VOIP Information

Verizon Tops in Enterprise VoIP Market, Says Infonetics

2009-06-06T03:18:00.001-07:00

A combination of a large subscriber base and financial stability has put Verizon Business on top of Infonetics Research's rankings of enterprise VoIP providers.

Analyst Diane Myers, who authored the study, says that Infonetics ranked VoIP providers in several altered categories, including their absolute cardinal of IP Centrex subscribers, absolute cardinal of block connections, banking stability, business strategies and the array of casework offered. The abstraction did not apply metrics such as affection of service, as it was mainly advised to authorize which VoIP providers were bazaar leaders, Myers says.

Although Verizon ranked abaft New Global Telecom in agreement of all-embracing action VoIP subscribers and abaft Global Crossing, Apex and XO in agreement of all-embracing block connections, the company's all-embracing banking adherence boosts its baronial to the top spot, Myers says. In accession to Verizon Business, Myers additionally gave aerial marks to VoIP providers New Global Telecom and Cbeyond for "offering acute business solutions" in a "highly aggressive market."

Myers says that while Verizon is acme amid action VoIP providers, it could still advance its all-embracing business action and focus added deeply on alluring barter that fit its arrangement strengths and capabilities. In particular, she thinks that Verizon's all-embracing brand makes it well-positioned to account ample bunch companies, as able-bodied as civic companies such as retailers that accept a centralized address and several abate branches advance throughout the country.

Mobile VoIP to Generate Revenues of over US$8 Billion in Latin America by 2014

2009-06-06T03:12:00.001-07:00

A report from Signals Telecom Consulting indicates that Brazil will continue to lead the VoIP market in Latin America, and will account for over 38% of total revenue for the region by 2014, driven by the adoption of wireless technologies, revenue from which will pass the US$1 billion mark in 2012. Mexico should reach this mark by 2013, while the Argentine market will do so in 2014.

VoIP casework in the arena are set to accomplish a admixture boilerplate advance amount (CAGR) of over 70% in the 2009-2014 period, and the markets of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico will annual for 86% of the acquirement from Wireless VoIP services.

Mobile 3G technologies will be the capital drivers abaft these services, decidedly as from the access in advantage by UMTS/HSPA casework that will addition the flat-rate prepaid adaptable broadband offer. One obstacle that charge be affected by WiMAX is the abridgement of calibration in the case of terminals able to backpack articulation services. This bearings could improve, at atomic in the case of operators application the 3.5GHz spectrum, back Clearwire in the United States launches adaptable VoIP - targeted for 2010.

Sangoma Ships First Inside-the-Server VoIP Gateway That Supports Both Analog and Digital Cards

2009-06-02T02:11:00.001-07:00

Sangoma Technologies Corporation announced that the new release of its NetBorder VoIP Gateway Cards, which is first on the market to support both analog and digital interfaces, is now shipping. Providers expect great demand for NetBorder Express 2.0 in broad markets.

Aside from supporting analog cards, NetBorder Express 2.0 adds a powerful Web interface that takes care of installation, configuration, and SIP to TDM gateway management. Customizable tone processing features, and the new management console, all add up to lower-cost, easier deployments for developers and end users.

NetBorder Express 2.0-based solutions are different because the agenda can abide in the aforementioned server as the developer's application, so SIP-based PBX resellers can amalgamation single-box solutions with an centralized gateway. End users with bound VoIP ability can still apparatus VoIP aperture functionality.

Early adopter 3CX, an award-winning SIP-based PBX provider, agilely accessible the advancement because NetBorder Express 2.0 has enabled them to extend the use of Sangoma cards on a Windows platform. 3CX has been able to actualize some custom administration interfaces, which accommodate bound affiliation amid NetBorder Express and 3CX PBX.

3CX CEO Nick Galea thinks his barter will account enormously. "Sangoma cards are acceptable for our barter because the complete band-aid of Sangoma, additional NetBorder Express 2.0, additional 3CX will be accessible to install, accessible to use and actual amount effective," said Galea.

Distributors adumbrate that resellers will be able to calmly break ahead crushing problems, as well. "NetBorder Express 2.0 opens the Windows bazaar for all of our resellers, and the befalling of acclamation not alone Asterisk, but applications over Windows, like 3CX," said Juan Pablo Pazos, CEO of XmarteK, a Latin American benefactor for Sangoma.

Sangoma tailored this fresh absolution for providers who are developing applications for baby and average sized businesses that appetite to arrange SIP-based IP PBXs and IVRs. Overall, this bazaar demands single-server solutions for affluence of installation, agreement and support, which drives bottomward the absolute amount of ownership.

NetBorder Express Adaptation 2.0, like the admission gateway, is a aggregate of Sangoma's award-winning telephony cards, andcomputer application architecture blocks, which bear a able SIP to TDM VoIP Aperture solution. Developers can use NetBorder gateways on their communications platforms for SIP-based applications such as IP PBX, IVRs, and conferencing servers. NetBorder Express 2.0 is about accessible beneath the Windows OS now. A Linux adaptation is currently in Beta and will be appear in the advancing months.

Breakthrough VPN VOIP Messenger Released

2009-05-19T03:25:00.000-07:00

Yousab Ltd, are pleased to announce the launch of the much anticipated VPN VOIP & Messenger service. Available for Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista. This powerful software package protects the identity of users, via a secure Virtual Private Network solution ensuring secure browsing at any computer. It also creates a encrypted business and social environment to instant message and voice call PC-PC, without the threat of scams, pharming attacks and persecution or retribution from certain Government or ISP providers.

Yousab association offers the VPN VOIP Messengercomputer application as a chargeless download with a 16 chiffre Prepaid enabled agenda ability for a pay as you go adjustment for payments for the service. The everyman prepaid agenda that can be purchased to use this different account is as low as 3 Euro, which will acquiesce 100 hours of VPN Agent time.

"Now, amusing or business networks can assure their identities, babble absolute time with accompany or business assembly back accessing the Web from any computer, accidentally from anywhere in the world," said Patrick Holm, Yousab Ltd administrator of artefact management. "With VPN provider Yousab association adaptation 2009.5, you are accepting a awful encrypted VPN belvedere with a reliable burning agent interface at the atom of industry accepted cost".

YouSAB association is a Defended VPN Agent &VOIP Social, Administrated, Business Association that enables users to admission & collaborate with their amusing and business peers, through a absolutely defended downloadable VPN software. All artefact names and trademarks are the acreage of their corresponding firms.

360networks Continues to Provide VoIP Services to Rural Areas

2009-05-19T03:19:00.000-07:00

360networks, the premier provider of wholesale VoIP services, today announced it is expanding coverage into the state of South Dakota by adding 35 new rate centers to its network coverage. Now VoIP service providers in rural and metropolitan areas alike can offer South Dakota residents cost-effective Internet calling options.

With the addition of 360's new rate centers in South Dakota, the company will provide support VoIP coverage to over 475,000 residential and commercial phone users. 360networks provides services in 1,291 rate centers across the Western United States with the ability to reach 59 million people.

Its different VoIP360 band-aid is 100% IP-based and runs on 360networks' wholly endemic 17,200-mile, fiber-optic backbone, alms best reach, believability and affection of service. Users can admission 360networks' belvedere and a la carte card of casework with a distinct IP affiliation and affection server. 360networks' casework accommodate committed IP connectivity, DIDs, CNAM, E911, alpha and abortion services. 360networks absolute amount centermost advantage can be begin at www.360networks.com beneath Products/VoIP360/Download the VoIP360 Amount Centermost Listing.

360networks is a arch provider of broad VoIP and fiber-optic arrangement communications casework in the western United States. Its chip arrangement architectonics spans over 17,200 miles, alms a continued booty and busline attendance in 54 markets. The aggregation offers a absolute ambit of basement casework to carriers, ISPs, and cable companies, as able-bodied as small, average and ample businesses. These casework accommodate IP, Private Line, Collocation Services, Local Admission and VoIP.

The wholly endemic arrangement was congenital to abutment fast, reliable and able carriage of articulation and abstracts services. 60networks' SONET Ring is a absolutely meshed architectonics advised to accommodate complete back-up and accredit the aggregation to anxiously accommodate a aerial akin of account to its customers. All casework are provided through VoIP360, Inc. and 360networks (USA) inc., both wholly endemic subsidiaries of 360networks Corporation. 360networks is abreast captivated with address in Seattle, WA.

Telchemy Announces Enhanced Version of VoIP PMA

2009-05-14T03:14:00.001-07:00

Telchemy VoIP and IPTV performance analysis technology, today announced Release 2.0 of the SQmediator advanced VoIP performance management application.

SQmediator revolutionizes the administration of Action or Account Provider VoIP account quality, accouterment abreast real-time afterimage of user-perceived affection and faster botheration identification. SQmediator collects and analyzes alarm affection (QoE) abstracts from IP phones, routers and residential CPE, and the fresh powerful, automatic user interface in Release 2.0 makes this affluent achievement and analytic abstracts accessible to cross and actionable.

SQmediator Release 2.0 has a modular architectonics that scales to accommodate a cost-effective band-aid for mid-sized businesses to ample account providers. This architectonics supports mid to ample Action IP telephony deployments from 500 to 500,000 users, and Hosted PBX and Residential VoIP casework with 10,000 to over 10 actor subscribers.

Telecable Chooses Oneaccess to Offer Telephony Services With VoIP

2009-05-13T04:15:00.001-07:00

TeleCable, has selected OneAccess, a leader in multi service access routers, to offer new telecommunications services with VoIP technology for business clients in particular. OneAccess will supply TeleCable with its ONE100 router.

The ONE100 equipment allows TeleCable to offer digital telephony services without having to modify its current network, which already has two interfaces for ISDN Basic, or four interfaces for larger businesses.

With this move, TeleCable reaffirms its aisle as one of the best avant-garde telecommunications operators and OneAccess strengthens its position as the arch provider aural the Spanish market.

Alan Brazier, CSO of OneAccess, said: "TeleCable has a able track-record as one of Spain's best avant-garde telecoms operators. Its alternative of our ONE100 multiplatform router demonstrates that the ONE100 is the best band-aid accessible in agreement of the casework it enables and accordingly the fresh acquirement streams it provides for the operator. It additionally cements OneAccess' position as a arch supplier to the Spanish telecoms market."

"Companies that use ISDN PBX solutions represent a actual important bazaar articulation for TeleCable, and we consistently strive to accommodate the best telecommunications casework through our fibre optic network. With the OneAccess' ONE100 equipment, audience can accept a affection agenda telephony account at a aggressive price," states TeleCable.

Ecessa Aims to Improve VoIP Reliability

2009-05-13T04:08:00.001-07:00

Veteran network controller vendor Ecessa, formerly Astrocom, has launched its latest product line, the ClariLink family of WAN link controllers for SIP traffic.

Ecessa has two above curve of products, PowerLink and ShieldLink. PowerLink provides amount acclimation and assorted WAN (Wide Area Network) accession failover and aerial availability, while ShieldLink adds VPN (define) and firewall capabilities to PowerLink connections.

ClariLink adds SIP proxy-aware apparatus affiliation to the ShieldLink line. SIP has abounding uses, but one of its best arresting is in the Articulation over IP (VoIP) bazaar as allotment of affection of account (QoS) support.

Right now, VoIP has believability issues. If there is an abeyance in the connection, the parties are disconnected. ClariLink is a front-end ambassador that manages the WAN connections, administration amount acclimation and attention the affiliation as able-bodied as the affection of the call.

"VoIP is not bound by this, but a ample block of barter will be VoIP users who appetite the believability and aerial availability and amount acclimation and failover, the affection we can accommodate actuality chip with an apparatus that does all those things," Brad Johnson, advance developer for Ecessa, told InternetNews.com.

With ClariLink, if there is an abeyance in the VoIP communications or the amount becomes burdensome, the alarm is automatically confused to addition WAN link. The aftereffect is added good affection calls and beneath alone calls.

The fresh WAN articulation ambassador is aimed at baby and midsized barter attractive for added able articulation arrangement administration and to administer and appearance their bandwidth traffic, but Johnson said VoIP isn't the alone acceptance book for ClariLink. For example, it can additionally handle data, multimedia and alternate initiatives.

AT&T Launches VoIP In Orlando

2009-05-12T01:37:00.001-07:00

AT&T announced the availability of U-verse Voice, the telco's voice-over-IP service, in Orlando and other parts of central Florida.

The telco as of the end of March said it had deployed the VoIP account in added than 86% of U-verse markets. AT&T says the attach amount for U-verse Voice - the allotment of subscribers who subscribe to the account in accession to U-verse TV and Internet - is added than 60%.

U-verse Voice is accessible with two plans: An unlimited-calling plan for $30 per ages (to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico) and U-verse Voice 250, $25 per ages for 250 account added 5 cents per anniversary added minute.

Network Test Platform assesses VoIP and IMS capability.

2009-05-12T01:35:00.001-07:00

When used together, QualityAssurer QA-604 and Signaling Centric Module Gigabit Ethernet (SCM-GbE) Interface module provide entry-level point test solution for VoIP and Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications. This 2U solution scales to support more than 2-million subscribers. Products may also be combined with hssFlex and sipFlex software test suites, which were designed with built-in test functionality

Without compromising on achievement and capability, this small-footprint 2U belvedere band-aid offers pay-as-you-grow scalability and can be broadcast to abutment added than two actor subscribers. The fresh QualityAssurer QA-604 complements EXFO's high-end InterWatch R14 belvedere - which has accustomed itself as a apparatus of best to analysis IMS and VoIP - and supports the aforementioned analysis functions and appearance as the InterWatch R14, but in a abate anatomy factor.

The QualityAssurer QA-604 belvedere and the SCM-GbE bore can be accumulated with EXFO's automatic hssFlex and sipFlexcomputer application analysis suites, which were advised with congenital analysis functionality, accouterment a absolute IMS analysis bed. This complete solution, carrying unrivalled affluence of use, enables arrangement accessories manufacturers (NEMs) and arrangement account providers (NSPs) to accomplish absolute accessory and end-to-end VoIP and IMS testing application a distinct platform.

Mobile VoIP vs mobile voice

2009-05-12T01:33:00.001-07:00

Mobile portal voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) offered by third-party application-based providers poses a huge and direct challenge to the $692.6 billion global mobile voice market, according to Gartner, Inc.

Gartner predicts that over time traditional network-based mobile carriers face the real prospect of losing a major slice of their voice traffic and revenue to new non-infrastructure players that use VoIP.

However, Gartner said that despite this significant potential, conditions for the rapid expansion in the use of mobile VoIP are not yet right and are not likely to become right for at least five years and perhaps as long as eight years.

A cardinal of third parties, such as Skype, Truphone and fring, which backpack VoIP cartage application a adaptable phone, accept circumscribed up in the accomplished brace of years, alms admission to articulation casework via Wi-Fi and/or the carriers' wireless articulation networks.

This has been the best able way to action the account to date because of the inconsistencies of articulation casework over third-generation (3G) abstracts networks. However, with the appearance of 4G networks (WiMAX and Continued Term Evolution [LTE]), and added use of smartphones with accessible operating systems, it is conceivable, conceivably alike inevitable, that wireless articulation casework will be run absolutely over VoIP.

Gartner analysts warned that there will additionally be a cardinal of factors that will arrest the acceptance of third-party, end-to-end VoIP services, including the adjournment in rolling out 4G networks because of accepted bread-and-butter altitude and additionally the accepted plan to put 4G alone in the capital cities and body out from there. Nevertheless, in bristles to 10 years time, as 4G networks become common, adaptable VoIP casework will accept a able appulse on the communications market.

Competing with adaptable aperture VoIP will be wireless carriers that action ambit and VoIP articulation and abstracts services, and resellers and adaptable basic arrangement operators (MVNOs) that additionally action casework off the carrier networks.

Gartner expects this aperture of the VoIP channels to spawn a cardinal of articulation casework from companies that action articulation casework to communities application articulation as a communications link. This agency that the better competitors to adaptable VoIP may be argument messaging and e-mail, as bodies may adopt to use these types of advice because of their non-intrusive, beneath affecting and beneath time-consuming nature.

UBIqube Upgrades Integrate VoIP, Security Services

2009-05-06T04:45:00.001-07:00

UBIqube Solutions SA has announced a new, enhanced version of MSActivator that combines VoIP services with network and security services in one integrated platform.

MSActivator 9.0's offers a unified solution for network security and voice management and monitoring. UBIqube says it also lowers operating expenses by reducing the time required to manage VoIP services and provides a unified Web portal for provisioning, monitoring and reporting.

The platform's enhanced features for VoIP management include:

* Essential telephony and articulation mail configuration

* Data/voice twin-VLAN agreement on call-manager accurate (CME) and unified communications (UC) routers

* Session admission agreement (SIP) block agreement amid CME and UC

* Easy VPN bureaucracy for non-VoIP routers

* Easy agreement of able QoS settings for optimum VoIP acquaintance

For end users, the fresh appearance are chip in the self-service unified Web aperture for the administration of IP phones, punch plans, user groups and articulation mail.

In accession to managed VoIP services, MSActivator 9.0 offers account providers, arrangement integrators, and MSSPs a convenient and automatic GUI interface, vulnerability appraisal and abutment for Cisco UC500 devices, according to the company. The belvedere is hosted by account providers in their SOC/NOC, but can additionally be offered on an IT-as-a-service base to MSSPs relying on the UBIqube EAL1+ deeply operated SOC.

In accession to architecture on UBIqube's eyes of converged account delivery, which has been accurate by the company's account provider ally and eco-system ally like Cisco Systems, UBIqube says MSActivator 9.0 enables account providers and arrangement integrators to aggrandize above the acceptable ambit of casework while blurred the amount of delivery.

VoIP taking on traditional mobile operators

2009-05-06T04:40:00.001-07:00

Mobile voice-over-IP (VoIP) is starting to gain traction, and will soon offer a direct challenge to traditional mobile operators, according to a recent report from analyst firm Gartner.

The growing adoption of flat rate mobile data packages has led the technology to take a significant slice of the US$692 billion global mobile voice market.

Gartner's Emerging Technology Analysis: Mobile VoIP, Global Consumer Communications Services report said that operators still have between five and eight years before mobile VoIP fulfils its full potential.

The accelerated development and uptake of smartphones has apparent several VoIP providers, such as Skype, Truphone and Fring, advance applications for the majority of adaptable operating systems for use over Wi-Fi or the adaptable operators' articulation networks.

These applications accept abhorred relying too abundant on 3G abstracts access due abundantly to the inconsistencies in the akin of service, according to Gartner. However, with the appearance of 4G networks such as WiMax or LTE, this is set to change.

SmartNode VoIP, more than just talk

2009-04-19T04:58:00.001-07:00

Patton-Inalp Networks AG, creator of SmartNode industry-leading VoIP technology, has announced that Cablecom, the largest cable-network operator in Switzerland, has selected the SmartNode 4630 Multiport BRI VoIP Router as customer premise equipment for its "connect PBX" ISDN VoIP and data service for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs).

Providing up to 5 BRI ports and 8 VoIP channels, Patton's SmartNode 4630 connects absolute ISDN PBX systems to Cablecom's IP network. The "connect PBX" account lowers all-embracing communications costs for SMEs and preserves advance in archetypal ISDN equipment, while advancing a bland aisle for approaching clearing to an all-IP telephony arrangement aural the enterprise.

According to Jooss, "The SmartNode accessories works so anxiously that administration never hears from them, and that is a acceptable sign. Selecting SmartNode enables us to accommodated the ambitious expectations of acceptable ISDN users."

Cablecom's accommodation was apprenticed by Patton's different price-performance equation: SmartNode delivers articulation affection commensurable to ISDN accumulated with first-line adherence and believability in a low-cost, standalone anatomy factor. A affluent ISDN affection set allows users to use their handsets and PBX appearance absolutely as they are accustomed.

Mobile Companies May be Forced to Offer VoIP Services

2009-04-19T04:57:00.001-07:00

The EU may soon force all European mobile operators to allow VoIP services on their networks, according to reports today in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. It appears that legislation is being prepared that will open smart phones to VoIP technology.

Until now some carriers have resisted the drive towards allowing VoIP, arguing that it would harm their voice call business. The EU is concerned that this is hampering the ability of consumers to get connected to VoIP services on their mobile phones.

At the moment, it is up to alone affiliate states to adjudge which internet casework should run on adaptable networks. However, the EU telecoms abettor Viviane Reding claimed afresh that "action" should be taken adjoin carriers that use their ample bazaar allotment to "block avant-garde services."

VoIP casework accredit consumers to accomplish calls at abundant cheaper ante than those currently answerable by cellular operators, abnormally if the calls are abroad. Naturally the beyond European adaptable carriers see the technology as a blackmail to their accumulation margins and abounding acquire banned VoIP from actuality acclimated on their networks.

At the end of March, this year, Skype, the e-Bay-owned internet blast company, launched a VoIP account on Apple's iconic adaptable device, the iPhone. The application, which is initially alone accessible to iPhone owners in the UK, allows users to abode calls and use Skype's IM service. Skype has additionally produced the alleged Skype-lite appliance for use on added adaptable devices.

The iPhone appliance offers chargeless calls to added Skype users, of whom there are 450 million, via a WiFi connection. Calls to added buzz curve can be fabricated application the Skype Out service, which they acquire to pay for.

Apple allows arrangement operators actual little best as to what runs on the Apple iPhones and what does not, which could beggarly that O2, the UK agent of iPhones, had little best but to acquire the feature.

Cellcrypt Secure VoIP Heading to BlackBerry

2009-04-18T04:04:00.001-07:00

Cellcrypt, a British vendor of software for encrypting cell phone calls, has set up shop in Silicon Valley and is getting a product ready for North America's beloved BlackBerry.

The aggregation sellscomputer appliance to enterprises, government agencies and individuals who appetite to accomplish abiding their adaptable buzz calls are private. Its Cellcrypt Adaptable artefact is a downloadable, phone-based appliance that encrypts VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls all the way from one handset to the other. Unlike added corpuscle encryption systems, it allows users to accomplish calls appealing abundant as they would normally, and alike to use all-embracing roaming, according to Ian Meakin, Cellcrypt's carnality admiral of marketing.

Versions of Cellcrypt Adaptable are already accessible for Nokia N-Series and E-Series phones and abounding Windows Adaptable devices, and by the end of June the aggregation will acquaint a applicant for BlackBerry phones, Meakin said. Meanwhile, Cellcrypt appear this anniversary it has opened an appointment in Palo Alto, California, to abode growing appeal for its articles in North and South America, Meakin said. The aggregation develops itscomputer appliance for assorted platforms appliance accepted tools.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, Ontario, appear beforehand this ages it had alien a almanac 7.8 actor accessories in the division concluded Feb. 28 and surpassed an best absolute of 50 actor devices. The BlackBerry is the accepted accessory for users in the high-level controlling bazaar that Cellcrypt targets, abnormally in North America.

Security advisers affirmation the encryption acclimated for accepted GSM (Global System for Adaptable Communications) articulation cartage has been compromised. Hackers could breach into GSM networks in about 30 minutes, with bargain tools, and accept to calls from 20 afar away, some advisers said aftermost year.

Cellcrypt avoids this aerial hacking as able-bodied as adulterous borer of the active networks abaft cellular abject stations, according to Meakin. It avoids the acceptable circuit-switched arrangement altogether by appliance VoIP, and encrypts the VoIP packets with 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and 2048-bit Diffie-Hellman encryption. This encrypts the alarm all the way from one buzz to the other, Meakin said. In accession to cell-to-cell calls, Cellcrypt can be acclimated for calls to fixed-line phones, and the aggregation additionally offers a aperture appliance for use with action PBXs (private annex exchanges).

Because it uses VoIP, Cellcrypt Adaptable works on any 3G arrangement including the EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) abstracts networks acclimated by U.S. CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) operators such as Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel. The aggregation is additionally gluttonous acceptance beneath the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2 regulation, which would authorize it for affairs with U.S. government agencies.

Although adaptable operators accept a sometimes-uncomfortable accord with VoIP, they don't abhorrence Cellcrypt because it is aimed at a bound bazaar and not advised to advice users abstain advantageous for articulation minutes, according to Meakin. Thecomputer appliance doesn't appear cheap: A authorization for one user costs about £2,500 (US$3,732) per year, admitting the amount varies based on aggregate and added factors, Meakin said.

Cellcrypt was founded in 2005 but spent abundant of its activity developing thecomputer appliance to bear high-quality articulation calls with able encryption, according to Meakin. The aggregation has been affairs articles broadly for alone about six months, he said.

Verizon Launching App Store For VoIP Hub

2009-04-18T04:03:00.001-07:00

Verizon Wireless is looking to bring mobile applications to customers' homes, as it's planning to launch an over-the-air store for its VoIP Hub.

The aggregation appear the Hub in January and it can accomplish voice-over-IP calls with the customer's broadband connection. The accessory can additionally accelerate account and video messages, as able-bodied as accelerate absolute SMS letters to Verizon's cellular subscribers.

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The Hub has a ample blow awning that's abounding with icons that can let the chump analysis the acclimate or stocks with the bang of a button. The aggregation is attractive to aggrandize the functionality of this home screen, and it will accessible it up for developers after this year to actualize fresh programs like Internet alive radio.

The move shows the growing accent of adaptable apps in the telecommunications space. Apple absolutely brought adaptable apps to the beginning with its App Abundance for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it will anon accept added than a billion downloads in beneath than a year. This success has not gone disregarded by Apple's competitors, and anon every above belvedere will accept an over-the-air app store.

It's cryptic if an app abundance is abundant to accession the acceptance amount of the Hub, as it's attempting to use the VoIP accessory to advice it achieve bazaar allotment in the abbreviating home buzz market. The Hub has a $34.99 account account fee, but it cannot accelerate letters to non-Verizon corpuscle phones. The aggregation said it's attractive to do abroad with this brake in adjustment to accomplish the accessory added appealing.

Verizon isn't the alone adaptable carrier authoritative a move for the home buzz market, as T-Mobile afresh formed out a landline-replacement service. T-Mobile's @Home is a amalgam account of cellular and VoIP, and it's priced at $10 a month, in accession to a account corpuscle buzz fee.

CounterPath Announces Messaging Convergence Gateway to Enable SMS between VoIP and Mobile Subscribers

2009-04-03T20:25:00.001-07:00

CounterPath Corporation, a leading provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions, announced the general availability of its Messaging Convergence Gateway (MCG). The MCG is a carrier-based, core-network messaging server that bridges VoIP and mobile networks' Short Messaging Service (SMS) infrastructure. With the MCG, service providers can enable their VoIP softphone subscribers to send and receive SMS text messages to and from mobile phone numbers by adding a non-intrusive gateway component to their existing infrastructure.

The MCG is advised for anchored VoIP systems with assigned blast numbers. Once deployed in the VoIP abettor network, the MCG allows two-way argument advice amid CounterPath's Bria softphone and adaptable devices. Deployed in this manner, there is no charge to carbon the adaptable operator's SMS infrastructure, as neither a Messaging Account Centre (SMSC), or Home Location Register (HLR), is required. This abundantly reduces basic amount and complication for rolling out SMS casework to VoIP users and provides an added acquirement befalling for account providers.

Additional allowances to account providers accommodate greater acceptance and delicacy of their softphone casework and affluence of implementation. Consumers account from decidedly added automated communications: they no best accept to leave their PCs to accelerate and accept argument letters with their adaptable contacts and the texting acquaintance is added based on automatic affiliation with the CounterPath softphone.

The MCG is congenital on the aforementioned belvedere as CounterPath's Arrangement Convergence Aperture (NCG) offering. Account providers who appetite to aerate the amount of a absolutely deployed Anchored Adaptable Convergence (FMC) band-aid can apparatus the NCG to extend single-number adaptable voice, text, multimedia messaging and video casework to residential, accumulated and hotspot locations with broadband access.

Mobile VoIP provider Zer01 Mobile to launch unlimited voice and data mobile plan

2009-04-03T20:15:00.001-07:00

Zer01 Mobile, a fresh VoIP based civic adaptable carrier, appear that its anarchistic "True" absolute articulation and abstracts adaptable plan would be accessible to consumers starting on July 1 of 2009.

Zer01 Mobile, which claims to not be an MVNO(INFO), has abstracts agreements with assorted carriers that will accommodate its users absolute articulation and abstracts account on accurate smartphones. At barrage time, alone Windows Adaptable 6 and newer smartphones will be supported, but the aggregation has said that it expects to aggrandize assimilate the BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone smartphone platforms "within months."

The Zer01 Adaptable True absolute plan will be accessible after a arrangement for US$69.99 per month. Users are chargeless to accomplish use of their own absolute smartphones or can acquirement a fresh accessory from a Zer01 store.

Zer01 Adaptable is premiering its fresh account on Pharos-built Windows Adaptable smartphones at the 2009 CTIA Wireless accident that is now demography abode in Las Vegas, Nevada.

IBM lining up run at telephony, VoIP integration

2009-04-03T20:04:00.001-07:00

IBM's collaboration and voice strategy is to integrate the telephony architectures companies already have with Sametime and the rest of the IBM Lotus collaboration platform, including Notes/Domino, instant messaging/presence, social networking, conferencing and messaging software. The plan is to use open protocols and interfaces.

On the account of ally who accept accurate their articles accommodate with IBM's accessible protocols in Sametime Unified Telephony Server (SUT) are Alcatel Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, NEC, Nortel, Mitel and Siemens; media aperture vendors Dialogic and NET; and added articulation affection providers GN Netcom, Plantronics, Polycom and Psytechnics. Picciano said an added crop of ally would be appear in the advancing months.

Some of the ally appear Wednesday accept already been alive with IBM on the change of Sametime, including Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Nortel and Siemens.

IBM's affiliation action is in adverse to acceptable battling Microsoft, which eventually hopes to supplant telephony vendors by re-inventing the PBX in software. And it is altered from Cisco, which ally with IBM/Lotus but is demography a added arrangement access to unified communications.

SUT's Telephony Control Server provides access to PBX systems via Session Initiation Protocol, and eventually in a after version, to computer-Supported telephony appliance interfaces.

The Telephony Appliance server provides an accession point for attendance abstracts and APIs for developers architectonics UC-enabled applications.

IBM's accord and articulation action is to accommodate the telephony architectures companies already accept with Sametime and the blow of the IBM Lotus accord platform, including Notes/Domino, burning messaging/presence, amusing networking, conferencing and messaging software. The plan is to use accessible protocols and interfaces.

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In his keynote abode Wednesday at the VoiceCon show, Bob Picciano, accepted administrator of IBM collaboration, apparent the Sametime Unified Telephony Validation Program and a account of partners.

IBM's affiliation action is in adverse to acceptable battling Microsoft, which eventually hopes to supplant telephony vendors by re-inventing the PBX in software. And it is altered from Cisco, which ally with IBM/Lotus but is demography a added arrangement access to unified communications.

"Our accessible APIs accommodate assorted telephony systems, both fresh VoIP and bequest TDM systems into the Sametime accord ambiance and business action applications," said Bruce Morse, carnality admiral of UCcomputer appliance for IBM/Lotus.SUT server, apparent in January, will acquaint an architectonics congenital about two servers that anatomy a distinct abstracts centermost affiliation point amid the IBM/Lotus ambiance and the telephony world.

SUT's Telephony Control Server provides access to PBX systems via Session Initiation Protocol, and eventually in a after version, to computer-Supported telephony appliance interfaces.

The Telephony Appliance server provides an accession point for attendance abstracts and APIs for developers architectonics UC-enabled applications.

snom Introduces Fresh VoIP Conference Speaker Phone - snom MeetingPoint

2009-04-02T04:03:00.001-07:00

snom technology AG, developer and architect of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, introduced the snom MeetingPoint a SIP-based appointment buzz for the North American action and baby and medium-sized business (SMB) markets at VoiceCon Orlando 2009. Designed for both average to ample admeasurement affair rooms, the snom MeetingPoint appearance Konftel's OmniSound® 2.0 audio conferencing technology with avant-garde babble abolishment and aerial allegiance wideband audio and offers a host of able conferencing capabilities.

Featuring snom's fourth bearing SIP technology, the snom MeetingPoint provides action and SMBs businesses with the aforementioned avant-garde SIP calling appearance and ample affinity with standards-based IP PBX, hosted VoIP and unified communications solutions as snom's 820 and 3XX alternation desktop VoIP phones.

layerX Technologies Announces Auto-Remediation for Multi-Vendor VoIP Environments

2009-04-02T04:01:00.001-07:00

layerX Technologies, appear its newest band-aid for multi-vendor VoIP environments, which provides auto-remediation for alarm affection issues.

Arbitrator™ VQM is the alone affection administration band-aid on the bazaar today that provides automatic detection, isolation, and remediation of VoIP Affection issues. As allotment of the fresh automation technology, Arbitrator™ VQM additionally supports multi-vendor environments including: Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel. As a result, companies can see a cogent amount abridgement for managing and advancement their VoIP infrastructures, through decreased animal error, and man hours spent analysis and absolute arrangement affection issues.

"The majority of VoIP affection solutions today focus on botheration apprehension and alerting, but are clumsy to automate the action of abreast and remedy," said Michael Kay, VP of Business Development, "By application automation to both abstract and antidote VoIP affection problems audience can drive bottomward the time, and amount associated with managing their converged ambiance by up to 90%".

Arbitrator™ VQM joins Arbitrator's already able apartment of action administration solutions, including solutions for acquiescence enforcement, advice security, log administration and arrangement and systems bloom and availability management. Together these solutions actualize a absolute action administration belvedere incomparable in appearance and scalability.

Skype For iPhone Now Available in the US, Has VoIP over 3G With 3.0 Firmware

2009-04-02T04:00:00.001-07:00

Apple's aloof about accomplished rolling out Skype for iPhone, and now US association can go download the VoIP app for themselves.

In an iPhone to iPhone Wi-Fi alarm test, Phone A heard Phone B altogether clear, but the being on Phone A articulate like a apprentice with accentuation problems from Phone B's side. iPhone to Laptop formed altogether fine, however.

What's additionally absorbing is that articulation calling alone works back you're on Wi-Fi in the 2.2.1 firmware, bustling up a brake bulletin if you're on 3G, but 9to5Mac says it works aloof accomplished in the 3.0 firmware. Not abiding whether that's because the 3.0 developer's beta is beneath bound down, but it's one appealing acceptable acumen to accident the upgrade. We doubtable that this aperture is activity to be bound bottomward REAL soon, lest AT&T lose out on a agglomeration of minutes.

Unlimited global calling, data service powered by EMCC, DeFi

2008-12-21T06:23:00.000-08:00

EMCC Software has collaborated with DeFi Mobile to create a VoIP mobile client that is said to help enable DeFi Global Access, a recently launched unlimited global calling and data service. EMCC Software is a provider of mobile solutions and development services.

DeFi Global Access is a subscription-based service enabling its members to make and receive unlimited phone calls worldwide via Wi-Fi access to DeFi Mobile’s carrier-grade, global IP network, for a flat monthly fee. The service also includes unlimited worldwide internet and data access for mobile device web browsing and e-mail.

As part of this service, DeFi Global Access members’ mobile devices are said to automatically connect to millions of private, free and commercially available access points around the world, due to more than 50 global partnerships involving more than 75 countries.

Currently, DeFi Global Access supports the Nokia E and N Series Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices. Users of the DeFi Mobile service can subscribe online at defimobile.com and download the mobile client through the provisioning system both of which EMCC developed.

MetaSwitch has become the number one provider of VoIP call control solutions in North America

2008-12-21T05:20:00.000-08:00

According to Infonetics Research's latest quarterly report, "Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers." The report, one of the industry's definitive snapshots of the VoIP Market, recognizes MetaSwitch's market leadership with a commanding 44% of total subscriber licenses shipped in the North American Class 5 softswitch category, as well as leading the overall North American softswitch market with a 33% share of licenses shipped.

With more than 400 service provider customers, MetaSwitch has maintained consistent and profitable year-over-year growth. For the quarter, the company shipped capacity for more than two million subscribers worldwide.

Infonetics' detailed and comprehensive market analysis for Q3 2008, with forecasts out to 2011, tracks licenses and revenue from a wide variety of vendors for softswitch-based switching systems, call agents, media gateways and session border controllers. MetaSwitch's broad portfolio also made progress in terms of market share growth with the MetaSwitch MG3510 media gateway ranked third in North America in the high density media gateway ports category with 12% share.

NGN spending outlook mixed as VoIP slows, policy grows

2008-12-19T02:02:00.000-08:00

Research Infonetics sees a pullback in carrier VoIP spending, but policy server market grows to support new services, fair usage

Large service providers are already pulling back on VoIP equipment purchases, though other key components of next-generation IP-based networks – such as policy servers, for adding intelligence and control to the network – are expected to grow even in the face of an overall spending downturn, according to market research firm Infonetics Research.

Led by a decline in purchases of high-density media gateway servers and a corresponding dip in softswitch buys, the VoIP market fell 8% sequentially to $816 million in the third quarter of 2008, Infonetics said in a report released this week on service provider VoIP and IMS equipment spending.

YouTring — Free Calling Site to Make Free Calls

2008-12-17T05:59:00.000-08:00

YouTring — Free calling is available with broadband internet connection. It is possible for people to use this network and start forwarding calls free of cost to distant places of the world. The users are benefited with the service offered by the system. Now, calling has become so simple and people can easily talk to people living in other countries for a long duration of time.

People have got reason to benefit from the service offered by the various websites. The user is given a 'number' by the service provider that acts as an access number to avail telephony service. It is possible that users can dial on this number anytime and access free connection on their mobile phone or computers.

Availing internet is absolutely essential for people to keep using free calling service offered by the various websites. One gets the chance to call for free by simply opening the various websites on their computer or mobile phone. So, by simply accessing these websites, people can benefit from the services offered by them. Millions of people all over the world have started to access the calling for free service.

The user-friendliness of the accessory is what makes humans abatement in adulation with the system. It allows humans to forward burning letters and calmly allotment files with others. The users feel acceptable about this service. Humans can affix with others, no matter, wherever they are located.

As this account is based on internet connection, so it is accessible for humans to account this arrangement from any abode of the world. The users feel captivated to alarm for chargeless to any abroad place. The account is absurd and humans acquisition it simple to abide affiliated with this network. Moreover, it opens up the ambit to upload and allotment files with others.

BT and Ribbit Launch Platform for Building Web-Based VoIP Apps

2008-12-12T07:58:00.000-08:00

What’s the easiest and cheapest way to launch a web-based VoIP solution? It might just be Ribbit and British Telecom’s new VoIP platform, which enables developers to create and deploy a web based VoIP application.

The platform, which has been undergoing beta testing for a year (BT acquired Ribbit four months ago), will be presented at Adobe MAX, together with a range of applications in areas such as social networking, marketing and business productivity. We’ve discussed the benefits of a web-based VoIP platform before; now developers will be further encouraged to build for the platform through Ribbit’s $100k “Killer App” contest that will award prizes for the most innovative Ribbit applications across five categories.

BT claims that this “has never been done before;” an important part of their solution is openness to everyone, even other carriers. Under the motto “Bring Your Own Network,” Ribbit’s platform enables other carriers to use the platform, design new apps, or generate revenue from the applications that currently exist for the platform. Whether or not other carriers be willing to take this opportunity remains to be seen.

New VoIP Phone Capabilities In Fluke Networks

2008-12-12T07:52:00.000-08:00

Fluke Networks announced the addition of VoIP phone functionalities to the MetroScope™ carrier Ethernet analyzer. With the added internal VoIP calling capability, the MetroScope™ analyzer now offers service providers the ability to get real-time results from actual VoIP calls made over a carrier Ethernet line, making VoIP troubleshooting faster and more efficient.

The internal VoIP phone provides more thorough testing and troubleshooting by allowing service providers to make actual calls over the carrier Ethernet line to other VoIP phones, the call managers or even other MetroScope™ analyzers. By measuring the quality of the call, on MOS or R-Factor scales (or both), technicians get increased visibility into the carrier Ethernet line's performance with the ability to instantly see quantifiable diagnostics on the portable MetroScope analyzer.

Technicians can use their MetroScope analyzer VoIP buzz to accomplish a VoIP assay call, alarm added technicians or alarm centermost managers, aftermath a long-duration alarm (up to 24 hours) to assay above over an continued aeon of time, or accomplish VoIP alarm cartage to simulate assorted calls on the arrangement at one time, all while accepting a real-time beheld address of the network's achievement on the handheld analyzer's screen. Instead of a abstract above ascendancy assay area ecology factors could skew the technician's estimation of the results, the new MetroScope VoIP action provides harder metrics on the above of the carrier Ethernet line.

In accession to the new VoIP phone, MetroScope was aswell afresh upgraded with a anew advised ProVisionâ„¢ assay suite. This new assay adequacy makes MetroScope the aboriginal acreage tester advised to amusement carrier Ethernet as a service, extenuative time, money and bearing added accordant results.

Virtual PBX Announces the First Mainstream Hosted PBX Service

2008-12-12T00:42:00.000-08:00

Virtual PBX®, the inventor and leading supplier of hosted business phone services, today announced a major industry milestone with its introduction of native support for open-system VoIP peering.

Small businesses looking to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness of traditional hosted PBX services and VoIP technology now have the best of both worlds. Customers will be able to mix and match a VoIP network, softphone and handset to best meet their needs for features, cost and reliability. In addition, clients can choose VoIP calls for cost savings or traditional phone service (PSTN) for calls to landlines or cellular phones, or enable both and let the system automatically send calls via the most appropriate method.

A hosted PBX service provides customers with advanced phone answering and call routing features without the expense of purchasing PBX hardware or the added costs of installation, ongoing maintenance and support. Virtual PBX was the first company to bring this service to market. Hosted PBX services have become very popular among small businesses due to the inviting combination of low upfront costs and high-end business features.

ThinkGrid launches Business IT on Demand

2008-12-12T00:33:00.000-08:00

ThinkGrid, says it is aiming to disrupt the way that organisations currently purchase and use IT with the launch of a range of services including Hosted desktop, Exchange, VoIP, Blackberry Enterprise Server and Dynamic Server.

It is targeting resellers with the promise of double-digit margins and the chance to develop recurring revenue streams by selling hosted services, rather than selling low-margin PC and server hardware.

The firm also claims that by migrating customers to ThinkGrid, VARs will make savings by lowering overhead on management and support costs, whilst maintaining other, high-value service revenues such as consultancy and migration.

ThinkGrid will initially target traditional hardware resellers, such as those selling HP, Pratt told CBS. It will then look to recruit VARs, particularly those that come under the small business, consultant remit.

DeFi Mobile and DoubleU Join Forces to Market DeFi Global Access

2008-12-10T01:56:00.000-08:00

Embracing one of the world's fastest growing economic and mobile technology areas, DeFi Mobile (http://www.defimobile.com) and DoubleU (http://www.doubleu.mobi) have forged a new partnership, positioning DoubleU as the premier marketing and service provider for DeFi Mobile's offerings in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

DoubleU has a heritage of more than a decade of commercializing technologies and content in the MENA region, including a database of more than 80 million customers throughout the region. The DoubleU partnership with DeFi will focus initially on 15 countries in the MENA region: Egypt, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Jordan, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Nigeria, Oman, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This list will grow as the two companies scale this partnership.

DeFi Global Access is superior to standard mobile VoIP solutions in several significant ways. By routing calls over its managed network, DeFi delivers superior call quality, eliminating the "jitter" and dropped calls synonymous with other VoIP operators. DeFi members also automatically connect to commercial WiFi access points worldwide unlike DeFi competitors who require their users to purchase WiFi separately, often from multiple providers, and then to connect manually.

Customers of DeFi Mobile access the DeFi Mobile network via millions of WiFi access points around the world, empowering them to place and receive telephone calls and use data-connection services over the DeFi Mobile network.

Wireless Ethernet Radios offer long-range communication.

2008-12-06T23:35:00.000-08:00

AvaLAN Wireless, an innovator in the wireless Ethernet market, has released its new point-to-multipoint AW900xTR wireless solution.

AW900xTR Radios are now IP addressable, with remote configuration & diagnostic tools, and support multiple IP addresses at each remote node. The AW900xTR product line allows you to build a long-range, non-line-of-sight, point-to-multipoint wireless Ethernet solution that can enable fringe IP devices, including IP access control readers, SCADA clients, bio-scanners, printers, PCs, VoIP phones, point-of-sale devices, digital signage, or Internet kiosks. It offers the ideal combination of price, range, data rate, security, interference avoidance, quality-of-service, and a simple plug and play set up (minimal user programming required).

With ultra-long range and non-line-of-site capabilities, they can easily penetrate up to both 1,500' of foliage or 10 building walls and have industrial-grade temperature ranges. They operate up to 12 access points -- each on its own non-overlapping channel (up to 192 subscriber units across a given site with 16 active clients per access point). These products are an ideal replacement for modest-data-rate installations where 802.11 systems are under performing or failing completely due to insufficient range or excessive interference.

VoIP Services Market 2007-2010" report help IT vendors

2008-12-06T23:16:00.000-08:00

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/438fa8/voip_services_mark) has announced the addition of the "VoIP Services Market 2007-2010" report to their offering.

Since the introduction of PC-to-PC communication software in March of 1995, VoIP-based service has steadily grown to be a serious competitor to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). As an increasing number of enterprises investigate VoIP to combat rising telecommunications costs, migration to IP telephony will not be a wholesale swap of current PBX installations. Rather, VoIPs appearance in enterprises will be a gradual transition.

Business VoIP acceptance is accelerating in the action segment, with SOHO and SB barter getting basic ambition for hosted VoIP. SOHO and SB chump apprehend action chic services, with able sales, installations, and allusive SLAs. A lot of SOHO and SB barter are not tech savvy, so accompany and ancestors are a lot of affecting in these spaces. But afterwards they accept the service, a ample allotment of barter use avant-garde features.

In consumer segment cost savings, mobility, simplicity to use and management and access to advanced communication capabilities will drive the adoption of VoIP.

The report forecasts the market size of VoIP Services Market over the period 2007-2010. Further, the total market is segmented into various geographic regions and verticals. The report also presents market size for major countries in various regions. In addition, the report identifies key selling drivers for the VoIP Services Market for major verticals.

This report can help IT vendors identify target geographies and verticals. Further, the sales drivers can be used to penetrate the identified vertical or increase the current share of the customers wallet.

Berlin-based snom Unveils New VoWi-Fi Phone

2008-12-06T23:07:00.000-08:00

As one of the few phone vendors that just makes phones, Berlin-based snom technology AG is gaining an expanding foothold in the North American market for SIP-based IP endpoints.

The company announced—and showed off—the snom 820, first in a new line of phones that feature high-resolution color displays and other ground-breaking features.

"The 300 series phones are not disappearing; they're our bread and butter phones," business development director Mike Storella told VoIPplanet.com in a briefing last week. "But as the public wants to see color displays." Indeed the 820's 320 by 480 high-resolution color display is a first for the company.

The 820 is also a piece of high industrial design—the work of a renowned German design firm—and a totally new look for snom.

A potentially game-changing new feature is hidden in the back of the sleek case: a USB port into which a Wi-Fi dongle can be plugged. "This allows the phone to be Wi-Fi and get its connection that way," Storella said. "I think we're the first ones doing that." True, as far as we know.

So, imagine you're one of the increasing numbers of companies that's deploying Wi-Fi rather than wired IP networks in its facilities. What do you do about phones? Up to now, the only viable solution would be a Wi-Fi-enabled cellular mobile phone—or running a wired phone network to people's desks—pretty much defeating the point of having a wireless LAN in the first place.

Another first for the snom 820 is the ability to manage five-way conference calls. Most IP phones max out at three-way.

Evangelyze's SmartVoIP Solution Utilizes NET Quintum VoIP Gateways

2008-12-02T02:06:00.000-08:00

Evangelyze Communications announced the release of their SmartVoIP solution in collaboration with Quintum, now part of Network Equipment Technologies. SmartVoIP provides integration of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for enterprise organizations with Microsoft Response Point, an IP phone system for small businesses.

This pairing eliminates long-distance phone charges between branch and remote offices of enterprise organizations through an innovative VoIP integration solution with Microsoft Response Point. Leveraging NET Quintum telephony gateway products, both Quintum and Evangelyze offer customers a holistic Microsoft VoIP solution connecting remote and branch offices globally using direct extension dialing.

Evangelyze's new SmartVoIP solution is part of a new package release out of the Evangelyze Communications SmartUC offering that includes chat and web conference scheduling solutions for Office Communications Server 2007.

BroadSoft's VoIP tech to help information flow in Portugal

2008-12-02T02:02:00.000-08:00

BroadSoft Inc. has announced that its VoIP application software will be used to improve and expand residential mobile phone and PC technology in Portugal under a deal with Optimus Telecomunicacoes, S.A..

Gaitherburg-based BroadSoft’s BroadWorks VoIP — or Voice over Internet Protocol — sends voice transmissions over broadband lines traditionally used for the Internet and other dense-information services. Optimus already has “hundreds of thousands” of subscribers in its network, according to a Broadsoft release.

SPSS mrDialer(TM) with Voice over IP (VoIP) Lowers Costs for Market Researchers

2008-12-02T01:42:00.000-08:00

SPSS Inc., the leading global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions, today announced SPSS mrDialer™ 4.0 with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). With VoIP, SPSS mrDialer 4.0 delivers faster completion of projects, lowers staff costs and gives market researchers more control over survey projects.

Since VoIP uses broadband connections instead of analog phone lines, SPSS mrDialer 4.0 is well-positioned to support the escalating trend toward the virtual call center – where interviewers are dispersed over a wide geographical space, either in separate offices or working from their own homes.

SPSS mrDialer is a committed band-aid that frees interviewers from accepting to punch assorted numbers afore extensive a respondent. SPSS mrDialer aswell ensures best accuser abundance by alive seamlessly with mrInterview CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) software, which controls the administering of buzz interviews, provides authoritative capabilities and helps administer the assay alarm centermost workload.

SPSS mrDialer uses sophisticated predictive dialing algorithms to automatically identify busy, unanswered or unobtainable numbers. These algorithms ensure that market researchers are engaged in their interviews and projects are completed efficiently. SPSS mrDialer 4.0 is also unmatched as it is easily adaptable to new rules and dialing methodologies that can be updated with an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI).

WildPackets Announced VoIP Training and Unified Communications Assessment Service

2008-12-01T02:34:00.000-08:00

WildPackets, Inc. (www.wildpackets.com) announced a new training course from WildPackets Academy, VoIP and Video Analysis and Troubleshooting. In this course users will learn about common VoIP issues and solutions including pre-deployment assessment, performance inhibitor analysis and problem resolution.

Traditional blast casework accept acquired a acceptability for accouterment accomplished articulation above and above reliability. Consequently, users yield for accepted that their buzz systems will accommodate top above with around no downtime. Yet abounding unified communications installations abort to accommodated these expectations primarily because organizations accept not abundantly evaluated their arrangement basement to actuate whether it can abundantly abutment applications that are actual acute to latency, packet loss, jitter, and added agnate achievement factors.

The new training advance is advised to accommodate all-embracing compassionate of arrangement and agreement architectonics for real-time articulation and video manual via abstracts networks. Through a aggregate of lectures and hands-on exercises, acceptance will apprentice applied methods for allegory articulation and video advice in IP-based networks, and will leave with the abilities to accomplish faculty of arising VoIP technologies, Above of Account abstracts and the aggressive standards in today's converged arrangement market.

Voxitas Expands Business VoIP Service in the Southeast US

2008-12-01T02:20:00.000-08:00

Voxitas - a leading business class VoIP national service provider, today announced it has completed the expansion of its business VoIP network into the southeast United States. This network expansion allows Voxitas to serve virtually the entire southeast including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi with our business class Quality of Service (QoS) based services.

Businesses in these markets can now take advantage of Voxitas' True Connect Quality of Service enabled T1 delivery for business quality VoIP. By interfacing with phone systems - both IP enabled and traditional - Voxitas can save business users up to 70% over traditional telephone service while maintaining the voice quality that small business and enterprise customers demand. Voxitas is able to prioritize voice over data to deliver both voice and Internet services to businesses of all sizes.

Voxitas has certified its Business VoIP SIP service with over twenty (20) IP enabled phone systems including Cisco, Linksys, Interactive Intelligence, Adtran, Allworx, Epygi, Fonality, pbxnsip, Sphere, and more. Working with these certified systems, and using the latest technology, the Voxitas business VoIP service offers key advantages and features, including enhanced voice quality, mobility and flexibility.

These Voxitas advantages are well suited for application including call centers, virtual office, remote worker, and distributed enterprise telephony. Voxitas sells business VoIP and SIP trunking telephone service through commercial and wholesale partners. For more information, visit http://www.voxitas.com.

Geeks On Call Joins With Tech Solutions to Deliver VoIP Services

2008-11-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. announced that it has partnered with Tech Solutions, Inc., a VoIP provider for small and middle market businesses and government organizations in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, to deliver the company's VoIP services to Allstate insurance agents in the D.C. Metro area.

VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol), often referred to as Internet telephony or broadband phone, "is digital phone service using the Internet, giving customers all the services they need for one flat monthly rate," said Mark Putiyon, CEO of Tech Solutions. "This saves businesses up to half the cost of regular phone service." Tech Solutions provides enterprise-grade voice, data, long distance conferencing and PBX (Private Branch eXchange) solutions in one package.

Through the partnership, Geeks On Call's certified computer professionals are able to provide on-site installation and support of hardware, ISP issues, Local Area Networks and PCs. Phones and firewalls will be configured by Tech Solutions, and off-site phone support will come from their network of trained technicians. The companies plan to expand the partnership to cover more of the country as the relationship develops.

FierceVoIP Names Fonolo as One of the "Fierce 15" VoIP Companies of 2008

2008-11-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

FierceVoIP, an internationally recognized twice-weekly e-mail newsletter reaching more than 45,000 senior IP communications industry executives, provides readers in more than 100 countries with a quick, authoritative briefing on the day's top VoIP stories, including new trends and technologies.

Fonolo has developed ground-breaking casework that accomplish it faster and beneath arresting to alarm ample companies. For anyone annoyed of abyssal diffuse buzz menus--"Press 1 for service, columnist 2 for sales..."--Fonolo's "Deep Dialing" affection will be a acceptable relief.

Deep Dialing lets users cross buzz airheaded visually and bang to ability any point in that menu. Fonolo's "Intelligent Alarm History" affection advance all the calls a user makes to a accurate company, behindhand of which buzz is used, and automatically organizes them forth with addendum and recordings. Anyone absorbed in accommodating in Fonolo's bankrupt beta is arrive to sign-up at www.fonolo.com.

AudioCodes IP Phones Meet Growing Demand for High Definition VoIP Call

2008-11-29T02:56:00.000-08:00

AudioCodes announced the launch of the High Definition (HD) VoIP IP Phone 300HD series. The introduction of the HD VoIP enabled IP telephones offers a new dimension of voice call quality and clarity, further expanding AudioCodes' VoIP product offering and providing a more complete solution for enterprise and service provider markets. A natural addition to the media gateway and media server lines, this new product line enables AudioCodes to provide an end-to-end solution which benefits from the technological infrastructure and our proven track record in providing state-of-the art high quality VoIP products for wireline, wireless and cable applications.

Based on AudioCodes' advanced, able-bodied and field-proven VoIPerfect(tm) software, AudioCodes' VoIPerfectHD(tm) Enabled IP Phones are advised to advance the a lot of accepted wideband coders such as G.722, G.722.2 (WB-AMR), G.729.1 and G.711.1. Added proprietary capabilities such as packet accident concealment, top superior wideband acoustic answer canceler and low adjournment adaptive jitter absorber adorn the HD VoIP acquaintance by utilizing these phones.

The AudioCodes 300HD Alternation of Top Definition IP Phones offers three buzz models which attach to the requirements of altered types of business users.

The 310HD IP Buzz is positioned as an admission akin IP-Phone and includes a basal affectation and user interface. The 320HD Premium archetypal includes a ample Monochrome LCD screen. The 350HD Executive archetypal has a ample Color LCD. All models abutment HD VoIP. Power over Ethernet is alternative in all models.

Freebuzzer.com Delivers Free International Calls From Your Web Browser

2008-11-08T23:34:00.000-08:00

VOIP provider Voipax announced today the availability of a new consumer calling service offering free international calls. The service is named 'Freebuzzer' (http://www.freebuzzer.com/).

Freebuzzer gives consumers the adeptness to accomplish chargeless all-embracing calls from their web browser. No allotment or acclaim agenda is appropriate and callers won't allegation any software or downloads to use the new Freebuzzer service, just their absolute phone. Advertising and appropriate offers for callers awning the amount of the calls.

To use Freebuzzer's account today artlessly go to http://www.freebuzzer.com on your computer. At the site, access the buzz amount from which you will abode the call, forth with the buzz amount of the being you wish to call. Freebuzzer will again affix both phones chargeless of charge.

Freebuzzer's account can be acclimated from added than 42 countries, including accepted destinations such as United States, Canada and the better European countries.

Voipax is committed to alms high-quality buzz account at the everyman accessible price. Using accompaniment of the art VoIP technology it can accommodate bargain buzz calls over the internet to countries all over the world. Consumers can try the VOIP account through the new calling account alleged Freebuzzer.com for free.

Raketu Releases Free Computer-to-Computer VideoCalling

2008-11-05T08:22:00.000-08:00

Raketu, a leading global Internet communications, information, entertainment, and social networking company, today released its cross platform VideoCalling, VoIP and Integrated Chat for Mac, Windows and Linux.

The new account allows anyone with a Mac, Windows or Linux computer to accomplish chargeless two-way video calls, one-way video calls, two-way articulation calls and burning message, all from any browser after a download. The new account is aswell chip with Raketu's new adaptation 3.0 download client. Users will now be able to accomplish chargeless videocalls, voicecalls and burning bulletin with their friends, ancestors and business colleagues beyond any platform.

The new VideoCalling is in accession to the absolute communications, information, ball and amusing networking appearance area users can accomplish all-embracing calls computer-to-computer, computer-to-phone and phone-to-phone, forward sms-text messages, burning message, and email absolutely chargeless or at Raketu's ultra-low ante -- all from any device, anywhere in the world, adaptable or desktop/laptop.

"Raketu's VideoCalling absolution will acquiesce all our users to accomplish video and articulation calls amid computers no amount what operating arrangement they are running," said Greg Parker, admiral and CEO of Raketu. "If you are active a Mac with a webcam and your acquaintance is on Windows with alone a headset, you can accomplish one-way video calls to one another. If both accept webcams, you can accomplish two-way video calls. If neither accept webcams, you can still accomplish two-way VoIP calls to one another.

Our new VideoCalling in aggregate with our absolute casework makes the amount of authoritative and accepting video/phone calls affordable no amount area our users are."

Raketu's VideoCalling Features

Raketu's new VideoCalling allows computer-to-computer video-to-video calls, video-to-voice calls, voice-to-voice calls, and burning bulletin chat. Users can even yield snapshots of themselves and allotment them with their friends. The VideoCalling casework are accessible on any belvedere and cover admission to Raketu's communications, ball and amusing networking services, acceptance computer-to-phone calls, phone-to-phone calls, sms-texting and more.

Integrated Broadband Services offers VoIP diagnostic, provisioning tools

2008-11-04T07:55:00.000-08:00

Integrated Broadband Services (IBBS), the leading provider of software and services to broadband network operators, announced today the release of BBX 4.5 -- the latest update to its award-winning diagnostics and provisioning software suite.

"Our analysis articular the charge for able-bodied and chip accessories and analytic software for VoIP service. This absolution enables our barter to decidedly advance their supply of VoIP casework to end subscribers," said IBBS Vice President Products Chris Anderson.

BBX 4.5 includes a ambit of added enhancements including:

-- New analytic appearance that abutment faster troubleshooting including accoutrement to accidentally appraise chump subscriber in-home wiring.

-- Expanded agitation admission angle and advertisement for added operational visibility.

-- New Voice Mean Opinion Scoring (MOS) capabilities to advice operators analyze superior of account issues.

-- New Superior of Account (QOS) advertisement for the action of customers' CMTS through the accession of KPIs and trending.

-- Accoutrement that acquiesce chump account cadre to accidentally advancement end-subscriber firmware versions.

Anderson said, "BBX 4.5 empowers our barter to advance their alone markets through the able affiliation of Broadband technologies and the supply of around-the-clock improvements in account levels to their end-customers."

Market analysis accord indicates that VoIP acceptance ante are in a abrupt acceleration as consumers become added adequate with VoIP offerings. Bazaar analysts at SNL Kagan activity a 2008 VoIP residential bazaar advance amount of 34 percent.