Category Archives: VOIP and Telephony

Enhancements to its RealPresence video content management platform enable Polycom users to bring live-stream and recorded video to smartphones and tablets. – Polycom is updating its RealPresence video content management technology to enable the streaming of live and recorded video … Continue reading →

Mitel’s solution will enable businesses to deploy the company’s virtual UC environment that is hosted by Mitel NetSolutions, its service provider division. – Mitel is unveiling an offering that will enable businesses to deploy a virtualized unified communications service in … Continue reading →

Included in the bundle are Polycom SpectraLink 8400 wireless telephones, which provide in-building, wireless communications. – Toshibas Telecommunication Systems Division announced a wireless solution for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) featuring the Polycom SpectraLink 8400 series of wireless telephones. Available … Continue reading →

The networking vendor is extending its Jabber UC platform to iPads and Windows systems, while offering a newly designed TelePresence solution. – Cisco Systems is continuing to make its vast collaboration portfolio more like a single platform that enables users … Continue reading →

Cablecaster launches a new cloud-based voice and unified communications package for enterprises that aims to replace old-school PBX and key-type voice-channeling systems. – Cable telecaster and services provider Comcast, like about everybody else in the information-delivery business, is moving to … Continue reading →

Thrupoint at the Enterprise Connect event introduced the latest additions to its Thrupoint Fusion framework, designed to enable enterprises to leverage multiple UC platforms. – Thrupoint officials are looking to fix what they say is a broken model for unified … Continue reading →

Logitechs ConferenceCam is aimed at enabling small groups to collaborate via video conference anywhere. – Logitech, a longtime vendor of consumer tech products, made its first foray into the corporate side in 2009 with its $405 million acquisition of video … Continue reading →

Sprint and Cisco are launching a cloud-based unified communications bundle for large enterprises. It’s the first of several cloud initiatives Sprint will launch this year. – Sprint, with partner Cisco Systems, is launching its first major cloud initiative and the … Continue reading →

The U.S.’ No. 4 mobile telecom provider said that it must reorganize its call center functions in order to help control costs — and eventually will rehire 1,400 people. – T-Mobile revealed March 22 that it is forced to close … Continue reading →

A new Siemens-sponsored report found that pure IP infrastructures offer businesses and IT departments more savings, compared with traditional PBX. Additionally, the survey found that businesses are taking a hybrid approach to the cloud. – Pure IP infrastructures can offer … Continue reading →