BOS Opens New HQ for BOS/Lynk Operations as Part of $30M European Expansion.Business Editors LEICESTER, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2001 Better On-line Solutions (Nasdaq:BOSC), the Israeli specialists in VoIP Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. gateways, print management software and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 connectivity products, has opened a new European headquarters on the Meridian Business Park in Leicester - new telephone no. +44 116 282 0600. The move from Hinckley to Leicester is the first phase in a $30 million investment in new sales, support and R&D facilities throughout Europe. BOS will be opening offices in Paris, closely followed by Italy, Spain, and an expansion of their existing operations in Germany. Reporting to Dave Culley, promoted from UK to European Managing Director last year, and Barry Underhill as European Sales Director, thirty new sales and support staff are being recruited. New Management Team New management appointments include Nik Sakaria, formerly with Wall Data, as European Channel Manager for all BOS' AS/400 products. Also new on board are Ian Blackman, formerly with e-Distribution, as European Technical Support Manager, and Ann O'Shaughnessy who joins from Quatrix Communications as European Marketing Manager. Together with Lee Langdon and Dave Clarke For the Canadian politician, see . Dave Clarke (born 19 September 1968 in Brighton[1]) is an English Techno Producer and DJ, often given the status The Baron of Techno. , UK Channel Managers for the AS/400 and TeleLynk VoIP products respectively, the new management team will all be based at the new Leicester HQ, along with the telesales and support teams: whose strength is being doubled to 30 people. New Product Strategy Although BOS sees the major growth coming from its new TeleLynk VoIP Internet telephony gateways and e-TeleLynk Web-to-phone solutions, as well as PrintBoss, the company promises to keep faith with its traditional AS/400 LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and Internet connectivity markets and, even, its Twinax products on which the company was founded back in 1992. The PrintBoss Revelation The new PrintBoss software allows users to design, automatically route and store, graphically enhanced documents to multiple destinations based on user defined Any format, layout, structure or language that is developed by the user. preferences. Print jobs may be routed to individual e-mail and fax addresses as well as to target printers and even trays. And the software not only improves existing documents, but it can create the highest quality forms, logos, letterheads and even cheques. "PrintBoss really scores in multi-platform installations. Operating under Windows 95/98/NT Refers to all 32-bit versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000. It implies Windows ME and Windows 2000. It specifically excludes Windows 3.x. See Windows. or 2000, it provides PC-based design, management and routing of print jobs from multiple operating environments - AIX/UNIX, Linux, mainframes and DOS, as well as the AS/400. It is still the only completely open print design and management solution on the market," says Dave Culley. BOS is also in negotiations with several of the leading printer manufacturers who plan to bundle the PrintBoss software within their devices for the AS/400 and other markets. Such OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and deals could boost BOS' worldwide sales by $ several million in 2001. The Lynk to VoIP Since the launch of its first BOSaNOVA Internet Server in 1997, BOS has been an ardent supporter of TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. for both LAN and remote access data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. . It was logical, therefore, that the R&D team should take this expertise into the telecoms arena and develop Voice over IP gateways and adapters. Because this was then, in 1998, considered to be a total diversification, BOS established Lynk Ltd. as a separate subsidiary company. In October 1999, Lynk launched TeleLynk, the first complete VoIP hardware and software system to provide business class telephony, and real time fax, over IP - be it Internet, intranet or existing VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. or packet switched data networks. This was swiftly followed by the e-TeleLynk Web-to-phone gateway which enables Website owners to provide their customers with free VoIP calls to Website agents over the same Internet link whilst the agent and customer are viewing the same Web page. e-TeleLynk has been a resounding re·sound v. re·sound·ed, re·sound·ing, re·sounds v.intr. 1. To be filled with sound; reverberate: The schoolyard resounded with the laughter of children. 2. success in e-commerce and help desk applications simply because it is instant (apart from the one-time 8 second 45K VoIP 'plug-in' download) and it obviates the need for a callback or second phone line. It also adds a much needed 'human touch' to the hitherto impersonal e-commerce world. The first version of the TeleLynk Internet Telephony Gateway has now been updated so that the system now comes in 1U rack-mountable and desktop units, rather than PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. plug-in cards; increasing the reliability and ease of installation to the corporate and SME markets. Industry hype that VoIP was all about beating BT and the traditional carriers by making free phone calls over the Internet has been superceded with successful installations and trials taking place at corporate users such as TrailFinders, Campbell Distillers and Martin Dawes. IP.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. Italy Ltd. has launched its new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. Telephone Service based on TeleLynk Gateways - because they provided better voice quality than any of the solutions offered by 'the well known brands'. For BOS, the initial order is worth over $800,000. BOS and Lynk Back Together "Within BOS and, already, a number of our customers, our development of TeleLynk is no longer seen as a diversification," says Dave Culley. "It has turned out to be a natural progression, and with TCP/IP as the principal protocol, it has turned BOS into a voice and data communications company. It is also the principal reason why a group of private investors has put $30 million into our expansion." |
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