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AUGUST 2009

IN THE NEWS

Mitel's new 5320 and 5360 phones make admin easy and users happy

Raise the IQ of your Smart Mobile Phone with Toshiba UMobility

Considering a Hosted Phone System?

Get to know Polycom Conferencing and Wireless Solutions

Toshiba rolls out Affordable, Easy Video Surveillance − No licenses, No headaches

 

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Every month Chesapeake helps you navigate technology so you can get the most from your voice, data, and video networks. Learn about new ways to save time and money with leading business communications systems and network services.

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7 Great Reasons to Buy Local 

 

1. Local businesses employ your neighbors

2. Get better service from people that care about the community and your success

3. Local business owners live here and are invested in our future

4. Charities and non-profits get more support from local companies

5. Local businesses require less infrastructure and public spending

6. Get more choices and better prices with a vibrant local market

7. Money spent locally stays in your community


 

Mitel's new 5320 and 5360 phones make admin easy and users happy 

 

The new 5320 and 5360 IP Phones from Mitel make administration easier through remote programming instead of having to manually attach paper labels to each phone. This reduces set-up time and ongoing operational costs, allowing your IT/telecom team to focus on other business priorities.

The digital display on each phone is automatically updated, ensuring that your users always have instant access to colleagues, IP-based applications and services.

Key features of the 5320 IP Phone include …

- Large display

- 8 programmable, multi-function, self-labeling keys for speed dialing, line appearances, feature access

- 3 intuitive, call state sensitive softkeys

- Encrypted voice for secure conversations

- MiNet IP and SIP support

- Supports Mitel Teleworker, ACD agent and supervisor, hot desking, resiliency, Mitel Unified Communicator Mobile, and Mitel Dynamic Extension

- HTML toolkit for applications development

- Mitel Wireless LAN Stand and Mitel Gigabit Ethernet Stand support

Key features of the 5360 IP Phone include …

- 7" inch color, touch display screen with brightness control

- 48 programmable self-labeling keys

- 6 intuitive, call state sensitive softkeys

- Embedded Gigabit Ethernet

- Superior sound quality

- HTML toolkit for applications development

- Gadget Sidebar for one-touch access to embedded or Internet based content and applications

- Supports the Mitel 5310 IP Conference Unit, Mitel Cordless (DECT) Handset and Headset, Mitel Line Interface Module and Mitel Wireless LAN Stand

Give your users easy access to the information, applications, and features they need without struggling with paper labels … Call us today to learn more at (800) 787-4848 or jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.

 

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Raise the IQ of your Smart Mobile Phone with Toshiba UMobility

 

Mobility is essential to staying in touch with your customers and keeping your teams connected.

 

Toshiba’s uMobility solution empowers your mobile workers to cost-effectively make and answer their business calls from virtually anywhere. The user’s smart mobile phone functions as their phone system extension both while in the office via the wireless LAN and while out of the office via a cellular network.

Toshiba’s Mobility solutions also include…

SoftIPT soft phone clients that run on your laptop, tablet PC, or PDA via your LAN or WLAN. You can roam anywhere WLAN and the Internet take you, maintaining most of the features available on Toshiba’s desk telephones.

Cordless Telephones that give you the ability to take full digital desk phone functionality with you, whether it’s down the hall, into the conference room, or across campus.

Wireless IP Telephones from Polycom offer wider area coverage within the enterprise, providing wireless telephone features that are fully integrated with Toshiba phone systems.

Toshiba’s Net Phone leverages the power of the computer and telephone enabling you to dial, answer or transfer calls, and more, using your mouse without ever picking up the telephone.

Chesapeake experts are ready to help you select the Toshiba Mobility solution that’s right for your business. Contact us today to get more information and details: (800) 787-4848 or jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.

 

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Considering a Hosted Phone System?

Fair warning: Your phones' life span might expire sooner than you think!

If you like the idea of managed phone services - where you pay-as-you-go - you probably have looked at hosted phone systems whereby a provider maintains and manages the phone system infrastructure.

Whether you buy or "rent" you'll still need to get IP Phones for your office that are your responsibility.  Do some due diligence to prevent headaches later. For example, you must be careful about your choice of IP Phones, especially if they are offered to you at a bargain basement price.

The IP phones may be nearing “End of Life”, which means the manufacturer will no longer support them. This happened to a local business recently, when Cisco announced the end of life one of its IP Phones. The hosted provider's customers now have to replace broken phones with Polycom sets - creating a hodgepodge of phone sets around the office for the local customer who called us.

 

Don’t let your business get caught off guard. Our experts can help you ask smart questions when you explore hosted services. Contact us today at (800) 787-4848 or jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.

 

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Get to know Polycom

Conferencing and Wireless Solutions


To ensure that your teams have the right tools to collaborate and stay in touch with customers and colleagues, Chesapeake offers high definition conferencing and wireless solutions from Polycom.
 

Conferencing
By leveraging the power of Polycom Telepresence solutions, you can remove the obstacles of time and distance for your teams, enabling them to make faster and more informed decisions, and achieve higher levels of performance.

Polycom’s immersive telepresence solutions provide a natural, "across the table" experience. You'll speak with and read the body language of others – just as if you were all in the same room.

Polycom's high definition solutions for room environments expand real-time knowledge sharing and drive faster, more informed decisions.

Polycom Personal Telepresence solutions seamlessly extend clear, high definition video to home offices, mobile users, branch sites, and beyond.

Wireless
Whether you’re evaluating your mobile communication needs using DECT, looking to make or leverage an investment in Wi-Fi, or want to adopt proprietary 900 MHz technology, Polycom has a solution to meet your needs ...
 

DECT Communications offers superior call quality and is ideal for small to very large businesses.
 

Wi-Fi Communications - The Polycom SpectraLink 8000 Series is the market-leading, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solution for businesses of all sizes.

Proprietary Wireless Communications - The Polycom SpectraLink 6000 Series delivers rich PBX functionality over a dedicated wireless network and is ideal for businesses of all sizes.


Let's talk about the best Polycom solution for your business. Call us today (800) 787-4848 or email jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.

 

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Toshiba rolls out Affordable, Easy Video Surveillance − No licenses, No headaches

 

The new Toshiba IPS-30-30-3 NVR is the easiest way to create a high-performance, totally networked video surveillance system. The device records the input of up to 30 IP network cameras at a resolution of 640 x 480 for up to 30 days.

The unit comes with 1.5 Terabytes of recording capacity. And if there’s ever a power disruption, the NVR automatic restarts recording when power resumes.

The NVR is fully compatible with Toshiba cameras or those from a variety of other manufacturers.

No additional camera licenses. No headaches. Just pure convenience. Call us today: (800) 787-4848 or jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.

 

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