CALGARY, Alberta -- Aksys Networks Inc., an innovator in Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems, today announced its KONNECT™ Office Phone System, the first serverless full-featured telephone system for small offices that operates standalone, requiring no additional equipment. The simplicity of connecting multiple offices together will transform small businesses.

KONNECT fills an important need for businesses seeking the benefits of VoIP, but that are wary of business interruptions. Most small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) aren’t willing to rely solely on Internet connections for their phones, because cable modem and ADSL services experience outages from time to time, which can prevent or terminate important calls. In addition, many offices aren’t ready yet to trust their main inbound number to VoIP technology. With KONNECT, offices can continue using their existing telco lines and use VoIP for free interoffice calls, selecting either VoIP or the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for outbound calls. In this manner, KONNECT offers offices the best of the old and new.

“We are pleased to offer small businesses a way to access all the benefits of VoIP, while enabling them to preserve their connections to existing land lines, which they trust,” said Martin Sunstrum, president and CEO of Aksys. "Our ability to seamlessly support local landlines, and tie together home and/or remote offices into one unified phone system provides unprecedented simplicity to today's small office market.”

Aksys Networks Inc.