Under the said agreement that was signed by both parties today, Broadcom’s VoIP technology will be used by two of Avaya’s one-X Deskphone Internet Protocol telephones, the 9600 SIP phones and the 1600 series.

Avaya’s 9600 SIP phones

The 9600 series one-X Deskphone edition has been loaded with Broadcom’s BCM1103, its most advanced VoIP processor. The BCM11103 delivers features that are important for enterprise deployments that includes high-fidelity audio, end-to-end security and advanced quality of service. Avaya telephones that belongs to this series are classified as “walk-up phones” which is used in common areas such as building lobbies, break rooms and hallways.

Avaya’s 1600 IP phones

In contrast to the 9600 phone, the 1600 IP phone belongs to the low cost family of Avaya phones which were designed to answer the needs of end-users. IP phones in the 1600 series feature Broadcom’s BCM1104 VoIP processor. This processor allows advanced IP telephony features at attractive prices that would certainly please cost-conscious customers. The Avaya 1600 series gives small businesses a wide range of choices for employing IP telephony in their company.

Paul Weismantel, Director of the Communications Appliances Division at Avaya said that Broadcom’s VoIP technology helped the company in building up an entire line of IP phones that can be used by a variety of enterprise and small business customers.

“As more small businesses transition to IP telephony and their larger companies deploy Gigabit IP networks, our Avaya one-X Deskphone line will serve the broad needs of each of these growing markets,” says Weismantel.

• Hosted VoIP Leasing Program — This new program was designed exclusively for SMBs. It offers qualified SMBs with an affordable leasing program to significantly reduce up-front equipment and service costs and gives access to the latest VoIP technology.

• HD Phone Availability and Polycom Certification — Apptix has partnered with Polycom, one of the leaders in phone SIP-enabled conference phones, hence Apptix customers will now have access to the latest VoIP phones and equipment from Polycom.

• Apptix Voice “Getting Started with VoIP” Program –
  
  
  Apptix will offer two free months of Voice service to all new qualifying phone subscribers from November 6 to December 31 to encourage more new subscribers to Apptix VoIP programs.

These new programs add up to Apptix Voice”s innovative features that includes find me-follow me, remote office and corporate voice networking services with free on-network extension dialing. Apptix Voice also provides an integrated Outlook Toolbar that provides users with instant access to calling features right from Microsoft Outlook. Through an easy to use web portal customers can add new voice services to suit their individual needs.

Apptix Voice was launched in March 2007, it has experienced increased subscription coming from exisiting Apptix customers who are subscribed to its Hosted Exchange email customers. Through continuous dialogs with its SMB customers, Apptix has proven that there is a growing demand for hosted VoIP service, hence it decided to come out with its own hosted VoIP program that is easily adoptable and at the same time affordable to the SMBs.

Soonr

Soonr answers the problem of synchronizing work or home PCs to mobile devices. Using the built-in communication facilities of your mobile device, you can define your view of information and keep up to date on changes on your PC or mobile device. What”s more, you can even collaborate with your business networks, friends or even relatives, right into your mobile phone.

As a mobile computing solutions, Soonr has three main features, Soonr Desktop, Soonr Organizer and Soonr Talk. With Soonr Desktop your mobile phone can search, view, share and forward files from any PC. Now, you don”t have to download files from your PC to your mobile phone to share it with others. You can even convert formats of files in your PCs using your mobile phone.

Soonr Organizer synchronizes various applications in your PC with your mobile phone. You can check your Outlook or Mac mail, respond to important emails, access your Outlook or Mac contacts, check or share your Outlook Calendar with your networks and many other nifty applications which you normally do in your PCs.

And lastly, with Soonr Talk, you can now make Skype calls through your mobile phone with no software to install and even supports Skype”s chat feature. Now, that is simply neat.

To start using Soonr, all you need to do is register at Soonr.com. Registration is free at the moment for basic accounts. But a premium account is being planned in the future which will give premium services such as:

• Guaranteed access even when the host computers are turned off!
• Encrypted backup of your critical data
• International calling for pennies a minute

But even in its beta stage, Soonr seems very promising with all the functionalities that you can do with your mobile and PC synchronization. Let”s just hope that the premium service will not cost that much once it is introduced.