Sunday, December 21, 2008

Unlimited global calling, data service powered by EMCC, DeFi

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

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.

Friday, December 19, 2008

NGN spending outlook mixed as VoIP slows, policy grows

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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

YouTring — Free Calling Site to Make Free Calls

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.

Friday, December 12, 2008

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

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

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

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

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.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

DeFi Mobile and DoubleU Join Forces to Market DeFi Global Access

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.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Wireless Ethernet Radios offer long-range communication.

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

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

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.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Evangelyze's SmartVoIP Solution Utilizes NET Quintum VoIP Gateways

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

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

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).

Monday, December 1, 2008

WildPackets Announced VoIP Training and Unified Communications Assessment Service

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

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.