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Silicon Laboratories announced that it has partnered with Beceem Communications, WiMAX solutions vendor, to deliver a VoIP broadband gateway reference design for 4G-WiMAX service providers. The WiMAX VoIP gateway reference design is based on Beceem’s recently introduced BCS5350 single-chip WiMAX customer premises equipment solution. It also incorporates Silicon Labs’ Si32176 ProSLIC devices to provide the interface that enables the use of traditional home telephones for VoIP services over WiMAX.

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TELES, the Berlin based Next Generation Networks and Access Gateway vendor, has announced its technology partnership with Korean converged network solutions provider NewGrid for their carrier-grade, low-power-footprint, and high density media gateway.

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Phone.com and TurboBridge are partnering to make a HD telephone audio conferencing service available to Phone.com’s installed user base. This new HD phone service launch comes 3 months after Phone.com introduced its own HD Business Phone service.

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Super Technologies, Inc.’s DIDXchange, the wholesale DID phone number marketplace, announces that the DIDX podcast channel recordings are now available for free download on iTunes. Super Technologies offers complimentary marketing and publicity with podcast interviews for its DIDX podcast channel from active DIDX.net members and industry friends and partners.

The powerful content spans the topics of event production, mobile applications and dialers, IP PBX provision, IP transit and local access, SIP to enterprise, online service aggregation, virtual worlds, nonprofit and voip, future-thinking CLECs, online and hard copy publications, government telecommunications departments, marketing firms, SIP and VoIP education, telephony equipment, social networking, radio emergency broadcasting, expatriate services, personalized IVR, green technologies, software development, women in technology, MVNOs, Symbian, Asterisk, freeSWITCH and collocation.

The IP communications and technologies companies and organizations interviewed include E.J. Krauss, Solaiemes, JKL5 Group, 360 Networks, Ingate, fring, ActivePort, Global Crossing, Vocati Communications, VoIPSWITCH, FreedomVoice, VoIPToday, Nigerian Communications Commission Manager Numbering Plan, TelecomYou, Jaymie Scotto & Associates, The SIP School, IPsmarx, ITtelnet, Cafe Headlion, Paetec, PortaOne, Sangoma, and ATSI Communications.

Ali Hassan and Omar Shaikh, some of the Super Technologies, Inc. marketing team, discussed, “We purposely listen to questions and suggestions from DIDX.net members and then search to find the answers and ideas to make them happen and get the information back to them. The podcasts are completed using VoIP and recording software, the Podcast Generator and our own servers based in Dallas with backup in Tokyo. What is really exciting is that they include people and companies who are men, women, young, seasoned, traditional companies, Next-Gen companies, and in geographical areas of Mexico, USA, Spain, Canada, Israel, Colombia, UK, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, Germany and Africa so far. We’re excited to showcase such talent and information on iTunes now.”

Inventors, entrepreneurs, developers and evangelists interviewed include Brough Turner, Alberto Betella, Sebo Gabor, Mark Spencer, Alessandro Morelli, Jim Van Meggelen, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Michael Elfellah, Ilene Adler, Sarah Dawood, Allison Smith, Luca Filigheddu, Joel Driver, Jonathan Leong, Maria Gomez, Dilawar Syed, Carol Davids, Atiq Rehman, Anthony Minessale, Bernd Wiegmann, Michael Schelin and Omar Chohan.

“One major goal at Super Technologies, Inc. is to help our wholesale clients to gain as much quality support as possible in the areas that we excel: direct inward dialing and marketing tools. We began in 2000 recording interviews at conferences and publishing online as well as in 2006 and forward using social media and networking sites such as Facebook, Linkedin, and blogging to showcase the value of the clients we serve. We have made so many friends and developed more business in all areas of the world as a result. It’s about them, not us,” said Suzanne Bowen, vice president of marketing for the company.

Users of iTunes service can subscribe to the DIDX podcast by entering its RSS feed URL http://didx.net/podcast/feed.xml, but also by browsing the podcast directory within iTunes Music Store. Once subscribed, the podcast can be set to download manually, or automatically. The content can be listened to directly or synced to many portable hardware devices that include an MP3 player.

About Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDX
Incorporated in 1999 with headquarters in Pensacola, Florida, USA, the company’s expertise is in direct inward dialing solutions, with a focus on wholesale. It also provides publicity and marketing for its 16,200 DIDX members and for global conferences, trade shows, exhibitions and seminars as a media partner with podcasts, blogs, videos and published articles.
// Super Technologies Inc.

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DIDX announces its partnership with VOIP Today Magazine to promote the best IP communications content possible together. VOIP Today released its first issue on October 1, 2009 with the latest news and views about VoIP, Asterisk PBX, IP PBX, converged networks, hosted PBX, and other business telephony solutions. DIDX members include all of these topics.

“We are excited about the opportunity to share in promoting excellent content for the world of IP communications and in particular the 12,000+ DIDX.net members. Many of DIDX members use A2Billing, snom, SIP technology, and other technologies shared on VOIP Today, and we want to make sure they are connected,” stated Suzanne Bowen, Vice President of Super Technologies, Inc. who provide DIDX.

VOIP Today provides opportunities to advertise, add press releases and showcase IP communications solution comparisons. The website is connected with popular social business media tools such as Facebook and Twitter.

“To build tomorrow’s community we should cooperate with a strong market player in the world of IP communications. DIDX company is an effective partner who can produce attractive results for a startup, accelerate our entry in to new geographical areas, market segments and open additional community channels,” stated by Alaa Fahham , CEO of VOIP Today magazine.

We are living today the dream of yesterday. VOIP Today magazine is a freely available and is an independent online publication presenting up-to-date VoIP news and information. It covers many aspects of the VoIP technology, internet telephony solutions, networks, phones, security, internet telephony marketplace, mobile communications, VoIP forums and call center solutions. It has strong relationships with members of the VoIP community and is rapidly building a unique, high-quality community of VoIP users and vendors. VoIP today magazine is building tomorrow’s VoIP community.

About DIDX:
DIDX is an online marketplace of IP communications companies who buy and sell direct inward dialing wholesale since 2005. Super Technologies, Inc. in the USA since 1999 provides this service. DIDX is also a media partner for content and conference sites.

About VOIP Today:
VOIP Today magazine is an online magazine to Keep you up to date on the latest news and views about all VoIP aspects based in Dubai founded on 2009.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov 10, 2009 – D-Link, a leading solutions provider of computer networking equipment for business and consumers, today announced a partnership agreement with Sharedband Technologies, LLC, of Seattle to distribute and market its innovative software to its North American business customers.

The Sharedband solution allows multiple broadband lines to be combined into a single, virtual broadband connection. It is designed to deliver faster upstream and downstream speeds while offering transparent failover in the event of an outage.

Sharedband’s software will become part of D-Link’s newest routers that are scheduled to start shipping in the first quarter of next year.

“D-Link is currently focused on helping customers store and distribute data within an office environment at greater speeds,” said Will Brown, associate vice president of North American Sales, Service Provider Business Unit. “With today’s announcement, we are extending that reach to helping businesses improve connectivity between the office and the Internet. D-Link’s approach of partnering with innovative companies such as Sharedband is an ongoing trend to deliver timely solutions to real world problems.”

Paul Evans, chief executive officer and founder of Sharedband, added:

“We are delighted to be working closely with one of the leading small-to-medium business (SMB) and enterprise networking vendors. With most broadband connections being considerably slower upstream than downstream, this asymmetry is increasingly becoming a bottleneck for businesses. Coupled with the rapid growth of VoIP, hosted applications/cloud services, off-site data backup and VPN usage, this problem will only worsen. In addition many businesses are becoming wholly reliant on their broadband connections so the ability to transparently combine low-cost broadband lines from diverse suppliers using D-Link equipment is an attractive option.”
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Polycom has revamped its solution provider partner program in an attempt to drive more growth with its most invested partners and capitalize on channel discontent stemming from Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)’s acquisition of Tandberg.

The new program, which Polycom will officially launch April 1, offers tiered partner levels and a certification program that according to Polycom will urge VARs to specialize in particular product segments and vertical markets.

Polycom’s Choice Program, revealed to VARs this month, is one of three new channel programs and will focus on Polycom’s VARs, A/V integrators, regional systems integrators and service providers, as well as retailers, distributors and direct market resellers. Its other programs are the Alliance Program, focusing on global system integrators, OEMs and strategic vendor partners, and its Arena Program, focused on technology partners and application providers.

“We are realigning our channel strategy and our program investments to reward and pay back the investment that solution providers have made in Polycom,” said Maurizio Capuzzo, Polycom’s vice president of Global Channel Marketing. “We’re doing it right now because we have the breadth and depth of solutions, and it’s the right time to help partners grow given the market consolidation.”

A wave of consolidation in the video space last fall — Cisco’s purchase of Tandberg and Logitech’s acquisition of LifeSize Communications being the most obvious examples — have left Polycom the lone remaining independent videoconferencing vendor of scale.

According to Capuzzo, that means the time to firm up Polycom’s channel and get aggressive is now, while the channel strategies of both Tandberg and LifeSize are being reconciled with their new owners.

“The consolidation effort is creating a void to the partners,” he argued. “A lot of partners are scratching their heads and asking right now, will Cisco-Tandberg bring my margins down? Polycom is a leader and has the strongest market share in the space, and we’re here to empower unified communications and make it easier for partners to do business with us.”
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Huntsville, Ala., and LISBON, Portugal – November 30, 2009 – Digium® Inc., the Asterisk® Company, and Altitude Software, the leading independent contact center solutions vendor, today announced Altitude Software as a new Digium Premier Solutions Partner. The agreement marks a major addition to the growing portfolio of advanced business solutions running on top of the Asterisk open source telephony platform and Digium’s telephony gateway cards.

The partnership enables contact centers to benefit from the highly scalable, resilient and cost-effective Altitude uCI customer interaction management suite working together with the Altitude vBox communications platform, a rich, enhanced SIP server that allows SIP to SIP and ISDN to SIP connectivity in contact centers worldwide. The Altitude products work with Asterisk and Digium ISDN gateway cards to create a complete multimedia contact center solution running on IP.

Altitude’s IP contact center provides the full functionality of the Altitude uCI suite with added connectivity to Altitude vBox, a SIP-based media voice switch, as well as to a variety of IP-PBXs through ISDN and CTI. This enables advanced contact center business applications to increase operational performance and business results, such as:
blended multimedia services to maximize the interactions’ handling while reducing operational costs;
outbound voice campaigns with advanced predictive dialing and answering machine detection to increase outcomes although ensuring regulatory compliance;
self-service voice applications, reducing HR costs and leveraging 24*7 high-level services;
Altitude Scripting Language tool to build, rapidly and cost-effectively, advanced agent desktop applications that deliver the information required for an outstanding customer service.

Digium is the creator, sponsor and driving force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. The company’s product lines include a wide range of software and hardware that enable businesses to implement turnkey unified communications solutions or to design their own VoIP systems. Resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium’s products, because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk.

“We are very glad to announce this partnership as it represents the combination of two industry leading technologies that will provide the market with outstanding IP features,” said Miguel Lopes, executive vice president of product management at Altitude Software. “The synergy between Digium and Altitude Software delivers scalability, efficiency and, most important, ‘peace of mind’ for contact centers wishing to increase profits and operational performance, based on Asterisk and Altitude solutions.”

Bill Miller, vice president of product management at Digium, said: “We are pleased to welcome Altitude Software into our technology partner program. The company offers complete contact center solutions that complement Asterisk. This alliance offers advanced business applications using Asterisk and enables customers worldwide to achieve greater price/performance.”
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