Polycom has communicated the existence of two new models of IP phone, the Sound Point IP321 and IP331.  The SoundPoint IP 321/331 models are direct replacements for the SoundPoint IP 320/330 desktop phones. The 321/331 will come with additional internal memory. It is expected that new software loads for the phones will eventually exceed the [...]

Digium has quietly announced on it’s channel portal a new transcoder card.  The TCE400 VoIP Transcoder Card will be available for general release on Tuesday, June 30th, subject to change. The TCE400B is a half-length, low-profile PCI-Express x1 card for packet-to-packet VoIP transcoding with Asterisk. The TCE400B decompresses the complex G.729a (8.0kbit) or G.723.1 (5.3/6.3kbit) [...]

Grandstream has just announced the GXP1200 SIP phone, a 2-line, entry-level sibling to the recently released GXP2020. The GXP1200 phone packs quite a number of features in a very inexpensive package. The GXP1200 features 2 lines, each independently configurable to different hosts, two switching 10M/100Mbps ethernet ports with integrated PoE, a headset jack, a 128×32 [...]

  Aastra yesterday announced the addition of the 51i SIP telephone to their 5i Series of powerful open-standard, enterprise grade terminals The model 51i joins the existing 5i Series family consisting of the 53i, 55i, 57i and the 57i CT models and extends one of the industry’s most complete VoIP telephone offerings. The 51i addresses [...]

The Sangoma Y-cable (Cable 632) easily adapts Sangoma’s latest A400 series high-density, analog PCI card to patch panels and terminal blocks with Amphenol harnesses. You may prefer this method of connection in order to terminate one or more A400s into a 24 port patch panel via an M/F Amphenol cable. The A400 comes with a [...]

Recently, Rhino has announced it’s Echo Cancellation solution to it’s full line of analog cards and a technology partnership with Texas Instruments (TI) and Adaptive Digital Technologies, Inc. (Adaptive Digital). Combined with Rhino’s 4-port, 8-port or 24-port analog boards, the product line becomes the RxFxx-EC, a low-cost but powerful insurance policy against echo for the [...]

In a hard won effort by the Senior Sales Manager of Linksys, the SPA94x series phones are now upgradable to 4-lines without the need for paying for an upgrade license key. Now available for download on Linksys.com is the version 5.1.10 firmware for the SPA942 and the version 5.1.8 firmware for the SPA941. Both firmware [...]

The OpenPCI series is Voicetronix’ new entry level CT hardware platform offering four and eight Loop-Start (FXO) or Station (FXS) ports on a PCI 2.2 bus interface running on Linux. It is suitable for low density PC based telephony applications including: IP-PBX and PC-PBX systems. Call Recording/Logging. Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Auto Attendant and Voicemail [...]

At TMC’s winter IT Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Digium introduced several new products to the public for the first time. These included the long awaited TC400B, the TDM800P, the TE120P and a new software based High Performance Echo Canceler (HPEC). The TC400B (featured in the image at the left) is designed to handle the [...]

Grandstream has released an updated version of their HandyTone line of Analog Telephone Adapters called the HT-502. The 502 is most similar to the HT-496 with the major updates being a faster processor to move packets, a 10/100 ethernet port (all other Grandstream ATAs have a 10mbit only), a built-in router and a new look [...]