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  • Digium Introduces Phones Designed for Asterisk
    Digium, the Asterisk Company, has introduced a new family of high-definition IP phones. They are the first that are engineered to fully leverage the power of Asterisk and Switchvox, Digium's unified communications (UC) system. With Digium technology on both the server and the phone, the company says...

  • Solar Welcome Additional Sales and Support Personnel
    Chippenham based reseller Solar Communications say that to ensure it continues the exceptional growth they displayed during 2011 they have recently recruited three highly qualified, experienced personnel to both their Sales and Engineering Teams. Sales Account Manager, Julian Degg, joins the comp...

  • Aculab launches a cloud-based alternative to traditional telephony
    Aculab, a provider of computer telephony hardware and software, has launched Aculab Cloud. Described as a new deployment option, Aculab cloud brings together all the essential software traditionally loaded onto voice boards or available to download onto host processors, and wraps it into a scalable...

  • Zen Internet launches Corporate Social Responsibility report
    ISP Zen Internet has launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance report for 2011. The report says; "In a way, the fundamentals of CSR are embedded in Zen's corporate DNA. Its founder Richard Tang named the company Zen Internet to reflect his Chinese ancestry, which goes back...

  • ScanSource Tops The Training Numbers
    Distributor ScanSource Communications Europe reports that over the course of 2011 the company trained more than 1,200 communications resellers across Europe through its education programme ScanSource University. In the UK alone, seven new courses were introduced to the ScanSource University offer...

  • Daisy O2 Centre of Excellence Launch
    Daisy Group is celebrating being hand-picked to become an O2 accredited partner. Having acquired SpiriTel in November 2010, the Group has now re-launched SpiriTel Mobile as the new Daisy O2 Centre of Excellence. The team running the programme is based at Daisy's headquarters in Nelson, Lancash...

  • Jabra announces UK winners at 2012 EMEA Partner Awards
    Celebrating "The Power of Partnership", Jabra has recognised its top UK channel partners at its EMEA Partner Conference in Rome over 25-27th January, following a year of record growth. Jabra and its partners achieved double-digit sales growth across EMEA for its comprehensive portfolio of headset...

  • Ofcom proposes new wholesale charge controls for Openreach
    Ofcom has notified the European Commission of provisional new charge controls that will apply to certain services provided by Openreach, BT's wholesale access division. Ofcom will adopt the new controls, subject to the outcome of the European Commission's new consultation process. The prices are...

  • ioSafe Signs UK Distribution Agreement with Micro-P
    ioSafe, the provider of disaster proof hardware, has announced a new partnership with distributor Micro-P. This new alliance is effective immediately and sees Micro-P distributing the full range of ioSafe's fireproof and waterproof data storage products throughout the UK. "The vast majority of da...

  • Node4 Positioned for Growth
    Data Centre company Node4 says that with ambitious plans and growing trends in cloud computing they are a company that will lead the pack this year. By 2014 more than 50% of global workloads will take place in the cloud, rising to 57% by 2015, predicts Cisco's Global Cloud Index. For 2010, that n...

  • Video Conferencing Infrastructure Redefined
    LifeSize has announced the LifeSize UVC Platform, the industry's first integrated and virtualised software solution for HD video conferencing infrastructure. UVC stands for universal video collaboration, LifeSize's vision for all products and technologies, focusing on flexibility, simplicity and per...

  • Looking to make more out of the need for faster connectivity?
    SMEs are looking for faster, more reliable connectivity and this presents an opportunity for resellers to upgrade their broadband bases and take business from any competitors that fail to do the same. ADSL2+ is now widely available and the market is experiencing a wave of demand for fibre broadband ...

  • Wick Hill Appointed As A10 Networks' Distributor
    Wick Hill today announced that it has been appointed by A10 Networks, technology leader in application networking, as UK and Ireland distributor. A10 Networks makes high performance products that help organisations of all sizes accelerate, optimise and secure their applications. VAD Wick Hill, speci...

  • Broadband Resellers Show Appetite For High-Fibre Diet
    Eclipse Internet has announced more changes to its reseller offering. These changes follow their success in the last six months on the back of an aggressive partner pricing system delivering market-leading margins, value-added technical support in the shape of unique monitoring tool Sentinel, and n...

  • Channel Telecom launches MobileOffice FMC solution
    Channel Telecom can now offer channel partners MobileOffice, a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution for use both with Channel Telecom's hosted telephony service and as an added-value feature for their SIP trunk offering. MobileOffice supports a range of mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and A...

  • ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Pioneer M5 Networks
    ShoreTel, provider of IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks ("M5”), a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be uniquely positioned to provi...

  • Swyx announces reseller awards
    Swyx has announced the results of its Channel Awards as part of its Channel Update Tour at its new offices in Stockley Park. Over 50 channel partners attended the event, and along with product announcements such as a new Swyx app for iPhone and Android, two resellers were honoured as part of the ve...

  • Zen Internet strengthens Sales Team
    ISP Zen Internet has strengthened its Sales Team with two key appointments. David Clapham joins Zen as the new Solutions Sales Manager and Matt Whitworth as the new Telesales Team Manager. David brings with him over 20 years management experience from the Telecommunications industry, having he...

  • Comms-care Elite in the Miami Heat
    Comms-care, the Channel IT Support Partner, recently rewarded their top performing Sales Team members with an adrenaline fuelled trip to Miami as part of their annual ‘Elite Club' sales incentive. In its third year, following previous trips to Finland and Iceland, members of the Elite Club found ...

  • Most Operator Bills Over £500k Are Incorrect By Up To 40%
    Data Track Technology is looking for companies who spend £500k plus on their phone bills. According to the company, research has shown that these organisations could be paying between 8% and up to 40% more on their phone bills than they should. The Telecoms Expense Management (TEMs) service from Da...

  • Freephone Mobile Voice Short Code Service Launched
    A "Freephone” Mobile Voice Short Code (MVSC) service has been deployed across all mobile networks to offer a number of benefits to businesses including a mobile friendly alternative to traditional Freephone numbers to further encourage two-way communication with customers. Until now, using a mobi...

  • SIP Shift Starts To Grow
    A shift in SIP demand has been noted by Nimans as the ‘balance of power' begins to slowly tilt away from traditional ISDN. "In the past businesses would keep their ISDN lines and maybe have some SIP trunks for resilience. But now more are putting SIP trunks in as their main platform supported b...

  • Alcatel-Lucent Financial Services extends 0% finance
    Alcatel-Lucent Financial Services has extended its 0% finance promotion until 31st March 2012 owing to its runaway success since it was launched last summer. The offer, which includes a three month payment deferral for 'bedding-in' of new technology, is available through the network of Alcatel-Lucen...

  • Ofcom announces Jump in UK Broadband Speeds
    UK consumers are achieving 22 per cent faster broadband speeds at home than they were 12 months ago, new Ofcom research reveals. In November 2011, the average actual UK residential broadband speed was 7.6Mbit/s, compared with 6.2Mbit/s in November/December 2010, and 6.8Mbit/s in May 2011. Th...

  • Alcatel-Lucent and Belgacom help enterprises improve operations
    Alcatel-Lucent and Belgacom, Belgium's leading provider of integrated telecommunications services, are offering enterprises a new tool to enable them to improve operations and identify potential cost savings. Alcatel-Lucent's ‘Application Assurance' solution provides unprecedented visibility into wh...