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New family of ShoreTel SG voice enabled switches!

ShoreTel has a family of new media gateways. The more interesting switches are referred to as SGV switches. There is an SG50V and an SG90V that differ only in the number of FXO and FXS ports that they support. What makes these switches (i.e. media gateways) so interesting is that they have a LINUX kernel built in to support a Compact Flash Card which enables localized Automated Attendant and Voice Mail. In the world of ShoreTelð€™s ð€Çsingle image solutionð€Ý we have the concept of a DVM (e.g. Distributed Voice Mail sever. The DVM are typically deployed at remote sites and, as explained in previous blog, provide for a level of resiliency (not redundancy) in your multi-site solution. More importantly, as the DVM enables Voice Mail and Automated Attendant to be localized at a remote site, it keeps these bandwidth intensive functions off your very expensive WAN.


VoIP Versus SIP, What is the Difference?

VoIP and SIP, two hot technologies you hear about all the time. But what"s the difference, or are they the same? VoIP is short for Voice Over IP, sending voice traffic over an IP network like the internet. This can be between two VoIP clients like two people talking to each other via Skype, or it can be an alternative to the PSTN (regular telephony).


Sms Marketing: Promoting Your Brand Was Never so Easy!

There is no doubt that the mobile population in the entire world has surpassed the Internet population. Companies, small or big, who were earlier promoting their products and services on the Internet are now moving to this new concept. This is because the SMS marketing strategies provide greater solutions than Internet marketing since they can easily reach a wider audience. A mobile is considered to be the most personal form of marketing a marketer can find and make use of.

In an aim to extract the optimum benefits out of SMS marketing or mobile marketing, a marketer needs to follow a long-term strategy. These marketing techniques are best used when a brand is mobilised as per the requirements and pre-defined objectives of the business-in-question besides the aggregation and distribution of content. The transmission of these services to the right type of audience at the right time is also required. In this regard, an optimisation can be done in context with the end-user experience via an unparalleled understanding of the behaviour of all prospective mobile phone owners.

The SMS marketing service providers use techniques such as SMS service, SMS marketing solutions, SMS delivery solutions, SMS gateways and VoIP switches to build database and acts as an personalised and interactive marketing medium. In this regard, the SMS Gateways can be seamlessly integrated into an existing messaging system and/or application within a fraction of second. The greatest benefit of these gateways is that the integrators and developers behind the SMS delivery solutions can have complete access to a high-capacity, reliable and secure SMS messaging platform. After that, the generic protocols can be used by the developers to build and deploy mobile data applications through numerous APIs(Application Programming Interfaces).

The APIs are connected to a provider"s core messaging platform which then offers an efficient, easy and flexible mode of integration with an aim to auto-generate SMS Text messages to be delivered to the intended recipients" mobile phone numbers. The SMS marketing solutions/SMS delivery solutions can include automated text SMS, language SMS, WAP Push SMS, ringtones, picture messages and flash SMS. The VoIP switches help to define a unique Sender Identification besides creating and managing sub-accounts with administrative rights. The SMS gateways can be easily accessed by submitting values to the HTTP API Server by the POST or GET method.

The concept of SMS marketing is revolutionising the business world with each passing day and the trend is likely to continue itself in the coming years.






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