Category: Mitel
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Heading out to Mitel Forum June 25-27 in Las Vegas…
Continue Reading: Heading out to Mitel Forum June 25-27 in Las Vegas…FYI, while I don’t usually write a whole lot about Mitel here, I do in fact work for Mitel and after I return from a week of vacation I’ll be heading down to Las Vegas on Monday, June 25th, to speak at our Mitel Forum event for resellers, consultants and analysts. If any of you who read this weblog will be down there, I’ll look forward to seeing you there (and please say hello). You’ll find me giving presentations on… gee…. “VoIP Security” and “Business Continuity”! (Surprise, surprise…) Should be a very good event.
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Bandwidth.com to supply SIP trunking to Mitel solution centers
Continue Reading: Bandwidth.com to supply SIP trunking to Mitel solution centersYesterday, Bandwidth.com announced that their SIP trunking service would be powering Mitel solution centers across the US. From the news release:
Bandwidth.com, a leading nationwide provider of complete business communications solutions, today announced that it will be powering all Mitel(R) Solution Centers across the country enabling customers and VARS to preview innovative solutions, including SIP Trunking technology in a live environment. Mitel operates solution centers in five locations; Chicago, Costa Mesa, Atlanta, New York and Herndon (Virginia), all of which will be equipped with Bandwidth.com’s SIP Trunking VoIP solution by the end of June.
There’s been a relationship between Bandwidth.com and Mitel since last September. This announcement yesterday is a logical evolution of that relationship.
There’s a lot to write about the incredibly disruptive power of SIP trunking… I don’t think we yet fully understand how the power to obtain SIP trunks from anywhere in the world is going to so severely disrupt the global telecommunications infrastructure. With IP, geography no longer matters… and there are all sorts of local carriers – and tax authorities! – who I don’t think fully understand how much this messes up their business models. I really need to write that up……..
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Mitel announces $723 million agreement to buy Inter-Tel
Continue Reading: Mitel announces $723 million agreement to buy Inter-TelYesterday after the close of the market, my employer, Mitel, announced an agreement to acquire Inter-Tel. There’s not much I can say beyond what’s in the news release… but I can say that I am quite excited by the news!
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Mitel connects directly to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 via SIP
Continue Reading: Mitel connects directly to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 via SIPIn my incredibly long queue of things I’ve wanted to write about for the past few weeks, one item was the Mitel news release about making a direct SIP connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging. The cool part is that you can just use our basic 3300 ICP communications platform (or IP-PBX, or whatever you want to call it) and connect it directly into a Microsoft Exchange Server to use the Exchange Server for a unified inbox (email, voicemail, fax, etc.). No other boxes or gateways necessary. Just a nice, standard SIP trunk. As a long-time proponent of open standards and general “standards geek”, it really can’t get much better. It’s great to see.
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My article "Using IP Communications as a Tool for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity" is now online
Continue Reading: My article "Using IP Communications as a Tool for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity" is now onlineI just realized that I never wrote here that an article I wrote recently came out online. Published in Mitel’s “Presence” magazine, it’s titled “Using IP Communications as a Tool for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity“. Okay, so the title’s not overly catchy, but here’s the first paragraph:
If a hurricane devastated your main office, how rapidly could you restore telephone connectivity? If a branch office had a fire or other disaster, how soon could you connect back into the main office? Or if Avian flu or some other pandemic created a situation where you needed to stay out of the office, could you access remote phone capabilities equal to that at the office? How long would it take your business to recover? How much (and how many customers) could you afford to lose in the process?
I go on to talk about why IP communications/IP telephony/VoIP fundamentally changes the traditional way you might address these issues and offers tremendous benefits. In fact, to me, the ability to put an IP phone pretty much anywhere you can get an IP address remains one of the major – if not the single biggest – disruptive aspect of…
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Rich Tehrani hops on the Mitel "Presence" tour bus… at least for a day…
Continue Reading: Rich Tehrani hops on the Mitel "Presence" tour bus… at least for a day…Scanning RSS feeds early this morning, I was pleased to see that Rich Tehrani will be speaking at our “Presence 2007” event in Costa Mesa, CA, today. I’ve known the tour was going on, but wasn’t tracking who was speaking at the various stops. Glad to see Rich there… I’m sure he’ll give a great talk for whoever attends. The good news for Rich, too, is that at least he was flying out of the New York area yesterday instead of the day before when the glorious storm played havoc with air travel all over the northeast.
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Rich Tehrani learns the passionate power of Sir Terry Matthews
Continue Reading: Rich Tehrani learns the passionate power of Sir Terry MatthewsRich Tehrani now understands why I and many others continue to work for Mitel. Rich’s post does indeed capture some of the infectious enthusiasm and passion that spreads from Terry Matthews on down into the organization – as well as into the other sister companies. The telcom revolution is well underway… and it’s definitely fun to be a part of an organization that has that vision.
P.S. Rich also wrote about Terry’s other investments in real estate and, yes, Rich, I can understand why you liked the Brookstreet Hotel. When I up visiting Ottawa I often stay there and yes, it is definitely a very nice place to stay.
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Note to Siemens: Need better fact-checking: your OpenStage phones are NOT the first IP phones w/WLAN
Continue Reading: Note to Siemens: Need better fact-checking: your OpenStage phones are NOT the first IP phones w/WLAN(Originally posted to http://dyork.livejournal.com/258085.html)
Now I realize that often in sales and marketing, some folks tend to exaggerate claims… or split hairs to make various claims… or (more often) don’t do enough fact-checking to verify their claims… but it rather annoys me when I see someone making claims that are just wrong – especially when the claims overlook products made by my own employer! As readers know, I don’t really tout Mitel products here all that much, but in this case, I feel compelled to write a bit about one. In the recent announcements by Siemens of their new OpenStage SIP phones, which Ken Camp covered so well here, Siemens makes the claim in their PowerPoint presentation (available from Ken’s post):
The first time an enterprise desktop phone has been able to connect to both wired and wireless infrastructures.
Um… no. You see, Mitel has been shipping this little product called the “Mitel WLAN Stand” since July of this year (2006) which just clips onto the back of any of our enterprise desk phones and allows that phone to connect to a 802.11 network. I’ve got one here in my home office… I’d be glad to show anyone if…
