CV_VSA_2021_2

2021 VISIONARY SPOTLIGHT AWARDS | CHANNEL V ISION OneStream Networks For one of OneStream’s enterprise customer sites, streaming media and guest user traffic have high usage in the production environment causing business-critical traffic to drop. The company classified the applications based on business requirements and configured real-time applications to take the highest priority queue. For file transfers, it gave the second priority with 50 percent as rate limit. All remaining traffic is treated as best effort, and social network and streaming media categories are pushed to the lowest priority with 30 percent as rate limit. PCCW Global In March, PCCW Global expanded its SD-WAN portfolio to include universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) and NFV technologies. The uCPE component enables advanced networking options, while NFV can aid with replacing physical devices such as firewalls and routers. Both services can streamline provisioning and reduce logistical costs. SIP Trunking Granite Telecommunications Granite supports Direct Routing for SIP Trunks to Microsoft Teams, which enables businesses to make and take external phone calls inside the Microsoft Teams collaboration application on desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Peerless Network, Inc. Peerless offers a fully IP-based redundant network and access to the Peerless Portal, an account management tool that puts users in complete control. This fully automated online self-provisioning portal allows users to easily purchase, activate in real-time and manage SIP trunking channels and telephone numbers via a desktop or mobile device. Software-Defined Interconnection (SDI) PCCW Global In February, PCCW Global achieved MEF 3.0 certification for Console Connect, the leading global platform for software-defined interconnection. Console Connect delivers instant global connectivity over PCCW Global’s private T1 network. PCCW Global also now has MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet (CE) service certification for Global Ethernet over MPLS services for the Console Connect and switched ethernet services. UC/UCaaS BCM One BCM One’s Voice Enabled Teams solution supercharges native Microsoft Teams by augmenting basic chat, video conferencing and collaboration features with robust enterprise voice capabilities to give clients a comprehensive, unified communications and collaboration platform. As a certified Gold Microsoft Partner, BCM One can offer end-to-end Teams deployments including licenses and calling plans, which are limited with native Teams. Released in August 2020, some key benefits and features of Voice Enabled Teams include a disaster recovery module, direct routing and hybrid solutions to address complex call flows, paging and door access applications, call masking, portal access and collaboration management, analog hand-off options, and E911 management. CoreDial CoreDial announced the release of CoreNexa 7.0, its next-gen voice, video, messaging and collaboration solution. These fully integrated, all-in-one capabilities are designed to unleash the power of modern and remote workforces and provide CoreDial’s close to 900 channel partners with a highly competitive, high-value way to satisfy their customers’ increasing needs for reliable and comprehensive communication and collaboration tools. ULTATEL In December, ULTATEL released ULTATEL Teams SBC allowing any organization to connect to any phone worldwide. Teams SBC is certified for use with Microsoft Teams. The integration provides secure and real-time communications for any private or public cloud environment without compromising scale and performance. SkySwitch The SkySwitch Store lives within SkySwitch’s Resellers Dashmanager portal and offers resellers a convenient way to take advantage of their buying power and purchase hardware and services from distributor partners at competitive prices. All the phones sold through the SkySwitch Store are auto-provisioned and approved for use on the SkySwitch platform. First launched in January 2017, with 888VoIP as the original distributor, the SkySwitch Store also now has integrated Jenne, TeleDynamics and NTS Direct. Hardware brands include Algo, Amcrest, CyberData, Dialplate, Fanvil, Grandstream, Jabra, Netgear, Poly (Plantronics), Ribbon (Edgemarc), Snom and Yealink.