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3Com will use the Internet Telephony Expo this week in Los Angeles to launch applications for hardening business VoIP networks and expanding user capabilities, while Toshiba will unveil gear to make employees more productive with converged applications.
From 3Com comes an upgrade to its VCX enterprise IP PBX platform, which adds remote-site failover and survivability features in case of network or IP PBX equipment failure, the vendor says. Also, 3Com says its new bundle of convergence applications based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), including unified messaging, presence and multimedia conferencing, can help individual employees work more efficiently.
3Com is launching Version 5.0 of its SIP-based VCX call control software, which runs on its VCX 7000 IP PBX hardware platform. The new software now runs on the Linux operating system and Sun's Solaris, which gives users the option of using an Intel-based server as an IP PBX, in addition to Sun's proprietary server platform.
VCX 5.0 also includes a feature called Voice Boundary Routing, which lets IP phones distributed across a WAN switch over to a back-up VCX in case of a primary call server failure. When deployed with VCX 3000 gateways in...