NetComm to market Octtel SME VoIP products

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:22

Business IT - Technology

NetComm has signed an exclusive technology and commercial alliance Taiwanese VoIP product developer, Octtel Communication Company to customise and market its products in Australia.

NetComm says that its and Octtel's engineers are already working on customisation and shipments will start immediately. "This agreement between NetComm and Octtel Communications represents the further strengthening of a relationship that has been steadily developing over many years," said NetComm managing director, David Stewart. "It will allow us to leverage Octtel's market-leading technology to rapidly bring a range of new NetComm VoIP products for SMEs to market over the next two months.

"When combined with a VoIP provider service, these products will enable small and medium businesses to shift all of their telephony over to the Internet, permitting significant savings on call costs. The new products will range from a simple 2-port unit up to a corporate grade 16 -port flagship model and incorporate advanced features including: PABX-style call control; PSTN backup in case of service failure; ·Support for multiple protocols including MGCP, SIP and Super Link."

Octtel Communication was set up in 2001. Its focus is the research, design, development and production of VoIP gateways, stand-alone call recording systems and multimedia communication applications. Its core technology is based on an embedded Linux platform.