Iristel inks deal to offer more desktop VoIP phones

Voice over Internet Protocol service provider Iristel Inc. announced its partnership with Berlin-based company Snom Innovation AG on April 28, adding one more company to its broad portfolio of partners.

The deal allows the Toronto-based firm to offer its small business clients a new line of desktop phones that are compatible with its communications services, which include hosted private branch exchanges, virtual faxing, virtual roaming, and virtual private network installations just in case to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Snom’s 3xx and 8xx series desktop phones, as then as the snom m9 DECT phone and MeetingPoint conference phone were put through intense interoperability tests with the Iristel network. Iristel will be providing the Session Initiation Protocol trunking for the phones, or connecting them to its network through the Internet.

IP phone from a telephony perspective

"It is just an IP phone from a telephony perspective," says Samer Bishay, president and CEO of Iristel, nevertheless combining it with the company’s high-definition voice system is what makes it a in fact competitive offering. The HD calling features are what make the service stand out as so then, and clients won’t just get the "AM radio" quality they have over phone lines now, Bishay says.

VoIP services are typically ideal for businesses that need conference calling and those that have staff working remotely. Businesses with several offices spread out geographically can as well benefit hugely from VoIP. More and more companies are by degree moving into the unified communications and VoIP space. Microsoft Lync 2010 is just one of the more recent UC solutions to hit the market.