Panasonic Announces Interoperability Certification for Its SIP Telephones With 4PSA VoipNow
SECAUCUS, NJ and ORLANDO, FL–(Marketwire – Jan 25, 2012) – Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, the leader in business and home telephone systems*, today announced that 4PSA, a technology leader in Cloud Communication Software, has certified the Panasonic lineup of SIP Phone Systems, the KX-UT series and KX-TGP series, for use with their Hosted IP PBX solutions. This alliance leverages Panasonic’s global leadership in the DECT cordless telephone market with 4PSA’s high-performance Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, adding up to a winning combination.
Panasonic’s SIP phones offer flexible, cost-effective communications solutions for both the home office and business environments. Plug and play simplicity allow for businesses to be up and running right away, while expandable system options provide immediate cost-saving benefits and flexible configuration options. Combining state-of-the-art telephony with business-friendly features, Panasonic’s SIP phones boast outstanding voice quality for crystal clear business communication.
4PSA’s Unified Communications Platform VoipNow® offers a large number of features and benefits for service providers and businesses alike, including an advanced provisioning system, integration with many cloud services, voice, video, instant messaging, faxing, presence, business and operations automation. VoipNow’s scaling capabilities, high-performance and ability to address real-market needs have earned the product major awards from the industry, including INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s 2011 Product of the Year Award and the Unified Communications Magazine’s 2010 Product of the Year Award.
Enterprise customers, whether small, medium or large can now deploy cloud-based telephony solutions for clients in North America using 4PSA’s VoipNow platform and Panasonic’s SIP Endpoints and benefit from the ease of use, flexibility, and cost effectiveness of the combined products.
“Panasonic is recognized globally as a quality and value leader in industrial, business and consumer products. It is products like theirs that show off what great features and value our VoipNow software offers,” said Mike Ross, 4PSA’s President. “4PSA’s value proposition is still unmatched in the industry due to the richness of our feature set, scalability, and the high integrity of our software. We believe our resellers and channel partners will benefit directly from the combined marketing support that both 4PSA and Panasonic will devote to promoting the value of Cloud telephony.”
With flexible configuration options, it has never been easier to deploy Panasonic SIP phones with 4PSA’s Hosted IP PBX or SIP Trunking solutions. By leveraging Voice over IP technology customers can reduce their hardware costs and utilize the internet to route calls, all of which adds up to significant savings on monthly telephone bills. This enables the home office or small business to take advantage of a larger variety of business-class features such as call forwarding, intercom, conferencing, voicemail to email, fax to email, and many more unified communications tools once available only to large businesses.
* For full calendar year of 2010 and first quarter of 2011 in North America. By the Parsippany, NJ based information technology market research firm T3i Group. Defined by T3i Group as the sum of key/hybrid, PBX, and IP-PBX business phone systems with 2-40 extensions.
* For full calendar year of 2010 globally. By the UK-based market research firm MZA Ltd. Defined by MZA as the Corded PBX/IP PBX systems under 100 category.
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