PBX

Vidyo announced today VidyoH2O™ for Google+ Hangouts. VidyoH2O™ is a video gateway from existing SIP, H.323, and IP PBX based video devices and platforms using H.264 to the Hangout environment that uses VP8. The gateway function is essentially a tether point that talks traditional legacy video on one side and Google+ Hangouts on the other side, providing transcoding for the video streams and mixing and image delivery form multi-party conferences. Prices range from $99 per month in the cloud to $149 for a premise version.

It is going to be an interesting Enterprise Connect in Orlando this year from March 17 - 20, 2014. There is a shift in the tone to the new reality of enterprise communications. As interpreted from the agenda, the new reality could be summarized as:

Happy New Year! Trust 2013 was good for you and that you can be even more successful and prosperous in 2014!

Thinking about what the UC&C (and VoIP) industry most needs in 2014 leads to this suggested New Year's Resolution for 2014:

"To avoid irrelevance, focus on adding business value through UC&C transformation."

Knock knock. Is anyone home?

Well... while you were gone, working on better media quality, adding ports to your MCU or just trying to integrate your UC offering with some other UC offering you prefer to call "legacy," the world has changed.

Recently, Intermedia launched its hosted PBX service, a VoIP-based service that integrates with Intermedia's hosted Exchange e-mail service to enable customers to access hosted PBX and unified communications features.

Hosted PBX is managed from Intermedia's HostPilot Control Panel, which provides a single point of communications control for customers. The service comes with voice menu, hunt groups to route calls in order to get the important ones answered quickly, flat rate monthly charges with unlimited calling for users in the US and Canada, along with several other features.