CCOOMMMMSS N NEEWWSS
Bria Team Pro
launches
COUNTERPATH HAS LAUNCHED
Bria Teams Pro which adds a
dedicated high-defi nition (HD)
virtual meeting room for each
user to facilitate voice and
video conferencing for multiple
participants. Additionally,
Chat Rooms have also been
introduced for all Bria Teams
users — both Standard and
Pro — to better streamline team
conversations and track chat
history across devices.
The new Bria Teams Pro
cloud-based service integrates
a dedicated virtual meeting
room with secure HD audio and
video conferencing, in-room
messaging and screen sharing,
within the Bria Teams softphone
experience for desktop and
mobile users.
Similar to Bria Teams
Standard, the Pro offering
includes CounterPath-hosted
Team Voice and Messaging
8×8 LAUNCHES PARTNERXCHANGE
8×8 HAS LAUNCHED PartnerXchange, a new online
portal that the company says enables channel
partners to effectively and effi ciently manage
their 8×8-related business and drive sales of 8×8
solutions. PartnerXchange is a single platform that
makes it easier for partners to do business with 8×8
globally.
“PartnerXchange enables us to drive effi ciencies,
while reducing friction, through automation and
business management, making it easier and faster
for our channel community to do business with us,”
said John DeLozier, Channel Chief at 8×8. “There
are a host of real-time features with a specifi c
focus on simplifi ed processes and more robust
information exchange. PartnerXchange provides
a single management platform for visibility into
channel partner activities and analytics, enabling
us to have a continuous pulse on the business.”
Spitfi re offers SIP Gateway
SPITFIRE IS NOW
offering customers with
conventional PBX phone
systems SIP Gateway,
a simple solution that
converts an ISDN only
PBX to interface with SIP
trunks.
The SIP Gateway solution
offered by Spitfi re provides
a simple and easy way to
convert a conventional
PBX system to interface
with SIP trunks for VoIP
telephony, future proofi ng
customer investment in
PBX hardware.
Switching to SIP trunks
using SIP Gateway can
produce signifi cant cost
savings. Dominic Norton
(pictured), Sales Director
commented, “Having made
a signifi cant investment
in ISDN phone systems,
many of our customers
are concerned about the
planned withdrawal of ISDN
services by Openreach.
The SIP Gateway provides
a neat and cost-effective
solution which protects
the customer’s investment
while providing all the
additional benefi ts of VoIP
telephony using SIP trunks.
SIP Gateway is simple to fi t
and works with practically
all ISDN phone systems
currently on the market.”
Brand New and Exclusive
BYTES...
BONZA!
Olive Communications has announced
global expansion plans with the
opening of an Australian based
support capability. Based in Brisbane,
Olive will provide the existing
24x7x365 support services it already
does to its existing global customers.
59%
of respondents to the latest social media
poll conducted by Infosecurity Europe
2019 believe that an attack on the UK’s
critical national infrastructure is likely
this year.
TRANSACTION COMPLETE
NTT Communications has announced
it has completed its acquisition
of a majority stake in Transatel.
The combined synergies between
Transatel’s Worldwide data MVNO
solutions and NTT Com’s global
network infrastructure, data center,
cloud and IoT platform will bring to this
alliance the ability to provide a unique
value proposition to the market.
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services, as well as the ability
to integrate call server (PBX) or
hosted VoIP services.
Todd Carothers (pictured),
EVP of Sales, Marketing and
Product at CounterPath
commented, “This new virtual
conference capability delivers a
robust unifi ed communications
and collaboration solution
that is easy to use and deploy
for SMBs and teams within
large enterprises. Bria Teams
Pro is highly disruptive as
it brings 1080p HD video
collaboration, screen sharing,
team messaging and voice
all into a single offering that
interoperates with your current
voice service at an incredibly
low price point. You would need
multiple solutions to cover what
Bria Teams Pro offers.”
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