CounterPath announces the launch of the CounterPath Network Convergence Gateway Exchange, a hosted service enabling wireline operators to provide Fixed Mobile Convergence services immediately, inexpensively and on any mobile network. Operators can implement these services, which include Voice Call Continuity, Instant Messaging, presence and SMS, in a matter of weeks and without the need to invest in any infrastructure.

CounterPath's NCG Exchange provides telcos, cable operators, hosted VoIP providers, Internet telephony service providers, CLECs and other wireline operators with a rapid, cost-effective way to expand into the mobile market, including targeting enterprises that have a large and growing number of mobile workers. With NCG Exchange, wireline operators can immediately provide their enterprise, SMB and SOHO customers with mobile VoIP and messaging services that are delivered over-the-top of mobile networks, regardless of which carrier the customer uses.

4PSA is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its flagship Unified Communications solution, VoipNow. The first version of VoipNow was released on 30th of May 2006 and it was the first VoIP platform designed for small and medium service providers.

The solution rapidly became popular thanks to its outstanding management features, easy deployment, and modest hardware requirements that included virtualization support. It quickly allowed service providers to access new business opportunities and increase the ARPU through value-added communication services. On its first release, VoipNow already featured an impressively diverse functionality that included call routing, call queues, dynamic conferencing, voicemail, call recording, call transfers, call waiting, call cascading, call forwarding and call filtering.

Global Wholesale Telecom Services and its affiliated company, 1 Source Energy Solutions, has partnered with Pervasip to market Pervasip's video phone services. GWTS and 1 Source market telecom and energy expense reduction services to more than five million residential consumers and businesses.

GWTS's President, Brent Kish, noted, "I purchased two video phones from Pervasip and sent one to my mother, who is not technologically sophisticated. She was able to plug in the video phone, watch it auto-provision in about one minute, and make a video call. When her grandchildren came to the phone, she started crying because she not had seen them recently. I believe the real-time clarity and ease-of-use of this phone makes it very easy for us to sell."

Voxbone has been selected to provide a means for United Nations agencies responding with humanitarian aid in times of natural disasters to stay in contact and communicate with one another quickly and easily via a unique United Nations country code – 888.

Under agreement with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Voxbone has been authorized to implement the country code 888 that the ITU has assigned to OCHA for UN agencies engaged in rendering assistance to nations or regions affected by natural disasters, such as the Southeast Asian tsunami or the earthquake in Haiti.

Having its own special 888 country code will allow the UN to assign specific numbers to agencies providing humanitarian relief to victims of such disasters.

8x8 has significantly upgraded its contract with World Telecom Group to offer 8x8 cloud-based VoIP and Unified Communications services to businesses nationwide through its network of agent partners.

WTG maintains a diverse portfolio of telecommunications products and services including local, long-distance, data, integrated access, VoIP, wireless and videoconferencing solutions. As an 8x8 master agent partner, WTG offers their agent and reseller partners an opportunity to expand their portfolios with 8x8's award-winning, cloud-based VoIP, video, contact center and managed hosting solutions, including the 8x8 Virtual Office and Virtual Office Pro services, now in use by over 24,000 businesses.

netTALK.COM announces that the netTALK DUO VoIP device is currently the number one Bestseller on WalMart.com’s Office category.

“We are extremely pleased that the netTALK DUO is selling so well on the e-commerce destination of the world’s largest retailer,” said Anastasios “Takis” Kyriakides, Chairman and President of netTALK. “Wal-Mart has an unmatched reputation for value, both in its bricks and mortar stores and its website, and we see this Number One sales ranking in the Walmart.com Office Category as another validation of the enormous value offered by the netTALK DUO. With unlimited calls to the United States and Canada using your home phone system, all the features you have come to expect from your phone company, no long-term contracts, and no computer required, all for a suggested retail price of $69.95 including one year of service, and $29.95 for each additional year, the value offered by the netTALK DUO is truly unparalleled.”

Cellcrypt has appointed Dr Andy Lilly as VP Engineering & Development. Dr Lilly, who joined in April 2011, oversees Cellcrypt’s engineering and development team.

Dr Lilly has over 20 years of market leadership experience in the areas of voice, video, and IP software technologies. As Director of Engineering at Trinity Convergence, he built a global team of voice and video-over-IP developers to provide software solutions for Tier 1 customers, including Sony and Philips.

Previously, Dr Lilly held Development Manager roles at Nortel Networks and Radiant Networks, where he delivered software and hardware solutions for broadband mesh networks, Internet over power lines, novel MPLS network routers, terabit optical switches and various military radio, radar and adaptive antenna applications. More recently, he managed several software developments for Europe's principal satellite developer, EADS Astrium.

Fonality announces the signing of more than 200 tech firms in the first quarter of 2011 which will leverage its cloud-based Unified Communications services.

The company is changing how a growing list of technology firms communicate, and the trend of advanced cloud-based VoIP solutions is now being experienced by more than 3,000 technology firms. Innovators such as JibJab, Overland Storage and Nuspire are benefitting from Fonality’s Fortune 500-grade UC and contact center capabilities. Based on open standards, Fonality’s cloud-based telephony solutions are easy to use, simple to manage and affordable to deploy.

VoIP Supply is pleased to announce the promotion of an executive team member.

Garrett Smith has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer to oversee VoIP Supply’s entire business development and marketing departments. He will be responsible for revenue, profit, and market share growth of VoIP Supply along with the business development, ecommerce, and marketing initiatives.

One of VoIP Supply’s first employees, Mr. Smith started with the company in 2003 and in that time has held a variety of sales, marketing, and business development roles affording him great hands-on experience and a well versed understanding of VoIP Supply’s day-to-day operations. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Canisius College.

888VoIP announces it will market, sell and support the complete portfolio of VU TelePresence’s video conferencing technologies to its reseller channel.

"The VU HD conferencing systems is a perfect fit for our reseller community," says Dan Shurmatz, Director of Business Development, 888VoIP. "With 888VoIP’s move into IP surveillance, security and IP video conferencing, we are expanding the total solution our resellers can provide to their customers. By providing lead generation, training, marketing and technical expertise, 888VoIP is investing in the success of its channel partners and its manufacturers."

The partnership between alwaysON and SIPCOM has been shaped with specific focus on the enhancement of alwaysON's voice and unified communication solutions. SIPCOM specialise in hosted solutions and bring new capabilities to the alwaysON portfolio.

The new relationship will enable alwaysON to replace their existing hosted IP PBX solution with Hosted Voice from SIPCOM. SIPCOM's Hosted IP PBX is an affordable, easily scalable and flexible platform that can be setup up in a fraction of the time of other voice systems. This means that businesses can be responsive and agile, irrespective of size, number of offices and geographic location.

3CX announces a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, 3CX will become one of the preferred PBX partners of Grandstream, and 3CX will fully certify and integrate Grandstream’s broad portfolio of IP phones, gateways and multimedia phones, allowing for customers to easily provision and manage Grandstream phones from the 3CX Management console. With the integration, initial configuration and setup of a complete phone system will be much easier and ongoing management will be reduced. 3CX and Grandstream will also commit to advanced feature development and providing end-to-end support to customers, giving companies peace of mind that the complete solution is supported by both companies.

The partnership has already resulted in benefits for customers and resellers: 3CX has shipped enhanced Grandstream phone support in Service Pack 4 of 3CX Phone System 9. It is now possible to provision and manage Grandstream phones from the 3CX management console, including the ability to upgrade the firmware network wide via the 3CX management console.

Acme Packet announces that Infonetics Research, identified Acme Packet as the leader in the enterprise session border controller market, with 32% market share by revenue in 2010.

Acme Packet doubled its E-SBC business in 2010, increasing its share in a market that grew by 70%, according to Infonetics in its April 18 report, “Enterprise Session Border Controllers, Annual Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts.” Infonetics projects rapid market growth driven by the adoption of SIP trunking and the interconnection of disparate interactive communications systems to create enterprise-wide networks.

Cellcrypt announces a new secure messaging feature for users of Cellcrypt Mobile for BlackBerry. It brings government-certified end-to-end encryption for messaging, countering interception vulnerabilities of standard SMS and IM and uses 'immediate delivery and delete' instead of a 'store and forward' design which makes exchange of real-time, short-lived messages less vulnerable to compromise.

Cellcrypt's secure messaging brings government-certified cryptographic security to real-time messages, running on off-the-shelf smartphones as part of an easy-to-use downloadable Cellcrypt Mobile application.

Fonality announced its one billionth contact center phone call. This milestone reflects more than 4,800 deployments as the adoption of Fonality’s cloud-based contact center solutions continue to change how fast-growing businesses deliver exceptional customer support. Deployed across a variety of industries, Fonality’s cloud-based model provides businesses from ten to 250 agents with the same full-featured services of traditional on-premise IP systems without costly hardware, infrastructure or lengthy implementation cycles.