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Swyx eyes hardware expansion

Old telephone on red wall in China

The UC software player looks to deepen reach into telephony kit as German facility turns out first handsets

21 May 2012

Alcatel-Lucent posts first ever annual profit

Party hats

Franco-American PBX maker finally gets in the black six years after merger

10 Feb 2012

Taming SIP Vicious

UM Labs' Peter Cox

Punk's not dead in the VoIP space, and action must be taken, notes Peter Cox

24 Jan 2012

Margin-rich Avaya tops buoyant PBX market

Telephony space looks in solid shape in Q3 but Cisco has to swallow ASP decline to keep pace, according to Infonetics

29 Nov 2011

TalkTalk MD Lawton departs as IBM's Bligh appointed

Telco's boss moves on after five years with IBM's UK commercial chief stepping into the hotseat

08 Nov 2011

Green for the team

Rugby lover Niall Anderson would prefer to live in the country for his family - and of course to be closer to more golf links

04 Nov 2011

Ethernet answer to mobile data explosion

George Wareing reckons operators must prepare to boost network capacity

03 Nov 2011

Huawei hooks in Micro-P for UK channel push

Chinese giant limbers up for assault on UK networking channel

30 Sep 2011

UC market set to weather economic storm in UK

IDC study predicts impressive annual growth for collaboration solutions and hosted services

20 Sep 2011

Mitel: No plans to move back to two-tier model

Signing of Trust Distribution designed to give vendor access to small business space, but wider single-tier model is here to stay

19 Sep 2011

Connecting with the past

By Loch Tay in Perthshire nestles a high-tech development within a 500-year-old castle. Sara Yirrell reports.

19 Sep 2011

Avaya heads PBX market but EMEA sales remain sluggish

New Jersey-based vendor consolidates top spot but second quarter is a mixed bag for comms market

18 Aug 2011

Big-ticket deals help ShoreTel pass $200m mark

Comms vendor still on high-growth track but continues to operate at a loss

10 Aug 2011

Flowtrak a good call for ONI

Cisco Gold partner develops new customer communication management software for finance sector

29 Jun 2011

Azzurri adds product management quartet

Integrator brings in four technology leaders

29 Jun 2011

Daisy's acquisition appetite wanes

Comms provider to slow M&A pace as FY11 figures show explosion of sales and debt levels

28 Jun 2011

NFC not so insecure

Howard Berg says m-commerce security in some ways compares well with credit and debit cards

21 Jun 2011

TalkTalk Business boss dials up channel

Carrier's B2B chief discusses thinning margins, channel diversity and hosted PBX

15 Jun 2011

Avaya cements BT union with IP Office 7.0

Vendor hopes rising demand will negate the need for more distribution tinkering

19 May 2011

Microsoft-Skype deal is good for the channel

Skype support in Microsoft products will drive many areas of the market, predicts Dave Stevinson

18 May 2011

May divorce be with you: IT's most explosive break-ups

We run through the top five tales of love gone wrong. Which one gets your vote as the most memorable split?

28 Apr 2011

TalkTalk Business dials up Nimans

After rebranding from Opal Telecom, business ISP inks alliance with distributor

08 Mar 2011

Hardware proves hard-wearing

CRN's Sam Trendall asks whether VARs can continue to thrive on kit sales amid the cloud hype?

07 Mar 2011

TSG plotting telco acquisition spree

Sage founder Graham Wylie's VAR is zoning in on more targets following Croft purchase

07 Mar 2011

Bluebell set to grow with buyouts

Comms consolidator claims strategy of holding onto IP is setting it apart from rivals

14 Feb 2011

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