Despite the steady growth in IP telephony uptake, there is ‘PC bias’ to the technology and programs - that is, until recently.

It seems that IP telephony (VoIP) manufacturers are starting to realise the untapped potential in a rapidly advancing Mac market.

Premises-based IP telephony technology…

Our best of breed IP PBX supplier, Zultys, announced on 14th May 2008 the arrival of its MX Software Version 4.0. This essential upgrade ensures greater interoperability and productivity and most importantly a key aspect includes expanded Mac support for Intel-powered Mac clients.

As a forward thinking and reputable IP telephony manufacturer, Zultys has long supported previous Motorola processor based Mac generations but this latest release adds advanced interoperability with newer Intel-powered Mac clients. For example, Mac users can now run instances of the user client application (’MXIE’) in both a standard Mac environment and also in virtualised environments on Mac OS X ‘Leopard’ using, for example, Parallels and VM Ware. Zultys is the only converged Intel Mac solution that is standards based. The same product also runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista with the same look, feel and functionality.

It is rare to find an IP telephony client application to function equally well on both a Mac and PC environment but MXIE does this exceedingly well. MXIE is the primary user tool for accessing (integrating with) the Zultys IP PBX system (referred to ‘MX’ systems) user-based services such as individual call handling rules, initiating and managing calls, changing presence, viewing the presence of other users, binding to any phone / device, when hot-desking, and access to an address book, call log, incoming faxes, call recordings, voice mails and more - all from one intuitive and easy to use multi-platform interface.

Below are screenshot examples of MXIE functioning in native Mac and PC environments: