VoIP Service Provider Kayote Networks Closes Q1

Kayote Networks, Inc., the leading provider of hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) interconnectivity solutions, today announced its first-quarter results, boasting positive growth and continued momentum. Kayote announced a growth in revenue of 49% over the previous quarter, a 56% increase in customer base for its VoIP Traffic Manager (VTM) platform and a 19% jump in overall VoIP call minutes running through its system.
Kayote’s VTM 1.5 allows carriers of all sizes, cable operators, Internet Telephony Service Providers and enterprises of all sizes to offer their customers the most advanced VoIP services available and maintain full control of the network, without having to invest in the deployment and maintenance of a costly VoIP network. Kayote closed Q1 with 47 customers using the VTM 1.5, an increase of over 56%, quarter-on-quarter.
Kayote’s progress is also demonstrated by the increase in volume of VoIP traffic on its carrier-grade, highly-scalable VoIP network. From Q4 2006 to Q1 2007 there was a 19% jump in VoIP minutes running through Kayote’s network.
The increased number of VTM customers strengthens Kayote’s global reach. In addition to the company’s existing presence in North America and Europe, Kayote gained customers from Bolivia , Columbia , Curacao, Jordan , Latvia , Macedonia , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Spain and Turkey during the first quarter.
“We feel emboldened by our ongoing successes,” said Dr. Baruch Sterman, CEO and founder of Kayote Networks. “Kayote’s recent deal with INTERNEXA in Latin America confirms the inherent worth of the hosted model. As more and more consumers demand VoIP services from carriers, we expect that a growing number of companies will turn to us for best-in-class VoIP solutions.”
Kayote continues to be recognized as a leader in the VoIP industry. During Q1, the company was listed on Pulver 100, the IP Communications industry’s premier listing of privately-held growth companies. Kayote Networks was named to the list, for the second consecutive year, due to its innovative Hosted VoIP solution and the increased adoption of its solution.

Skype & Intel Launch "Gift of Gab" Free Global Calling Mother's Day Promotion

Skype and Intel Corporation today announced a joint effort to advance a shared vision of establishing the personal computer as a central and reliable platform for voice and video calling over the Internet. By offering an Intel-sponsored day of free global calling over Skype on Mother’s Day to U.S. and Canadian consumers, the two companies are encouraging U.S. and Canadian users to take advantage of Internet communication via their PCs or laptops. This builds on the success of the Skype Unlimited Calling plan which has enabled thousands of consumers across the U.S. and Canada to save hundreds of dollars on domestic calling since it was introduced in December 2006.
According to a March 2007 In-Stat report entitled U.S. Residential Voice-Over IP Market Dynamics and Market Tracker, the number of VoIP households in the U.S. continued to grow briskly in the fourth quarter, with more than 10.6 million households now using VoIP. In-Stat found that while cable providers drove strong adoption of VoIP, Skype gained significant market share in the quarter, consolidating its leading market position at the expense of its client-based VoIP rivals. The report credits Skype’s innovative and disruptive pricing and product strategy for its success, citing the Skype Unlimited Calling plan for allowing registered users to make unlimited SkypeOut™ calls to any phone number in the U.S. and Canada for a flat, annual subscription fee of just $29.95, almost 90 percent less than traditional calling plans that can cost consumers $24.95 per month or more.
“This initiative builds on our efforts to establish Skype as a standard for Internet communications,” said Don Albert, general manager and vice president of Skype North America. “The PC is central to the way consumers and business users connect and collaborate with one another. We’re delighted at how well Skype runs on PCs and laptops featuring Intel® Core 2 Duo processor technology.”
Consumers in the U.S. and Canada can take advantage of Internet communications over Skype by placing free SkypeOut calls to any landline or mobile number around the world on Mother's Day (May 13, 2007). Sponsored by Intel, the “Gift of Gab” promotion represents the first time that U.S. and Canadian users will be able to make free SkypeOut calls to anywhere in the world for a period of 24 hours. Calls from one registered Skype user to another remain free. Usually, SkypeOut calls are billed at per-minute fees depending on the location called, with rates beginning at the low Skype global dialing rate of 2.1 cents per minute. More information about the “Gift of Gab” is available at www.skype.com/go/giftofgab.
Intel is sponsoring the Gift of Gab promotion as a way to demonstrate how audio and video calling are optimized when using PCs powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor. For example, Skype conference calls are now clearer and users’ PCs are more responsive during these calls. These improvements are a result of collaborative efforts between Intel and Skype engineers.
“Through Intel and Skype’s ‘Gift of Gab’ promotion, consumers and business users can experience the immediate benefits of the Internet communications lifestyle –especially on Mother’s Day, normally the busiest calling holiday of the year,” said Gregory Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Office Platform Division. “This initiative builds upon our existing efforts with Skype to deliver an enhanced Voice over IP experience. We have optimized the processor and chipset—supporting wide-band high definition audio, for instance—and Skype users have a rich calling experience on their PCs as a result.”
Participants in the “Gift of Gab” promotion who enjoy their trial of Skype’s Internet communications experience on Mother’s Day can sign up for the significant savings of the Skype Unlimited Calling plan for just $29.95 for an entire year of calling to any landline or mobile phone in the U.S. or Canada at skype.com.

Tadiran Telecom Announces Coral® Navigator

Tadiran Telecom®, a leading global IP business telephone and communications supplier, today announced the availability of its newest application, the Coral® Navigator, a complete desktop communication productivity tool that provides a personal portal for harnessing the power of the Coral IPx telephone. The Coral Navigator ties the PC to the phone, combining all types of multimedia communications, phone features and capabilities, and phone administration options - Instant Messaging, user presence, telephone status, video sharing, call preferences, call routing rules, video conversations, call recording - to further increase communication efficiency for users within the Tadiran Coral IPx system.
Coral Navigator is an application that enables the enterprise to streamline business processes and leverage communication as a competitive advantage. The Navigator provides an intelligent communications platform while utilizing presence awareness capabilities, providing the user with a set of tools to communicate with the right person at the right time in the right way.
Coral Navigator provides a global, visual indicator of all activity within the Coral system, giving users an intuitive, PC-based communication productivity tool for getting the most from Tadiran's Coral IPx family of products. Navigator is a presence application allowing users to see the status of other users, set up buddy lists and personal profiles. It provides a visual interface for managing voice conference bridges, making and receiving voice and video calls and Instant Messaging sessions. It also allows users to route and redirect inbound calls based on personal preferences.
"Coral Navigator makes using the phone much easier and interacting with other users better," said Pat Lennon, Tadiran's director of marketing. "For example, Coral Navigator gives each user a searchable call log, and the ability to dial from any Windows-based application that contains a telephone number."
Lennon added, "One of the favorite features of the Coral Navigator is that each individual user gets a visual - or video portal - of the many things the Coral system can do, such as seeing the call status of a co-worker or sending an Instant Message. We're excited about this product because it ties the PC to the Tadiran telephone and improves the effectiveness of great features of our Coral IPx."
Coral Navigator's key features and capabilities include:
Contact Management - Navigator improves the ability to manage inbound communications with rules, profiles and buddy lists. Users can manage their contacts, the complete telephone system directory and personal telephone lists in a single place, so names can be quickly and easily found.
Instant Messaging - A secure "internal only" additional messaging service allows users on the system to communicate with text to other users, an especially useful way of unobtrusively asking a question to a co-worker while they are on a call.
Conference Bridging - Tadiran's Coral IPx systems feature "meet me" conference facilities. Callers simply dial the four-digit bridge number (or are transferred) and automatically enter a meeting place for many callers. With Coral Navigator, the participants can be viewed, muted or removed. This visual representation of who is currently on the bridge confirms each participant.
Call Logging and Recording - A searchable history of call activities that features archiving of recorded phone conversations and rules for setting up automated recordings. A user can easily play a recording, attach it to an email or archive it to a network drive.
Personal Call Rules - Navigator allows users to route calls to other extensions or remote numbers or automatically record a specific caller in the call log.
Profiles and Status - With Navigator, users can set up personal profiles that incorporate rules to deliver calls. Users simply set the status (for example, Default, In a Meeting, On Lunch, On Vacation, Out of Office, etc.) in their personal profile, and their calls will be routed based on the profile status.
Button Programming - Navigator simplifies the customization of the programmable buttons on Tadiran's desk set telephone. Users set up desired features and labels based on their individual needs using simple menus.
Dialer - With Navigator, users can preprogram the system with a set of phone numbers, time to dial and a description of the intended call. When the time arrives, Navigator will remind the user about the call, providing the description of the call and enabling easy dialing.
Tadiran's award-winning family of Coral IPx products are based on open standards, allowing businesses and organizations of all sizes to move to the world of IP-based communications in stages, at the speed that suits their needs. The Coral IPx family includes a breadth of products that combine leading edge Voice over IP (VoIP) technology at the best total cost of ownership, backed by superb voice quality, easy installation and maintenance, secured communications, and a wide choice of user devices to support tele-workers, corporate and branch offices, and road warriors. With deployments in 41 countries, the Coral IPx products can easily adapt to different companies, different networks and different countries.

Tricks and Tips: Use Skype as a Home Security System

Have you ever wanted to keep watch of your home when you in the office, away on a business trip or while on holiday thousands of kilometers away without the need to buy expensive or complicated home security system. If yes, I am happy to inform you that this much can be done using Skype without the need for any other hardware other than a webcam and the purpose of this post is to show you how to do that. Using the video calling features of Skype you can keep a watch on your home while you are away, watch your nanny take care of your baby or simply watch your dog. The following are the step to follow in order to setup Skype as a home security system:

• 1. Open two new accounts.
• 2. On account 1 add new user two as your ONLY contact
• 3. Re-log in as account 1 and set as follows:
  Go to tools-->options-->advanced-->(tick) automatically answer Incoming calls-->
  Then go to Tools-->options-->Video-->(tick) start video automatically and Only People in My contacts-->save.
  Leave this account online
  
• 4)Log in as account 2 from another PC.

Account should be on your computer at home. Calling account 1 from account 2 completes the process, account 1 will answer automatically and start the webcam and you can start monitoring your home from wherever you are. Very easy to implement you would say and could not believe how you have overlooked this. Have your done anything else with and will like to share with other readers?. Just leave it here as a comment.

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IOTUM, JAJAH ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

iotum and JAJAH, two of the brightest lights in the emerging world of Voice 2.0 and New Presence, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver new capabilities to mobile users and further their shared vision of the future for Internet telephony and mobility.
As a first step, iotum and JAJAH are leveraging their expertise to offer BlackBerry® users the power of iotum’s Talk-Now application for presence-enabled call management combined with JAJAH’s low rates for calling anywhere in the world.
“We saw a clear opportunity to enhance the experience for mobile users by partnering with JAJAH,” said iotum CEO Alec Saunders. “Initially, our collaboration means that iotum Talk-Now users will have one-click access to JAJAH for all their contacts. . In the future, iotum will release other ‘New Presence’–enabled applications in conjunction with JAJAH, such as PIN-less, mobile conferencing.”
Introduced earlier this year, Talk-Now is a revolutionary “New Presence” application for BlackBerry devices that lets users see at a glance who’s available to talk, and share their availability with contacts of their choosing. By combining the capabilities of a to-do list and a buddy list, Talk-Now eliminates phone tag by allowing users to know when the people they need to speak with are available and to see who is waiting to speak with them.
“iotum Talk-Now will allow us to offer our mobile enterprise customers a unique, innovative solution,” said JAJAH co-founder Roman Scharf. “With iotum Talk-Now, workgroups using BlackBerrys now have a seamless JAJAH calling experience. They can check the availability of their team members directly from their screens, and then make low-cost global calls with a single click.”
“Iotum’s Talk-Now provides a unique presence application today. It allows users to deliver personalized presence to each of their contacts,” said IDC Research Manager Will Stofega. “By combining Talk-Now and JAJAH, the two companies have created the world’s premier presence-driven calling network.”
JAJAH launched its global web-activated telephony in March 2006, offering free or low-cost phone calls from regular phones. The service requires no headset, equipment, contract or monthly fee, and registration is free. JAJAH recently announced it has acquired 2 million registered users in its first year of business.
“Talk-Now helps people complete more telephone calls, cuts down on voice-mails and helps them avoid telephone tag,” said iotum’s Saunders. “The beauty of our alliance with JAJAH is that we’re giving users a higher likelihood of completing their calls and at prices that are among the most attractive available anywhere – especially in Europe. Together, iotum and JAJAH increase the productivity of our customers’ teams, while also helping them to manage their telephony costs.”
iotum and JAJAH are both proud members of the 2007 “Pulver 100,” a list of the top privately held growth companies in the converged worlds of media, Internet, communications and entertainment. Also, both iotum and JAJAH have been named to VoIPNews’ list of “25 Most Interesting VoIP Startups” for 2007.

Voipbuster offers unlimited free SMS to mobile phones in several countries

Voipbuster is now offering free unlimited text messages (SMS) to mobile phones in the following countries:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Ireland
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

Before now it costs 5 cents per sms to the following countries. The limitations now are that the sms is only free if you are using voipbuster from the same country you want to send the text message to and you have to have credit on your account to enjoy this special offer.

Voipbuster offers unlimited free SMS to mobile phones in several countries

Voipbuster is now offering free unlimited text messages (SMS) to mobile phones in the following countries:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Ireland
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

Before now it costs 5 cents per sms to the following countries. The limitations now are that the sms is only free if you are using voipbuster from the same country you want to send the text message to and you have to have credit on your account to enjoy this special offer.

Brazilian mobile operator Oi lauches Oi Flex, a converged fixed-mobile service.

The Brazilian mobile operate Oi has launched a fixed-mobile convergence service nicknamed Oi Flex. Oi lauched this service with the support of a domestic fixed line operator Telemar. Oi Flex uses a cordless technology to enable Oi subscriber to make mobile calls at fixed line rates when within a 100m radius of their access point. Once the customer moves beyond this maximum limit the phone will switch back to the Oi's mobile network.
This is based on the personal handyphone service (PHS) and have the potential to considerably reduce the cost of communications for mobile phone users. This kind of service has been in existence in Europe for a very long time, a good example is homezone from o2 germany where subscriber can make call from their mobile phone at the rate of fixed lines within about 300m radius of their home. It is generally believed that Oi is launching this service now due to pressures from voip which has given users avenue to make free or cheap local and international calls and mobile operators have to respond or get their revenue depleted.

Imagine Communications Appoints Telecommunications Industry Veterans Lorenzo Bombelli and Brian Bentley to Senior Management Team

Imagine Communications, developer of the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform, today announced the recent appointments of Lorenzo Bombelli to VP of Product Strategy and Management and Brian Bentley to VP of Sales.
Imagine's President & CEO Jamie Howard comments, "We're very excited about the addition of Lorenzo and Brian to our executive team. Imagine will leverage their extensive experience in telecommunications, home entertainment and cable systems as we move from trial to deployment stages with our Quality on Demand Product Suite, designed specifically to address the bandwidth and video quality issues facing today's multichannel TV operators. The timing of these appointments could not be better."
Howard continued, "Lorenzo Bombelli has a wealth of experience in the cable industry, most extensively with Scientific Atlanta, and his knowledge of where this industry is heading from a technical standpoint will serve us well. And Brian Bentley has held senior sales positions with some of the most highly respected companies in the telecommunications industry, including Scientific Atlanta, Motorola and BigBand. We're thrilled to have the benefit of Brian's extensive experience and connections in cable. Lorenzo and Brian both have a deep understanding of digital video networks, operator and broadband subscriber needs, and the home entertainment environment - they are the ideal appointments to help us capitalize on our momentum in the industry with broadband operators and to drive our company and QOD Product Suite to the next level."

Raketu launches ipTV, still countinuing FREE calls to about 40 countries

Raketu has now added iptv to its suite of services. Raketu ipTV service will enable users to watch music videos , adventure/sports, comedy and more. They also announced can be described as the first ever global chat capabilities for ipTV streaming, this allows thousands of user to chat simultanesously as they watch the same video channel, a cool one i would say. They also now have a new launchPad interface which is much easier to use.
Before the addition of ipTV Raketu enables free voip calls between it users and free rakout calls to landlines and mobiles in about 40 countries a service they are still continuing. More information is available at www.raketu.tv.

Engage communications chose GENBAND G6 Universal media gateway for voip services in key west, florida.

G6 universal media gateway and C2TM signaling controller from GENBAND have been selected by Engage communications to provide telephony services in key west, Florida.
Engage communications is a subsidiary of key west based protection plus, which provides security/fire alarm systems, video systems to residential and business customers throughout the florida keys. GENBAND was chosen with systems to enable voip service for a new triple play service offering the company is rolling out in key west.
GENBAND's C2 signalling controller is an open standards based, IMS compatible platform providing both media gateway control and signaling gateway capabilities with sip networks growing worldwide. A critical need exists to link these networks to the legacy PSTN and SS7 networks. The C2 platform enables this linkage via its advanced sip to SS7 signaling interworking. This provides a big advantage to service provider's sip networks, it allows access to the legacy LNP, 800, and CNAM databases. GENBAND platforms media gateway control functions allow for efficient set-up and tear down of better sessions to the G6 universal media Gateway or other PSTN gateways.
For more information please visit www.gennban.com.

Nuvoiz Partners Jabber on VoIP Phones.

Through a strategic OEM relationship, Jabber, inc, the Nuvoiz softphone and Nuvoiz voip Network controller now include instant messaging, persistent group chat and presence capabilities. Nuvoiz softphone for PCs and personal digital assistants is an advanced mobile voice over instant messaging solution that is a natural internet protocol telephony enhancement for small and medium businesses and mid enterprise customers using session initiation protocol based IP private branch exchange or IP centrex.
Comblined with the messaging and presence capabilities of jabber extensible communications platform (Jabber x CA), the Nuvoiz softphone provides high fidelity voice with a massively scalable and extensible platform for unified communications. According to DaVe Uhir, the vice president of marketing and product management at Jabber inc, a provider of real-time presence and messaging solutions, presence and multi protocol interoperability are two of the key requirements in unified communciations.
Jabber XCP have the ability to integrate seamlessly across the extensible messaging and presence protocol SIP and many other popular communications protocols in a highly scalable and programmable way Uhlir Dave concluded.
Nuvoiz softphone is available immediately to IP telephony service providers and network operators the softphone can work with any existing deployment of jabber XCP, which may appeal to existing telecom. Service provider, or enterprise customers.

Betamax launches JustVoIP with Free Calls to 50 Countries

Betamax has continue their culture of launching new products which are only different from existing onces only by the GUI design , name and the number of free destinations, by launching recently JustVoIP. Justvoip is much like other betamax products like voipbuster, voipcheap etc different only by the number of countries that you can now call for free, most of the destinations that have become paid destinations in other betamax products has sudenly appeard as free in justvoip making it necessary for you to purchase another 10 euros credit in other to enjoy the now free destinations.
I have downloaded and tried justvoip . The audio quality is superb and just like other betamax products very easy to install and use. The rates to paid destinations are quite cheap. The countries that can be called for free are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hong Kong (+mobile),Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Japan,Latvia,Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico [guadalajara], Mexico [mexico City], Mexico [monterrey], Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico (+mobile), Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States (+mobile), Venezuela
Even though the business method of betamax is not beloved in the industry but the good audio quality and its low rates are reason enough to use their products and they have millions of subscribers all over the world. So i would say enjoy the free calls while it last!. Www.justvoip.com

PBXEQ Providing the equipments to drive the groth of VoIP in Japan.

Japan is the most developed and challenging voip market in the world, according to Kamal Anand. Japan have less population than U.S but they have higher growth rate in voip services users. This is so because in Japan most people see the use of voip as a cost effective method of supporting voice services since it is eight times cheaper than using regular lines.
Japan have more broad band connection, more than 40% of it citizen access high speed broad band which can touch 12Mbps, while in U.S, the average broad band speed is 3Mbps. PBXEQ can help Japan move farther into the voip industry by providing them with the equipment they need. PBXEQ has been a witness in the voip growth in Japan because of a significant growth in orders coming from them, they are the one stop shop for all your Asterisk cards, voip hardware, IP phones and more.
PBXEQ offers the most competitive price in the voip market and they are currently looking for resellers in Japan. For more information visit www.pbxeq.com/ distributor. htm or mail marketing at pbxeq.com asteriskhardware at gmail .com. For shipment rebates and discount inquiries for international orders, please mail Sales at pbxeq .com. Being a reseller, you can enjoy large bulk discounts that could help you get started.

Citel Launches Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter.

Portico Telephone Voip Adapter have been launched Citel. Portico Telephone Adapter enables enterprises to quickly and affordably convert existing PBX phone into IP phones over existing wiring infrastructure. Portico platforms delivers the features and functionality of voip without the cost associated with typical “rip and replace” voip migrations solution, such as network upgrades, new handsets, and retaining.
Citel´s Portico TVA connects legacy PBX handsets to a premise based IP PBX or Hosted IP service provider network and dramatically reduces the cost and disruption usually associated with IP telephony migration. Portico voip Adapter help enterprises to avoid the expenses of, LAN upgrade, and new IP handsets. A laptop or desktop web browser is used for enhanced voip features such as click to call, simultaneous ringing, and microsoft outlook integration.
With Citel Portico TVA, enterprises can get the following benefits: Reduced monthly telecom operating expenses through centralized voicemail, IP network utilization, elimination of PBX and for KTX systems across the enterprise. It will reduce toll and long distance charges and provide new features like enhanced reporting and call control streamline operations and control costs. Increased productivity through centralization, or outsourcing of network management combined with enterprises- wide distribution of features and applications.
With Citel Portico TVA, user are not at a lost; since it work with their existing handset which they are already familiar with and it can be programmed with the same or similar feature from the legacy PBX updated with the latest voip features.
Citel Portico TVA is available in in both digital and IP phone/ analog compatibles versions. Portico TVA interoperates with leading IP PBX platforms such as Asterisk, Avaya, Pingtel and also with more than 100 handsets types including Avaya Definity, Ericson, NEC, Nortel, Panasonic DBS, and Toshiba strata DK.
Citel Portico TVA can be brought from Citels world wide network of service providers and distributors. Visit www.Citel.com for more information.

Mobile Carriers Fight VoIP Service Providers.

Mobile carriers are using new technology to fight voip service providers, but Skype is fighting back.
Initial investigations using Deep Packet Investigation (DPI) have startled carriers. One major carrier in Europe recently found that skype usage over its network was far higher than its worst fears, according DPI equipment supplier Allot communications in Israel.
South African carrier MTN and Vodafones German subsidary have both notify customers that Skype usage could lead to cancellation of their services.
Skype petitioned the FCC to confirm a consumers right to use internet communications software and attach devices to wireless networks. Their petition claims that carriers are using their considerable influence over handset design to maintain control and limit subscribers right to run software applications of their choice.

Tadiran Telecom Awarded New Communications Contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Expand and Upgrade Tadiran Telephone Systems

Tadiran Telecom®, a leading global IP business telephone and communications solutions provider, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for its Central Office (VACO) located in Washington, DC. This $1.9 million contract is one of many contracts awarded to Tadiran by the Department of Veterans Affairs over the past eight years.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has installed and linked Tadiran's Coral® IP PBX systems throughout its offices nationwide, making it one of the largest call centers in the country. The VA also uses Tadiran's CompositTM Contact Pro for managing and reporting calls.
"We are very proud and privileged to support the VA in its efforts to respond to the growing number of Veterans," said David Sopko, VP and General Manager of Tadiran's Government Systems. "As a Service Disabled War Veteran, I too need to contact my case manager from time-to-time; and my calls are placed to the very systems Tadiran installs and supports. First hand, I understand the importance of Tadiran's role - not only from a corporate perspective, but from a personal perspective as well. I take great pride in knowing I have contributed to the VA in its efforts to support my fellow Veterans. I can think of no other greater responsibility for Tadiran."
Sopko added, "We've been working with the VA for the past eight years expanding their communications and contact centers. We will continue to expand systems and capabilities as their needs grow and change. We're pleased to continue to provide the best communications and contact management solutions in support of our Veterans and their families," Sopko added.
Tadiran's award-winning family of Coral IPx products are based on open standards, allowing businesses and organizations of all sizes to move to the world of IP-based communications in stages, at the speed that suits their needs. The Coral IPx family includes a breadth of products that combine leading edge Voice over IP (VoIP) technology at the best total cost of ownership, backed by superb voice quality, easy installation and maintenance, secured communications, and a wide choice of user devices to support tele-workers, corporate and branch offices, and road warriors. With deployments in 41 countries, the Coral IPx products can easily adapt to different companies, agencies, networks and countries.
Composit Contact Pro Enables Multiple Systems to Work as One
Tadiran's Composit Contact Pro is a comprehensive suite of real-time, IP multimedia customer interaction management solutions. Its scalable and modular system combines IVR, Dialer, CTI, queue management, Intelligent Interaction Routing and multimedia management - all on a single, distributed platform. Composit's distributed architecture allows multiple Composit servers to tie together and work as one single system, so agents across different servers can connect and share data, and businesses can expand the number of agents and IVR ports, conduct automatic load balancing and disaster recovery.
Composit's open architecture, built around industry standards, enables businesses to easily access legacy applications, CRM systems, third-party reporting tools and databases, and integrate with other systems in the enterprise (including Web services) to ensure a more unified customer communications experience. Working in concert with Tadiran's family of Coral IPx systems, Composit can also support remote workers anywhere in the world.

Six VoIP Deployment Tips according to Merrill Lynch.

The managing Director of Mervill Lynch, Global Private Client technology, Alok Kapoor gave 6 tips about rolling out voip in your enterprise. The tips are itemized below:

• 1. Have good metrics on the performance of legacy systems.
• 2. Use productivity gains to solicit buy-in.
• 3. Roll out applications early.
• 4. Factor in training in costs.
• 5. Know your wiring closet.
• 6. Engage the business.

PACTOLUS Host Webinar With Findings on Open Source Technology

A webinar will be hosted with findings on open source technologies by pacolus communications software co-operation. The on line seminar entitled “Open Source, freely available voip service creation technologies: New solutions to speed compelling service creation” will provide fresh insight into using the industry leading platforms, and help service providers, enterprises, integrators and other participants choose optimal solutions for their particular initiatives and environmental.
Following a brief overview of leading solutions, the fast paced one hour session will evaluate factors such as, Relative ease to use and advanced protocol skills prerequisites safe guards to help ensure IP service performance reliability scalability, available object technologies to help keep service creation initiatives on track, on time on budget, key factors to ensure ongoing service and feature extensibility.
This Pelvermedia Webinar event will be hosted by Carl ford, Vice President of content for pulvermedia, VON show conference organiser and respected voip service expert and visionary David Horton, Pactolus founder, president and CTO.
Pactolus sip based voice applications support an industry leading 3 billion mins of calls per month in more than 75 carrier and service provider network such as Webex, primus Canada, VCG Telecom, USA DataNet, Latinode, Alestra and XO interactive providing exceptional service differentiation and enables ongoing innovation and customer retention. With the Rapid Flex service creation and delivery platforms extensible object, based design lets users quickly and economically create, deploy and scale reliable voip and other IP services without advanced multi- disciplinary proficiencies.
The customizable SIPware (TM) turnkey services suite includes residential and business VOBB, Prepaid and Postpaid calling card, reservation less and operator managed event audio conferencing, voice messaging, and service integrated operator customize.
You can download open source application, RapidFlex service creation and Delivery platform for free at www.sipdev.org.

Imagine Communications Enters SeaChange Certified Partner Program

Imagine Communications, developer of the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform, today announced it has recently entered into SeaChange International's Certified Partner Program. Imagine's Variable Bit Rate and statistical multiplexing technology (VBR/StatMux) allows operators to supercharge their VOD and SDV deployments with up to 50 percent more streams per 256 QAM channel.
With Imagine's technology, three (3) HD-VOD VBR streams can occupy a 256 QAM channel at the same quality as today's maximum of two (2) HD-VOD Constant Bit Rate (CBR) streams. Similarly, fifteen (15) SD-VOD VBR streams can share a 256 QAM channel at the same quality as today's maximum of ten (10) SD-VOD CBR streams. Similar results apply to SDV.
"Our agreement with SeaChange is an important milestone for us," stated Marc Tayer, Imagine's SVP, Marketing & Business Development, "due to their prominent role in the VOD market segment. Interoperability of SeaChange's Axiom Core SRM software and VOD servers with Imagine's VBR/StatMux solution is a watershed event for the cable industry."
Imagine's Quality On Demand GatewayTM (QOD Gateway), part of its QOD Product Suite, integrates Imagine's software on a carrier-grade, off-the-shelf hardware platform, available from multiple suppliers. It employs industry-standard open interfaces and plugs seamlessly into existing infrastructure, allowing interoperability with multiple VOD Servers, Session Resource Manager (SRM) systems, and EdgeQAM devices.
Tom Rosenstein, VP Business Development for SeaChange, added "Imagine has developed a very innovative solution for the industry, which will help operators expand their VOD offerings in a much more bandwidth-efficient manner. This is especially important as HD-VOD demand continues to ramp up. Our initial interoperability testing is showing they're right on track."
Virtually all multi-channel digital broadcast signals take advantage of VBR/StatMux in order to deliver the best video quality at the most efficient bit rate. The addition of Imagine's QOD Gateway system brings these benefits to VOD and SDV, enabling end-to-end VBR and up to 50 percent more streams per 256 QAM channel, while maintaining excellent video quality. The QOD Gateway allows operators to maintain pre-encryption and session-based encryption for VOD, and centralized bulk encryption for SDV.

Skype Software top 500 million downloads.

Skype software have been downloaded more than 500 million times by users around the world, extending its mark as one of the most popular free downloads of all time. Skype^TM makes it easy for any one with a broad band internet connection to make free and very cheap unlimited calls worldwide.
Skype which was first introduced in beta in 2003 August ending have all it entire team success own to the global community of registered users. Skype CEO and Co-founder Nicklas zennstrom said they are happy that people could use skype for free or with little cost to reach friends and family worldwide.
Three years ago, skype developed software that allows anyone to make quantity calls over the internet and today so many people are using the free voice, video, conference calling and instant messaging communication as well as skype paid products like SkypeOut, Skypeln, skypepro and skype unlimited calling plan.
SkypeOut is a premium service that allows global calling to public telephone numbers for local calling rates. Skypeln is a premium service that allows skype users to register for their own regular inbound number for $38 a year or $12 for 3 months, this helps people that dont use skype to call you with their ordinary fixed telephone or mobile phones and skype users answers call from anywhere they are. Skypeln comes with a free skype voicemail subscription.
Skype unlimited calling plan is a annual paid subscription service which allows registered users to make 12 months of unlimited skype out calls to any landline and mobile phones within the U.S and Canada. Skype unlimited call goes for $29.35/ year in U.S or cdn$35.00/ year in Canada.
Some other Skype facts include: 6 people download skype every second. skype to skype minutes since Q4 2006 alone totaled 7.6 billions mins. In september 2005, Skype had 54 million registered users and today it has over 171 million users worldwide.

Vocalscape Patner Telazoom to Offer VoIP Service to Residential and Small Business Customers.

Vocalscape Network inc. and Telazoom communications have signed a letter of intent to form a seperate limited lmbility company. Vocalscape and telazoom will offer service in canada and U.S.A with plans tailored to the residential and small business markets. Initial marketing efforts will leverage telazoom strategic alarm dealers to sell voip to their established client base of nearly 200,000 customers in canada and approximately 15,00 in the U.S.A.
The U.S market for voip advanced dramatically in 2006, adding 3.5 million voip households in 2006, reports in stat consumer voip adoption will drive wholesale voip revenues to $ 3.8 billion by 2010 from $1.1 billion in 2006.
The relationship that telazoom principals have developed in the security and alarm industry provide an ideal springboard into providing telecommunication services. Telazoom communications, a canadian federally incorporated company, was founded to take advantage of an outstanding business opportunity to provide consumers with significant savings on their telecommunication costs.
Vocalscape provide voip telephony solutions and communications software for internet service providers (ISPs), internet telephony servcie providers (ITSPs) and telecommunication companies worldwide. Vocalscape develops voip and interactive communications software including softphone applications, customer acquisition and Billing systems, sip servers, Gatekeepers and vitual calling cards vocalscape's focus is on voip software and long distance termination solutions that bring together a full range of communications solutions and services, thereby providing a turnkey voip infrasture.
To get more information about vocalscape or telazoom visit www.vocalscape.com or www.telazoom.com

Facts About Iristel's HD VoIP Service

Iristel announcement about their service kicked off a debate in the telecom blogosphere. Question like what exactly is High Definition voip and do you need it?Is there no hope anywhere but Skype?, pop up.
Any discussion of HD voip quickly turns to skype, and the question, why skype to skype calls comes up?. Skype uses a translation algorithm (a “code”) called ISAC that captures 16khz of voice frequency, rather than the 8khz that regular public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls and most voip calls do, by capturing and transmitting this much wider range of voice frequencies, Skype voice quality is much more realistic.
When using skypeout calls which must transition to the PSTN using codes that only capture 8khz of sound, the great quality of skype to skype calls is lost. Alec Saunders writes about Iristel that it uses a 16khz but getting HD voip is impossible probably only when you call another Iristel user, this happens because calls will go either through PSTN at some point or use other voip networks that only capture 8khz.
Saunders cites GIPS and Diamondware as companies that have successfully addressed non-codec problems. GIPS have range of a la carte products while Diamondware features a vertically integrated voip media risk.
One effort to watch in HD voip is speex, an open source project dedicated to creating a patient free audio compression format; since the codec would be free and can handle voice sampling of 8, 16 or 32khz. The speex technology is bound to have an impact once it is out of beta.
HD voip is definitely worth going for as it emerges from its current home in skype to skype or Iristel to Iristel calls. Call quality is a differentiation for voip providers and a potential advantage for business users. Since much time is not wasted in repeating a name. voip providers codec or business own equipment doesn't effectively capture the range of human speech.

Nuvio Corporation Acquires lonosphere inc. Assets.

Lonosphere customers have now joined Nuvio family following the acquisition of lonosphere assets by Nuvio corporation.
President and CEO of Nuvio Juson P Tally said all customer from lonosphere should be happy joining Nuvio because of their expanded scope of offerings including their hosted PBX product, nPBx, to deploy in their business.
Nuvio solution are distributed through a chanel comprised of network integrators, VARS; service provider's and telecom agents. Nuvio technology is developed to provide voip services to it customers and make any changes to their code base which allows them to easily seamlessly convert customer from lonospheres switching platform to theirs with minimal disruptions to their existing customers.
Nuvio corporation distributes its products through direct, indirect and wholesale channels. Nuvio products are delivered using its customer developed, proprietary switching fabric, which allows Nuvio to offer a reliable, stable communications solution providing switching fabric which allows them to offer reliable, stable communications solution providing unparalleled uptime for customers since 2003, Nuvio has provided PBX services for small and medium sized business in a cost effective manner.
For more information about Nuvio and it products, visit nuvio,com.

VoIP Causes a Reduction in International Calls Rates in Africa.

The increasing use and popularity of Voip services in African countries have cause a great reduction in call rates for international calls. Before 2005 making an international call from an African country cost as high as $1 or more per mins. But from 2006, nineteen African telcos slash their calls rates, now voip has caused the rates of call cost to plummet. It now cost about 20 cents or lesss for international calls in most African countries. Legalization of voip and increased competition has forced these carriers to bring down the call rates.
These companies have come to realize that their very existence could be put to jeopardy if they did not correct their call pricing. It is noteworthy that voip is making an impact in the remotest part of the world and its bringing possible changes. Such is the power of amazing voip technology.

Callvantage softphone call rates slashed by AT & T

AT & T have slashed rates of international calls made using their call vantage softphone service. This slash rates is applicable to around 40 international countries. Users of AT & T services can now call New Delhi for 7 cents/min, Mexico city for around 3 cents/min, Beijing, Germany, Greece and U.K, all for 2 cents/min.
Users can opt for AT & T softphone 300 mins plan under which you get unlimited local calls and 300 mins of domestic long distance calling for only $10.99/month.
Under AT & T callvantage softphone unlimited plan, you can avail unlimted local and long distance calling within US, Canada and Puerto Rico for & 10.99 per month.

DIDx global DID exchange tops 5000 ITSP member and 17 million phone number.

17 million voip phone number and 5000 ITSP members benchmark have been surpassed by DIDx global DID exchange.
DIDx is a global number exchange and peering marketplace that empowers any telecoms service provider with the opportunities to buy, sell and/or exchange voip powered DID phone numbers with other service providers such as sipphone, Global crossing, verizon, Xo, Gizmo project, Groovy Tel and super phone.
DIDx powers companies that wish to ofter voip trunking services. DiDx software has won 4 awards in 2006 including pasha award, TMC product of the year award, and Best communication change maker Award Nomination for its super enabling wholesale DID features. DIDx members are global internet Telephony service providers from 200+ nations who sell DID numbers from over 60 countries.
CTO of super Technologies inc. Ahmed Rehan said they are happy to serve and facilitate the next generation IP service providers, and they look forward to seeing each current and new member continue to build their markets because of DIDx.
Super Technologies inc. is a voip service provider founded in 1999 and has been an innovator of voip products ever since. SuperTec specialize in hosted voip solution for small and medium size telecoms companies to start voip operation anywhere in the world.
Supertec have customers in about 200+ nations and they are market leader with new and unique innovations. For more information about DIDx and super technologies, please visit www.Didx.net and www.supertec.com

Sunrocket Partners American Telecom to Launch Certified DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone.

Certified DECT 6.0 cordles phone with voip service have be launched by sunrocket in partnership with American telecom. The E6501S DECT (Digital enhanced cordless telecommunication) phone includes ATS' patent pending digital clear functionality and is bundle with sunrocket internet phone service.
DECT 6.0 phone, with an integrated router, users no longer require a separate internet phone adapter, as full voip capability are aready built in. The DECT 6.0 phone operates in 1.9 GHz frequency band, defined by FCC specifically for cordless phones, it avoids interference problems associated with home networks and other wireless devices operating in the 2.4 Ghz and 5.8 Ghz frequencies such as wifi, microware ovens and garage door openers.
The E 6501S with its DECT 6.0 technology enables:

• An expandable design for up to five total handset.
• Communications range of more than 650 feet.
• SIP compliant voip platform.

Retail customer can easily activate the multi handset cordless unit for internet phone service by choosing from any of sunRockets offerings, including its pioneering all inclusive $199 annual edition which delivers unlimited free calling throughout the united states, canada and puerto Rico with its enhanced voicemail, over a dozen free buit in calling features, enhanced 911 calling, plus the option to keep their existing phone number.
Sunrocket have its headquarter at vienna and they are the only company to offer complete internet phone service at an all inclusive annual price of $199 with no hidden charges, termination penalties or “gotchas”.
American telecom services offers digital clear internet phone bundler powered by sunrocket and lingo inc and pay N'Talk prepaid residential long distance communications services powered by IDT. These services are bundled with ATS' diverse line of custom designed digital cordless multi handset phones. ATS sells its phone service through major retailers under American telecom “ATS pay N Talk” and “Digital clear” brand names.

Review of Philips 1211 VoIP Phone

Philips have followed Linksys in making the 1211 unit voip compatible by adding a USB connection to the side of the base station. With this USB connection to host PC running the supplied Philips voice center software allows the DECT technology to dial out or receive calls via Skype running on the PC.
On plugging the DECT base station into mains and the handset sat in its dock and the philips software loaded, Skype pops up asking if you want the centre software to connect, which i did and soon the PC client software was showing that it was connected backed up by the display on the philips 1211.
Philips DECT phone have 10 name and number phonebook which seems a bit on the small side and the handsets support caller ID provided your network provider enables this feature on your line, the ringtones are few, but nice and loud. Call quantity using a BT line is very good even when halfway down the garden.
Philips DECT phone 1211 have 100 hours standby and 10 hours talk time.With Philip DECT phone 1211, making voip calls is a bit more fiddly and you can only calls numbers stored in the quick dial positions on skype, you enter the QD positioned followed by # twice, this tells the PC clients to connect to Skype and call the number.
Philips 1211 Voip DECT phone is not as good as the olympia DECT phone which shows the online status of skype friends and miles off the linksys and Belkin Skype phones. The Philips 1211 voip DECT phone goes for 20 pounds and will soon be available on Skype's Online Store .

Deltathree Launches PC PHONE 7.

An upgraded Pc phone dialer that comes with an advanced features and voice quality to its service providers and consumers, PCPHONE 7 have been launched by deltathree inc.
PCPHONE 7 help a service provider to integrate soft dialer into their product line and a multi language support which offers service providers an elevated level of user friendliness and the opportunity to expand to new markets. PCPHONE 7 also assist service providers customize the soft dialer screen size, icons and also include their own application names.
Direct access to voice mail and valuable web tools through which customers can obtain ring tones, access complete address books, review outstanding balance and more.
Users can download PC PHONE 7 from any computer to make and receive calls and also be able to access their complete account details at any anytime.
According to the senior Vice President of operations and technology of deltathree Effi Baruch, he said PCPHONE 7 is a significant move forward for deltathree to enhance their hosted customer voip solution for service providers and further advance their effort to gain new business.

Optus Communications Launch VoIP Service for Small and Medium Business.

Voip service targeted at small and medium Business have been launched by Optus. Optus which is the number 2 Australian carrier has a lot less to lose from voip than incumbent competitor Telstra which is yet to offer retail voip services to either small business or consumers markets. Optus service will combine both internet, intranet and voice in a solution that has the ability to replace the need for large numbers of fixed lines.
Paul Kitchin, Managing Director of Optus small and medium business said the launch of Optus ipphone premier will transform the way SMBs do business. Another ipphone service, dubbed ipphone Expressed will be offered as a simple, low cost solution tailored for business needing additional phone lines.
Optus has partnered with Cisco systems volume products division, Linksys, for the hardware component of the offering. Optus was shy on detail saying that pricing and other product information detail will not be available until closer to launch time. It did has moved to protects its existing consumer fixed line business which stating that business customers must supply Optus with a valid and current ABN (Australian Business Number). Optus voice over IP service is expected to be on line by second quarter of this year.

Verizon Business and Brown Jordan International Collaborate to Design and Implement Converged VoIP Solution

Brown Jordan international has gone into alliance with Verizon Business so as to help the global manufacturer of fine luxury furnishings transit to voice over internet protocol (VOIP) – its major objective and goal is to advance and its global business operations.
At the VoiceCon Spring 2007, it was announced under a new multiyear agreement that Verizon Business will help Brown Jordan international better serve the needs of its customers by connecting to its 1,600 employees at its corporate office and 12 locations with a cutting edge and highly efficient communications platform that would converged voice and data traffic on a single network. This announcement was made at the IP Telephony conference in Orlando,Fla.
Bill Snow, CIO of Brown Jordan international said,”As a rapidly growing company making the move to the voip, we wanted to work with a strategic global solutions provider that could manage and support our IT needs while controlling risk and providing cost savings opportunities. By making the decision to deploy Verizon Business IP services, we are working as a team to design comprehensive and customized VoIP strategy that will derive operating and cost efficiencies while also helping to improve communications with our customers and partners”.
Verizon Business would be producing Hosted IP Centrex, IP Integrated Access, Private IP (Layer 3 MPLS VPN), video, voice and web conferencing solutions, Internet Dedicated Access, Secure Gateway Firewalls services and Class of service (COS) prioritization of voice, data and video traffic under the terms of agreement.
Replacing disparate legacy stand- alone Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) voice system around the country and the need to obtain cost efficiencies were the dual challenge Brown Jordan international that is based in st Augustine, Fla faced. Hosted IP Centrex and IP integrated Access were the voip services the Verizon Business Private IP actually provided to cause an advancement. It was amazing how these services offered Brown Jordan international the following keys benefits, simplified billing, business continuity and low capital expenditures which are all necessary for an expanding global organization.
Furthermore, there is this practice that would help improve time to market while it is at the same time enabling the company to realize savings on travel and freight costs. This practice is none other than the advancement in the Verizon Business conferencing services which enables Brown Jordan international designers and builders to regularly hook up or connect by video conferencing to collaborate on products and complete programs.
The Vice President of Business Solutions for Verizon Business said,”We are working with our customers to unleash the power of IP communications and revolutionize the way they do business. Our IP services team deliver a unique value proposition to our customers by collaborating to arrive at a strategic solution that leverages our network and extensive portfolio of products and services with the goal of helping an enterprise streamline business practices and enhance their network investment.”
A team of 450 expert professionals are employed by Verizon Business which is an IP services organization. These experts serves as professional alternative to in house company resources, delivering full life cycle project management including pre-sales consulting, migration, solution design , financial planing and technical implementation and support. As a result of all these, Verizon Business customers benefits from IP communications solutions which include voip and contract services centre, engineered to fit their enterprise specific requirement.

HP Makes VoIP Enabled Smartphone, IPAQ 500

IPAQ 500 voip enabled smartphone from Hewleft packard will soon be available through HP and other selected authorized dealers. This have not been disclosed and the international pricing and availability with vary.
Been part of HP's strategy to dominate the enterprises space, the 51x (no 510 in US, 512 in Asia and 514 in Europe) is in place. HP engages in sales of corporate solutions like desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices.
This phone which have windows mobile 6 include wi-fi, GSM/EDGE and Bluetooth connectivity. It size is 4.7 by 2.8 x .7 inches and 5.8 ounces and screen is 176 x 220 which is lower than 320 x 240 as in many smart devices. It 6 hrs continuous talk when fully charged and voice messenger push email function make it superb. It works with any SIP- based corporate IPPBx or public service unlike third party client like skype for windows mobile.

Free calls to USA and Canada with Palcalls

For those of us who got used to making free calls to USA and Canada with Skype , voipbuster, voipcheap etc but now have to pay for such calls here is an alternative to these paid services. Palcalls is offering free and unlimited calling to the USA and Canada for its subscribers. They run advertisment based free calling so its hoped that this will last longer since the calls are paid for by ads that will be displayed in palcalls.
In addition to USA and Canada, users can also call landlines in UK, Australia, New Zealand and Puerto Rico for free. I am presently in the US so i was able to try it out to call other US and Canadian numbers and it worked great. The audio quality was superb and setup was quite easy and fast. I am unable to test calling from other countries to the US and Canada, so if you use it to call from outside of the USA and Canada please share your experience with us here.
For more information and download visit PalCalls Website

WebDialogs Inc. begins beta-testing the latest version of Unyte Meeting.

WebDialogs Inc., a leading provider of multimedia conferencing services, today announced it has begun beta-testing its newly enhanced Spring ’07 edition of Unyte Meeting, the company’s affordable and easy-to-use online conferencing service.
The Spring ’07 version, available now in beta service, provides: 1.) an enhanced interactive user interface with a new look; 2.) innovative videocasting capabilities for conferencing hosts and presenters; 3.) an upgraded audiocasting function, now requiring less bandwidth; and 4.) an expanded presentation-recording capability. The result is a seamless integration of voice, video and online conferencing without the hassles of more complicated conferencing systems.
WebDialogs is seeking users to participate in the beta test, which will run through April 25, 2007. As a registered user, participants can sample Unyte Meeting’s unified voice, video and Web conferencing capabilities without charge for up to 1,500 minutes or until April 25—whichever comes first. To sign up, visit http://www.webdialogs.com/umbeta/ .
Unyte Meeting Spring ’07 is faster, yet still completely browser-based, with no downloads required for hosts, presenters or participants. The service is based on WebDialogs’ proprietary conferencing technology that is currently used in the market today by more than 200 brand names through 70 partner agreements.
“We’ve listened to our users and made significant changes to the Spring ’07 version of Unyte Meeting,” said Lou Guercia, WebDialogs CEO. “What we haven’t changed is its ease of use or the availability of dedicated support. And of course, we’ll be watching and tweaking throughout the beta-testing period to be sure the product is operating with ‘five nines’ functionality.”
Unyte Meeting Spring ’07 is the first new version of a WebDialogs service to become available since the company renamed its Meeting Central and Event Central services earlier this month. Unyte Meeting is WebDialogs’ flagship conferencing product under the new Unyte Conferencing brand and is the only multimedia conferencing tool that provides multimedia minutes for about one-third of what competitors charge for similar capabilities.

SightSpeed’s video calling software now compatible with AuPix videophones

SightSpeed, the leading provider of personal video services over the Internet, and AuPix, Ltd., a leader in the development of high-quality business videophones, have announced that SightSpeed’s video calling software is now fully compatible with the high-quality, large-screen videophones produced by AuPix. It’s the first interoperability agreement for SightSpeed and a videophone maker, and the first for AuPix with an Internet calling-service provider.
Registered SightSpeed users with an AuPix phone can now make and receive SightSpeed calls by logging onto SightSpeed right from the phone; no computer is needed. AuPix firmware revision 3.02.02 is needed to enable compatibility.
“SightSpeed has the highest quality video to begin with, and when the calls are viewed on the AuPix phone with its 12-inch monitor, the results are just stunning,” said Aron Rosenberg , SightSpeed chief technology officer. “And the audio is fantastic, too. We had to make some software enhancements to make the systems compatible, but it was definitely worth the effort to enable SightSpeed on one of the best videophones available.”
SightSpeed calls can be placed and received with either the desk model or wall-mounted AuPix phone. Callers can use the phone’s internal speaker and microphone system or a handset for the audio portion of calls. Video is handled by a built-in 30-frame-per-second CCD camera.
“AuPix prides itself on having the highest-quality videophones on the market,” said Graham Brown, AuPix co-founder and CEO. “So it’s just natural for us to partner with one of the best video calling services on the market.
“SightSpeed service coupled with AuPix hardware gives users a complete stand-alone video-calling capability that is unique in the market today,” added Brown. “We believe it’s the perfect solution for tech-savvy businesses, especially those that want to enhance their leading-edge image. It is also an excellent tool for organizations that want to communicate through sign language with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.”
AuPix videophones are available worldwide; for details, e-mail info@aupix.com . To sign up for SightSpeed, visit www.SightSpeed.com .

Mobile Carriers Fight VoIP Service Providers.

Mobile carriers are using new technology to fight voip service providers, but Skype is fighting back.
Initial investigations using Deep Packet Investigation (DPI) have startled carriers. One major carrier in Europe recently found that skype usage over its network was far higher than its worst fears, according to DPI equipment supplier Allot communications in Israel.
South African carrier MTN and Vodafone's German subsidiary have both notify customers that Skype usage could lead to cancellattion of their services.
Skype petitioned the FCC to confirm a consumers right to use internet communications software and attach devices to wireless networks, their petition claims that carriers are using their considerable influence over handset design to maintain control and limit subscribers right to run software applications of their choice.

IPv6 Forum Claims Important Advancement in Worldwide Interoperability.

Oil giant Royal Dutch plans Rollout of VoIP based Communication Platform for her Global Operations

Office communications server 2007, windows Vista along with office 2007 and Exchange server 2007 would all be put to test, this is due to begin this year as planned by shell. As also part of its plans, it is projecting or forecasting rolling the platforms into production by early 2008. Nortel Communication server 1000 IP PBX is currently being run in shells data centres. It hosts around 1,000 IP phones worldwide.
Shell plans to begin switching over large numbers of employees to office communicator softphone clients, hosted by the Microsoft OCS platform, as well as Nortel IP phones being managed by CS 1000 IP PBXs. This plan of switching over would kick off as soon as the Microsoft infrastructure is put in place.
During a presentation at Voicecon, the group IT architect at Royal Dutch Shell, Johan Krebbers said, “ultimately, we dont see the need for separate IP Telephony and Microsoft managing platforms. That is our vision, but it depends on whether Microsoft delivers”.
It is hoped that would deliver its forthcoming Office communication Server – a session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based, real time communication server which can act as an IP PBX among other role. The multi-year plan of shell includes a gradual migrations of hundreds of disparate PBX systems in more than 110 countries to a centralized voip, managing and collaboration infrastructure based on Microsoft servers and Nortel IP PBX and gateway technology. By the time Nortel IP telephony technology starts acting like a bridge between legacy telephony and voip, then, the oil giants core voip network would eventually shift to Microsoft OCS.
Krebbers said, “We will not have a separate Nortel IP PBX infrastructure if the OCS servers prove to be stable enough and offer the right amount of features”. The United State of America, the Netherlands and the Malaysia are the three data centers that would host the Microsoft servers. The Microsoft servers will handle all voip call control for more than 40,000 IP PBX -like call control. (Most IP PBX vendors which includes Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, Nortel,and others have products that interoperate with Microsoft OCS.
Krebbers said OCS 2007 and Exchange will serve as the core voip and managing platforms for the company with the forthcoming voice mail features that will be included in Microsoft server 2007.Nortel nonetheless, will still have a role in shells network for specialized applications such as call centers. Nortel voip gateway equipment will also be used in branch offices for backup phone connecting, it would as well be used in data centers to connect to the public switched telephone network.
A major reason behind Shells voip plans is the desire to simplify the company`s worldwide voice infrastructure and consolidating all call control, collaborating and managing servers into three data centers.
“We have many different PBXs out there. There is no centralized management for these systems. Sometimes, we cannot purchase certain types of equipment in certain countries or region. Delivering equipment to some of the remotes part of the world where Shell operates also is a burden.” krebbers said.
There is a plan for a centralized voip system. This system will take the telephony purchasing decisions out the hands of local shell offices subsidiaries. This is actually how system were purchased and deployed in the past.
High values employees such as Scientists, petroleum exploration experts and executives would be able to collaborate more easily and efficiently with Microsoft video Conferencing, IM, voicemail and IP telephony.
“Our whole desire is to bring work to people not people to work. We cant afford anymore to bring experts around the world to the work. The mixed Microsoft/ Nortel networks will use Shells Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure as the base for its global dial plan. IP softphone and hard phone users will appear as extensions on one large system,” krebbers said.

Solorecord, VoIP Recording software for Mac OS x out.

Developer of voip call recording software, Arcosoft release VONalink soloRecord for Mac OS X and it work with any voip phone system based on the open SIP standard, such as vonage to record phone calls and provide screen pops, it is also available in separate screenpop product. Solorecord and screen pop were previously available only for windows.
Before calls are recorded with analog equipment or expensive propietary product from the phone company, but with latest voip systems build on open standard protocols, calls can be recorded by monitoring network packets and it helps a company by allowing business transactions over the phone to be verified and disputes resolved.
VONalink soloRecord work with any SIP based voip system, such as vonage, softphones, ip phone or analog phone via an adapter supported. The call is recorded as a stereo WAV or MP3; inaudible watermark can be added to the recording for later verification that the file has not been changed.
With the caller I.D of incoming call, it searchers for the callers in Address Book, or launches custom applications to help search the web or company database. If it found the caller, the info is popped on the screen and this improve and increase user productivity. You can also reject any unwanted callers by adding them to the reject it and integration with vonage click 2 call allows outbound calls log within the VONalink application.
Arcosoft that was founded in 1997, have other products to Vonalink suite such as Team Record for windows. Deployed in business critical environments worldwide, RunFAX Supports leading edge technologies such as color fax and Barcode routing.
SoloRecord evaluation downloads is available at www.vonalink.com and it goes for 99 U.S.D while screenpop is 29 USD, they run on later version of mac 0S x and mac 0S x 10.3

Linksys to Provide Equipments for MyNetFone

Linksys is providing hardware for MyNetFone in its second deal for the day of which cisco consumer and SMB division are parts of. MyNetFone is currently looking for breakneck subscribers sing-up speed. In the next few months, MyNet Fone hopes to increases to its subscriber base by an additional 10,000. SOHO and SME are MyNetFones targets for now. MyNetFone is actually expecting to bring in more than $250,000 equipment sales for Linksys and also has $1M per annum estimate in additional recuring revenue from the new subscribers.
According to a company statement “the equipment the two partners have in mind provides two lines of voip telephone and fax service. The MNFSPA2100 equipment has not just been configured, but it also has been customized particularly for the MyNetFone services. The implication of this is that reliability is high and there would be encryption based security.
The customers premises equipment really supports remote provisioning and dynamic in service software up-grading. In view of this, MyNetFone will be able to provide efficient post-sales services. In addition it ensures maximum availability to its customers who desired and demand reliable phone services for their homes and business.
Managing Director of MyNetFone, Andy Fung stated that “with the highly affordable MNFSPA2100 and MyNetFone economical call rates, we have continued to break new ground and set the industry benchmark by delivering great value to our customers.”
He as well said, “this offering further lowers the barriers of entry to voip for our customers by commoditising and during it from the tech sector into the mainstream mass market. We expect this and other initiatives in the near future to result in significant subscriber growth of residential and small business users to the MyNetFone services.”
As from early April 2007, the MNFSPA2100 will be made available exclusively via MyNetFone national reseller network.