Taiko Electric Works, Ltd. has teamed up with Fusion Communications Corporation as a device partner to offer telephone terminals for use with Fusion's IP subscriber telephone service, FUSION IP-Phone. The Tokyo-based manufacturer of communications and information equipment announced on December 18 the release of the "Solvonet Series BR" all-in-one business phone with built-in broadband router that is compatible with FUSION IP-Phone.

The Fusion Service Partner Alliance is a policy that Fusion has adopted to expand the IP telephone market based on an "open ISP" and "open vendor" approach. The Solvonet Series of business phones comprises three types: Solvonet-EX and Solvonet-S models for small office/home office (SOHO) environments and small businesses; and the Solvonet-M model for medium-sized businesses. Taiko Electric's new Solvonet Series BR model was developed as a low-cost, high-performance business phone to expand corporate use of IP telephone services based on Fusion's "open vendor" concept.

(*1) Abbreviation for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, an Internet standard protocol that allows IP addresses to be assigned dynamically when a client connects and pooled when a client disconnects.