Voxbone announces that despite economic uncertainties in some parts of the world last year, its pattern of steady year-after-year growth in VoIP communications continued as demand from existing customers increased, coupled with new business wins from some of the fastest-rising operators in telecommunications.

The company is calling 2011 a breakthrough year because it enjoyed lift for the first time from customers such as Telefónica and iBasis, while most growth came from direct sales to its customers among providers of next-generation VoIP communications services. Overall, Voxbone said, revenue grew 19 percent, while minutes of use on its global network increased by 33 percent to 2.8 billion.

VoIP Supply announces the results of a customer satisfaction survey conducted in Dec., 2011. In a survey of more than 500 of its customers, VoIP Supply learned just how completely over-the-top it is appreciated by them:

• 98 percent are likely or very likely to recommend VoIP Supply to colleagues or other businesses.
• 97 percent are likely or very likely to purchase from VoIP Supply again.
• 87 percent report an exceptional or above average experience with VoIP Supply.
• Half of the customers consider VoIP Supply literally the best in the industry.

netTALK.com announced new pricing on its netTALK DUO in Canada. Across Canada, the retail price of the current netTALK DUO changes from $79.95 to $59.95 (which includes one year of service), delivering the best value in low cost communications. In addition to the lowest price on the most innovative VoIP device on the market, netTALK's calling plans are the most competitive and comprehensive, offering calling solutions that connect friends and family worldwide for a low annual price. netTALK also provides unrivaled live, trilingual technical support, seven days a week, devoted to ensuring customer satisfaction.

This development follows the addition of the affordable Enhanced Call Plans, netTALK’s flat-rate International Call Plans. The new North America Add-On is $70 (plus taxes) per year for calls to the U.S., Canada, with the addition of Mexico and Puerto Rico. The International Add-On is an unprecedented $120 (plus taxes) per year for calls to 60 additional countries. It is an offering unmatched by netTALK's competitors, such as Vonage, Skype, magicJack, or traditional phone companies.

Acrobits released its new combined Voice and Video application with SmoothFlow video technology for Apple’s iPhone.

The Voice and Video applications are available in two versions; one for the consumer market (SIP Phone) and one in a fully featured business phone application (Groundwire) with both apps loaded with features such as HD Sound, Phone book integration and Avatar Dialing. Consumers can choose from hundreds of pre-configured VoIP carriers across the world while the Groundwire business application works with both closed and open source office IP-PBX platforms such as Cisco, Avaya and Asterisk.

XConnect has entered an exclusive partnership agreement with DE-CIX to establish the first Next Generation Network/VoIP federation in Germany, enabling service providers to directly exchange IP voice and multimedia traffic.

The partnership will create a secure and scalable federation hub and central carrier ENUM-based routing and number-management platform that will enable hundreds of fixed, mobile, ASP and Web 2.0 operators to interconnect securely end to end on an all-IP basis.

Interconnection via the hub will benefit operators significantly. It will reduce the technical complexity and commercial and operational costs of NGN interconnection, allowing for migration from bilateral, legacy-network TDM interconnects to IP. In addition, operators will be able to securely and multilaterally interconnect to multiple networks via a single IP connection to the hub, supporting the interworking and interoperability of IP voice and multimedia services, such as HD voice, video and Unified Communications.

VoIP Supply is happy to announce that they've added the new Sangoma Vega Gateways that will increase connectivity options for your VoIP application.

Sangoma is "not just a board company anymore." Realizing the popularity of gateway appliances and the need for different but equal solutions for varied VoIP application scenarios, the Sangoma Vega Gateway line was launched to provide greater flexibility for VoIP integrators.

Ooma announced at the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, a new cordless handset with superior HD Voice call clarity and smartphone features made possible by the Ooma cloud-enabled platform. The new cordless Ooma HD2 Handset features a two-inch color screen and picture caller-ID with the ability to automatically display Facebook profile pictures and online contact lists from Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Picture caller-ID and contact lists provide the ability to see a picture of the caller as the phone rings, download and scroll through contacts, and easily manage contacts using the My Ooma web portal.

The combination of the Ooma Telo and new Ooma HD2 Handset provides cutting-edge HD Voice call clarity by capturing twice the voice data to double the fidelity of standard phone calls, for richer, more natural-sounding conversations. The cordless handset offers superior security and range afforded by the latest DECT technology without interfering with home Wi-Fi networks or other home electronics. Up to four handsets can be used with each Ooma Telo.

Digium and Polycom announce the continuation of their strategic partnership. Throughout the world, Polycom IP phones (such as Polycom SoundStation IP conference phones and Polycom VVX business media phones) are commonly deployed with telephony systems based on Asterisk, Digium’s popular open source communications software. Digium and Polycom’s partnership will ensure that customers and partners will continue to benefit from tightly integrated, standards-based solutions on Polycom phones with simplified provisioning and broad support for Asterisk features.

The agreement allows developers to continue to create applications for Digium and Polycom solutions, including management features, such as provisioning and other specific vertical market features. Additionally, Digium and Polycom will continue to jointly conduct tests to ensure smooth interoperability between Digium-branded solutions, including Switchvox, Asterisk open source software, and Polycom phone solutions. In the future, video solutions such as Polycom RealPresence video will also be added to the offering and tested for interoperability.

As the provider of the global standard in SIP training and certification, The SIP School has taught thousands of employees in the telecommunications industry how to better support their clients, products, and services. Until recently, students training to become an SIP School Certified Associate were instructed in their first session to create a SIP address with any free service. Today, The SIP School announces another option by working with OnSIP as their SIP service provider – leveraging the OnSIP API to provision each student with a SIP address on thesipschool.com domain.

OnSIP originally began SIP domain hosting to encourage their customers to simplify communications and boost their corporate branding by creating SIP addresses for employees that match their email addresses. With the OnSIP API, customers can integrate SIP address provisioning into their own service offerings as The SIP School has accomplished.

VoIP Supply has been named as one of Western New York's Top CEO's/Top Private Companies for 2011. Buffalo Business First and Dopkins & Co. LLP unveiled their annual list of top chief executive officers leading Western New York's top private companies, marking this the seventh straight year that VoIP Supply has been honored with the ranking.

Starting in 2005, when the award was known as Western New York's Top 100 Private Companies, VoIP Supply occupied the modest 96th ranking. After six consecutive years of nominations, VoIP Supply climbed to the 56th position in 2010. Now, in less than a decade, VoIP Supply ranks as the 50th top private company in the region.

OnSIP announces a phone certification program that will recommend desk phones and soft phone applications that are verified to work with OnSIP’s popular hosted PBX phone service. By partnering with OnSIP, phone manufacturers and developers are able to guarantee reliable SIP phones to their customers. Phones will pass several use cases in a rigorous multi-point interoperability test prior to being OnSIP-certified.

The partnership will improve the reach of both phone manufacturers and OnSIP through joint promotional efforts. Certified phone manufacturers will be prominently featured on the OnSIP website.

Aria Technologies announces a partnership with engin. This partnership culminates in the availability of business-grade VoIP solutions that combine advanced IP telephony equipment from LG-Ericsson, with cutting-edge IP network infrastructure from engin, Australia’s first VoIP service provider.

Completely NBN-ready, the new packages will allow businesses to take advantage of VoIP technology immediately, providing savings on their communications costs with aggressive call pricing as well as providing a broad and comprehensive feature set.

Datora is growing wholesale capacity using the SBC VoIP Peering solution from DIGITALK. The DIGITALK carrier solution now supports more than 1,000 VoIP carrier interconnects at Datora, using SIP, SIP-T and H.323, and incorporates remote media access to minimise international call latency.

The DIGITALK SBC VoIP Peering platform is a complete network solution for international wholesale service providers. The solution is based on DIGITALK's carrier-grade, high capacity Carrier Session Border Controller supporting signalling interworking, carrier and topology hiding, media relay, DTMF interworking and dynamic media transcoding. The platform’s management capabilities include advanced margin- and quality-based carrier routing, real-time rating and credit control, and service monitoring and reporting.

Telchemy announces DVQattest Version 2.0, a powerful new active test system for unified communications. DVQattest generates Voice over IP and Videoconferencing calls with SIP signaling, synthetic HTTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS and DHCP transactions and a range of IP network tests. This advanced test product supports pre-deployment testing, SLA monitoring and troubleshooting for converged networks and services.

DVQattest Agents are compact but highly featured software applications that can be installed on a range of operating systems and hardware platforms, including Linux servers and appliances, Android mobile phones and directly integrated into network equipment and CPE. Tests can be run on-demand or scheduled to run indefinitely. Agents can run multiple concurrent tests to other Agents or to IP phones, Web sites, Email sites and other network-based services. DVQattest Agents support complex networks with overlapping IP address spaces, VLANs and a range of SIP infrastructure configurations.

Infonetics Research released excerpts from its third quarter 2011 Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast report.

“Seasonally the third quarter tends to be a weak one for the overall carrier VoIP equipment market, and 3Q11 was no exception,” notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research. “No vendor is immune to the challenges of delayed orders and shifts in technology choices, although there were some standout performances by vendors in 3Q11 in specific segments, including Dialogic, GENBAND, Huawei, Metaswitch, and Sonus. Sequentially, all market segments are down in 3Q11, but from the year-ago quarter, there is one bright spot: session border controllers, with global revenue up 13%. The SBC and voice application controller segments are on track to be up in 2011, reflecting the continued shift to all-IP networks.”