You’re in the market to upgrade to an IP camera or video server solution so, why buy Axis? Axis operates worldwide in more than 20 countries, is listed on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker AXIS, and is the global market leader in network video driving the ongoing shift from analog to digital video surveillance. The Axis advantage includes:
Axis Communications, founded in 1984, is not just the world’s leading provider of network video solutions. Axis also launched the world’s first network camera for connection to an IP network in 1996 and today when their company mission states that they want to be, “To be the driving force in bringing customers the full benefit of intelligent network video solutions,” you as a customer and we as a reseller can feel confident that Axis provides more than a few options for IP surveillance systems.
About a month ago, on the heels of Skype’s IPO announcement, the industry was a buzz with rumors that Cisco was in talks to purchase Skype. Birthed by the ever in tune sleuth’s at TechCrunch the rumor had some legs, getting play from all of the major tech sources and even the likes of the Wall Street.
With all of the synergies between the two companies an acquisition seemed plausible, but when news surfaced as to the valuation Skype was looking for, an acquisition seemed unlikely.
In the end most chalked it up to mere speculation. Including myself.
But then I came across this Retuers piece and it got me thinking that maybe there was something to the Cisco – Skype rumors.
In the piece it mentions that next week Cisco will be unveiling a new consumer product. The event invite (below) features smiling faces and the tagline, “Let’s get together” leading one to believe Cisco is set to announce a new video product.
Could it be one designed to work with Skype? Skype cooperation with Lifesize last year was met with much fan fare.
With both companies looking to reap the benefits from the growing interest in video calling from consumers and prosumers alike it’s not that far of a stretch.
Given Cisco’s purchases of Flip (handheld video), Scientific Atlanta (set top boxes) and Tandberg, they’ve got all the ingredients to produce one heck of a home and small office video telepresence solution.
Except for the underlying transport mechanism. Something that Skype can deliver today.
Rumors around the announcement have this soon-to-be-announced Cisco device retailing for around $500 which would make it a disruptive video/telepresence solution for the small business and still within reach of tech savvy consumers.
And to boot, an impactful partnership with Cisco could be just the type of juice Skype needs to gain additional investor confidence as they prepare for their public offering.
I’m a mobile VoIP fan boy.
I’ve been interested in the Mobile VoIP industry since the beginning.
I’m also a fan of making money.
Which has always left me amazed at fring. If you’re not familiar with fring, its a mobile communication service that gives users internet-rich communication from their mobile phones.
fring members make FREE video calls, voice calls, live chat to other fringsters and to friends on other social networks.
Over the last few years fring has amassed millions of users, but hasn’t directly charged them.
That’s great for the users. But free isn’t a business.
It appears that they’ve brought in some revenues over the last few years from licensing its software to wireless carriers. They’ve even done ads within the client.
But they’ve never done anything direct with its users. Until yesterday.
With the launch of fringout, fring users can now make international long distance phone calls (landline and mobile) to anywhere in the world for only 1c/minute.
It’s a direct shot at Skype, but also many VoIP service providers catering to the international calling crowd. Now cheap VoIP calls are nothing new, but flat rate calls to anywhere in the world from your mobile is awfully compelling.
Given the pervasiveness of the fring software, ease of use and now low rates, it looks like the cash register might start to fring.
One of the best things about not working for a hugenormous company is that you get to stay close to the customer.
Almost every day the management team at VoIP Supply is afforded the opportunity to work directly with our customers. From hoping in a pre-sales consultation to answering technical support questions and handling customer service inquiries, staying close to the customer allows us to quickly identify issues and areas of improvements.
Over the last two quarters we’ve noticed an increasing number of customers point out their displeasure over the cost of shipping products. Thanks to the continually increasing fuel prices, carriers like FedEx and UPS have continued to raise rates causing the cost of shipping your favorite VoIP equipment to be more and more expensive.
We’ve noticed it too. Our own shipping costs have continued to increase.
But being the customer centric bunch that we are we knew we had to at least try and figure out a way to free customers from the pain of high shipping charges.
So we took a look at our operation, implemented some efficiency improvements and are now happy to announce $4.99 ground shipping on all US online orders.
No additional handling fees. No order minimums.
Just affordable shipping.
To take advantage of this offer, please visit VoIPSupply.com.
The internet has changed the way business operate, this allows a variety of companies; including small and medium sized organizations to compete with enterprise companies without having to spend huge marketing dollars to be recognized in the industry.
However all companies still rely on a phone system. Digium’s Switchvox PBX is one of the most popular phone systems in today’s IP PBX market.
The benefits of a Switchvox system include easy self administration, and feature rich choices that allow business of all size to stay connected at an affordable price point.
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Are you a telephony tech geek? Well, if you are, you can stop reading this now. This post is for the REST OF US. If you run the IT dept for a small to medium sized business and spend most of your time rebooting PC’s and installing Microsoft upgrades, you may have experienced that all too familiar lump of nausea in your stomach when tasked with upgrading the ports in your PBX system. Nobody wants to stand up in a meeting and admit that they really don’t know too much about that since they don’t deal with it every day.   To help relieve the nausea and add confidence to your telephony port buying experience, it helps to understand what the PCI or PCIe telephony card is comprised of so you know what you are looking for by part number.
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Who’s Tom?
Good question.
Tom loves deals. Tom loves to give you deals.
Crazy deals.
Deals so good that they should never be allowed. Except for the fact that our CFO is scared stiff by the thought of telling Tom no.
We’ve tried to tame Tom.
We gave him his own category on VoIPSupply.com. That wasn’t enough.
Success?
For now. I’m sure he’ll be hitting us up for his own website in no time.
So who’s Tom?
Just a guy who loves to give you crazy deals.
Tune in Tuesday to one of the channels above for more on Tom.
(And the first crazy deal.)
3CX is an easy to install, flexible phone system that operates on a number of popular windows versions (xp, vista, 7, 2003, 2008). With the majority of businesses using Microsoft products and running windows it makes perfect sense to integrate a phone system that cooperates in that environment. The commercial editions of the product can be used in any environment ranging from 2 concurrent calls up to 512 concurrent calls, so weather you are a small start-up or large enterprise company looking to switch to VoIP, 3CX is worth your consideration.
Running in a windows environment allows you to take advantage of unified message capabilities most notably through Microsoft Outlook. As a user of 3CX you have access to voicemail to email functionality and click to call contact list. Click to call allows you to manage your contacts entirely through your outlook interface. Where an email won’t suffice you now have the ability to call your contact immediately, without sorting through your blackberry or CRM application. Read here for (more http://www.3cx.com/blog/docs/exchange-server-2007-2010/ advantages).
In my last two posts I discussed the features and highlights of the Polycom video conferencing units HDX 4000 and HDX 6004.
Now it’s time to take a look at the Polycom video phone, VVX1500.
While this offering from Polycom can accurately be called a video phone, as it is a phone that has video capabilities, Polycom calls it a “Business Media Phone.” Call it what you will, it measures up to Polycom’s usual high standards of excellence while combining audio and video in one desktop unit.
The VVX1500 is a SIP video phone with great audio and video quality that uses relatively low bandwidth and is becoming very popular in the small business space. Â Â It has a high resolution 7 inch wide-screen color TFT touch screen LCD display that makes set up and use a breeze.
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