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.