Toshiba's Call Manager Now Available as a Mobile App

Computer and technology firm Toshiba has revealed from its headquarters in Irvine, Calif. that its Call Manager program has now been made available as an app in iTunes for iOS devices running R5 or R6 and the Android Google Play App Store. This allows the user to leverage the same Call Manager network that companies have been using on cloud-based landlines, but on mobile phones, so as not to incur any cross-network service fees.

The Call Manager network is an HTML5 program based on P2P services like Skype in order to place calls over the Internet to maximize call time and volume without having to worry about exorbitant phone bills. Brian Metherell, vice president of Toshiba American Information Systems Inc. said, “‘Toshiba has designed its call system for today’s BYOD world, the ‘D’ in that initialism standing for ‘device’, signaling that the company is intent on taking the same benefits that its P2P service provides on landlines to mobile phones.”

The system that the Call Manager program is based upon is called VIPedge Cloud Solutions which is the aforementioned Internet phone service whose infrastructure resides not in a landline network or in on-site servers, but in the cloud. All that is now required is to use Toshiba’s IP telephones in order to make calls over the Web. This is primarily due to the fact that Toshiba has formed a partnership with VIPedge, making its solution more accessible to businessmen on the move who want to access their company’s phone network without incurring fees on the basis of this app.

A similar company called Strata IX makes a version of this product for the PC, however whereas on the P2P networks the interactions are based on calling this would be more of a platform for sending data and holding virtual meetings. Users of Strata IX can also manage calls, look at call logs, and given adequate microphones place calls with the program in conjunction with Call Manager on the VIPedge system, all without using a telephone.