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SWYX
Unified Communications specialist Swyx
has further improved its collaboration
solution Swyx Meeting. The new grid view
shows up to 25 videos simultaneously
on the screen during a meeting. This
allows all participants to see each other
throughout the entire meeting.
KENTIX
Alliot Technologies has a new
partnership with German manufacturer,
Kentix. The new agreement sees Alliot
become the UK’s first distributor of the
groundbreaking Kentix SmartXcan body
temperature sensor.
IGNITE!
RingCentral has launched its IGNITE!
Partner Programme which enables
partners to own the entire sales
cycle with organisations of up to
400 employees. IGNITE! builds on
RingCentral’s existing Channel Harmony
programme.
CITYFIBRE
CREATES
10,000 NEW
UK JOBS
CITYFIBRE HAS ANNOUNCED a
major recruitment and training
drive which will see them create
10,000 jobs over the next 3 years.
The jobs will be created via the
company’s ambitious plans to roll
out fibre in the UK, with the
company investing £4bn.
CityFibre plans to roll-out a new
1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises
(FTTP) broadband ISP network
across 8 million UK premises by
around 2025.
Phil Sorsky, Senior Vice
President International at
CommScope commented “It is
fantastic to see that steps are
being taken to meet the
Government’s target of full-fibre
broadband across the country by
2025. Five years to deliver on this
ambition doesn’t give operators a
huge amount of time and so it is
encouraging to hear that
CityFibre are creating 10,000 new
jobs to deliver on this promise.”
Poly launches new MS Teams solutions
PLANTRONICS HAS UNVEILED a
new series of Poly Room
Solutions for Microsoft Teams
Rooms – Poly G10-T, G40-T and
G80-T. These solutions include
audio and video tools that deliver
meeting experiences for users
on Microsoft Teams, and gives IT
managers the ability to easily
scale for meeting rooms of all
sizes.
Teams usage continues to
skyrocket with more than 75
million daily active users, further
deepening the need for
consistent cloud collaboration
experiences across devices.
With the rapidly changing work
environments expanding into the
home and across differing room
setups, users, IT managers and
administrators need flexible,
hybrid devices.
“As more and more users
recognise the value of videobased
collaboration while
working from anywhere, they
will need to stay connected and
productive with tools that
integrate easily with cloud
collaboration platforms like
Teams,” said Tim Root, vice
president and general manager,
room collaboration, Poly. “Poly
Room Solutions for Microsoft
Teams Rooms are designed to
make meetings feel natural and
effortless with the highest
quality in audio and video, so all
participants feel like a true part
of the conversation. Poly
partnered with Lenovo’s
ThinkSmart team to deliver an
enterprise-class compute
appliance, built on Intel vPro
technology, to provide a secure,
reliable platform for our Poly
Room Solution for Teams.”
TOLLRING LAUNCHES ICALL SUITE SUBSCRIPTION MODEL
TOLLRING HAS LAUNCHED a new subscription
licensing model for its iCall Suite analytics and call
recording service to make business critical
customer interaction data accessible to as many
people as possible. Tollring has reengineered iCall
Suite around its users, enabling them to subscribe
to the features that best meet their needs whilst
providing the necessary flexibility so partners can
widen their addressable market.
By removing complexity, Tollring makes it easier
for partners to plug iCall Suite directly into their own
offerings and ecosystems. Partners can then focus
on delivering the exact functionality that their
customers need, with each user having access to
the features that are right for them. The
subscription pricing model enables partners to
scale analytics to suit business size, with flexibility
in pricing to meet the different needs and types of
customer.
Tony Martino (pictured), CEO of Tollring says,
“This a major step forward in Tollring’s innovation
strategy as we move away from delivering separate
products with specific feature sets. Instead we now
allow users within an organisation to access the
features that best meet their needs without the
constraints of the product that is provisioned. We
have also moved away from charging for monitored
end-points and agents, which further simplifies our
pricing and provides our partners with the flexibility
to deploy iCall Suite across their entire customer
base – both large and small. We believe that this,
coupled with our ability to deliver our services via
the cloud places us in a unique position in the
analytics market."
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