Companies in the indirect technology sales channel homed in on security and unified communications offerings last month.

Although SD-WAN, cloud and even blockchain comprised some of the technologies vendors and master agents introduced in April, nothing was hotter than security and UCaaS. CenturyLink praised how Level 3 has helped it consolidate security resources, Sprint introduced a unified communications platform, and CoreDial proclaimed that it is taking on the “big boys” in UCaaS.

The Channel Partners Conference & Expo was the catalyst for some of the new releases.

Scroll through the gallery below to read about 12 significant new products or services, either brand-new or available to a wider group of partners for the first time.

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8x8

8×8 launched its new X Series, which brings together separate unified communications (UC), conferencing, team collaboration and contact-center platforms with eight different options available to any given customer.

Jeffrey Schwartz wrote that the announcement represents "the latest effort among traditional customer premises equipment (CPE) PBX suppliers and VoIP telephony service providers to tap into advances in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to unify currently separate components."