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Grandstream Released WP800 Portable WiFi VoIP Phone for Beta testing!
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Grandstream WiFi VoIP Phone
Grandstream recently announced the release of their upcoming WiFi VoIP phones for beta testing! They are looking for qualified testers with cordless WiFi phone and IP technology experience to beta test this latest innovation.

This new WiFi phone supports 2 SIP accounts and features a built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, panic button, and much more!

The deadline to apply is April 20th, 2018. If you are interested in gain a spot in this testing opportunity, apply here: https://betaclub.grandstream.com/

Unique Features:

  • Integrated dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi support
  • 2 SIP accounts and 2 lines, and a 2.4” color LCD with real-time video streaming features
  • HD voice & dual MIC design with wide-band voice codecs such as Opus
  • Built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, panic button, and push-to-talk
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Plantronics Announced Acquisition of Polycom for $2 Billion!
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March 28, 2018 – Plantronics, a learning electronics manufacturer for audio communications equipment, announced today that they have entered a definitive agreement to acquire Polycom, a multinational VoIP provider for video, voice, and content communication collaboration.

This acquisition is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2018 with a cash and stock transaction valued at $2 billion. This acquisition deal will allow Plantronics to become a big part of the communications and collaboration industry.

Significant benefits that will come out of this acquisition

  • Polycom’s global leadership position in voice and video collaboration will accelerate Plantronics vision of delivering advanced communications experiences.
  • Plantronics will be able to expand its portfolio to provide more communication and collaboration products and services across
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VoIP Supply Celebrates Its 16th Anniversary with Dedicated Employees Behind the Website!
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400;”Buffalo, New York, March 14th, 2018 – VoIP Supply, a leading VoIP solutions provider in North America, celebrates its 16th year anniversary with over 30 dedicated employees.

In the past year, VoIP Supply continually builds strong relationships with our partners, customers, manufacturers, and dedicated employees. Today, VoIP Supply has been recognized as not just an efficient website where our customers fulfill their VoIP needs, but a place where they grow their business with our dedicated VoIP experts, customer service, technical support, dedicated employees and resources behind the website.

Read more to learn about the VoIP Supply team!

See what our employees have to say about working at VoIP Supply:

“One of the reasons why it is rewarding to work at VoIP Supply is because

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Sangoma Released New PBX Feature: Vega Management Module
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Are you using or selling Sangoma’s FreePBX or PBXact phone systems? You will want to check this out!

Sangoma Technology recently announced the new release of Vega Management Module, a new PBX module designed to manage and monitor Vega gateways within the FreePBX and PBXact phone systems. Let’s find out what the buzz is all about!

 

What is Vega Management Module?

The Vega Management Module is a free-of-charge module, designed to help FreePBX/ PBXact customers manage and monitor their Vega gateways associated with their phone systems.

 

What Features are included?

The module is accessible just like any other module within the FreePBX webGUI, offering the following features:

  • Dashboard overview
  • Gateway Status
  • Configuration management
  • Firmware management

 

Where Can I Find It?

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New VoIP Phones, Video Conferencing, and more VoIP Hardware – February 2018
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This February is a big month for VoIP Industry! As we head into 2018 with more innovative and advanced technologies, more new VoIP hardware is introduced, taking your business communications to the next level!

This month’s new VoIP hardware include a new IP Phone series by Digium, new Smart Cloud Switches by Netgear and Grandstream’s new DECT Repeaters and the video conferencing solution. Let’s get to it!

 

Digium A-Series Low Price Point IP Phones – Shipping Soon!

Digium, the Asterisk Company, unveiled the A-Series IP phones at the ITExpo 2018. The This new series is a line of affordable desk phones for Asterisk-based systems.

These new VoIP phones are designed with the best value and high-quality components for budget-minded Asterisk users. The price …

Valcom Acquired Keltron Corp to Expand Life-safety Event Management Portfolio
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Feb. 14th – Valcom, a leading provider of emergency communication and VoIP paging system, acquired Keltron Corp., a provider of life-safety event management systems for colleges, university campuses, healthcare centers, and more.

These two companies will share technology, experience, and engineering but operate separately. This will help both Valcom and Keltron expand their product portfolio to provide customers with combined technologies.

“More resources will further the development of state-of-the-art systems that distribute the right message to the right people at the right time,” says Valcom CEO and Owner John Mason. “Both companies are committed to meeting customer and partner needs with the latest in technology as it pertains to life safety communication solutions.”

Communication has been playing an important role in healthcare and education …

Grandstream Introduced the GVC3210 NEW Video Conferencing!
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Grandstream Network, an industry-leading manufacturer of IP voice & video, video surveillance, gateways, ATAs and IP PBX appliances, announced their latest innovative video conferencing solution – the GVC3210!

This conferencing endpoint is ideal for small to medium businesses who demand an easy-to-use video conferencing with robust features.

The GVC3210 is a powerful, multipoint conferencing system that can be paired with most video and web conferencing services. You can run this endpoint on the Android operating system and have full access to the Google Play Store.

Equipped with sophisticated Noise-Shield technology, the GVC3210  blocks out background noise to maximizes audio quality. The advanced 4-microphone array and a high-end 16M pixel CMOS sensor with ePTZ make it so easy for camera view adjustments.

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Netgear Released 28-Port Smart Cloud Switches with Remote Management Capabilities!
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Netgear, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP networking devices, released their two new Smart Cloud Switches to offer even more capacity for growing businesses! These two switches are part of the award-winning Netgear Insight™ management solution.

NETGEAR Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch (GC728X) is the first 28-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch from NETGEAR with anytime, anywhere remote/cloud management.

  • 24 copper Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • 2 SFP Gigabit Ethernet and 2 SFP+ 10G fiber ports
  • remote cloud manageability
  • advanced L2+/L3 Lite features

NETGEAR Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch (GC728XP) is an Insight Managed 28-Port Smart Cloud Switch that offers Power-over-Ethernet (PoE+) with a healthy 390W power budget to better support the growing demand for PoE devices such as VoIP phones, IP Security Cameras, wireless access points, …

Xorcom CompletePBX 5.0.39 Added Task Manager and Scheduled Backups!
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Xorcom CompletePBX 5.0.39 Phone system management now includes a new task manager and scheduled backups (Admin -> System Settings -> Task Manager)!

The Task Manager controls the running of predefined tasks, either Ad-hoc scheduled or recurring. Now you are able to set script parameters by the user and a single script can be used by different tasks with different parameters.

Additionally, this version also includes intra-company outbound route which passes the internal caller ID to the next destination as is. (PBX -> External -> Outbound Routes)

Check out some fixes:

  • Unix time shown instead of system time in Reports -> Status -> Registration.
  • Fax detection failed to work on SIP trunks behind NAT in certain carrier setups.
  • The inbound route with the outbound route as
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Digium Released NEW Asterisk-based A-Series VoIP Phones at ITExpo 2018!
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Digium, the Asterisk Company, unveiled the A-Series IP phones at the ITExpo 2018 today! The This new series is a line of affordable desk phones for Asterisk-based systems.

These new VoIP phones are designed with the best value and high-quality components for budget-minded Asterisk users. The price point starts as low as US$59, each model includes a full-color display, HD Voice, and multi-line functionality.  

The A-Series IP phones for Asterisk are the highest quality VoIP phones for the price and are backed by Digium, the creator, sponsor, and maintainer of the Asterisk project.

“Asterisk, the world’s most popular open source communications platform, is used by developers to create sophisticated, custom communications solutions, and low- or no-cost alternatives to proprietary phone systems. These systems often

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