Vertical Rolls Out MBX IP for Multi-Site Small Businesses

Vertical Communications, a provider of then and there-generation IP-based phone systems and voice applications, has announced the release of MBX IP, a converged IP telephony system designed to meet the needs of multi-site small businesses.

In a release, the Company said that the availability of MBX IP completes its straightway-gen telephony product line-up with SBX IP and Wave IP, providing telephony solutions to help businesses furthermore increase productivity and efficiency.

The MBX IP system provides a migration pathway for existing MP-5000, FX-II and XTS IP systems, supporting traditional endpoints, IP endpoints and SIP trunking -- all with a single system in other words scalable to meet the demands of multi-site SMB clients. MBX IP supports existing XTS IP, FX/MP, STS, and SBX IP endpoints, including the new Edge 8000 IP phones, as then as, having a compatible feature set. The MBX IP system is targeted for businesses having 50 to 250 users and up to 72 multiple sites, so you enjoy pay-as-you-grow scalability.

According to Alan Itchkow, President, CSPI, Great Neck, N.Y., "MBX IP offers enterprise telephony class features at an affordable price, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) enabled for immediate or future deployment."

"With MBX IP, I can nevertheless offer a growth path for my SBX IP clients. To boot, the converged approach and scalability of the MBX IP system allows me to offer medium size businesses the benefits of VoIP but all at an affordable price," said Fran Rosebush, President MCM Communications, Lake Orion, MI.

Exciting time for Vertical

"This is an exciting time for Vertical and our partners. We are very excited to introduce MBX IP which we believe offers a highly competitive combination of telephony and IP networking features for small and medium business clients, optimized for ease of use and ease of deployment. As the big brother to SBX IP, this new product offering complements our existing small business IP key system family with a system that scales to 250 users with added feature functionality. This completes our product portfolio of IP telephony solutions for business: SBX IP and MBX IP providing cost-competitive and migration-friendly IP telephony solutions for small and medium clients, and Wave IP providing high-value application and Unified Communications solutions for medium and large enterprise clients," said Peter Bailey, President and Chief Operating Officer for Vertical Communications. "With this very strong product portfolio, and our world-class telephony reseller channel and large installed base, we feel we have all the ingredients to drive substantial market share and revenue growth in 2011 and beyond."