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TENDA
Quality Essential Distribution has
formed their latest partnership with the
supplier of networking devices, Tenda
Technology. This strategic partnership
secures QED as the sole distributor of
Tenda products for the IPCCTV market
in the UK.
58%
of SMEs pointed to concerns around
costs and operational effi ciency as
being their biggest business challenge.
CCTV
Security including access control,
CCTV and intruder solutions will be big
hits this year according to Nimans who
have set up a dedicated division to help
resellers capture growing levels of
sales success.
ENGHOUSE SYSTEMS
ACQUIRES DIALOGIC
ENGHOUSE SYSTEMS LIMITED
has acquired Dialogic Group
for approximately $5m.
Dialogic’s revenue over
the next twelve months is
projected to be between
$58.0 million and $63.0
million.
Dialogic develops media
processing software, with
a highly scalable solution
that supports real-time
video conferencing and
collaboration applications
across all devices. Dialogic’s
infrastructure products
offer a best-in-class
Session Border Controller
and several softwarebased
network solutions
to communication service
providers. This combination
enables the transformation
from legacy TDM (time
division multiplexing) to
next-generation network
platforms.
“This acquisition
strengthens our position
in the enterprise video and
unifi ed communications
market segment by
adding rich multi-media
processing applications and
capabilities,” said Steve
Sadler, Chairman and CEO,
+8%
Shipments of Industrial 3D printers
priced at $100K+ were up by +8% in Q3
2019 compared to the same period the
previous year
METAVOXX LAUNCHES ALL-IN-ONE
BUSINESS APP FOR CHANNEL
METAVOXX’S MISSION IS to provide small/medium-sized business with
a complete communication and contact management solution, freeing
them to work from anywhere, in a browser or the mobile app.
Metavoxx Business is a; single sign in – VoIP Phone, CRM, Contact
Management, Business Messaging, Email, Video meeting room,
Document storage, Screenshare and more in a single app.
Metavoxx has just released V2.x of the mobile app, now with
document storage and CRM calendar and a whole host of other
improvements and refi nements to the main applications since the V1.x
soft launch back in August 2019.
“For resellers, there are enormous benefi ts with Metavoxx over
reselling a traditional VoIP phone system,” says Robin Frost Co-
Founder and Director. “The inclusion of a CRM and more than nine
other business communications and collaborations tools not only
helps to sell the solutions but improves customer retention, and offers
much better reseller profi t margins than the incumbent stand-alone
applications. For SME’s the reseller can manage and confi gure all of
their customer’s users, even mobile, from the administrator console.
And IT managers can manage their own users, even deploying new
users with all applications confi gured in minutes, even when they are
mobile or in a remote offi ce on the other side of the world.”
Nimans launch
new Panacast bundle
RESELLERS CAN TAKE advantage of a special bundle offer to ensure
their customers enjoy a complete audio and video collaboration
experience.
Nimans and Jabra have teamed up to offer the Jabra PanaCast
and Speak 710 Speakerphone (pictured) for £855.40 (trade) to bring
a huddle room to life.
“For a minor investment, it is possible to create a huddle room
set-up which is highly scalable, using simple plug-and-play solutions
which users can easily operate themselves,” says Jason Welsh,
Headset Business Manager at Nimans.
Cirrus and TelXL to merge
CIRRUS AND TELXL have
announced that they are to
merge. Combined, the company
has ambitious growth plans and
is on course to double revenues
in the coming year. To support
this anticipated growth the
company will be increasing
headcount by over 60%.
Cirrus has enhanced the
TelXL’s network services with
omni-channel capabilities
for contact centres,
conversational artifi cial
intelligence, in-call language
translation and secure
payment solutions. The merged
company will increase its
product development capacity,
ensuring even quicker speed
to market with innovative new
products which have become
their hallmark.
Jason Roos (pictured), CEO
of the newly merged company
said; “We are extremely
excited about the merger of
Cirrus and TelXL. Our channel
partners and customers trust
us to provide transformative
customer contact solutions
with unrivalled uptime and
scalability. The merger
signifi cantly increases our
development capacity and will
allow us to bring even more
exciting products and solutions
to market in ever shorter
timescales.”
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