VOIP News writes… Conventionally phone calls were limited to PSTN and mobile initiated calls. With the advent of technology people across the globe can now benefit from phone calls initiated through a computer at home, office or wherever it has the capability to access the Internet. Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
VOIP News writes… ONE REASON FOR SKYPE’S continual growth is its strong position as a utility. And nothing makes something a dead-simple utility than a resemblance to a standard household item (like a phone). That’s what Skype is for me. It fits in my pocket (see left) and it rings on my home DECT phone. During [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
VOIP News writes… Check out Fonality’s “corporate culture” in this pic below. Apparently, things must be financially good in Fonality-land, since they’re pretty relaxed enough that the co-founders (Chris and Samy) wore these outfits to the office for Halloween. Fonality co-founders Chris Lyman (Pink Ape) and Samy Kamchar (Bruno ) While we’re on the topic of [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
VOIP News writes… According to Infonetics Research , VoIP services brought in billion for service providers in the first half of 2009. According to their report, the number of residential/SOHO VoIP subscribers is forecast to top 225 million by 2013. In other words, with about 310 million Americans that means 75% of all residential subscribers [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
VOIP News writes… SUNNYVALE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Fortinet(R) — a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced a new FortiGate(R) multi-threat security appliance with integrated internet protocol private branch exchange (IP-PBX) functionality, consolidating data and voice over IP (VoIP) security management into a single device. Aimed at… Source Related [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ — The 39th Annual TechAmerica AeA Classic Financial Conference takes place November 1-3, 2009, at the Marriott Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA. Below are profiles from several of the companies presenting at the conference. For in-depth information about the event, please visit: http://www.techamerica.org/Classic Source Related [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… LAS VEGAS, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — tw telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC), a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced that industrial process automation provider Caltrol has selected it to deliver advanced voice and data services across the company’s nine multi-state locations. Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… A market research report found that VoIP services worldwide topped billion in the first half of the year and were set for even more growth, as recession-plagued customers turn to VoIP to save money. Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… JERSEY CITY, N.J., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ — IPC Systems, the leading provider of indispensable trading communications solutions to the world’s leading financial services firms, announced its ranking on the FinTech 100. Each year, the FinTech 100 lists the world’s top vertical technology vendors that derive more than one-third of their revenue from the [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… Though I hadn’t heard of it before, I was delighted to see a publication called VOIP News cite the Cato Institute as one of 15 “Greatest Enemies of Net Neutrality.” As VOIP News says, we are indeed a “voice of reason during political debates.” Alas, I’m selectively quoting. What they actually said, snidely, [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… VoxOx from TelCentris lets users make calls from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to landlines and mobile phones. The Web application, geared to compete with Skype and Google Voice, also enables video, instant messaging and two-way text messaging, file sharing and social networking into one platform. Unlike Skype or Google [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
VOIP News writes… In a recession, consumers are more than ever rethinking the expense of a home phone, mobile cellular service…or both. Why not give VoIP a try? Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with Ooma [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… Skype app developer Netralia is bringing high-quality video recording through it’s app, VodBurner. VodBurner lets users create video podcasts directly from Skype calls using webcams, incorporating recording and post-production editing in a single software package. The app, which is .95, is fairly simple. Once downloaded, it will let you record a video and [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… Amazon has the ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills for 9.99 – .02 instant savings + free shipping = 3.97 shipped! Buy it now and you’ll get a FREE 2GB iPod Shuffle. This phone offers free calling to anywhere in the US and include voice mail. Source Related posts [CES 2009] [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… CAMPBELL, CA (MARKET WIRE) Market research firm Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) released its biannual VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers report, which tracks business and residential/SOHO voice over IP services and includes a North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Matrix that analyzes and ranks the top service providers in the VoIP business services market. Source Related [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with Ooma VoIP System (Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com) [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… M5 Networks seems to think so. The provider of ‘disaster-proof’ managed VoIP phone services sent out a press release offering VoIP solutions as a way to help companies stop the spread of the pandemic H1N1 virus while maintaining worker productivity for employees staying home to care for sick loved ones. Read the release… Source Related [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… While Sprint reported wireline revenues of .4 billion were down 10 percent year-over-year because of decreases in voice and legacy data services, the IXC’s Internet revenues were up 5 percent due in part to increased wholesale VoIP service demand. Sprint’s third quarter Internet revenues were up 5 percent from the third quarter of [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… APEX, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FeatureTel Telecommunications, North Carolina’s premier hosted VoIP telephone services solutions company, recently completed the installation of phones and related services for 1,815 users across the City of Durham operations, including police and fire rescue. The .63 million contract includes network equipment upgrades and a three-year service agreement. “We had… Source Related posts [CES 2009] [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… ATLANTA, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — IP Gallery – an innovative company designing, developing, and delivering converged communications solutions and multimedia applications, announced that it is demonstrating the “My Contacts Zone” application suite, during their exhibit at Cable-Tec Expo 09 in Denver, Colorado on Oct. 28th thru the 30th. Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… Google Voice is now blocking calls to less than 100 numbers it believes are adult chat lines or free conference call services looking to exploit traffic-pumping schemes, Google told the Federal Communications Commission. The question remains whether this will satisfy the FCC and quell the grousing from Google’s new telecom nemesis AT T, [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… BANGALORE, India, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Expanding on its industry recognized embedded Video Communication System offerings, Ittiam today announced the availability of its new Video Communication System on three Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) devices. Together, these platforms cover performance from CIF to High Definition (HD) video for applications ranging from SD-class desk phones, [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… JERSEY CITY, N.J., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — IPC Systems, the leading provider of indispensable communications solutions to financial services firms, today announced that it has expanded its global network coverage with the addition of a new direct point-of-presence (POP) in Dubai. Located at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), this new POP [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VOIP News writes… Filed under: Work , Tech , Expert Advice Ten years ago, I was asked to fly from St. Louis to Philadelphia to interview for a job that would relocate me to Chicago. The whole expedition seemed like a major pain in the ass. I asked the hiring manager in HR to look into [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… HERZLIA, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VocalTec Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq:VOCL), a global provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced today that Far East Telecom (Dalsvyaz), a regional incumbent service provider and part of the SvyazInvest group, has selected VocalTec as the provider for its core Class-5 and Class-4 VoIP network. Source Related posts £15 p/m [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… International calls can get mighty pricey. Perhaps that’s why so many people use Skype, a free way to make calls – and even have video chats – all over the world from the comfort of their computer screens. Skype isn’t new. It launched in 2003 and now boasts 483 million registered … Source Related posts £15 [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… A couple of VoIP firms are betting on the World Series Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with Ooma VoIP System (Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com) (0)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… Voxbone, a provider of international VoIP origination services and telephone numbers, just added high-definition voice calling for Skype to their iNum service. The VoIP provider’s geographically-independent number service now allows HD calls between a number of VoIP networks and Skype. iNum numbers use an Internet-based ‘country code’ that routes calls through Voxbone and [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Like most technology markets, the world enterprise digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) and voice over wireless local area network (VoWLAN) single-mode phone market has taken a serious hit by the global economic slowdown. The market remained almost flat in 2008 and is expected to decline further [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VOIP News writes… SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ClearOne (Nasdaq: CLRO, www.clearone.com), the global provider of superior high performance audio conferencing solutions, today announced that its MAX IP and MAXAttach IP conference phones are compliant with key Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and [...]
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By Jill Stanek Aside from the controversy over the legality and safety of telemed RU-486 abortions, Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King wants to know if federal tax dollars are financing it. Rep. King is currently circulating a request to colleagues to sign on to a letter he will soon send to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking whether taxpayers are underwriting Planned Parenthood’s…
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Plantronics (NYSE: PLT) Tuesday reported lower profit in its third quarter than a year ago, but still beat Wall Street’s expectations, setting UC revenue records along the way.
Net income for the quarter was $30.9 million, or 71 cents a share, down slightly from $31.6 million, or 64 cents a share a year ago. Adjusted net income was 75 cents per share, topping analyst’s forecasts of 68 cents per share, and topping last year’s adjusted income of 66 cents per share. The lower profits were primarily due to Plantronic buying back some 2.1 million shares.
Revenue, meanwhile was $183.2 million, up slightly from $181.6 million during the same period a year ago.
Plantronics said it expected a strong fourth quarter, forecasting revenue of between $175 million and $180 million for the quarter, with net income of 63-68 cents per share. Analysts expected revenue of $1877.6 million and adjusted earnings per share of 67 cents.
During yesterday’s earnings call, Ken Kannappan, Plantronics’ president and chief executive, said the company set a record in the quarter for UC revenue, which saw 90 percent growth due to rapid adoption of UC globally. The company also saw 8 percent growth in office and contact center revenue.
“We continue to see broad adoption of UC across all size of enterprises in all major geographies,” he said. “Our investments in UC continued to yield solid results. And in the first nine months of fiscal 2012, we made good progress in differentiating our product line, as well as making huge strides in our corporate marketing and brand positioning.”
For more:
– see this release
– see this earnings call transcript from Seeking Alpha
Related articles:
Plantronics app allows one-touch access to conference calls
Plantronics pushing deeper into UC market with new products
Study: UC adoption rejuvenating headset market revenues
Plantronics CEO talks to Forbes about UC
Continue reading Plantronics 3Q earnings fall despite UC record revenues
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Recently I was approached by a local company to work with them to improve their technical infrastructure.
I have not worked with VOIP systems before. However I have in the past setup Asterisk and was using it successfully as a dialer.
This client is waiting for a VSC VMSx switch. I’m not familiar with it but they are asking for processing/gateway integration and hardware monitoring.
So with that being said here are a few questions:
1. I have searched around for a VMSx API to be add/remove balances from calling cards, however I cannot find one. Can someone point me in the right direction?
2. Hardware monitoring, can that be setup in VMS? For example, to know when all the trunks are being filled to 90% capacity or when there is no more internet, etc.
3. I’m still confused about something. So they have this softswitch sitting in a local data center. They have clients that have gateways setup in their locations. When I worked with Asterisk, we had a switch with all the ip phones plugged into. That switch was connected to asterisk with just one cable to the secondary lan card. If I don’t understand correctly the way it should be setup is.
a. Softphone connects to a switch.
b. The switch to the gateway.
4. What about for those that already have an existing PBX or want a complete PBX setup. From what I understand there is some type of module that you can get which simply extends the PBX to make outgoing calls route through the VMS softswitch in the data center. Is it essentially also a gateway module?
Sorry for the novice questions but I really need to know the answer to these questions :)
Thanks in advance!
Continue reading Need some help understanding VOIP
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Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) reported strong earnings this week, but the company plans to increase acquisitions in the coming year and to reorganize its sales force, which prompted the company to issue a lackluster forecast for the coming year.
Revenue across the board saw a steep increase, with the company reporting net revenues of $619.4 million in the quarter, a 17 percent increase from the $530 million it reported a year ago. GAAP net income was $108.7 million, 58 cent per share, up from $94.4 million, 49 cents per share, a year ago. The 66 cents quarterly adjusted EPS beat Wall Street estimated of 65 cents.
“Greater diversity in our products and channel, combined with a compelling vision, is driving more C-level engagement as well as more up-sell and cross-sell opportunities,” said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer for Citrix. “As a result, we are seeing more strategic deals, more use of our products as an end-to-end system, and deeper engagement with our customers through services.”
Citrix has worked to roll out more robust mobile, cloud and desktop solutions, and it has begun to pay off.
For the year, Citrix reported record revenue of $2.2 billion. Its desktop solution revenue accounted for $1.3 billion of that, 12.5 percent higher than a year ago, and included 14 percent y-o-y growth in the fourth quarter, with revenue of $369 million. Data center and cloud solutions revenue increased 29.1 percent to $385.5 million, online services revenue rose 18.6 percent to $427.7 million and revenue from other products increase 46.4 percent to $114.3 million.
Citrix said revenue increased in the America’s region by 16 percent, rose in the EMEA region by 12 percent and increased in the Pacific region by 37 percent.
For 2012, Citrix said revenue should be in the range of $2.49 billion to $2.51 billion; GAAP diluted earnings per share is targeted to be in the range of $1.88 to $1.97.
For the first quarter, expect revenue to be in the range of $555 million to $565 million with GAAP diluted earnings per share in the range of 30-31 cents.
The thin first quarter results, said CFO David Henshall, come from the company’s plans to look to make acquisitions, but those deals should become accretive later in the year.
For more:
– see this release
– see this Motley Fool article
Special Report: Enterprise Communications earnings in the fourth quarter 2011
Related articles:
Citrix opens ‘Developer Center’ for GoTo line
The changing face of videoconferencing: It’s getting cheaper and better
Citrix rolls out Android app for GoToMeeting users
Citrix launches GoToMeeting with no-charge HD videoconference add-on
Citrix’s Cloud.com purchase adds to its core strength; Microsoft gets top ranking from ABI
Continue reading Citrix reports record revenue, soft outlook for 1Q12
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If you haven’t read pal Martin Geddes latest post on the Future of Communications entitled Peak Telecom, you are missing something that is likely either something you have likely said, thought, heard someone say in private or really wished you had. It’s a stunningly brilliant piece of writing that leads you to wonder, “what is Martin going to say next” as you read through it.
This post is every bit as important as Alec Saunders 2005 post entitled The Voice 2.0 Manifesto in my opinion as far as laying things out or the famed Pulver Purple Minutes post. It is worthy of your time as it may impact your work or livelihood.
So everyone knows it was Martin who first suggested me and my agency to Nokia back in 2005 to help them decipher “social media” long before many knew what “social media” and blogging was really all about. That led to my development of the Nokia Blogger Relations program, and in turn gave birth to Nokia’s Social Media efforts, something I’m now finally allowed to admit after getting permission recently.
It was Martin’s clear cut thinking back then that foresaw the changing landscape of how media would impact the mobile world. Now in his post he’s laid it all out pinpointing where the changes are coming from, and further pinning the operators into the dumb pipe corner.
Continue reading Read Martin Geddes Latest Post-Your Job My Be At Stake If You Don’t
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Just as we’re seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there’s also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I’m a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services.
Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are playing the channel game to open up the legacy room and desk based video conferncing system users of Polycom, Lifesize, Cisco/Tandberg gear to be able to go what founder and ex VP Marketing at Broadsoft Scott Wharton (who is now blogging) is doing with their “any to any’” video bridging service called MeetMe that is offered at downright disruptive prices that turns the whole market on its side. What Vidtel is doing is addressing the already turned on and tuned in video conferencing user base and making their rooms and desktop video systems easily accessible to CounterPath Bria and Bria mobile users, as well as those who are Skype or GoogleTalk centric.
In the post, that was aimed at getting channel oriented telecom resellers to understand why video is so important to them, Lisser points our reasons and rationale as to why the channel is now meaningful to the video conferencing market, a belief also echoed by client Telesphere who offers VideoConnect through their growing reseller partners to sell in to their enterprise customers. In the case of Telesphere they deliver Broadsoft/Polycom/Glowpoint powered video conferencing service that also offers point to point video calling on a range of devices and over the CounterPath powered Bria 3 for Broadworks softphone.
These are reseller channel sold solutions that show a deep understanding of the how to sell versus how to follow. CounterPath, Telesphere and Vidtel along with the established players in Cisco and Polycom, are all using the sales channel to sell through others, not only direct. This is not far different from how Logitech/Lifesize is taking the LifeSize Connections service, or what I call SightSpeed for Business on steroids, where they combined the best of both SightSpeed and Lifesize to bring a lightweight telepresence offering to market and are making it available through leading telecom vTailer (vertical etailer) VoIP Supply (also a Comunicano client) to reach into an already established customer base.
Larry’s premise is further underscored by ClearOne’s purchase today of Israel based VCon, thus showing the world that Polycom, long the audio turned video conferencing leader will have some new competition. ClearOne already sells through channel with companies like eBuyNow, operators of the Skype shop selling the ClearOne Chat 60, and VoIP Supply pushng both the Skype friendly consumer grade speakerphones and the more robust higher end models. Now they’ll take those same channels and follow LifeSize/Logitech’s lead and seek to propel sales through those vtailers like VoIPSupply and others.
All this leads to disruption. Skype started it, but they’re clearly not the end game any longer. Cisco and Polycom aren’t exactly sitting idle as Vidtel and Vidyo disrupt the market, nor are any executives rolling over and playing dead because of Google Hangouts. Companies like Citrix, with GoToMeeting/HD Faces are making great inroads, selling not so much through channel, but via a very strong direct marketing effort online.
What this all means is the traditional players have to change, adapt or die. It’s survival of not only the fittest any longer, but also of the fast and nimble.
Continue reading Video Conferencing Is Heating Up, The Established Will Be Challenged
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