VoIP Equipment and Solution Vendors

Avaya is the leader in the VoIP market. It has a vast variety of equipment and solutions including IP phones, media gateways, routers, communication servers, PBXs, wireless phones, voice application etc. Its hottest product is the IP Office platform and communications system.

Before VoIP, Cisco has been around as a networking vendor giant. Now, it is a leading player in the VoIP equipment arena, with good IP Phones, routers, and other devices and solutions. Cisco owns Linksys, which is also well known on the market.

Shoretel is a fast-growing vendor providing complete IP telephony solutions and PBXs. ShoreTel's strong points are performance and ease of installation and use.

Siemens is another giant in technology which has extended its reach to VoIP and unified communications. It provides phones, PBXs and ... just anything concerning communication.

Mitel is a global provider of communications solutions for enterprises and small business. It aims at blending good human interface with powerful infrastructure. Mitel brands include SX and ICP series.

Asterisk is not hardware, but a software PBX that can run on Linux, Unix, MacOS and some other operating systems. It is open source (meaning free) and is extremely flexible and very robust.

Taridium is a fast growing open standards VoIP solution provider. Taridium's offering ranges from managed VoIP services for small and medium-sized businesses through to high capacity telephony solutions for large enterprises and service providers.