annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference is less than two weeks a way.
I’ve written previously about the ClueCon event, but for those of you that haven’t heard of ClueCon, it’s an event that brings together the entire spectrum of Telephony. From TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between ClueCon has presentations and discussions that cover several open source telephony applications such as Asterisk/Callweaver, OpenSIPS/Kamailio (formerly OpenSER), Bayonne, YATE and FreeSWITCH.
Open source Telephony continues to grow in popularity with businesses and institutions of all sizes. If your doing anything in the Telephony space, you need to be up to date with what’s developing in this space.
And ClueCon is the best place to expose yourself to whats new (and interesting) in open source Telephony.
Cisco Releases New ESW Small Business Pro Switching Lineup
Cisco Systems has begun shipping their new ESW Small Business Pro series ethernet switches.
There are (6) new ethernet switch models that comprise the new Cisco Small Business Pro switching line: (more…)
VXI Releases New VoIP Headsets
July 15, 2009 by Garrett Smith
Less well-known than competitors Plantronics and Jabra, but every bit as popular with VoIP Supply customers, VXI Corporation has released two new series of headsets designed for use with VoIP phones.
Passport 21 Series
The new Passport 21 series from VXI is a line of binaural headsets that incorporate the proven sound quality and durability of the VXI’s Passport 20 series with a lightweight construction that’s ideal for all-day use.
The Passport 21 series comes in three different models, based on the quick disconnect cord you’re using:
The Passport 21 series can be found for $110 and is currently shipping.
In addition to the Passport 21 series, VXI has also released the Tria series.
Tria Series
The Tria series are convertible monaural headsets that can be one of three different ways:
- Over the head
- Over the ear
- Behind the neck
This makes the Tria series perfect for light to moderate call center and office environments. Like the Passport series, the Tria series features VXI’s proven sound quality and durable, lightweight construction.
The Tria series can be found in there different models, again based on the quick disconnect cord you’re using:
Snom Releases 870 IP Phone
July 14, 2009 by Garrett Smith
Snom has announced the release of the new snom 870 VoIP phone. The Snom 870 features a large high-definition TFT color display that is larger than the Snom 820. The Snom 870 LCD display is a newly designed touch screen with a unique, intuitive user interface. The Snom 870 enables the user to easily handle even complex applications like swapping of calls, or establishment of conference calls for up to 5 participants via a simple “drag and drop“ touchscreen interface.
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Broadsoft and Polycom Sponsor XCv2 "Mashup" Developer Challenge
July 13, 2009 by Garrett Smith
GAITHERSBURG, MD, June 30, 2009 – BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of VoIP applications, today announced the addition of Polycom as a co-sponsor of the XContestv2 (XCv2) Developer Challenge and to the prestigious panel of judges. Polycom’s participation increases the available pool of prize money to $43,000. XCv2 is bringing together developers from around the world to create new, compelling business and consumer communications applications that combine BroadSoft’s Xtended Web Services with other open application programming interfaces (APIs).
The Polycom Bonus Challenge is aimed to encourage XCv2 developers to extend their application user experiences into the domain of video-enabled desktop devices. Polycom’s VVX 1500 business media phone, which combines a personal video conferencing system and full featured support for the BroadWorks® VoIP application platform, offers an open API (more…)
A fresh new look (and new features too!)
July 6, 2009 by Garrett Smith
If you’re a frequent visitor to the VoIP Insider you’ll notice that over the last two weeks we’ve made a number of upgrades to the site.
In order to make sure you’re aware of them and how they’ll improve your experience, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight what has been done.
- New site design – Out is the old basic layout. In is a new design that makes finding the latest information easier than ever before.
- Enhanced categories – With over three years worth of juicy content, the old site layout made finding important information within each category rather arduous. The new enhanced category put the most important and relevant content at the forefront, while providing snippets of other relevant content in chronological order.
- Newsletter – Don’t have the time to visit the VoIP Insider every day?
- Share this – As more and more of you are utilizing social mediums to share and discuss information we’ve made pushing our content to the most popular social destinations as easy as clicking a link. Every post is now equipped with the ability for you to push and share via Twitter, Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
- Subscribe to comments – Want to know when someone responds to your comment on a post? With the check of a box you can now receive email updates when someone responds to or adds additional information to the comments of a post you’re subscribed to.
Over the next six to eight weeks expect to see a number of additional feature and functionality improvements come online as the VoIP Insider continues its evolution.
(P.S. If you’ve got any suggestions as to what can be done to make the VoIP Insider better, please contact us and let us know.)
First Look: 3CX VoIP Phone System
3CX is not a new product, but it has been gaining ground an IP Phone System that completely replaces your proprietary PBX, supports standard SIP soft/hard phones, VOIP services and traditional PSTN phone lines.
3CX Phone System is far less expensive than a traditional PBX and can reduce call costs substantially by using a VOIP service provider. Its web-based administration makes phone system management easy. 3CX is a great choice for Windows ships who want a feature rich IP PBX but lack any Linux administrative experience and are uncomfortable with Asterisk based phone systems.
3CX runs on pretty much any Wintel platform, for the purposes of our testing we used Intel based server appliances from vendor PhoneBochs running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
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