Lenovo and Avaya teaming up
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Just yesterday, I reported on Dell and Fonality teaming up to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. Today, I ran across an article announcing a partnership between PC manufacturer Lenovo and Avaya. While this partnership is not half as interesting as the Dell/Fonality deal, it looks like a sign for things to come in 2008.
Wow, this is an impressive partnership announcement, Dell has picked Fonality as a partner to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. It comes as a bit of surprise that Dell didn’t go for one of the traditional established vendors, but instead went for a company that offers Asterisk based solutions.
I’m very proud to be able to announce our hosted IP PBX solution Sipcat Online, today. Continuing on our successful Sipcat IP PBX product, we are now offering small- and medium-sized businesses even more flexibility by removing the need to own a physical phone system. A broadband connection and IP telephones are all that is required to get started right away. Sipcat Online will be immediately available in more than 20 countries:
Emergency services access has been a long time problem for pure play voip players. The ability of properly locating customers calling emergency services, or lack thereof, has prevented voip providers from implementing this service. EU policy makers now seek to regulate this situation by mandating emergency services access for voip providers.