Introducing Compare Business Products

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Aug 172011
 

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My name is Charron and I am the Publisher here at Compare Business Products, a leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of business products and services. Our mission is to generate more sales opportunities for vendors by connecting them with the serious, in-market prospects who are shopping for business products across the Web. CPB also serves business buyers by providing them the most efficient way to research and shop for products and services in order to make the best purchasing decisions for their organizations. We have many comparison charts and articles so come take a look.

How much should a VoIP system cost per user?

By Pha Lo

The best argument for switching from traditional phone service to VoIP is the long-term cost savings of calls made through broadband internet. Instead of paying three or four different bills for local and long-distance calling and internet, VoIP lets businesses combine telecommunications costs. This kind of streamlining saves time and money, but depending on the telecommunications needs of a given business, VoIP costs can vary widely.

According to 2007 research from AMI reported by Forbes.com, hosted VoIP spending in 2005 for small businesses with one to 99 employees was $80 million, with individual spending highly specific to each individual business’ needs. That number was projected to increase to $1.12 billion by 2010. Businesses with 100 to 999 employees spent as much as $66.7 million in 2005 with 2010 spending projected to reach $310.8 million.

Spending will vary from one business to the next. Here are some variables that will affect the costs of traditional VoIP systems:

Owning versus Hosted

Purchasing a system outright and managing it in-house versus going with a hosted solution will impact costs. The decision is personal and highly specific to a small business needs.

Scale

The number of lines, employees and remote locations linking into the VoIP system all impact costs. Scale is one of the main predictors of cost and is always included in customized price quotes. Often, VoIP vendors provide cost estimates based on a range of users, for example 0-5, 6-10 or 11-15 employees.

Service can start at around $200 for certain number of lines, such as four users, with fees for additional users.

Equipment

A business’ current hardware and potential equipment upgrades impact cost. Items to assess for equipment cost include telephones, headsets and the current data connection–whether it’s DSL, fiber or cable. Look for vendors who bundle in free equipment or who can integrate services with your existing equipment. As a point of reference, equipment can cost around $250 per phone.

Take a look at our Business Phone System Comparison Chart.

More about VoIP from Compare Business Products

Momema Communications

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Jun 302008
 

Here’s a note I got from a Spanish start up: 

Hi Michael,

I’m Antonio Cerrolaza from Monema Communications, a spanish startup.
I contact to tell you about a new hosted PBX service we are launching. Please, we encourage you to simply take a look at our web, http://www.monema.com./ We belive you’ll be pretty surprised.
TamTam is a very visual PBX fully managed via web, which will probably remind you Yahoo Pipes. Final user oriented, main features are usability and flexibility. TamTam counts with a small number of easy to understand components that permit a small company to take total control of its phone system.
Futhermore we have launched two programs for professionals and companies interested in resell our service with custom private brand.
We are launching our service world-wide although we can only provide incoming numbers in 30+ countries (check our site for availability).
Also, we are providing demo accounts for anyone interested. If you want to evaluate it, please don’t hesitate in request us a evaluation account.

Thank you,
Antonio Cerrolaza,
info@monema.com
Momema Communications

Jaduka Launches Web Telephony Widgets

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Mar 112008
 

I got an email from Rob Unger the other day informing me of some new web phone widgets on the Jaduka web site, so I checked them out. Pretty Cool!

  • dukaDIAL is a web based service that allows you to make calls anywhere in North America for free. You just enter your phone number and the number you want to call, and the app rings both phones. It also has call history and a contact list that integrates with other Jaduka applications.
  • dukaLINK turns your phone number into a hyperlink. Post the link in your blog, website, email, even on Facebook, and people can call you without ever seeing your number. They click on your link, put in their phone number, and dukaLink connects the call for free.
  • dukaBUZZ was developed with the Blogger in mind. This nifty little widget lets visitors post audio comments through their phone instead of typing. Others can listen to the comments or testimonials through the widget on your site.

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Terahertz Wireless through Quantum Tunneling

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Jan 312008
 

Jason Lee Miller from Web Pro News recently wrote about a company that is using Quantum Tunneling technology to develop microchips that would operate in the Terahertz region, wirelessly transmitting huge amounts of data at blazing speeds.

The appropriately named Phiar Corporation, located in Boulder Colorado, is developing metal insulator diodes that can be integrated into existing CMOS technology, resulting in what is basically a chip with an antenna. As posted  on the thznetwork.org weblog, “Phiar and Motorola Labs (Tempe, Ariz.) recently completed joint development of a 60-GHz antenna based on Phiar’s metal-insulator diode in a bid to enable multigigabit wireless radios that would stream multiple channels of uncompressed high-definition video”.

The diode is compliant with the emerging IEEE 802.15 T3Gc standard, or WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network). WPAN is concerned with the use of the unlicensed 60GHz spectrum for high speed wireless data transfer between devices, theoretically up to 7 Gbps. According to a report previewed on TMCnet.com, the 60GHz band is the only range capable of transferring uncompressed HDTV signals.

Unlike WiFi, WiMax, and the 700MHz spectrum, the 60GHz band does not penetrate barriers, and in fact, would be confined to a single room. Interference with other radio signals is pretty much a non issue, as well as neighbors piggybacking on your network.

While the idea of being able to transfer an HDTV movie to your handheld in seconds is certainly appealing to the consumer, Phiar has other ideas for their Quantum Tunneling technology as well.

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Jaduka’s EarthCaller Delivers Voice Quality, Free U.S. Calls and Lowest Cost International Dialing

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Jan 302008
 

Reliability and quality have been VoIP’s achilles heel. Even with recent improvements, if you rely on VoIP calls, you know that the voice quality is nowhere near the quality of landline phones. That’s because landline phone calls run over the public switched phone network (PSTN) and those systems have improved over decades to include mechanisms that ensure quality control – measurements that have, to date been lacking in VoIP.

Jaduka, recently named one of Red Herring’s Top 100 Global Emerging Technology companies, has launched EarthCaller, a new PC-to-phone service that enables calls to any landline in the U.S. for free along with super low international rates.

EarthCaller runs its calls over the Public Switched Phone Network (PSTN) backed by Jaduka iQT™, a patented call quality control interface. Users are reporting calls to be cleaner, clearer and more reliable than VoIP.

EarthCaller also offers a prepaid international service that enables calls at a cost 30-40% less than popular VoIP services. Mexico rates per minute rates are as low as $0.024/minute,  India at $0.0682/min, and the Philippines at $0.1172/min. A full rate card is available online.

Jaduka’s parent company, NetworkIP (http://networkip.net), provides the backend that makes EarthCaller work so well. As the network provider to leading prepaid phone card distributors, NetworkIP provides direct connections to over 100 carriers directly into 39 different countries. Their platform is running about 2 million transactions per day and volume of over 1 billion minutes per month.