Hosted VoIP

New Global Telecom Inc. (NGT), a provider of wholesale hosted IP telephony solutions, has reportedly certified the Cisco SPA500 series of IP phones for use in conjunction with NGT's fully managed VoIP services.

Both the companies have announced their plans to jointly market Small Business VoIP services and equipment to partners and end user businesses.

Cisco (News - Alert) SPA 500 Series IP Phones are designed to improve and simplify communications across the entire organisation. It comes with full duplex speakerphone and enhanced speech technology including support for HD voice (G.722). It allows the employees to take advantage of their phone systems features, including: speakerphone, redial, call transfer, conferencing, paging, intercom, volume control, message-waiting and voicemail indicator lights, mute key, headset use, and call history directories.

Additionally, the phones are Cisco XML-enabled for integration with applications. Cisco's SPA 500 series phones complete the Small Business CPE offering of IADs, switches, and phones for hosted VoIP service.

In a release, John Guillaume, senior vice president of sales and marketing for NGT, said Cisco's new generation of phones and invigorated approach to the SMB space embraces the growing need for fully managed, proven solutions for small businesses.

He added, “We are excited to jointly promote a series of webinars, field events, and co-marketing engagements for potential resellers and agents."

NGT and Cisco have also announced that they will conduct joint webinars in November and December titled "Telephony 101 for Technology Solution Providers.”

NGT claims to provide cable operators, VARs, agents and resellers with highly-scalable, proven solutions for adding hosted and trunk-based VoIP and unified communications solutions to their service offerings. It also provides Private Label and Agent offerings that include all the necessary elements to quickly deploy VoIP and unified communications.