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McKenzie, vice president of merchandising, ScanSource Communications, U.S. and Canada.
“We are pleased to add solutions from VTech and Snom to our portfolio, enabling our partners to continue to deliver the industry’s leading communications o erings and the value-added services
to support them,” added Rafael Paloni, president, ScanSource Communications, Latin America.
ScanSource is dedicated to providing best-in-class products and services for our customers
The addition of the VTech and Snom portfolio enhances the ScanSource advantEDGE program by providing a larger suite of products and services to be easily and cost e ectively deployed, saving partners money and time.
“Through our new partnership with ScanSource, we’re excited to help more businesses improve collaboration and increase productivity in their work environments,” said Graham Williams,
vice president, strategy and business development, VTech Communications. “We back our SIP products with industry- leading warranties, which include advanced parts replacements to prevent downtime.”
For more information on ScanSource, VTech and Snom solutions, please visit www.scansource.com and businessphones. vtech.com. n
ALLNET.ITALIA Signs Up to Distribute StarLeaf’s UC OpenCloud
Telecom Reseller 17 brands,” said Mauro Spagnoli, Country
Manager, Italy, StarLeaf. “We are excited for the future and to be working with ALLNET. ITALIA.”
ABOUT ALLNET.ITALIA
ALLNET.ITALIA S.p.A. is a high added-value distributor, specialized in innovative ICT and telecommunications solutions.
Founded in 2000 in Bologna, ALLNET. ITALIA S.p.A. has a strategic alliance with the leading German distributor ALLNET GmbH founded in Munich in 1991 with operations across Europe and globally.
e company’s focus concentrates on vertical professional markets, working in close contact with its partners and supplying infrastructural solutions and ICT applications.
rough constant research of innovative technologies and a young, highly specialised and quali ed team, it supplies complete ICT solutions for small and medium companies as well as public, nancial and industrial institutions.
ALLNET.ITALIA works exclusively indirectly through a system integrator, ISP, installators and certi ed resellers across the whole of Italy, as well as nearby countries.
About StarLeaf UC OpenCloud
UC OpenCloud is powered by StarLeaf, which delivers secure, reliable and rich conferencing and direct calling services to Fortune 500 companies all the way down to the smallest organizations around the world. UC OpenCloud is available to serve all makes of video systems and provides infrastructure as a service, centralized management and delivers interoperability between all video endpoints including Polycom, Cisco, Lifesize (H.323/SIP) and connectivity with Skype for Business users.
For more information please visit www. ucopencloud.com n
ALLNET.ITALIA to provide Italian businesses with best in class Uni ed Communications solutions that pair StarLeaf ’s UC OpenCloud with Polycom’s video meeting room systems
LONDON & BOLOGNA, Italy - StarLeaf,
the leading cloud communications provider,
has announced a distribution agreement with ALLNET.ITALIA SpA, Italy’s high value-
added distributor specializing in information technology and telecommunications. e relationship places ALLNET.ITALIA, a leading Polycom distributor, in a position to market best of breed video meeting solutions that pair the StarLeaf UC OpenCloud with Polycom’s range of video collaboration systems.
With the full support of all local parties, and under the patronage of ALLNET.ITALIA, this groundbreaking agreement paves the way for StarLeaf and Polycom to meet in the channel, and serve both mid-market and enterprise businesses with an end to end solution for video collaboration. In addition to addressing the collaboration needs of businesses that are new to video, ALLNET.ITALIA, and its resellers,
will also help businesses migrate their current video deployments to the cloud, this includes any systems from any third party manufacturer including Polycom, Avaya, Cisco, etc.
“Partnering with StarLeaf strengthens our position as a leading provider of collaboration solutions,” said Emiliano Papadopoulos,
CEO of ALLNET.ITALIA. “ e pairing of the OpenCloud with Polycom’s video endpoints allows our resellers to continue to lead and
serve the market. Particularly as their customers look for solutions that are fully interoperable with everything else and that are proven to lower total cost of ownership and increase productivity.”
“ e partnership with StarLeaf is in line
with our Corporate strategy aiming to extend the collaboration with partners in UC and Cloud world, to strengthen our leadership
in the market. At the same time, ALLNET. ITALIA represents the reliable and ideal partner to proceed in this direction,” said Claudio Mignone, Country Manager, Italy, Polycom.
e combination of Polycom RealPresence and StarLeaf UC OpenCloud provides users with a best-of-breed collaboration solution. Polycom RealPresence delivers an unmatched user experience, while StarLeaf UC OpenCloud provides a rich communications environment that allows users to make and receive point- to-point video calls, as well as schedule and join video conferences. e UC OpenCloud
is unique in its ability to deliver universal connectivity, allowing Polycom users to connect with any Skype for Business user or anyone on any other video system i.e. Cisco, etc. StarLeaf UC OpenCloud works with all Polycom endpoints, including RealPresence, and HDX series, and will also work for any H.323 systems too.
“ is new relationship promises to be a powerhouse that fuses our advanced cloud technology and innovation with one of Italy’s most innovative and trusted distribution
Sennheiser announces interoperability with SWYX
CloudGenix Partners with Intelisys to Provide Sales Partners with Best-in-Class SD-WAN
CloudGenix has partnered with Intelisys as a Supplier Partner to extend their portfolio of leading telecom technologies by adding application-driven SD-WAN
SAN JOSE, CA - CloudGenix, a leader in So ware-De ned Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), announced that it has become a Supplier Partner with technology-driven master agent Intelisys, a ScanSource company. Intelisys is recognized for their comprehensive portfolio of products and technologies that enable Sales Partners to provide a wealth of powerful and exible services to their customers. e addition of CloudGenix AppFabric SD-WAN to their list of products and services o ered helps further extend their value proposition to Sales Partners and thus to customers.
CloudGenix SD-WAN evolves the customer WAN to be able to securely
take advantage of any transport including broadband Internet, improve application performance and experience, reduce dependency on expensive multi-protocol label-switched (MPLS) private WANs, and reduce remote o ce infrastructure and cost. Powered by AppFabric, CloudGenix continually monitors transaction performance for each application and link, and enforces policy based on user-de ned requirements for performance, security, and compliance. Unlike traditional packet routing (limited to bandwidth, latency, packet loss, jitter, and reachability), CloudGenix understands networking
metrics in addition to application metrics to better understand and enforce policy based on actual user experience and business requirements.
On the partnership with CloudGenix, Andrew Pryfogle, Senior Vice President
of Cloud Transformation said: “SD-WAN is exploding right now, and the space is quickly becoming crowded. However, CloudGenix truly has a unique approach that got our attention. Applications rule the day and the CloudGenix application- driven approach to SD-WAN will help our Sales Partners continue their push into the enterprise. We’re already seeing deal ow, and anticipate big things from this partnership.”
Regarding the partnership with
Intelisys, Robert Sexton, Vice President of Channels at CloudGenix said: “Intelisys
is widely known as a leading technology services distributor. Adding CloudGenix AppFabric SD-WAN to their portfolio allows Intelisys sales partners to e ectively guide their customers to a better WAN using policies built around the needs of the business rather than complicated low-level networking rules, con gurations, and routing protocols. is helps businesses integrate the cloud and SaaS, take advantage of broadband Internet, and enjoy the
agility provided by a next-generation WAN architecture while reducing costs.”
To learn more, visit www.Intelisys.com and www.cloudgenix.com. n
Ballerup, Denmark - Sennheiser, a leading provider of premium audio solutions for business, is pleased to announce their cooperation and certi ed product interoperability with Uni ed Communications specialist Swyx.
Sennheiser has been appointed Swyx Technology Alliance Program partner,
by the Dortmund-based IP and Uni ed Communications solutions provider
for small and medium sized businesses. The full range of Sennheiser business products including wired, DECT-based and Bluetooth headsets and speakerphones have been comprehensively tested and certi ed by Swyx to guarantee seamless interoperability.
Thanks to the successful certi cation, Sennheiser audio solutions for business can be used alongside the Swyx softphone client with plug and play simplicity. Whether in the o ce or on the go, users can transform their PC or laptop into
an intuitive universal communication
tool for more productive working. The combination of Sennheiser devices and Swyx solution provides HD audio quality and e ortless ease of use, with full call control management.
Commenting on the certi cation,
Martin Claßen, Chief Technology O cer (CTO) at Swyx Solutions AG, said: “We
are delighted to welcome Sennheiser as a Swyx Technology Alliance Program partner. Sennheiser has a long heritage of audio excellence. The certi ed plug and play interoperability will bene t our mutual customers in their daily work and deliver
a superior communication experience for enhanced productivity.”
Andreas Bach, President at Sennheiser Communications A/S, said: “We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Swyx as well as the interoperability with Swyx’s award-winning solutions for small to medium sized companies. The alliance makes our solutions available to Swyx customers who can now bene t from the powerful combination of Sennheiser’s superior sound quality in seamless integration with Swyx solutions.”
To learn more, please visit: https://www. swyx.com/company/press/press-releases/ press-detail/news/detail/News/swyx- partner-and-technology-conference-2017. html
More at www.sennheiser.com and www. swyx.com.n
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