ClearOne Announces Distribution Agreement with Westcon Group.ClearOne Solutions to Be Available through Voda One's ConvergencePoint Program SALT LAKE CITY & TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- ClearOne (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : CLRO CLRO Corporation of London Record Office .OB), the global provider of audio conferencing See audioconferencing. products, and Westcon Group, Inc., the world's leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence, announced that Westcon Group will distribute ClearOne's products in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Westcon Group is launching its ClearOne relationship with Voda One but intends to carry the products at Comstor and Westcon in the near future. ClearOne's products will be available through Voda's One ConvergencePoint program (www.convergencepoint.vodaone.com). The Voda One ConvergencePoint program offers resellers a central focus on selling Avaya solutions, while supporting them with a wide variety of Affinity Vendors, enabling the development of the types of converged, multi-vendor solutions that their customers are requiring in today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. environment. Westcon Group will carry ClearOne's full line of personal, tabletop, and premium audio conferencing products, which include Chat[TM] 50, Chat 150, the MAX[R] and MAXAttach[TM] family of analog wired, wireless, and SIP-based VoIP conference phones, and the RAV[TM] series of premium conferencing systems. Westcon Group will also carry ClearOne's line of conferencing furniture. ClearOne's MAXAttach[TM] IP and MAX IP products have been certified under Avaya's DevConnect program; the Chat 50 and Chat 150 also connect directly to select Avaya handsets for greatly improved hands-free speaker phone capabilities. "We are very pleased to join forces with Westcon Group," said Steven Andresen, ClearOne's vice president of worldwide sales. "They are a major player in the telephony channel, and this arrangement opens new opportunities for resellers and end users who have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a better audio conferencing experience. Our products are a perfect complement to a telephony system sale, and having them available to Voda One's resellers directly alongside Avaya's solutions is ideal for us and the reseller community." Steven Bernard vice president and general manager of Voda One, added: "We are excited to have a direct relationship with ClearOne, which gives us the ability to offer a highly competitive product at an attractive price point. BusinessPartners accessing our ConvergencePoint program can be brought up to speed very quickly on how to position these solutions in the market, which can compete against the best audio conferencing products in the industry. Having ClearOne on our line card also plays well into our mobility strategy, since our BusinessPartners are selling more and more soft phones and related accessories--these kinds of solutions will become more and more important to the mobile workforce." Ken Apperson, president of Northern, CA- based Quagga quagga (kwăg`ə), extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open plains in S Africa, where its range overlapped that of the common zebra (Equus burchelli). , said "Voda One's addition of ClearOne gives us a chance to bring a high-margin, high performance product into a mobility solution sale. Having these products available through ConvergencePoint makes it extraordinarily easy to position them in every applicable end-user market." ABOUT CLEARONE ClearOne is a communications solutions company that develops and sells audio conferencing systems and related products for audio, video and web conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. applications. The reliability, flexibility and performance of ClearOne's comprehensive solutions create a natural communications environment that saves organizations time and money by enabling more effective and efficient communication. For additional information, log on to www.clearone.com. ABOUT WESTCON GROUP Westcon Group, Inc. is the world's leading specialty distributor of networking, security, mobility and convergence equipment for leading technology vendors, including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc., Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony Corporation and Avaya, Inc. Through its Voda One, Westcon and Comstor divisions, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. , or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com. 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