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OnRelay (News - Alert) has stated that it has released the Unified MBX v4.1.1 – the newest and the next phase of its cloud-based mobile PBX (News - Alert) software.

Some of the highlights of the new release include: a full featured Blackberry mobile client; high availability; disaster recovery; VMware based cloud platform support; multi-tenanting; and integration of the latest SipXecs v4.2 open source IP PBX.

According to the company, the release is currently in trial in over 10 operators worldwide. OnRelay’s Unified MBX is the first and only all-software cloud-based Mobile PBX. Delivered as SaaS (News - Alert) the solution is an all software Fixed Mobile Convergence system that offers fast and economical worldwide deployments. There is no need for any mobile network integration and the solution is capable of operating over any cellular network, and requires no hardware expenditure by the operator or end user.

Unified MBX utilizes the power of the open source community by integrating the feature rich IP PBX – SipXecs – on a Linux core. Unified MBX consists solely of OnRelay proprietary software and open source components, which allows for aggressive volume pricing and flexible deployment options. It also comes packed with several sipXecs plug-ins that allow seamless mobile integration with all advanced sipXecs call management features including enhanced IM and Presence federation via XMPP, Web Conferencing (DimDim), FreeSwitch based conferencing, and use of IMAP for Unified Messaging.

Ivar Plahte (News - Alert), OnRelay CEO has commented their Cloud-based Mobile PBX allows operators to combine the best of PBX and Centrex worlds by cost-efficiently offering both hardware savings from operator hosting and customer ownership of dedicated PBX instances. With mobiles as primary extensions, expensive VoIP landline connections to customer premises are avoided. So the customer is the real winner, they get twice the productivity and responsiveness at 20 percent of the cost in 1/3 of the time all while regaining IT management of mobile.

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