Sound Incorporated

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We design and implement a vast array of communication products that allow businesses to operate in the most effective and efficient manner possible. From traditional telephone systems to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) we strive to meet and exceed all technological expectations for business success.

via Sound Incorporated.


You can hardly make it out but I think the address of this place is 1550 Shore Road in Naperville.  For a company in the telecommunications business I find it strange how they can’t put together a decent readable web site.   They also serve up pdfs for invitations like those awful restaurant web site serving up menus as pdfs.

Asterisk Key System Emulation

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Multi Phone Hold

We have a number of locals that dial more than one set and, on our legacy Nortel Meridian, the users used to be able to place the call on hold on one set, and pick it up on another. When we switched to Asterisk, this was the most complained about missing feature, so I came up with the following trickery to make our Polycoms emulate the same functionality.

via Asterisk Key System Emulation – voip-info.org.

SLA=Shared Line Experience

SLA can also be confused with Service Level Agreement which is also a telecom acronym.

ShoreTel Sends A Clear Message To The Competition

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Upon reporting Q2 financial results last week, ShoreTel (SHOR) may have momentary roused some in a sleepy industry. While its overall business performance in the quarter was largely in-line with expectations, it was the announcement of its planned acquisition of M5 Networks, a hosted, business phone service provider that would have caused the awakening. The announced acquisition marks the first, focused entrance into the fast growing but fragmented hosted telecom services business by a major PBX manufacture and may well set the stage for others to follow. In an industry that has long eschewed the hosted-voice platform the way a king might a peasant, the announcement is sure to bring about a polarizing discussion.

via Can You Hear Me Now? ShoreTel Sends A Clear Message To The Competition – Seeking Alpha.

M5 Networks Acquires Geckotech to Expand Hosted VOIP Reach

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Hosted VOIP provider M5 Networks announced on Nov. 3 that it has acquired Chicago-based Geckotech for $8 million.The combined companies will handle what company officials describe as the “exploding demand” for business-grade hosted VOIP services.

via M5 Networks Acquires Geckotech to Expand Hosted VOIP Reach – Enterprise Networking – News & Reviews – eWeek.com – eWeek Mobile.

Dated Nov. 3, 2010

With the poor economic climate and companies slashing IT budgets, demand has grown for hosted VOIP services. Organizations, whether they are large enterprises, midsized or small businesses, looked at hosted telephony to cut costs without giving up critical communications applications.

Geckotech offered customers a Cisco-powered hosted VOIP platform as well as additional services, including phone service installation, system management and in-house customer support. The company offered free maintenance, and unlimited system and feature upgrades.

Geckotech was evaluating ways to overhaul its technology to obtain an enhanced phone experience and robust applications “without the use of licensing arrangements,” said M5 Networks. Geckotech did not specify its reasons for not wanting to license the technology.

Geckotech selected M5 Networks’ Call Conductor platform and rolled it out to some existing customers, M5 Networks said. With the acquisition, the remaining Geckotech customers will be “seamlessly” integrated to M5 Networks’ systems throughout the next year, said M5 Networks.

RADIUS

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Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) management for computers to connect and use a network service. RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises, Inc., in 1991 as an access server authentication and accounting protocol and later brought into the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards.[1]

via RADIUS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

NZXT Switch 810: When Too Much Isn’t Enough

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I think there’s ultimately a market for the Switch 810 for users that can take advantage of all of its customizability, as well as users who want to employ a tremendous amount of custom watercooling. For them it’s going to be worth checking out. If you don’t need to install a 360mm radiator, though, Rosewill’s Thor v2 remains the superior buy. It performs better, costs less, and is quieter to boot. NZXT’s case is a good one, but not great, and definitely not competitive at $169.

via AnandTech – NZXT Switch 810: When Too Much Isn’t Enough.

It seems like the market are calling cases enclosures.  I like the term enclosures better.  It sounds more sophisticated.  🙂

The Opteron 6276: a closer look

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First let’s look at the pricing. The Opteron 6276 is priced similar to an E5649, which is clocked 5% lower than the X5650 we tested. If you calculate the price of a Dell R710 with the Xeon E5649 and compare it with a Dell R715 with the Opteron 6276 with similar specs, you end up more or less the same acquisition cost. However, the E5649 is an 80W TDP and should thus consume a bit less power. That is why we argued that the Opteron 6276 should at least offer a price/performance bonus and perform like an X5650. The X5650 is roughly $220 more expensive, so you end up with the dual socket Xeon system costing about $440 more. On a fully speced server, that is about a 10% price difference.

via AnandTech – The Opteron 6276: a closer look.

LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M

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Revenue from Marketing Solutions products totaled $49.5 million, an increase of 77% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and represented 30% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 34% in the fourth quarter of 2010. Premium Subscriptions revenue totaled $33.3 million, an increase of 87% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and was 20% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 22% in the fourth quarter of 2010.

By geographic area, revenue from the U.S. totaled $112 million, and represented 67% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue from international markets totaled $55.8 million, and represented 33% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011.

via LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M | TechCrunch.