ABP The Resellers Ideal Supplier for IP Phones
ABP is the ideal source for IP Phones for data, networking and telecom reseller’s. ABP only sells to resellers and provides volume discounts and rebate programs to regular resellers. ABP also provides tech-support, warranty exchange services and training on all brands carried.
“When getting involved with VoIP we recommend to start with an informed choice on which IP Phone is truly best for your customer”, says Robert Messer, ABP’s president. In the world of IP its’ not the IP-PBX system but actually the phones that make the difference.
There are many subtle differences to know which IP phone to use with various IP-PBX solutions and the better-known brand is not necessarily the better choice. Not even the fact that they are certified means that you should choose a certain phone brand. First, you should focus on the quality of the SIP stack, which will determine the phone’s interoperability and long-term value, and then on ergonomics and sound quality. Last you want to see how the phone actually operates and provides the user with features. There are night and day differences in ease of use and intuitively between different brands.
The latest phones from Aastra and snom technology all offer many new XML features, which also provide resellers with many opportunities to add value by tying the phones into the companies IT application framework. How about having all the company’s customers, vendors and employee phone book always online in any phone at the office or remote extensions for teleworkers. How about recording a few details like follow-up date, and a lien or two of call comments into companies CRM even when calling the customer from the IP phone and not from the CRM application? Many people will choose to use their cell phone’s features rather that a much better sounding desktop phone simply because of the added functionality and feature set. All of our leading IP phones offer the same functionality of call lists, phone books, even messaging embedded right into the IP phone.
In addition to IP phones ABP also has markets a complete line of IP PBX platforms and offers new features like presence, mobility, follow-me and much more. Most systems provide line appearance and presence status along with BLF, speed dial and more and support these features on ABP’s selected IP Phones. snom technology phones offer a high-density sidecar for the snom 300 series IP Phones with a total of 54 LED lit programmable keys. Aastra’s newest line now features a programmable keypad with LCD display.
Both snom and Aastra phones offer great full duplex speaker phones, headset support, POE support, XML and graphics support as well as a rich set of telephony features including 3 way call, easy transfer and conferencing keys. Snom offers a unique record button and Aastra offers handsets with wireless DECT companion phones.
For the very best conferencing don’t overlook ClearOne MAX IP’s full duplex conference phone. This unit has superb sound processing and can be daisy chained creating a state of the art boardroom conference system.
For mobility ABP offers both an unlimited 802.11b/g solution with the new Hitachi-Cable wireless IP phones offering crystal clear mobile conversations or a DECT companion phone attached to the users IP desktop phone. All mobile solutions support all key features like transfer; call waiting on pretty much any SIP compliant IP PBX platform. WiFi Wireless IP Phones offer an unlimited amount of registered wireless devices and roaming on conventional 802.11 b/g access points as well as SIP based SMS or Instant messaging to any other IM capable SIP phone.
ABP has more than 6 years experience marketing IP Phones and is the first true national IP Phone distributor. ABP is a national master distributor for snom technology, Aastra Telecom IP phones, Hitachi-Cable Wireless IP Phones a key value added distributor for Linksys IP Phones and the exclusive US distributor for Eutectics USB phones.
