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A number of government departments and large organisations are investing too much into telecommunications services, according to an expenses control expert in New Zealand. ZiCi, which is based in Parnell, utilises business intelligence and data-mining in order to help its clients manage telecommunications.

Conference group CIOsynergy has revealed that SecureLogix will take part in its Mandarin Oriental Boston Highlight event in Massachusetts later this month. SecureLogix is one of the leading firms in ROI intelligence and UC border/enterprise voice enforcement. Its 7th generation products allow customers to reduce expenditure on securing and optimising legacy voice and IP telephony networks.

Social networking’s undeniable increase in popularity in recent years has resulted in a trend of video conferencing stepping away from a corporate setting and moving towards mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones, an industry expert has claimed. Polycom Thailand’s regional manager, Thep Ritrangkla, spoke to the Bangkok Post to discuss the success that such websites as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linked have had.

Telephony firm Tellumat Communication Solutions has put pen to paper on a distribution arrangement with Canada-based Phybridge, the VoIP client premises equipment manufacturer. The deal will see Tellumat make Phybridge’s entire range of products available to its resellers in South Africa. This includes PoLRE (Power over Long Reach Ethernet), its VoIP infrastructure switch.

Tata Communications revealed last week that it has successfully implemented business video, managed voice and network consolidation for product engineering firm KPIT Cummins. This enables KPIT to capitalise on higher levels of enterprise mobility and unified communication so that it can meet the increasing demands of mobile working.

Midaire LLC has announced the release of its latest telecommunications service. BackFlip, which caters mainly for SMBs, enables commercial clients to use IP telephony without having to change any of their existing equipment. The company’s senior partner, Michael LeBrun, said that the product allows customers to save money without investing in new hardware.

Business VoIP provider Broadvox has announced that it is releasing a new cloud-based collaboration and voice service. The new offering, Hosted Communications, will see the integration of phone, fax, IM, and video to allow better connection between business clients, customers and employees. The services can be accessed through a number of platforms, including IP desk phone, Mac, PC, and smartphone.

Ekinops, an Israel-based supplier and designer of next-gen optical equipment, along with its partner, Rotal Networks, has provided telecommunications company Bezeq with Ekinops 360, its high-end optical transport platform. It is thought that Bezeq will use the product’s optical performance to increase the capacity of its fibre network.

Leading software and hardware components provider Sangoma Technologies Corporation, which enables IP communication systems for data and voice, announced last week that it has selected Comlink Networks to be a Master Reseller for its Lync Express product line. Comlink Networks, which specialises in SIP trunking, is the first company to receive the title as part of Sangoma’s new program.

Aastra has been identified by Info-Tech Research Group as a leading firm at the front of the commercial communications market. This comes after the group’s Vendor Landscape research into the unified communications and IP telephony markets. Independent researchers, in the assessment of 12 UC/IPT market vendors, pointed out the strong dedication that Aastra has shown in commercial communications, as well as its UC/IPT solutions portfolio.