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September 11, 2008

OnRelay Opens Up Open Source with Hosted MBX

By Michelle Robart, TMCnet Editor


OnRelay (News - Alert) today revealed it is supporting an open source platform in an effort to provide affordable business telephony with mobile extensions.

 
OnRelay’s Hosted MBX (News - Alert) with sipXecs allows businesses to deploy a mobile office communication system (mobile PBX) without having to purchase desk phones, proprietary PBXs or cabling. With MBX, the mobile phone is the only “desk phone” employees require.
 
OnRelay’s open source announcement allows the small to medium enterprise (SME) market to benefit from Hosted MBX.
 
By selecting open source PBX sipXecs, OnRelay can provide a plug and play office communication system within the SME segment budget.
 
“OnRelay’s support of open source means that SMEs can benefit from the flexibility and features of a fully fledged mobile PBX,” explained OnRelay CEO, Ivar Plahte (News - Alert). “Other hosted PBX alternatives such as Centrex take an over simplified, cookie-cutter approach to enterprise telephony. They fail to offer the rich functionality SMEs require in today’s converging world. Open source brings feature richness and internet-level scalability to OnRelay’s mobile PBX platform.”
 
"Hitherto many SMEs have been reluctant to consider mobile-only strategy for telephone extensions, because they've been concerned that the functionality of existing PBX add-ons and hosted platforms didn't offer them the controls and tools that they needed. New developments in this market mean that mobile-only strategy is worth a second look,” stated Ovum’s (News - Alert) Practice Leader for mobile, Jeremy Green.
 
As a stable and scalable voice over IP (VoIP) open source system, SipXecs was created especially for enterprise users. Based entirely on the Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert) (SIP) standard, sipXecs brings an extensive feature set to OnRelay MBX, including active directory integration, presence and Microsoft exchange support. SipXecs also uses Internet techniques and a distributed architecture to ensure a highly secure IP voice system.
 
OnRelay’s Hosted MBX with sipXecs is strategically aimed at the next generation of telecom providers. By lowering the cost of entry, innovative players are able to host enterprise-class telephony for the SME.
 

OnRelay MBX allows companies to replace desk phones with mobile phones. Using award-winning architecture, MBX brings the business telephony employees need to the phone that counts. OnRelay MBX uses patented TINP protocol to link mobile phones into existing corporate voice systems (PBXs). TINP works over any mobile network, anywhere in the world. Employees carry their desk phone in their pocket, and companies gain appropriate control over mobile phones. MBX goes beyond “fixed mobile integration” to be the mobile evolution of fixed line business telephony. As MBX makes desk phones redundant for most users, companies make significant economic and environmental savings. Founded in 2000, OnRelay has Tier 1 operators and Fortune 500 companies as customers and partners.
 

Michelle Robart is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Michelle's articles, please visit her columnist page.


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