VoIP providers team up with the big names

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 03 August 2006 16:24

Business IT - Technology

In separate announcements, VoIP wholesaler ISPhone has become a reseller of Linksys VoIP CPE and the Linksys One VoIP service and recently launched VoIP retailer Broad IP has struck up an alliance with Optus subsidiary Uecomm.

ISPhone Australasia, a provider of business grade VoIP services for the SME market, has been accredited to the Linksys Partnership Connection Program and will resell Linksys' small business class products including the recently launched IP-PABX/ke system for small businesses and home offices. ISPhone will also offer the Linksys One service, comprising hosted voice, data and applications, to its own resellers.

To do this ISPhone will initially resell the Linksys One service from IP Systems, one of the two in Australia along with Soul. ISPhone managing director, Gavin McDougal, told iTWire that the company was looking at becoming a Linksys One service provider, which would require it to invest in and operate a Linksys One service node, or at offering Cisco Call Manager. He said a decision would likely be made in about two months.

 Broad IP, a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX listed Broad Investments will work with Uecomm to deliver VoIP services and data communications to the SME and corporate markets. The announcement said that both companies would market to their respective prospects a joint offering comprising VoIP termination and hardware from Broad IP and  data communications services from Uecomm.