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edgeBOX featured in Malaysia SME article

Critical Links' UC solution edgeBOX is featured in a leading magazine from Malaysia (Malaysia SME) catering to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in that region.

FAIRFIELD, NJ, August 13th, 2010 - Critical Links, a global provider of unified voice, data, security and IT solutions for SMBs, with CPE-based and cloud-based solutions, has its edgeBOX solution featured in a UC focused article in Malasia SME magazine.

About Critical Links
Critical Links is a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) that dramatically simplify and cost-reduce by consolidating over a single scaleable and fault-tolerant platform.

Critical Links' flagship product, the edgeBOX™, is an award winning multi-function gateway appliance that includes VOIP/IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a WiFi access point as well as a fax-server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage. It is available on a range of hardware platforms that support up to 300 users, with different form factors and a host of broadband interfaces such as BRI/PRI(T1/E1), FX0/FXS, Ethernet, etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs, System Integrators, OEMs and Service Providers.

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Critical Links' cloudBOX™ offering provides identical functionality as the edgeBOXTM from the cloud and is an exclusive offer for service providers and managed service providers who wish to provide fully outsourced, sophisticated voice and data services to SMBs.

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Abdul Kasim, VP Marketing
Critical-Links
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VoIP Unlimited Approved by Edgebox

01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Critical Links, manufacturer of the egdeBOX Unified Communication product has officially approved business UK ITSP – VoIP Unlimited’s SIP trunks on their product. This approval coincides with the appointment of Manchester distributor, Gen-x IT as edgeBOX UK Distributor.

The edgeBOX appliance boasts an enterprise class business phone system (IP-PBX), with an array of supporting services including , Router, Stateful Inspection Firewall, Authentication, Email and Web Server, Print Server, File Server and Storage.

As 2010 is likely to see a continued demand from the UK SMB sector for new technologies that can deliver immediate cost and efficiency savings in a low cost, multi-service appliance, the edgeBOX is set fair to become “the right product for the right moment”, says Alan Gould, Gen-x IT’s Managing Director. “Critical’s software developments over the last decade have been second to none, with endorsements by NASA, and several European aerospace consortia. It is an impressive pedigree which has been distilled and integrated in to the DNA of their edgeBOX appliance. It is a multi-service, communication solution which can provide that competitive edge”.

The company says that from SOHO to 300 users, there’s an edgeBOX to suit. “The edgeBOX combined with VoIP Unlimited’s offer of ‘Unlimited’ SIP channels for £10.99 per month, makes for a strong value proposition.”

Steve Bieniek, VoIP Unlimited’s Sales Manager said, “With the interoperability testing phase now completed, we are looking forward to supporting the growing number of edgeBOX UK resellers. We share many ideals with Critical Links, with both product and SIP service providing efficiency savings by consolidating communications not just in line rentals, but now in hardware devices”. VoIP Unlimited is the first UK ITSP to gain interoperable approval by Critical Links.

Gen-X IT will be joining Critical Links on stand 29 at The Convergence Summit North event at Manchester Central on 16th & 17th March 2009 where delegates will get a chance to see a demonstration of the edgeBOX and talk to technical personnel from both Critical Links and Gen-X.

Viren Patel, Technical Services Manager of Gen-X IT said “We are looking forward to showcasing the edgeBOX at Convergence Summit North.

The event represents the first opportunity for the UC community to see the product at work and to talk with a product developer. In an increasingly competitive environment, the edgeBOX multi-service unit will prove to be a potent, profitable addition to any communication reseller’s service offering.”

By Steve Bieniek

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Dede and Rose to Help Draft U.S. National Educational Technology Plan

14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Professor Chris Dede and Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.'76, have been tapped to help draft the new National Educational Technology Plan under the U.S. Department of Education. They will coordinate with a team of 14 people -- educators, state and district education technology leaders, policymakers, and researchers -- to create the plan.

"It feels good because too much decision-making in education is just year-to-year or month-to-month. Having a chance to step back and argue what a multiyear strategy should look like whether in educational technology or anywhere else is important," Dede said, noting that he was particularly thrilled that educators were invited to participate. "Technology is a catalyst that sits at the center of a lot of things like curriculum, testing, and professional development."

Rose added that he is delighted that his and Dede's work has been recognized on the national level and is enjoying the ongoing conversations about the draft.

The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. It will provide a set of concrete goals that can inform state and local educational technology plans as well as inspire research, development, and innovation. The plan offers a chance for the president and secretary of education to map out a strategy in education, Dede said. It focuses on four areas: learning, assessment, teaching, and productivity.

There have been three national educational technology plans, however, this will be the first plan since 2004. "The reports in the past have been uneven; some have been influential and some have had no impact," Rose said. "My role is to make sure the plan is conclusive of everybody. Universal design is clearly supposed to be a facet of this report. People with disabilities and English Language Learners were not visible in the previous plans and so this is gratifying to see someone in the working group is meant to be representing that issue."

The working group is mixture of people ranging from the technical side to teaching and learning. The group, which has been meeting since July, makes information regularly available on their website, edtechfuture.org,and also welcomes public suggestions. In fact, Technology, Innovation, and Education students were invited to post suggestions for Dede and Rose as part of an online discussion activity this summer.

"A number of reports for national technology are often dominated by people with an axe for technology, which is why it is great to hear student input at the Ed School," Rose said.

Putting together a long-range plan in technology is challenging seeing as though technology changes rapidly. But Dede and Rose don't seem concerned about this issue. "The wheels of education turn so slowly," Dede said. "I think we won't be seriously off target in a four year horizon - even if something new develops that we don't expect."

By Jill Anderson

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Critical Links Unveils edgeDESKTOP for the edgeBOX

08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Often, the companies are flooded with so many features in their telephony devices that it becomes hard to manage all of them. To tackle this issue,Critical Links has launched edgeDESKTOP, a client application that helps companies easily manage all telephony features.

Companies often have to deal with various tools phone, email, web services, firewall and file backup to manage their communication requirements. Integrating all of these and getting the optimum output can be difficult. With its edgeDESKTOP, Critical Links claims to deliver high-value functionality in a one self-contained product.

With its improved communication and collaboration facilities, the edgeDESKTOP considerably improves employee productivity, Critical Links officials said. The features offered with edgeDESKTOP include caller information, make and receive calls, record calls, visual voicemail,Microsoft Outlook integration, call forwarding, transfer, history and authentication.

Other features include Pop-up Window with Caller Info, Import and Collaborate with the Microsoft Outlook Contacts, Call Forwarding, Call Transfer and Groups and True Integration with Microsoft Outlook.

Critical Links vice president of product development, Alex Sarin, said that, with the edgeBOX, the company constantly strives to strike the right balance between having great user-friendly features that drive business productivity and making the product simple enough to use for the novice.

“With edgeDESKTOP, we believe that we have achieved the right balance,” Sarin said. “This application brings a lot of value to the edgeBOX user community and empowers them.”

The edgeBOX offers a complete networking infrastructure that is easy to install and configure, easy to maintain and upgrade and can be managed remotely. Customers can leverage edgeBOX for VOIP, IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC and QoS as well as web server, e-mail server and data storage.

In 2007, the company launched its own line of edgeBOX “Office-in-a-Box” dedicated network appliances. The new dedicated devices boost the edgeBOX value proposition for channel partners around the world, building on the success of the existing partnership model, where the edgeBOX software solution is provided to partners for installation on branded servers.

by Raju Shanbhag

Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Kelly McGuire

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Digital Makeover

27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Critical Links’ edgeBOX Turns A Paper-Based Law Firm Into The Modern Age Of VoIP & Content Management.

It was a random email—a mass mailing from an IT news publication—that prompted Teahan & Constantino, a New York law firm, to finally ditch its old analog phones and make the jump to VoIP. It was also the catalyst for a whole series of upgrades to the firm’s aging email, storage, content management, and even calendaring systems.

The email, which was a teaser for an article on the benefits of VoIP and unified communications, landed in the inbox of Joe Vavpetic, IT advisor for Teahan & Constantino. At that time—April 2008—Vavpetic was in the market for a new phone system for the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y., office, which still had a 25-year-old key-based phone system. The company’s three other branches in New York all used different analog phone systems.

“The old system was from 1980, and it was falling apart. The very day I was about to buy a [different] system, I saw an email talking about all-in-one communications services,” says Vavpetic.

Realizing that unified communications could solve more than just the company’s phone problems, he halted plans to purchase the other phones and began researching unified communications hardware and software.

“We had problems with the phones, but we also had other problems. We had no true LAN, so if someone shut off his PC, no one could print to the printer attached to it. We had a growing need for wireless. We had hosted email, which was causing problems, so that people began getting email accounts on Yahoo! and EarthLink, which meant no central backup for corporate email. And we were looking at VPN solutions because our lawyers move around a lot. They go from office to office, go on vacation, travel for business, and often need to work and access files,” says Vavpetic.

With all of those needs in mind, he looked at products from three vendors, including Critical Links’ edgeBOX Business Gateway (www.critical-links.com). His reseller advised him to buy the Critical Links product if he wanted to be able to do a lot of detailed configuring and tweaking of the system, as the edgeBOX allows IT administrators more freedom with the settings. Vavpetic opted to take his advice and chose Critical Links edgeBOX, an all-in-one unified communications gateway server for voice, data, networking, file storage, and security services.

Setting Up VoIP

His first edgeBOX arrived in July 2008, and Vavpetic’s first big challenge turned out not to be configuring the device but, rather, haggling with the phone company. Due to a freak hardware problem, the Poughkeepsie branch simply couldn’t get enough bandwidth to handle all of the IP traffic.

“Our Poughkeepsie office is, as it turns out, at the end of a line, and the limitations on the bandwidth were unbelievable. It was a nightmare trying to get them to set things up and then bridge the traffic to edgeBOX so it wasn’t going through their router. So just getting my Internet connection set up was the biggest hassle.”

After deciding that he was never going to get enough bandwidth to allow the Poughkeepsie office to be the central router for the edgeBOX intra-office voice traffic, he purchased a second box for the Millbrook, N.Y., office. The second edgeBOX serves as both a backup unit and—with the addition of a bridge between it and Poughkeepsie—the central routing hub for incoming and outgoing VoIP calls to the company.

After about 90 days, both of the edgeBOX units were up and running the core voice, networking, and file access services. But before he took the new system live throughout the whole company, Vavpetic first spent a few days testing the configuration and experimenting with different settings in order to achieve optimal voice quality and to ensure everything was working well.

During the course of this testing phase, Vavpetic discovered one potential problem: The edgeBOX had a limitation on how much storage space it could support. The first box he bought had an 80GB drive, which filled up fast. So he upgraded to a 300GB drive, with the option of adding an external drive, as well, if that space proved inadequate.

Today, all four locations use VoIP via edgeBOX for their phone calls, and Vavpetic says the advent of unified communications and VoIP is making a huge difference in the firm.

One big benefit is that voice messages and email can be sent and stored together, making it much easier and faster for lawyers to check messages. Attorneys can now also access messages and documents from any branch office or from their laptops, allowing them to work anywhere they want and also to respond immediately to a client emergency without having to get to the office. Even incoming calls follow the employee; each phone number carries a MAC IP address, so it is not identified by a physical jack and can be forwarded to wherever the attorney happens to be working.

“It’s very easy to manage the phone system now, to create a new extension, or move it around, or add a phone, because it’s all IP-based. If you have an Internet connection at home, it’s just like being in the office,” Vavpetic notes, adding that long-distance bills are down considerably because most calls are now conducted via VoIP.

The employees can use either IP phones or software-based phones on their PCs. Vavpetic purchased several IP-based office phones from listings on craigslist.org and eBay for use in the office; however, an employee can also use a software phone right on her PC or laptop. Although he wanted to get rid of the old phone system, Vavpetic notes that others who would prefer to keep their analog phones could purchase an analog telephony adapter card to convert the analog traffic into digital and back, enabling them to use edgeBOX with analog phones.

The edgeBOX includes a VoIP Gateway to route calls between PSTN and IP networks, which also acts as an IP PBX, as well as security features such as VPN software for connecting with remote clients, authorization and authentication, firewall management, and antivirus protection.

The End Of The Paper Chase

Besides the advantages of IP telephony, the edgeBOX has also given Teahan & Constantino’s employees the ability to centralize documents in one easily accessible spot. Contracts and files are no longer stored ad hoc on local PC and laptop hard drives but on the central edgeBOX server. That means that documents can be located quickly and can be accessed from another branch office or remotely via laptop. The files can also be locked down so that only authorized users can download or open them.

“I create folders on edgeBOX and set granular permissions,” Vavpetic explains. “There’s a whole system of permissions and grouping, so I can set access for partners only, or for everyone, and I can also set limits on storage space.”

The next step will be to add content management to the system sometime this year. Much of the work that Vavpetic has done during the past seven or eight months has involved cleaning up and clearing out file directories and old software programs and encouraging employees to make use of the centralized software now available via edgeBOX. But now that he has people using the system for communication and file storage, Vavpetic plans to soon roll out the content management module, which is an add-on to edgeBOX. That will help the staff with managing projects, synchronizing calendars, and creating a central client list.

Vavpetic’s ultimate goal for the company is to go virtually paperless—admittedly a stretch for a small legal firm that only a year ago had no content management or even a central server for document storage. But Vavpetic thinks the staff is comfortable enough with the edgeBOX applications to make more use of e-documents.

by Sue Hildreth

Critical Links edgeBOX Business Gateway

Multifunction communications gateway that consolidates data, voice, and IT services for small to midsized enterprises, including data networking, voice, security, file and print sharing, backup, email, and QoS management features.

“It’s very easy to manage the phone system now, to create a new extension or move it around or add a phone, because it’s all IP-based. If you have an Internet connection at home, it’s just like being in the office,” notes Joe Vavpetic, IT advisor for law firm Teahan & Constantino.

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8 Gadgets to Green Your Office

From printer ink to motion sensor light switches, you can save cash and go eco-friendly.

By Francine Kizner

Product: SoyPrint
Price: $60 to $199
How it saves: Now available for office printing, soy-based toners are recyclable, nontoxic and free of petroleum products. SoyPrint is compatible with Hewlett-Packard business printers and Canon fax machines, and it makes paper easier to recycle or even compost. SoyPrint toners for other brands are expected to roll out this month.

Product: Western Digital Caviar GreenPower Hard Drive
Price: Starting at $70
How it saves: Reduce power use and increase energy efficiency with GreenPower hard drives, which are quieter and cooler than their counterparts. These drives save 4 watts to 5 watts per year compared to standard drives.

Product: LED Lights
Price: $220
How it saves: Powered by Brillia LED modules, these lights use 80 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and 30 percent less than fluorescents. They also last longer and emit very little heat.

Product: Encore Electronics Thin Client
Price: $110
How it saves: Reduce the power you use while computing by having multiple workers share a PC or server's computing power. One PC can power about 10 Thin Clients; one server can power about 30. A Thin Client uses only 5 watts to 10 watts a year, whereas a desktop uses about 350 watts.

Product: Solio Magnesium Edition Hybrid Charger
Price: $170
How it saves: This solar- and wall-powered portable charger has a USB input for devices like iPhones, and comes with a set of Universal iGo tips to connect to various phones. One hour of sun will give you 20 minutes of talk time, and its battery stores a charge for up to a year.

Product: Critical Links EdgeBox
Price: Starting at $2,500
How it saves: Replace four to six standalone communications devices with this small box that consolidates your phone system, e-mail server, web server, fax, security, VPN, data storage and more. It saves materials and power, and can be scaled from 10 to 300 employees.

Product: Dell OptiPlex 960 Desktop Energy Efficient
Price: Starting at $863
How it saves: This PC's energy-saving features let you use 43 percent less power than the previous model. Dell uses at least 10 percent post-consumer recycled plastic on the compact structure and up to 89 percent recyclable packaging. The desktop also has optional QuietKit technology to reduce noise by 60 percent.

Product: Occupancy Motion Sensor Llight Switches
Price: $18 to $62
How it saves: Don't waste electricity by leaving lights on in unoccupied rooms. With simple-to-install infrared occupancy detectors, you won't have to worry about anyone forgetting to flip the switch.

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edgeBOX Gains a Bevy of Mobility Features

17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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For starters, Critical Links's edgeBOX rolls a VoIP gateway, an IP PBX, file, Web, and e-mail servers, security firewall, VPN, and QoS into a single, Linux-and-open-source-software-based appliance with a unified user interface. All this and, now, mobility, too?

Apparently so. Today, Critical Links, newly headquartered in the U.S. (Fairfield, New Jersey) announced an entire suite of features and functions it is calling, collectively, edgeMobility.

Enterprise VoIPplanet spoke with the company's vice president of global marketing and business development, Abdul Kasim, who filled us in on some of the details and generally brought us up to date on the edgeBOX story.

For those unfamiliar with edgeBOX, it integrates some 200 open-source software components into a unified system that provides just about every conceivable networking service a small business could want, as enumerated above. (Oh, yes, we forgot to mention in the laundry list above that the edgeBOX also serves as a Wi-Fi access point.)

Although SMBs are edgeBOX's primary market, that market isn't limited to businesses, according to Kasim. For example, the company just finished deploying some 1,200 units in classrooms throughout a fairly extensive European school system, where they serve as dedicated computing/networking appliances.

The overall aim of the edgeBOX is to reduce cost and complexity—making it easier and cheaper for small organizations to leap into full IP networking functionality.

"Because we have consolidated a lot of functionality, you really don't need multiple products—which also means multiple systems to manage," Kasim told VoIPplanet. "And other extraneous things that are quite cost consuming, such as air conditioning, in terms of space, in terms of power. These things add up. So with our box you can just cut out all those costs—ongoing costs are reduced."

edgeMobility
So, back to the new mobility features—which, incidentally, are for the most part standard features, not extra-cost options.

Heading the list are find-me/follow-me and 'twinning.' In the first, the system will forward an unanswered call to a pre-designated second phone. With twinning, the system simultaneously rings two phones—typically the user's desk phone at work, and his/her mobile phone. These aren't cutting edge, but definitely useful.

Much more cutting edge is Direct Inward System Access (DISA), in which the user's mobile phone—or any remote phone—functions as an extension off the central PBX.

"I'm on the road," Kasim said in a hypothetical example. "I have my cell phone, and I want to reach out to my colleague, who is, let's say, in London. Very likely there's a dialplan for that person on the internal network. What this allows me to do is just dial that extension, and it will be as if I were locally present and dialed using my desk phone. And, from the point of view of mobile usage, I am making a local call also, not in international call."

Now that's cutting edge.

Other communications modes have been mobilized as well. For example, the system can transcribe voicemail and send it to a designated e-mail address. Users can then either read or listen to messages. The edgeBOX will now even push e-mail to a BlackBerry or other text-equipped handset.

Fax2mail similarly sends fax messages to users' e-mail accounts.

Finally there is a particularly rich set of mobility features that are not, per se, part of the basic edgeBOX package, but are connected with edgeExchange, a groupware tool that is one of a number of 'edgePack' extensions Critical Links has crafted.

With edgeExchange in place, remote and mobile workers will be able to synchronize their PDAs and smartphones with the central server, sharing contacts, calendar items, resources, and tasks.

"You can back up [or upload] your files remotely," Kasim pointed out, "as well as share files from a central server. You can send out meeting invites and alerts," he said.

As an appliance, the edgeBOX is available in three form factors, according to Kasim. "It's still available as software only," he said, "but people seem to like to get everything in one package, all tested, and configured."

The three models support up to 40 users, up to 100 users, and up to 300 users, respectively, "with different degrees of redundancy and different numbers of user interfaces, but fundamentally the functionality of the box is identical, so scaling from one sub-segment to another is quite easy," Kasim said.

At the low end, pricing for a 10-user system starts at about $2,500—user licenses included—which in the corporate world is remarkably low even for basic IP PBX functionality, aside from all the other network services edgeBOX provides.

"At 300 users we estimate a cost of $40 to $50 per user [for the normal edgeBOX package]," Kasim said. But, at a customer's request Critical Links will even bundle phones into a system, pre-configuring everything so setup is pretty much automatic and foolproof.

By Ted Stevenson

New Server Designs Lower the Cost of Enterprise Computing

15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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Server designs are going through a radical transformation that should have some far-reaching impact throughout the channel. The best examples of this transformation come in the form of new server designs that put multiple functions and services into a single box using blade server technology.

Two of the best examples of this transformation come in the form of new server designs from Hewlett-Packard and Critical Links.

HP this week has rolled out a new Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Business offering that combines what were once several separate servers into a single box running Windows Server 2008.

Based on a blade server architecture, the core idea behind these servers has been a long time in coming from when vendors first started rolling out blade servers. What HP has done is dedicated specific processors inside the blade server to handling specific functions in order to eliminate the need for specialized server appliances.

Similarly, Critical Links has leveraged open source technologies to create an all-in-one EdgeBox network server that combines telephony, firewall, router, wireless access point, file and print server, web and electronic mail server, unified threat management and traffic prioritization technologies in a single server.

Both approaches represent a potential for substantial savings for customers not only in the cost of acquisition for server technology, but in the number of people it takes to manage various servers.

Of course, some solution providers might bemoan the fact that what we are really talking about here is selling fewer servers, which might have an adverse impact on profit margins should a solution provider wind up selling fewer actual servers.

But for any solution provider that has a business focused on managed services, the advent of all-in-one servers could represent a substantial savings on customer service. Instead of having to master multiple systems management systems, these servers can be remotely managed using a common console. That’s should result in less cost in training and the actual number of people needed to manage these systems.

The vendors, of course, will also argue that these designs also represent an opportunity for having an upgrade conversation with a customer in a way that ultimately saves the customer money on IT staffing. In effect, this means that these systems can almost pay for themselves.

The HP offering has a starting price of about $18,000 for a system that can support up to 300 users. The Critical Links server is roughly $3,000 for an implementation that supports up to 40 users, which it compares to a similar implementation based on Microsoft technologies that would cost $9,673.

Odds are strong that these servers only represent the first in a long line of new server designs. As multicore processors move mainstream, solution providers should expect to see a whole new range of servers that leverage different processors to perform specific functions.

The ultimate end result of all this work should be the end of server sprawl over the IT infrastructure. And that’s a good thing because we all know that the real cost of enterprise computing is not the products themselves, but rather all the people we need today to manage it.

Critical Links’ edgeBOX Named Finalist for TechWorld Green Product of the Year Award

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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FAIRFIELD, NJ, June 27, 2008 – Critical Links, a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs, announced today its edgeBOX™ multi-service business gateway appliance, was named a finalist for the TechWorld Green Product of the Year Award. By consolidating data, voice and IT services into one appliance, edgeBOX enables small and medium sized businesses to replace up to 8 devices with a single unit, creating an environmentally friendly IT infrastructure.

“Being a green IT product involves more than just being efficient while operational at the customer premises. It is about the complete lifecycle of the product from development and delivery through use and disposal,” said Alex Sarin, vice president, product management, Critical Links. “The edgeBOX™ was purposely designed with a passionate consideration to its environmental impact in the broader context and we are pleased that this has been recognized by TechWorld.”

By providing a single unit that performs the work of many, edgeBOX™ greatly diminishes the carbon footprint, and power consumption, while providing cutting edge technology, at a fraction of the cost. Its compact size allows it to easily fit on a desktop, greatly reducing space requirements and the attendant heating and cooling demands.

In addition to the green benefits provided directly, the edgeBOX also makes a substantial, albeit indirect, contribution to easing the larger environmental concerns. By enabling workers to be able to work remotely – and having all the IT and Telecom services as if they were at the headquarters in person, the edgeBOX maintains high productivity and avoids the need to travel, thereby leading to less carbon fuel consumption and pollution.

By consolidating numerous devices into a single unit, edgeBOX™ also reduces plastic and styrofoam packaging as well as plastic covered wiring generated by multiple appliances, reducing landfill waste and the utilization of non-renewable energy resources to reproduce these non-bio-degradable products. At the end of its life cycle, edgeBOX™ takes minimal energy to recycle and produces less residual waste.

The Techworld Awards, each year select the products and users from the European IT industry that have made a significant difference. They recognize those products, which help IT professionals in their daily roles, and also the IT professionals themselves, who make the industry what it is today. Winners of the awards are selected by an independent panel of industry figures combined with members of the TechWorld editorial team.

The edgeBOX™ replaces up to 8 specialized solutions with a single integrated device, providing SMB customers with a complete networking infrastructure that is simple to install and configure, easy to maintain and upgrade and can be managed remotely. Customers can leverage edgeBOX™ services ranging from VOIP, IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC and QoS as well as web server, e-mail server and data storage. It is available on a range of scalable platforms that support up to 300 users.

Simplification of VoIP deployment through effective software architecture

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100