
Call Center Featured Article
June 11, 2008
2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award Winners Announced Present By INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine
Norwalk, CT, June 11, 2008 - Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) today announced the winners of the 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY TMC Labs Innovation Award. The ninth annual TMC Labs Innovation Awards honors IP
Communication products that are truly innovative.
The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are not granted only to the best-selling products, but instead to those demonstrating raw innovation, uniqueness, and representing a significant contribution to the industry.
"Winners have proven their product or service is truly innovative in the IP Communications industry. New companies, new products and new services in the IP Communications industry are being created all the time. This award distinguishes the companies that make significant contributions in the advancement of this technology." said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “The TMC Labs team takes careful consideration of each application to ensure only the most innovative companies make this very elite list of Innovation Award winners.”
“The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are based solely upon the uniqueness or the pioneering of particular product or service. It is not based on company revenue, or number of products sold. It is based on the concept that these products are innovative,” according to Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director.
Keating continued, "The following companies deserve this great honor for creating a ground-breaking IP Communications products or services. I look forward to seeing other innovative solutions from these companies as they continue to contribute to the future of the IP communications marketplace."
The INTERNET TELEPHONY TMC Labs 2008 Innovation Award highlights will be published in the July and August 2008 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.
INTERNET TELEPHONY
TMC Labs 2008 Innovation Award Winners
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NetVanta 1335 with Wi-Fi
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White Label mVoIP Platform
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Citrix GoToMeeting
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Digium Switchvox SMB 3.5
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EMC Smarts VoIP
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Iwatsu Enterprise Suite
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onSIP Hosted PBX
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LifeSize Express with Focus
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Mitel Communications Suite
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UniPhyer
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Polycom HDX 4000
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SIP
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SmartEdge 1200
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Salesforce Call Center and Salesforce Customer Portal
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OpenScape Unified Communications Server
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Siemens 802.11n
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Toshiba Strata CIX1200 IP Business Communication System
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Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (BEST) for IP Trunking
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Vertical SBX IP 320
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GS8 Modular Gateway
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About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in-person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by nearly one million US visitors according to Quantcast (News - Alert)* and by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
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