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StarLeaf Business comes to Microsoft Ignite 2018 with their two business units, cloud and meeting rooms. StarLeaf has AV premium options built for global enterprise, a Range of End points from huddle rooms to board rooms and auditorium size meeting rooms. StarLeaf is adding features to end points and customizing the interfacing.

More at https://www.starleaf.com/.

Sennheiser comes to Microsoft ignite 2018 with a new product, a wireless headset SDW 5000. This great new “device of choice” aggregates all your communication devices into one. In this podcast we discussed Sennheiser capabilities maximizing digital business with maximizing security and compliance, meeting Industry standards. Also, Sennheiser's new family of tech product range of design and portfolio for call centers, speaker phones, open office environment and gaming etc ... meeting the growing needs of technology and telecom.

Sennheiser Press Release for Microsoft Ignite 2018… New Product SDW 5000 wireless headset.

More at https://en-us.sennheiser.com/.

Nuage Networks has created a technology that is independent of:

Hardware

Proprietary implementations

Staff

Hussein Khazaal, VP of Marketing for Nuage Networks provides a detailed overview of the new technology to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication. Hussein goes on to indicate how their technology can be used for:

Agility

Private Cloud

Support Agility

Scalability

Security is built in with three major components: Protection from end-to-end (Security cannot be unique to the Data Center, Lines, and Corporate), Visibility (Monitoring) and the use of real time data to respond to threats.

This is a complete solution that has everything going for it.  While the company was started 5 years ago, it utilizes various open source technology for various components and it has the support/backing of Nokia.

When they started Nuage Networks, it was with the mission that they could empower their customers to finally deliver on the true promise of the cloud. They envision a world in which IT and IP are no longer in conflict, but rather work in concert to propel business and elevate the cloud for every one of their customers. A world where innovation isn’t hampered by infrastructure, and where network resources are as effortlessly consumable as compute and storage.

For more information, go to: http://www.nuagenetworks.net/

Migrating to SD-WAN raises many questions. Is the journey necessary and beneficial? How large a management challenge will the migration be? In this podcast, Mosaic NetworX’ Chief Operating Officer Matt Hiles makes the case for SD-WAN and SD_WAN migration, and outlines why the migration can be relatively easy to manage and non-disruptive. “Mosaic NetworX is a WAN simplification company,” says Hiles. Hiles itemizes the gains from SD-WAN and goes on to contrast a DIY (do it yourself) approach, with what a company such as Mosaic can bring to the table in making a migration simple and well planned. “Having the right migration strategy is important,” says Hiles, noting that r-p-and replace can be avoided. We also learn about additional; issues such as dealing with pre-existing contracts, and how to select the right vendor partner for the journey

Visit www.mosaicnetworx.com

David Ansehl’s career in telecom includes an arc migration that began with gear driven, OEM silo centric onprem networks to full on cloud communications. Now serving as Reinvent’s Senior Channel Manager, Ansehl gives us an overview of Reinvent. Reinvent offers wholesale cloud communication services and a white label partner program. Reinvent’s unique corporate history and DNA give the company a competitive advantage in offering partners better ways to migrate challenges such as billing and taxes. We also learn about their new membership to the CCA. Ansehl’s looking to the CCA as a resource for innovation and to meet up with industry colleagues.

Visit www.reinventtelecom.com

Telestax is the company behind RestcommONE, which Telestax describes as the only full stack CPaaS. Marking the company’s new membership in the Cloud Communication Alliance (CCA), Ivelin Ivanov, Telestax co-founder and CEO gives us an overview of Restcomm, and how Telestax enables real-time voice applications, SMS solutions, embedding real time video and audio into apps using RestcommONE’s rich WebRTC SDKs and much more. “Our particular role is to focus on the CPaaS enablement offering,” says Ivanov on the role he sees for his company within the CCA community and within the cloud communications community at large. Telestax is the Frost & Sullivan CPaaS Enabling Technology Award winner. Stay tuned as Ivanov discusses revenue opportunities and fresh ideas to improve the attractiveness of market companies for sale.

More at www.telestax.com and www.restcomm.com.

Earlier this month, Zoomdata launched ZAP! - the Zoomdata Application Partner program. In this podcast Russ Cosentino, Co-founder and VP of channel sales, we learn about their program called ZAP! - the Zoomdata Application Partner program. Cosentino outlines how ZAP! offers new opportunities for the channel. Zoomdata provides data visualization to large enterprises so that large organizations can actually see, understand and react to their own data. Zoomdata made the announcement after experiencing substantial growth in the channel. According to Cosentino, significant opportunities exist for real time, UC, UCaaS and other “telecom” channels as Cosentino reports that a significant part of Zoomdata has come for the real time communications side inside the enterprise. Cosentino walks us through how partners are supported, offered advanced training, offered marketing and sales support and are provided with an easy to use partner portal to track deals and clients.

Visit www.zoomdata.com

How do two separate companies work together?

We recently reported on the new Nitel and Nextiva partnership Podcast: Nitel, Nextiva Strategic Partnership Offers Unique Offering and how the strategic alliance is a unique move in the real time communications market, a partnership instead of a merger. In this podcast we look at the business and administrative end of the alliance. Nitel’s Director of Business Development, Chris Shubert discusses the business mechanics of how two separate companies with two separate sales teams and two separate delivery and billing teams, can collaborate without banging into each other. Shubert gives us he business reason for an alliance instead of a merger, with both brands, companies and identities left intact.

More at https://www.nitelusa.com/.

This week at Microsoft Ignite, Ribbon Communications Showcased its Session Border Controller Portfolio for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing at Microsoft Ignite. In this podcast, Ribbon Communications’ Mykola Konrad discusses in detail the product line up, that includes Media Bypass support for improved voice quality. Konrad notes that the SBCs not only bring with them Microsoft certification, “… but also bring with them features that will help customers or enterprises that are looking to move to Microsoft Teams actually make the migration.  Konrad walks us through the five-product line up and how they offer enterprises a specific way to move to Teams and offer new channel opportunities for companies looking to help their customers make the move to Microsoft’s vision of a digital transformation.

To learn more, visit ribboncommunications.com and https://ribboncommunications.com/solutions/enterprise-solutions/microsoft-solutions

According to Eric Bauer of AudioCodes, bringing together the PBX-like functionality of some of Microsoft’s products and the connectivity of AudioCodes, delivers on a, “… new world of intelligent communications.” In this podcast, Bauer discusses toe Ignite related announcements, AudioCodes Enhances One Voice for Microsoft 365 Offering and AudioCodes to Deliver End-to-End Voice Quality Monitoring of Microsoft Teams. Bauer paints an audio photo of AudioCodes C450, a Teams ready phone and part of the One Voice for Microsoft 365 offering, that leverages AudioCodes background in Microsoft OCS, Lync and Skype for Business.

Learn more at www.audiocodes.com