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There is good news for the clients of Onecall Telecom, communications services reseller in Memphis, Tennessee, especially for those who are engaged in small and medium businesses. Onecall is now offering new AltiGen’s (News - Alert) products based on Max Communications Server’s scalability and extended feature set.

For AltiGen, as a VoIP business phone system provider, proceeding expansion of their reseller channel means sound investment in their entire growth. Jeff Kays, vice president of Business Development at AltiGen, made the assessment of the situation saying that Onecall Telecom not only brings a solid existing user base but what is more strengthens their influence in the mid-South region of the US.

In his turn Bob Chance, president of Onecall Telecom, hopes that AltiGen will allow them to sell into businesses that are looking for a complete UC solution. Expressing his company’s excitement about AltiGen’s lead generation program, Bob Chance noted “the fact that AltiGen invests marketing dollars on behalf of their reseller channel to assist them in driving incremental business will help accelerate their growth and mutual success”. Also he added that when IT managers were searching for a new phone system, often with exacting specifications, AltiGen’s stable feature set with native integration to Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Exchange Server 2007 made Onecall Telecom able to win the deal by infusing high product confidence with the IT manager and often surpassing the organization’s communications requirements.

Moreover AltiGen Communications has lately joined to the expanding reseller network of Metro Communication Services, a multi-location reseller of communications services. So now according to the agreement, Metro Communication Services offers AltiGen’s products to its customers. Chairman and CEO of Metro Communication Services, Gene Johnson, thinks that AltiGen’s Microsoft-based unified communications solutions with native Exchange Server 2007 integration will provide their customers exactly with the applications they need to run their business.

In the middle of the August Intel company announced Remote Wake-Up technology which allows PCs to work as a remote system of data storage. According the new technology users will be able to turn out sleeping mode and get access to any data on their hard drives remotely just knowing their IP addresses. All you need is to type the URL in Web browser. But your computer must be constantly connected to broadband data transmission network and you are to install not only Wake-up technology but also guard authorizing system.

For the first time this technology was mentioned by Intel in February 2008 at a conference for investors in Santa-Clara (USA). Computer with Remote Wake-up equipped VoIP-client (unfortunately the technology supports only Jajah service and don’t work with Skype) or connected to the phone line can turn out sleeping mode in order to take a call and re-direct it to answering machine. The point is that the Intel technology will wake up computers during calls. Moreover microphone and loudspeakers will be activated for the user to react to a call. All in all this new technology will help to transform home PC into many-sided communicational center. By the way computer will wake-up only in case of a call from known subscriber that’s why using technology by prunkers is out of the question. The technology needs special software stored not on the hard drive but on the special memory block on motherboard. The motherboards supporting Remote Wake Up technology came into the market at the beginning of September.

All owners of Nokia smartphones in the near future will be presented a small surprise. Vendor of mobile phones has removed support SIP protocol, which is used for VoIP-telephony via Wi-Fi. VoIP-telephony is a great challenge for all cellular operators because it allows users to make relatively cheap calls over Wi-Fi-network.

All in all, this is beneficial to users, but quite unprofitable for operators. The Nokia company has supported providers of mobile communications and remove the built-SIP-protocol platform S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2). Some smartphones such as Nokia N78 and Nokia N96 work on the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2) platform.That means to use VoIP-telephony on these models their owners will have to use a third-party software.

“PC Of world” reports that long-expected standard 802.11r was finished and approved by IEEE. This means that finally WiFi telephones can gain general acceptance, and that roaming between the wireless access points and networks will become more stable and reliable.

But not everybody is pleased with this news. For example company Nokia removed the possibility of WiFi connections from its new mobile phones. This is because while using WiFi people can make calls over any VoIP operator.

It’s very convenient for people. Now everyone can choose how to call cheaper- using their mobile operator or a VoIP provider suit for roaming calls.