As a global innovator providing broadband gateway solutions for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), Critical Links will be hosting an exhibit at the upcoming ITEXPO (
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Critical Links’ goal is to dramatically simplify and cost-reduce while offering a host of advanced voice, data and other ICT applications. Its edgeBOX product is an award-winning multi-function gateway device that provides VoIP, IP-PBX (
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Abdul Kasim, vice president of marketing and business development for Critical Links (
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RT: What has been your company’s biggest achievement in 2008 so far?
AK: Extent of impact in the marketplace, with milestone wins at Service Providers, End users and Resellers!
RT: What can we expect to see from your company in the next 12 months?
AK: More features like video and continual efforts to simplify deployment and management and integration with business applications.
RT: How do you see the communications market evolving?
AK: Higher spending by the Small and Medium Businesses; focus on simplifying the infrastructure.
RT: What company made the biggest contribution to communications this year?
AK: Critical Links – changing the paradigm of complex/sophisticated features cost more to sophisticated features cost less and can propel the competitiveness. Google (
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RT: How has Google changed our markets?
AK: Made it more efficient.
AK: Creating a converging mobile platform!
RT: What mobile phone(s) do you use?
AK: VZ.
RT: Who will win in an Apple/RIM war?
AK: No clear winners.
RT: What do you think the communications market might look like in five years?
AK: More integration, but also fragmented and confusing as ever.
RT: What will attendees see in your booth at ITEXPO this September?
AK: Broadest feature set platform for SMB.
RT: What sorts of companies should come to your exhibit?
AK: SMBs, VARs, Manufacturers of (complementary) Telecom equipment.
RT: Why should customers choose your company’s solutions?
AK: Feature superiority at very economic cost.
RT: Please make one surprising prediction for 2009.
AK: The Service Provider market finally wakes up to the SMB opportunity.
Rich Tehrani is President and Group Editor-in-Chief of TMC. In addition, he is the Chairman of the world�s best-attended communications conference, INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO). He is also the author of his own communications and technology blog.Edited by
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