Black Box Network Services this week announced a new business relationship that allows the company to resell hosted voice over IP solutions to enterprises.
 

The agreement with CoreDial lets Black Box (News - Alert) Network Services to resell CoreDial’s hosted voice over IP solutions to enterprise customers, company officials said.

 

“Our relationship with CoreDial enables us to offer our customers another attractive option to the traditional method of purchasing communications equipment,” said Terry Blakemore, president and CEO of Black Box Network Services, in a statement. “It also allows us to provide cost-effective SIP trunking to our legacy PBX (News - Alert) customers, which can reduce their overall cost.”

 

Hosted VoIP solutions offer customers IP-enabled communications without the costs, management and maintenance responsibilities of an on-premise VoIP application.

 

According to company officials, the Black Box Hosted VoIP solution by CoreDial delivers a “full suite” of features including unified messaging, attendant, audio conferencing and call center applications without having to purchase the physical system and pay for ongoing upgrades or maintenance.

 

Customers receive a monthly bill which includes their local and domestic long distance usage in addition to the managed service. Company officials said Black Box Network Services plans to begin selling and servicing these hosted VoIP applications immediately.

 

“Any purchasing model that can be treated as an operating expense instead of a capital one is advantageous to many customers in this economy. A hosted solution provides the features and functionality that our customers need and enables them to realize significant internal benefits when they outsource their voice requirements.”

 

“CoreDial is proud to have the opportunity to partner with a leading provider of communications solutions such as Black Box Network Services,” said Alan Rihm, CoreDial CEO. “By leveraging our VoiceAxis software and carrier class network infrastructure services, Black Box will be uniquely positioned to deliver high quality, high value hosted PBX and VoIP services to their enterprise business clients. This partnership combines Black Box's tremendous experience, resources and customer relationships with CoreDial's proven software and services to enable Black Box customers to immediately take advantage of the significant benefits and timely cost savings of hosted VoIP services.” 

Technical services company Black Box unveiled a product – the HD View HDMI Repeater – which works with the transmitter in the HD View HDMI system to distribute high-definition video and digital audio content as far as 660 feet in cascaded multiscreen applications. 

Black Box provides more than 118,000 networking and infrastructure products, such as fiber CAT5e, and CAT6 cable; KVM switches; digital signage; and cabinets and racks, plus network services.

 

Black Box Corporation plans to release its second quarter of fiscal 2010 financial results on Oct. 27.