Use Skype in your business without risking your PCs

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 06 March 2007 16:36

Business IT - Technology

IW Distribution is selling in Australia and New Zealand a Skype-certified gateway that enables Skype to be used for incoming and outgoing calls over multiple lines via a standard PBX on analogue telephones.

According to IW Distribution, the VoSKY Exchange 9040/9080 is the first and only Skype certified solution that enables businesses of 10 to 300 employees to take advantage of Skype call rates without making changes to existing PBX equipment, phones or user PCs. It can also be used with Skype-In to provide local calling options for customers in other cities, and to provide a low cost telephone help lines, IW Distribution claims.

The unit is controlled from a computer screen which can be either remotely or locally connected. According to IW Distribution director, Daryl Chambers, "A large number of Skype users already use Skype for their business but in an ad-hoc manner. A barrier to using Skype in business has been an inability to connect to an office PBX. VoSKY Exchange is doing just that and allows businesses to make large savings on phone calls without changes to the telephone infrastructure or users behaviour."

The VoSKY Exchange is a product of Taiwanese company InfoAction Technology, a subsidiary of Actiontec.