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NetComm Expands SME VoIP Range |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 02 November 2006 |
Australian communications and hardware vendor, NetComm has
announced a swag of new VoIP products for the SME market dubbed SmartVoice.
The SmartVoice range is designed to take the forklift out of
the deployment of IP Telephony in the small and medium sized business market.
Integrating with existing analogue phone systems, the
SmartVoice system acts as an IP Telephony gateway behind your existing PBX.
This way there is no need for expensive IP Phones on the desktop and the change
over is completely transparent to your staff.
"Awareness of VoIP is growing rapidly among small business
owners but uptake has been inhibited by their reluctance to take a risk on
untested technology," said David Stewart, Managing Director of NetComm.
"NetComm has removed this risk factor by delivering a suite
of products that demystify VoIP technology and offer business owners a solution
that is flexible, cost-effective and easy-to-use - using technology that meets
local requirements and conditions."
The devices include functions for automatically resorting to
standard telephony lines should something go wrong with your VoIP service,
thereby ensuring you can continue doing business uninterrupted until the
cost-saving VoIP services are returned.
"The major benefit of the NetComm's SmartVoice VoIP gateway
products is that a business is not burdened with the expense and annoyance of
having to replace its existing telephone infrastructure in order to reap the
many benefits of VoIP," he said.
"For end users the transition to VoIP is transparent, they
still use the same standard phone handsets that they are familiar with using
and they do not need to change their dialling habits. They simply use the phone
the same way that they always have and the gateway does the least cost
routing," commented Stewart.
Netcomm points out that approximately 90 percent of the
phone systems sold to the SME / branch office market today, are still analogue
phone systems (PBX). These systems are generally very reliable and cost
effective to install.
The SmartVoice gateway can take advantage of these proven benefits
while still delivering the cost reductions normally associated with broadband
telephony.
However, although these NetComm system's will provide an
easy to deploy entry into the cost-saving toll bypass features of VoIP, some of
the IP Telephony features such as unified messaging, call management and presence
would not be possible with such a system.
Products in the NetComm SmartVoice 400 series and 800 series
are available now and are priced at $726 (for the 400 series) and $1,430 (for the
800 series).
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