Opera Solutions: IP phones

As enterprises experience a paradigm shift in how telephony is handled, moving from traditional phone lines to VoIP, phones actually have full-featured Internet connections coming in and have become devices housing powerful enough hardware to use for Internet browsing. Beyond Web browsing, Opera can be used to power the user interface (UI) layer of the IP phone screen. This, coupled with JavaScript extensions, provides IP phone operators a fully Web-based UI solution that can be developed quickly and updated after going to market.

Internet telephony is quickly becoming a key component in telecom operator multi-play offerings. Now with Opera technology, IP phones can give end-users the added value of being able to quickly access the Web on the phone screen. Operators can also utilize the power of Opera Widgets by developing small cross-platform Web applications that help animate their convergence solution and generate revenue.

Benefits

Freedom to move

IP phones remove the location-based constraints inherent in traditional landline telephony. This is not only convenient but generates significant cost and time savings with the ease of portability.

Easy cost-cutting measure

With IP phones, businesses stand to see substantial cost reductions both in terms of expensive switched long distance and in terms of system set-up and maintenance. With IP phones, businesses stand to see substantial cost reductions both in terms of expensive switched long distance and in terms of system set-up and maintenance. Development costs will also be reduced as OEMs and operators can avoid expensive and time-consuming hard-coding that can easily be Web-based and done in a fraction of the time.

Remote upgradability

With Opera, IP telephony providers are able to offer remote updating and upgradability, which ultimately results in further cost and time savings.

Fully customizable Web applications

While it might not seem immediately intuitive to imagine a functioning currency converter or calculator on a telephone screen, Opera Widgets can be created for and run on virtually any device as Web applications to enable these kinds of conveniences.

See exactly what you want to see

Opera offers an SDK that enables OEMs and operators to develop customized UI and applications, deploying customized interfaces that fit the needs of their products, customers and target demographic. Customization not only feeds into branding strategy but also becomes important in terms of designing interfaces best suited to the specific device.

The Opera reputation

Opera is a trusted partner and solid, experienced company working closely with partners to rapidly bring new products to market. Traded on the Norwegian stock exchange and deployed to millions of customers, Opera Software is a leader in the Web technology industry.

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