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Sonus Posts Highest Market Share Gains in the Service Provider Session Border Controller Market

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Sonus Posts Highest Market Share Gains in the Service Provider Session Border Controller Market

New Infonetics Research Report Finds Sonus Has Fastest Growing Session Border Controllers Two Years Running

Key Takeaways:

  • Sonus is the fastest growing service provider session border controller (SBC) vendor in 2012, with an industry leading 7.3 share point gain, ending the year with 19 percent market share
  • Sonus is the fastest growing SBC brand two years running with share point gains nearly five times the next leading vendor
  • Sonus SBC revenues from the service provider market segment for 2012 grew 67 percent year-over-year

WESTFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sonus Networks, Inc. (NAS: SONS) , a global leader in SIP communications, today announced that the most current Infonetics Research report shows Sonus session border controllers (SBCs) continue to be the fastest growing portfolio on the market. The fourth quarter 2012 report, “Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers,” published March 4, 2013, reveals that Sonus SBCs led the industry in market share gains in 2012. Sonus highlights from the report include:

  • The largest year-over-year share gains in the SBC market; a 7.3 share point increase to achieve 19 percent market share for 2012
  • Industry leading SBC revenue growth, with a 67 percent gain

Sonus SBCs deliver secure access to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking, which enable service providers and enterprises to simplify their network design, reduce costs and effectively deploy new applications such as Unified Communications and video. By utilizing SIP trunking, many enterprises may realize a savings of 50 percent or more in areas such as long distance charges and monthly access line fees. Sonus has the broadest portfolio of Microsoft Lync qualified SBCs, providing the industry’s only end-to-end portfolio to deliver SIP-enabled applications from the branch office to the central office.

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8×8 Issued New Communications Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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8×8 Issued New Communications Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 8×8, Inc. (NAS: EGHT) , provider of innovative cloud communications solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a new patent related to its communications technologies. On March 19, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued United States Patent number 8,401,003 entitled “Method and System for Updating Physical Location Information.”

This patent relates to a method and system for updating physical location data associated with a Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) endpoint. The invention utilizes address and state information available to the VoIP endpoint device to facilitate an update of the physical location data associated with a VoIP host server via the VoIP endpoint device.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8×8 has been awarded eighty-six (86) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications, signaling, processing and storage technologies. 8×8’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Martin, is a named inventor on the newly issued patent.


About 8×8, Inc.

8×8, Inc. (NAS: EGHT) empowers business conversations for more than 30,000 small and medium-sized businesses with cloud communications services that include hosted PBX telephony, unified communications, contact center and video conferencing solutions. The company has been delivering business communications services since 2004 and has garnered a reputation for technical excellence and outstanding reliability. In 2012, 8×8 was named a market “leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in North America and recognized as the No. 1 Provider of Hosted IP Telephony by Frost & Sullivan. For additional information, visit www.8×8.com, or connect with 8×8 on Facebook and Twitter.

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ADTRAN Delivers Revolutionary VoIP Migration Platform

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ADTRAN Delivers Revolutionary VoIP Migration Platform

NetVanta 7000 series to support both premises and cloud-based voice service models to enable greater flexibility for service providers and enterprises

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ADTRAN®, Inc., (NAS: ADTN) , a leading provider of cloud connectivity, virtual mobility and enterprise communications solutions, today announced a revolutionary voice migration platform that answers market demand for multiple-voice deployment on an efficient single-solution platform. Designed for service providers and enterprises, the NetVanta® 7000 family has a new software configuration that enables deployment of premise-based PBX functions or cloud-based and hosted VoIP services all with a single hardware platform. The all-in-one design for voice, data, video, and wireless services creates business efficiency and capabilities that today’s businesses need to remain competitive.

Historically, voice deployments demanded purpose-built platforms to act as either a PBX or a gateway for cloud-based and hosted services. With the NetVanta 7100, this has changed. Now, service providers who previously deployed hosted VoIP solutions can offer alternate deployment scenarios. Those deploying premise-based PBX solutions now have the option to provide a platform that has a migration path to hosted services. By taking this approach, the service providers protect their existing investment in technology and resource support. In addition, for either hosted or premise based solutions, local survivability is supported. This provides the end users additional peace of mind when next generation communication technologies are deployed.

“Given the rapid rise of hosted and cloud-based voice service applications, as an alternative to premises-based PBX, a single hardware platform to address both introduces a new level of efficiency in scale and management to the market,” said Rob Arnold, program manager, Unified Communications and Collaboration at Frost & Sullivan. “With the new NetVanta 7000 series voice migration capability, ADTRAN is enabling their channels to easily address end-user’s needs to migrate from one type of service to another as their business demands.”

While the NetVanta 7000 series enables end-users with the ability to select different communication services and preserve network infrastructure – IP phones, switches, gateways, wireless access points – it also provides multiple benefits to service providers and the reseller channels that support these customers. Benefits for the channel include:

  • Lower inventory carrying costs – With a single SKU for either premises PBX or hosted VoIP UC, resellers are able to carry less inventory and reduce costs.

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Plantronics Recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2013 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award

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Plantronics Recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2013 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award

Research Reveals Plantronics has Identified and Successfully Addressed Key Mega Trends

ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Plantronics (NYS: PLT) today announced that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the company a Visionary Innovation Award in recognition of the company’s accomplishments in the Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) and Customer-Care markets. Frost & Sullivan defines Visionary Innovation as the ability to identify key Mega Trends and proactively address unmet needs with disruptive solutions that can greatly improve business performance as well as individuals’ work and personal lives.

“Plantronics has been at the forefront of headset innovation since its inception. It has successfully aligned its product development roadmap with a number of Mega Trends and is highly deserving of Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 Visionary Innovation Leadership award,” said Elka Popova, Director, Unified Communication & Collaboration, Frost & Sullivan. “Key to Plantronics’ success is its focus on software development and contextually-aware communications that enable its devices to react based on the user’s status, availability, location, and other contextual factors.”

“This award validates our impact on unified communications and the importance of delivering products that are easy for people to use,” said Ken Kannappan, president and CEO of Plantronics. “We appreciate the recognition of the contributions we have made delivering exceptional audio and playing a critical role in improving productivity.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, Mega Trends are transformational to business, economy, society, cultures, and personal lives, thereby defining the future world and its increasing pace of change. The Mega Trends affecting UCC and Customer-Care are Connectivity and Convergence and Mobility.

Mega Trend: Connectivity and Convergence

Frost & Sullivan predicts that by 2020, there will be 10 connected devices for every household, five connected devices for every person, five billion Internet users, and 500 devices with unique digital IDs per square kilometer. Connected individuals must clearly hear each other to communicate effectively, with minimal interference and disruption to themselves and to others, regardless of their external environments. Individuals are increasingly using multiple communications and collaboration tools. They are frequently switching between communications modes and, therefore, they need to integrate multiple contact channels seamlessly through a single endpoint.

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Sonus SBC 1000, SBC 2000 Session Border Controllers Microsoft Lync 2013 Qualified

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Sonus SBC 1000, SBC 2000 Session Border Controllers Microsoft Lync 2013 Qualified

Session Border Controllers Serve Critical Role in Enabling and Activating Microsoft Lync within Enterprise SIP Networks

Key Takeaways:

  • Sonus SBC 1000 and Sonus SBC 2000 Session Border Controllers receive Microsoft Lync 2013 qualification
  • As enterprise Unified Communications grows, session border controllers will be critical in helping companies realize interoperability, service quality and security required when implementing multi-vendor Internet Protocol networks
  • Survivable branch appliance capabilities of the SBC 1000 and SBC 2000 for Microsoft Lync ensure business continuity in enterprise branch offices if the wide area network fails
  • The Sonus SBC portfolio provides the industry’s broadest end-to-end SBC solution, delivering Session Initiation Protocol-enabled applications from the enterprise headquarters to the branch office

WESTFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sonus Networks, Inc. (NAS: SONS) , a global leader in SIP communications, today announced that the Sonus SBC 1000 and Sonus SBC 2000 are Microsoft Lync 2013 qualified for session border controller (SBC) and survivable branch appliance (SBA) deployments.

A Microsoft Gold Communications Partner, Sonus helps enterprises optimize Microsoft Lync voice deployments by securing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking services at the network border and providing a more seamless flow of SIP-based multi-vendor media for Unified Communications (UC) deployments. Access to UC applications such as instant messaging (IM), collaboration, conferencing and voice empowers enterprises to communicate in the most efficient and cost-effective ways – whenever and wherever.

The Sonus portfolio provides the industry’s only end-to-end SBC solution delivering SIP-enabled applications from the enterprise headquarters to the branch office. SBCs are the critical access technology to enable customers to unify disparate UC architectures across an enterprise.

According to the January 2013 Webtorials study, “Enterprises Place 2013 Unified Communications Bets: How Many Horses in This Race?” there is considerable enterprise awareness and interest in Microsoft Lync as a platform for UC and enterprise voice. A full 58 percent of those surveyed already plan to deploy Microsoft for IM and presence, and it appears to have the inside track with many buyers when it comes to more advanced UC functions like Web meetings, desktop sharing …read more
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