Cypress Claims Hosted VoIP Enhances Business

Entrust your communications to someone offsite eliminates the need for expensive solutions to combat disaster situations. Hosted VoIP solutions can provide an added dimension of flexibility in times of disaster. It’s scalable; resilient; and can handle a “wide range of applications.” Cypress Communications has aimed its new product at the hosted VoIP solutions market. The complete end-to-end hosted VoIP and unified communications solution, called C4 IP, earns its name from its design to “help organizations connect, communicate, collaborate and continue even during a disaster or catastrophe.” Cypress Communications is the operator of a national private network designed for VoIP. It claims that its network has been “engineered for 99.999 percent availability and local site survivability with no single point of failure” due to its design to automatically track down any problems before they can cause service interruptions and repair them, with redundancy built in for “ensure maximum availability of voice communications.” Cypress distributes its hosted VoIP over carrier-grade Nortel CS2000 switching and Nortel MCS5200 multimedia. The CS2000, a central-office-grade switching platform with mirrored hardware components, is located in Dallas. Both halves operate with separate power supplies to reduce interruptions in the event of power failure or any failure of hardware or software.  The MCS5200 handles C4 IP’s multimedia components. Collaboration, soft phone functionality, presence, chat, video calling and Web conferencing all fall under its domain, headquartered in Atlanta, and it also provides a backup to the backup for the CS2000. Resiliency is created by located the C4 IP platforms in hardened carrier-grade collection centers with dual power feeds, overlapping generators and uninterrupted power supplies. These measures ensure that C4 IP customers won’t be without communications during a disaster. Scalability comes from an architecture able to handle up to 180,000 lines, 200,000 trunk channels and 2 million busy hour call attempts. Additional disaster recovery components include redundant voicemail servers with failover capacity, and a feature that allows users to copy voicemail over to email. C4 IP is fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook and offers features including “click-to-call,” instant messaging, unified inbox and other unified communications applications, video/audio/Web conferencing, find me/follow me, virtual number and related remote/mobile features.

D2 Technologies Releases Mobile Handset Solution Powered by Google Android

D2 Technologies today released their mobile handset solution powered by Google Android. D2's mCUE mobile convergence software solution combines a communications user interface with the company’s vPort MP VoIP software platform and is targeted towards OEMs and service providers to help deliver integrated Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and Unified Communications (UC) functionality. mCUE provides a complete embedded software framework for multi-mode mobile handsets for enterprise and consumer use, such as dual-mode cellular plus Wi-Fi phones. Its completely Java-based user interface framework for Linux can be ported to other GUI platforms. “mCUE revolutionizes mobile communications by tying together the best aspects of PC-based communications, such as VoIP, instant messaging and presence support, with the roaming benefits of mobile cellular and connection speed and quality of in-building wireless,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing at D2 Technologies. “It is a complete turnkey solution for multi-mode mobile communication devices.” mCUE is interoperable with enterprise IP-PBXs and unified communications systems. Looking at the GUI and the feature-specs, this definitely seems like a pretty cool product that I need to get my hands on and test. Check out the news today. LAS VEGAS, CTIA Wireless 2008 (Meeting Room 355) — April 1, 2008 — D2 Technologies, the market leader in embedded software platforms that power IP communications, today announced that its mCUE™ converged communications client for mobile devices and handsets now supports Google’s Android, one of the industry’s first open-source mobile platforms. D2’s mCUE product line, coupled with Google’s Android software development kit, now enables OEMs to rapidly develop handsets powered by Android that offer a premium, graphic- and media-rich user experience. The mCUE solution delivers device interoperability with enterprise IP PBXs, Unified Communications (UC) systems and service provider networks, integrating all session types including voice, IM, SMS and email messaging through a converged presence-based communications user interface (CUI). D2 is unveiling the integration solution at CTIA Wireless 2008, being held at the Las Vegas (NV) Convention Center April 1-3 (Meeting Room 355). “This offering will give developers a complete turnkey solution for developing multi-mode mobile communication devices based on Android,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing and sales at D2 Technologies. “There is considerable market anticipation around Google’s Android platform, and our goal is to make it as fast, easy and affordable as possible for OEMs to deliver converged, unified communications devices to meet that demand.” D2’s mCUE pairs an innovative, patent pending communications user interface with the company’s vPort MP VoIP software platform to address the needs of OEMs and service providers delivering integrated Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and UC functionality. mCUE provides a complete embedded software framework for multi-mode mobile handsets for enterprise and consumer use, such as dual-mode cellular plus Wi-Fi phones. Mobile devices with mCUE provide users with advanced presence-based and push-to-x control of cellular and VoIP calls, PBX extension feature activation, IM, email, SMS and other features typically only available on PC-based unified communications soft clients. Its revolutionary user interface, built on top of a multi-identity, multi-session, multi-protocol engine, enables users to simultaneously utilize multiple different communications services such as enterprise IP PBXs and UC systems, and commercial VoIM services like Google Talk, Yahoo!, MSN, AIM, and others. Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, the Android platform is a Linux-based software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.