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Voice Carrier and PhoneSuite Join Forces to Tackle Hospitality

Voice Carrier, a leading provider of enterprise-grade, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone service to businesses of all sizes, today announced its partnership with PhoneSuite, a global provider of high-quality, energy-efficient, cost-efficient voice communication solutions exclusively for the hospitality industry. This partnership brings Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP© SIP Trunking solution together with PhoneSuite’s Voiceware, thus enabling both businesses to provide the hospitality industry with a seamlessly integrated VoIP communications solution.                  

“We worked very closely with PhoneSuite and their compliance team to ensure the highest quality of interoperability between Voiceware and Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP. Now, our many hospitality focused channel partners can actively position a more cost-effective and intelligent SIP phone service to their existing and future customers, while earning industry-leading monthly commissions on the new lower phone bills,” said Gary Johnson, President and CEO of Voice Carrier. “With both IntelliSIP and PhoneSuite, hotels can share their telephone service among their entire hotel portfolio, blend services across the infrastructure, while providing them and their guests with unlimited calling within the US and Canada.”

          

To find out more about Voice Carrier's IntelliSIP SIP Trunking Solution, visit us at www.voicecarrier.com. You can also immediately download the full Press Release by clicking the download button below. 

                

have one of our dedicated regional channel managers speak with you, please visit us at Voice Carrier's PhoneSuite-Exclusive Sign-Up Page.

Another Win for Voice Carrier!

Voice Carrier, a leading provider of enterprise-grade VoIP services to businesses of all sizes, announced today that its VoIP Media Gateway (VMG) has won the 2014 Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award.

“It gives me great pleasure to recognize Voice Carrier with a 2014 Product of the Year Award for its commitment to excellence and innovation,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “In the opinion of our distinguished judges, Voice Carrier’s VoIP Media Gateway has proven to be among the best communications and technology solutions on the market in 2014. I look forward to continued innovation from Voice Carrier.”

          

To find out more about Voice Carrier's VoIP Media Gateway, visit us at www.voicecarrier.com. You can also immediatly download the full Press Release by clicking the download button below. 

                

For more information, and if you would like to have one of our dedicated regional channel managers speak with you, please contact us at partners@voicecarrier.com or call us at 1-888-310-0482. 

Avaya Tested, Approved and Now Promoted!

In 2013, Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP™ SIP Trunking service completed compliance testing and became certified with IP Office solutions from Avaya. As a result of this certification, all authorized Avaya Dealers can now offer their customers Voice Carrier’s truly cost-effective, simple-to–deploy, and easily managed IntelliSIP trunking service as an integral part of their Avaya IP Office enterprise telephony systems.

Find out more about this partnership by viewing the Voice Carrier and Avaya Joint Video Presentation. You can also visit us on the Avaya DevConnect site here.

To find out more and become a Voice Carrier partner, please contact us at mailto:partners@voicecarrier.com or call your personal Channel Sales Manager at 1-888-310-0482.

       

We’re starting 2014 with a bang!

We are extremely pleased and excited to announce the launch of our NEW and IMPROVED Voice Carrier website:  www.voicecarrier.com. This site now accurately reflects our image, as we are growing and changing, and represents our go-to-market strategy by showcasing a good balance between Partner and End User information.

Some new features on the site:

• Interactive Homepage complete with additional information on our products, and details for our partners and your customers.
• Newsroom complete with Press Release, In the News and Blog sections.
• Increased About Us section now including award details and executive team bios.

So visit us at www.voicecarrier.com and see why we are the clear choice for VoIP services.

    

The BYOD Phenomenon is Here to Stay

BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, is a policy that allows employees to use their mobile devices (i.e. personal cell phones, laptops and tablets) for work-related activities - including corporate network connectivity.  Over the past couple of years, this policy has become a major trend within the business world and in many cases, it is now the norm. 

So what took so long? Well, originally there was a lot of resistance due to corporations worrying about the security of the data, documents and communications transmitted through these devices. However, companies decided to attack that head on by developing clear policies and requirements to be used when accessing corporate data with a mobile device, coupled with new security software applications specifically designed to protect and secure mobile devices. As security was no longer presenting an issue, the BYOD movement became seen as a good alternative and was proving to be a practical and cost-effective way of working. Even the demand for internal IT departments assistance with mobile device issues decreased as employees themselves were taking on that responsibility, as they have ownership of the device.

Employees also generally prefer BYOD because they can use their preferred devices that they are already accustomed to, whenever needed, therefore making them more efficient. The evolution of unified communications via the cloud has also drastically changed the landscape in which employees can interface with their co-workers. With a virtual PBX, employees can have their office phones easily forwarded directly to their mobile device.  If on the road, the user can use their smartphone to log into their PBX extension and set up an unconditional forward, so that they never miss an important call.

The usage of a mobile device allows employees to work outside the office, after-hours, more easily. With mobile VoIP, employees can access their virtual PBX through simple applications (like Bria) by merely connecting through their cellular network or WiFi which automatically registered the extension on the PBX.   This allows the employee to not have to make costly cellular calls (domestic and international) since they can call extension to  extension without any usage fees since the call is being communicated via the Internet.

According to FierceWireless, a recent Juniper Research report predicted a huge increase in mobile VoIP users, more than 1 billion by 2017. This will no doubt change the way users communicate while on the go or through BYOD practices.

With all these benefits for both business and staff, it seems clear that the BYOD phenomenon is here to say. In fact, Gartner has predicted that by the year 2017 at east 50% of enterprises will require employees to supply and use their own personal devices for work purposes. Will you and your business be a part of this?

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Voice Carrier Announces IntelliSIP Compliance with Leading PBX and Phone System Providers

Voice Carrier, a leading provider of enterprise-grade, VoIP services to businesses of all sizes, announced today through Marketwire, that its award winning IntelliSIP^TM Trunking Service has completed testing, and has been certified interoperable with a variety of leading business phone system and PBX vendors.  Now, IntelliSIP is now fully compliant with the following industry leading phone system and PBX product lines: Avaya, Mitel, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC, Sangoma, Itwatsu, and PhoneSuite.  To view the full press release, click here.

IntelliSIP, the intelligent way to SIP Trunk, is a Voice Carrier exclusive product that enables businesses to increase revenues and reduce costs (by up to 70%), while enjoying a variety of features such as remote extensions, conference bridges and follow me.  It is imperative that IntelliSIP runs harmoniously with the PBX in order to ensure the highest interoperability and phone service voice quality between both products. Consequently, Voice Carrier engaged with each of the PBX vendors to successfully pass the vendor’s rigorous compliance testing. 

In addition, TMC , the world's leading business to business and integrated marketing media company, has named IntelliSIP as a recipient of the 2013 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.  Voice Carrier has won this prestigious award three out of the last four years.  We are honored to be recognized again for technological excellence for our newest SIP trunking product, IntelliSIP.

To find out more and become a Voice Carrier partner, please contact us at partners@voicecarrier.com.

Avaya Compliance Reached by Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP

Voice Carrier announced today, September 10, 2013 that its IntelliSIP^TM SIP Trunking service is compliant with IP Office solutions from Avaya. As a result of this compliance, users of both Voice Carrier and Avaya can now feel confident of the interoperability of Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP™ trunking with Avaya IP Office. 

All authorized Avaya Dealers can now offer their customers Voice Carrier’s truly cost-effective, simple-to–deploy, and easily managed IntelliSIP trunking service as an integral part of their Avaya
IP Office enterprise telephony systems.

One of the companies benefiting from the interoperability of Voice Carrier and Avaya solutions is Ameritel, a telecommunications solution provider servicing customers throughout the US, from the Caribbean to the Canadian border, and an Avaya Gold Partner. 

“We integrated Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP trunking product with several of our existing customers’ Avaya IP Office systems.  We were able to easily deploy the IntelliSIP product and ‘provision’ the trunk properly the first time, including some additional functionality and services. With 27 years’ experience in telecommunications, we know that deploying SIP technology can be quite complex, but our experience working with the Voice Carrier technical team and the IntelliSIP product has been exceptionally gratifying,” said Mickey Kieffer, CEO of Ameritel.

To find out more, check out the full Press Release.

    

Faxing: A Look at How Far We’ve Come

Remember the days when you needed to send a document in a hurry but your only choices were via mail or courier? These options proved to be anything but cost affective or timely, yet they were the only options available. Then, in the 1980s, an amazing product called a 'fax machine' came out. This innovative device allowed you to scan printed material (both text and images) and transmit a copy to a telephone number connected a printer, or other output device, anywhere in the world. This enabled businesses to quickly and securely transmit documents which seemed to be a major technological upgrade.

Though using fax machines didn’t become the norm until the ‘80s, they have actually been around in one form or another for over a century. It is noted that the first fax machine was invented between 1843 and 1846 by Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor and engineer (Bain is also known for inventing and patenting the electric clock). Since its creation, the fax machine and its capabilities have improved dramatically, yet the purpose and value remain unchanged.

Today fax machines are still considered a secure means of data transmission and you can literally walk into any office to find a fax machine ready for use. But now, it’s not the act of faxing that is changing, but how the act is being performed. Along with the transition businesses are making to the cloud, and the shift towards the need for mobility, faxing functionality has altered, making things even easier.

Since companies were easily converting their phone services to VoIP, why not convert fax machines as well? By enabling faxes to connect to a VoIP service, users are able to send and receive faxes directly, using their e-mail client or a secure online server. This enables users to send and receive faxes from anywhere, any time, on any device – even on their cellular phones. This solution proves very advantageous, as it eliminates the need for dedicated, non-integrated fax machines lines, allowing companies to finally go all-IP without losing the benefits of fax.

Faxing has come a long way since its inception by Mr. Bain and surely there will be more advancements in the future, but for now, this technology is a huge benefit to have. Don’t you agree?

For information on Voice Carrier’s Faxing over IP solution, visit http://voicecarrier.com/solutions/fax-over-ip.html. 

 

Voice Carrier, a Nationwide Provider of VoIP, Business Phone Systems and SIP Trunking Services, Selects Sangoma Vega Gateways for Their Enterprise VoIP Deployments

May 07, 2013 09:00 ET

Sangoma's SNAP Configuration Tool Will Shrink Installation Costs and Speed Voice Carrier's Delivery of VoIP Services to Enterprises and SMBs

 

MARKHAM, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 7, 2013) - Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX VENTURE:STC), a leading provider of hardware and software components that enable or enhance IP Communications Systems for both voice and data, announced that Voice Carrier, a leading provider of SIP Trunking and VoIP services to enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs), has selected the Sangoma Vega Series gateways as their recommended media gateway for SIP trunking and VoIP service deployments by the company, displacing another leading gateway vendor who's provisioning and installation interface is more complicated. Voice Carrier will use the Sangoma Network Appliance Provisioning (SNAP) Tool to streamline customer installations and facilitate quicker and more efficient deployments.

"We had conducted extensive hands-on testing and evaluation of many leading gateways products, and determined that the Sangoma Vega product line delivered the value, reliability, quality, ease of deployment and breadth of interface support that enables Voice Carrier to provide our customers with the level of service they need to confidently conduct their business," said Gary Johnson, president and chief executive officer for Voice Carrier. "Not only do the Vega products deliver on well-known Sangoma quality and reliability, the SNAP configuration tool enables our installers to provision and install the gateway for operation on our SIP network in a matter of minutes. In the highly competitive and fast-growing business VoIP marketplace, the efficiency of the SNAP tool, combined with very competitive pricing from Sangoma, gives our sales teams a significant advantage."

The SNAP Tool is an easy-to-use web-based application that guides installers to quickly create site- and customer-specific configuration files for Vega Series gateways by using pre-tested profiles developed to match the Voice Carrier network operational parameters. The process can be completed in less than five minutes and eliminates much of the provisioning effort necessary with other solutions. All of this is easily done without specialized training or accessing the command line interface of the gateway.

Under the agreement between the two companies, Voice Carrier has placed multiple orders, and is actively deploying the Vega Series as its VoIP media gateway solution which connects existing legacy PBXs to Voice Carrier's low cost cloud-based phone service. Voice Carrier is very actively targeting this market since it is very cost effective for customers that do not want to replace their current analog phone and PBX equipment, but gain the cost and new feature advantages of VoIP. The installation of a Vega gateway enables the customer to keep their existing phone system and infrastructure, while allowing them to switch to Voice Carrier's phone service and reduce their monthly phone bills by up to 50%.

"Selection as Voice Carrier's preferred gateway provider marks a significant milestone for Sangoma," said Mark Wagner, Sangoma's vice president of carrier and Lync sales. "Voice Carrier is an aggressive leader in the VoIP marketplace that is experiencing dramatic sales growth. We are very excited to contribute to the company's upward trajectory by delivering efficiencies and capabilities through the SNAP Tool and Vega gateways. Based on the projected growth of the Voice Carrier deployments, we estimate that they will need thousands of Vega gateways in the coming years. The Voice Carrier business model is taking over the SIP trunk market and we look forward to being a part of their success."

Sangoma's industry-leading solution portfolio enables the interworking of a wide variety of disparate TDM and IP networks, clouds, protocols, services, devices, and applications. Its portfolio includes award-winning voice and data boards, transcoding and gateway software, standalone gateway appliances for SS7 and TDM-to-SIP, wireless boards, multiplexers, Microsoft Lync gateways, and session border controllers. These products are designed for simple integration with open source and closed source IP PBX applications, contact centers, unified communications systems and service provider networks. For more information about the Sangoma portfolio of IP telephony and network integration solutions, or to locate an authorized reseller, visit www.sangoma.com.

About Sangoma Technologies Corporation

Sangoma is a leading provider of hardware and software components that enable or enhance IP Communications Systems for both telecom and datacom applications. Enterprises, SMBs and Carriers in over 150 countries rely on Sangoma's technology as part of their mission critical infrastructures. Through its worldwide network of Distribution Partners, Sangoma delivers the industry's best engineered, highest quality products, some of which carry the industry's first lifetime warranty. The product line includes data and telecom boards for media and signal processing, as well as gateway appliances and software.

Founded in 1984, Sangoma Technologies Corporation is publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX VENTURE:STC). Additional information on Sangoma can be found at www.sangoma.com.

About Voice Carrier

The innovation leader in Internet telephone service and systems for business, Voice Carrier is a Silicon Valley-based company that supplies cost effective VoIP telephone service available for business of all sizes through the company's highly scalable VoIP Network and Virtual PBX technologies. The award-winning Voice Carrier business telephone service is an extremely easy- to-install and use, affordable, full-featured service. Voice Carrier is committed to bringing Internet telephony to the vast number of growing businesses that still rely on last century's telephone systems and services, by developing innovative business telephone infrastructures, redefining communications across new markets, achieving operational excellence and innovation leadership.

For more information, call (855) 456-VOIP (8647) toll-free in the US, email sales@voicecarrier.com, or visit http://voicecarrier.com.

VoipReview.org Vendor Spotlight -- Voice Carrier

Located in San Jose, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley, Voice Carrier is a dynamic technology company that delivers high quality business VoIP solutions to any business of any size. Voice Carrier was founded in 2007, and launched business in 2009. In their four years of business, Voice Carrier has brought enterprise-grade VoIP phone service to thousands of business customers.

These businesses don’t need to have an existing phone system already in place, as Voice Carrier can help them start from scratch. However, if a business does have an existing phone system, they can still dramatically cut their phone bill, and add modern new phone system features by upgrading to IP technology.  All they have to do is purchase a VoIP media gateway in order to connect their legacy analog phone system to Voice Carrier’s enhanced cloud based phone service.   Voice Carrier can also connect your newer IP enabled PBX with SIP trunking for the same low rates.

Award Winning VoIP Service

Voice Carrier has already won several awards for being a young company. In 2010, Voice Carrier won Unified Communications Magazine’s 2010 Product of the Year Award. In 2011, Voice Carrier won Internet Telephony’s Product of the Year Award for the second year in a row. Internet Telephony, a TMC publication, has also awarded Voice Carrier the Excellence Award four times.

Founded with Experience

Voice Carrier was founded and lead by seasoned veterans in the VoIP and telecom industry. This includes CTO Paul Mahler, an expert on Asterisk, the brain of  PBX software, and CEO Gary Johnson, a Silicon Valley executive who has lead 5 startups, and has started 4 NASDAQ IPO’s

Scalable VoIP Business Solutions

Voice Carrier is perfect for small, medium, and growing companies. The Voice Carrier system can scale from 3 to hundreds of phones with a single hosted PBX. Voice Carrier focuses the most on VoIP service, but also provides four main VoIP connectivity solutions:  VoIP media gateways, hosted PBXs, on-premise IP PBXs, and enhanced SIP trunks.

Office VoIP Phone Service

Voice Carrier can help businesses save over 70% on their monthly phone bills just by using the Internet to make and receive phone calls. Along with monthly savings, Voice Carrier gives companies a dozen free features with their VoIP plan. Some of the features include:

• 800 numbers
• Local numbers
• Conference Bridges
• Follow Me
• Electronic Fax
• Call Forwarding
• Call Screening
• Multiple Extensions
• Music on hold
• Call Logs
• Automated attendant
• Customized greetings
• Message alerts
• Voicemail to email

To take advantage of all of Voice Carrier's features, Voice Carrier recommends that users upgrade to IP phones, or install a VoIP Media Gateway which connects to the customer’s existing traditional phone system in order to take advantage of Internet calling technology and cost.

SIP Trunks

Voice Carrier offers enhanced SIP trunking service for offices with in-house IP PBXs. A SIP trunk carries all incoming and outgoing calls on one low cost channel.  If a company has 20 extensions, but only makes about 10 concurrent calls at any given time, a company only has to buy a 10 line plan (10 channels) on a single SIP trunk.  This offers significant cost savings over other providers since Voice Carrier does not charge by the individual extension or seat.

Hosted PBX

A hosted PBX combines the technologies of an IP PBX and a SIP trunk in a hosted PBX system that is maintained in the cloud by Voice Carrier. Whenever a company needs to make changes to their extensions or system, they simply send Voice Carrier a request for a system update, and it will be taken care of automatically. This provides a seamless scalable phone system that can start small and grow as needed, but keeps the costs down since there are no significant additional capital expenditures associated with the growth.

Making the Switch from PSTN to VoIP

Voice Carrier knows that not all businesses have modernized their phone equipment quite yet. Since 2010, Voice Carrier has been integrating low cost VoIP monthly service with existing legacy PBX phone systems. Voice Carrier’s media gateway business model enables the customer to extent advanced features within the platform such as providing remote extensions, conference bridges and more, along with providing the connectivity to the PSTN from their existing legacy PBX.  Voice Carrier has done all of this while also creating and serving virtual PBX phone systems for thousands of business customers that were ready to modernize to an all IP phone solution.

As their awards show, Voice Carrier is a superior business VoIP provider, proven to provide excellent service while saving companies thousands of dollars each year.

Referring Link:  www.voipreview.org/blogs/provider-spotlight-voice-carrier