20/01-06   -   Pressmeddelande

innovaphone aims for the world of Apple Macintosh

The introduction into the fast growing market for professional VoIP solutions has opened up a lucrative business area for Apple stockists and system houses

innovaphone, the IP telephony specialist based in Sindelfingen is aiming for the world of Apple Macintosh by providing all solutions with an interface for connection to Mac technology. This enables companies using an Apple environment to change over to Voice over IP (VoIP) in the future. The Apple system house GS TSC GmbH based in Wiesbaden, Germany who developed this application, will market the Mac VoIP solutions.

GS TSC is innovaphone´s Apple distributor and thus the first contact for all Apple resellers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as innovaphone´s Apple development partner. Additional applications are to follow in the coming months.

Traditional telephony is finished. More and more businesses are changing over to VoIP. The new technology scores with lower costs, extended technical possibilities and much higher flexibility. However most businesses with Apple technology have failed to changeover to VoIP in the past due to the lack of VoIP solutions compatible with Apple. The VoIP systems which have been available on the market until now were aimed more to the home user and were not designed with the necessary voice quality, availability and scalability needed by professional businesses. However this situation is now being changed!

innovaphone´s introduction to the world of Apple Macintosh has brought a professional Apple compatible VoIP solution to the market which is suitable for use in any size of business. This solution enables all possible scenarios to be realised: from connecting each home worker to the central telephone system to redundant concepts for businesses with multiple locations. It is important to note that changeover from traditional telephony to VoIP does not need to take place in one single step. Infact innovaphone´s solution offers the possibility to changeover step-by-step (smooth migration), which allows continued usage of the current telephone system.

All innovaphone´s solution building blocks support the multi-vendor convergence standards H.323/H.450 and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). The following message should be especially pleasing for Apple users who are used to system stability and availability: innovaphone´s Mac VoIP solutions work on the autarkic VoIP gateway hardware. The hardware environment is extremely robust with a convincingly low fallout rate due to construction without a single moveable part such as a fixed hard disk or ventilation. innovaphone´s proprietary operating system has been adapted perfectly to the hardware tasks. The stability is not impared by superfluous or unknown features. In addition reliability can be further improved with innovaphone´s redundancy concept for Mac VoIP solutions. In this case a second system is installed which immediately and automatically takes over the functions of the telephone system should the master system fail.

innovaphone´s product family has two central application areas: the VoIP based telephone system (IP PBX) and the interconnection of traditional telephone systems using an IP-WAN connection (trunking). VoIP has one particular advantage for companies with several locations. The internal telephone calls can be diverted over the data connections which are usually already available (trunking) which directly and veritably leads to a cut in internal calling costs.

VoIP offers not only opportunities for users but also for specialised Apple traders. The introduction into the fast growing market for professional VoIP solutions has opened up a lucrative business area for Apple stockists and system houses.

GS TSC has a favourable starter package for specialised traders who wish to get an idea about innovaphone´s VoIP solutions. This package includes a VoIP system for up to 10 extensions and consists of the smallest innovaphone PBX, an "IP202" (including power supply), an IP telephone "IP200" (including power supply) as well as an IP adapter "IP21-1" to integrate analog devices. Furthermore each system has a "Software Development Kit" for the development of individual applications. The price for this complete system is 1.100,00 EUR (not including value added tax).

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