VoIP News Update 10/25/16 (Asterisk 14, Mitel World Cloud, Jabra – VXi Acquisition

Hi everyone and welcome back to another edition of the VoIP News Update.  I am not Jeff Quinn, I am Mary Cheney, Marketing Supervisor here at VoIP Supply, and here are a couple things we want to go over this week.

Today we are going to talk about the newly released Asterisk 14, and then we are going to talk about Mitel unveiling World Cloud.  Lastly, we will discuss the Jabra – VXi acquisition.

Don’t forget to stay tuned, because at the end of the segment we’re actually going to be announcing the winner of the Jabra Speak.

So let’s start off with Digium announcing the release of Asterisk 14 at their AstriCon Conference in September.  So this update continues on the heels of version 13, which was mainly a developer, and administrative focused update.

One if the biggest updates in version 14 is the remote media playback capability, and the fully featured media cache.  This is really huge because previous versions required you to store your media locally, but now, the media can be retrieved on a remote web server at any time. How cool is that?

To read more about this update, and all the other updates that came with this version upgrade, check out the description below.

So this next update was just released a couple days ago, and this is Mitel’s World Cloud.  This new platform will actually target multinational businesses, lowering international calling costs and eliminating barriers to international communication.

This launch will put Mitel’s cloud presence in more than 40 countries around the world.  So, it looks like that failed merger with Polycom didn’t slow Mitel down at all.

Hey, if you want to learn more about Mitel World Cloud, check out the links in the description below.

So, lastly, we are going to talk about the Jabra – VXi acquisition.  For those of you who don’t know, VXi was actually founded back in 1989.  Since then, they have been the go-to choice for people who work in high-noise environments.

So, with this acquisition, Jabra instantly increases its portfolio of professional audio solutions.  As a result, we expect to see an increase of size and reach of their sales team.

And now, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  We are going to announce the winner for the Jabra Speak, which was Brandon Weber.  Congratulations Brandon, way to go!  We will be contacting you via YouTube to claim your prize.  Good job, and thanks for commenting!

So, that’s it for this week’s VoIP News Update.  As always, click the orange arrow in the corner to subscribe to our videos, and don’t forget to check out all the links in our description below about any of the things that we talked about today.

I’m Mary Cheney, Marketing Supervisor here at VoIP Supply, and thanks for watching.