Junction Networks adds UC features to OnSIP

Junction Networks, a business and hosted VoIP provider targeting the SMB market, announced the addition of IM, presence and phone to its browser-based telephony offering OnSIP. The new offering, called my.OnSIP, monitors whether contacts on the hosted IP-PBX are available and provides enterprise-only IM to reduce distractions.

The new capabilities are available for any user on the hosted platform, including distributed employees, according to Junction.

Junction said its business customers need only provide IP phones, and it handles the rest of the networking. The company is also opening the new client to developers who would like to integrate these functions into applications for real-time communications.

"True, some on-premise PBX vendors offer chat, presence, and maybe even phone status," Junction Networks' President Robert Wolpov said to Voxilla. "But they often charge considerably extra for these non-voice media, and they often require proprietary phone sets."

The company said the new features will be added at no extra charge to the OnSIP hosted service, which begins at $39.95 per month, according to Voxilla. 

For more:
- see the Voxilla article here
- see the Junction press release here 

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