Milan, Italy (July 4, 2007)
STONEVOICE, the leading Unified Communications Application Developer and Cisco Technology Developer Partner, announced today the general availability of SkyStone, the ultimate Software IP Skype® Gateway designed to become the converging point between the PBX Business World and the Skype Consumer World.
Today, STONEVOICE SkyStone is filling this technology gap guaranteeing the access to new services for the enterprise for its internal use. Skype-in and Skype-out become new features in the IP PBX improving the company image and reducing considerably the costs and time for implementation. Furthermore, it allows offering services to the company clients through consumer technology, reaching a tremendous market consensus and flexibility acknowledge. One example of this new trend is to implement the Skype click-to-call functionality on the company’s web site, allowing the end customers to contact the support through Skype free calls, in the simplest and quickest way.
SkyStone, the software IP based Skype gateway, can interconnect any IP telephony solution or legacy PBX to the “Skype world”. This represents the best answer to the imminent need of convergence and immediately allows all the enterprise employees to take full advantage of the Skype services without having to handle a double handset infrastructure or double telephone numbers. “The beta program of SkyStone has been successful in terms of subscriptions and feedback. Companies from all over the world, potential customers and resellers, have unanimously confirmed the interest in this product and in its simplicity to install, configure and use. We have also gathered feedback from the market and updated our roadmap accordingly. Today SkyStone is the product the market was missing; tomorrow, we will push the convergence one step further” said Christian Bongiovanni, CEO of STONEVOICE.
“The enthusiasm of the beta program can now become a tangible reality with the possibility purchase the product or resell it. In the past month, the pipeline has grown considerably and at this moment we are enthusiastic about fulfilling our customer needs. We believe that this product is not only targeted for SMB, but also for the enterprise sector. More specifically contact centers are interested in the skype-in services and the click-to-call (skype-me) button on their web site and multinationals are eager to deploy multiple skype gateways over all their sites to place free skype-to-skype inter-site international calls from the user’s phone, with outstanding voice quality” said Davide Perfetti, Business Development Director of STONEVOICE.
Honouring the STONEVOICE tradition, SkyStone is completely software, inheriting all the advantages of it: no stock handling, no shipment delays, plug and play and offering an embedded try&buy free of charge. Furthermore, it is IP based and therefore seamlessly integrating with any IP PBX (through standard protocols, such as SIP and H323) and with Legacy PBX’s through the recommended widely spread media gateways.
About Stonevoice
STONEVOICE is an Italian company created in 2001 for developing applications for Cisco Unified Communications. They are the first Cisco Technology Developer Partner (CTDP) to offer a complete suite of applications designed for Cisco IP Communications. More than 100 partners across more than 20 countries and the distribution agreement with the major Cisco distributors (e.g. Comstor, Azlan-Tech Data and Logicom) have declared the Stonevoice success as the reference value-added application developer for the Cisco Unified Communication Solution. Stonevoice portfolio includes products such as billing, IP fax server, video conferencing, IVR and more, highly appreciated on the market.
STONEVOICE CONTACTS
Web: http://www.stonevoice.com
Info: info@stonevoice.com
