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Digium Adds Fixed Mobile Convergence to Switchvox, its Award-Winning Unified Communications Solution

Switchvox version 5.0 offers advanced features for integrating business applications and seamless mobile communications inside and outside the office HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today introduced Switchvox 5.0, a new version that adds fixed mobile convergence (FMC) and further integration with third-party business applications into its full-featured and cost-effective voice over IP (VoIP) unified communications (UC) solution designed for small- to mid-sized businesses. The new release enhances Switchvox mobility to allow users to seamlessly...

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The “Web-Enabled” PBX?

I think I may have seen the future of the PBX recently….and it looks to radically shake up the status quo. I’ve always found it amusing that the first IP PBX manufacturers boasted about putting voice on an IP network. That seemed to be a big “feature” at the time. However, in and of itself, it really didn’t deliver much value to the buyer. In fact, it brought an unknown onto the...

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The Fall of Nortel - How It Affects Their Customers

As most of the world knows, Nortel filed by bankruptcy protection on January 13th. In the majority of corporate bankruptcies, the company files under chapter 11 which allows them to discharge most of their liabilities and emerge as an existing entity. Nortel does not look to be going down this path but rather looks to be liquidating its assets, putting up different parts of the company for sale. They’ve already sold their layer 4-7 data business to Radware. Now...

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