To those of you who made it by the new Voxilla online store for some year-end shopping, we’ve been glad to see you! And we hope you’ve been pleased to see our fresh paint and the new goodies on our shelves. We are still working out some distribution logistics, but look forward to a year of new growth in 2007.

For you with no idea what I’m going on about, we quietly changed a week or so ago from the old-stand-by shopping cart with the groovy orange graphics to a brand-new platform sporting fresh design that integrates well with the rest of Voxilla’s on-line properties. In the process, we’ve made the experience of shopping at Voxilla faster, clearer, and more consistent, in addition to nearly tripling our inventory of products — hello Digium users, hello Netgear fans — and launching new partnerships with Talkswitch and Vegastream.

We’ve also added International shipping via U.S. Postal Service and secured new distribution alliances that should improve all facets of our approach to helping you find the right product for your IP communications needs.

Returning customers should find your old log-in credentials work on the new store, and your order history is preserved and accessible on the new site. New users will find registration a snap and our secure online ordering process easy to navigate. As always, your privacy and satisfaction remain our highest priorities.

We are very excited about this step forward in Voxilla’s evolution; it’s something we’ve been working toward much of the last quarter of this year and we’re happy to have it finally in place. We hope you find our changes useful and pleasing as well.

For small- and medium-sized businesses, going VoIP is no easy matter. The choices are complex and confusing.

Because of the perceived risks, most small and medium businesses are not ready to move completely to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in one move. Instead small and medium businesses are looking for an incremental transition from the world of analog to VoIP.

TalkSwitch offers an upgradeable line of hybrid PBX systems to fit the need — starting with the TS-24-CA supporting two lines and four extensions and continuing to the TS-48-CVA supporting 16 lines and 32 local and 32 remote extensions.

The newly released version 4.0 of the PBX software now extends VoIP support beyond trunks to the extensions, allowing an organization to use both analog and SIP phones.

We tested the TS-48CVA with version 4.0 software, a TS-400 phone, a TS-600 phone, a Polycom SoundPoint IP 601 SIP phone, and an Aastra 390 analog phone.

Read the editor’s review or post your own.

The TalkSwitch TS-600 is the other phone reviewed this weekend.

The TS-600 is the top-tier phone from TalkSwitch.

I spent my Sunday playing with TalkSwitch. Please don’t make me a complete nerd and at least read my review or add your own.

The TS-400 from TalkSwitch is a middle-tier analog phone packed with features.

The TalkSwitch User Group is now a member of the Voxilla Forums.

TalkSwitch is a SIP-based hybrid phone system that can be connected to both the traditional telephone network and the Internet. With broadband access, and the optional VoIP module, businesses can place branch-to-branch calls over the Internet and access SIP-based service provider networks.