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Microsoft SME VoIP System In Beta |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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Microsoft
has announced three hardware partners in its push to dominate the small
business telephony market starting from 2008. Though there's little
surprise that the Cisco-owned SME hardware maker, Linksys, is
missing from the list of partner, what is more surprising is that
leading SME hardware maker NETGEAR isn't among them and Quanta is.
Most small business readers will no doubt be asking who Quanta is,
but as a leading player in the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing)
market and possibly the world's larget maker of notebook compters,
Quanta knows a thing or two about device manufacturing.
Also on
the list is D-Link with its DVX-2000 and Uniden with a device called
Evolo. Like these two devices, the Quanta Syspine phone system is, or
will be a turnkey small business VoIP system when it becomes available
later this year.
Microsoft
has announced the systems code-named "Response Point" and with its
partners is putting them out in the market as beta systems. The systems
come in an easy-to-install box, supports both voice over IP (VoIP) and
traditional phone lines, and includes a voice-activated user interface,
according to a company statement. The Beta 2 release of "Response
Point" is scheduled for early April.
The idea is that the device should be easy enough to install
and configure that a small-business customer can manage system changes
themselves.
"We know from years of networking experience that
many small businesses want an IT specialist to install their networking
infrastructure," said Keith A.Karlsen , executive vice president of
D-Link Systems. "But they also want to manage simple things like moves,
adds and changes on their own."
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