Nextiva announces it now offers and supports Cisco's latest line of business VoIP phones. The Cisco SPA 300 and 500 series IP phones are powerful and affordable VoIP phones that offer many great benefits. Each phone in the 300 and 500 series by Cisco includes state-of-the-art features, Cisco's impressive hardware reliability, and low pricing.

The Cisco SPA 300 and 500 VoIP phone lines are designed for use with services like Nextiva. Each Cisco phone provides all the traditional business phone features, such as call waiting, call forwarding, call transfer, and more. Cisco's SPA 300 and 500 series phones have been introduced to replace one of the best selling lines of VoIP phones in history, the Linksys SPA 900 series.

WorldGate announces that its flagship Ojo Vision product will be featured in the 2010 WIRED Store in New York City. Holiday shoppers can now experience the new Ojo Vision digital video phone at WIRED’s annual WIRED Store in New York City for six weeks beginning November 19 through December 26, 2010.

“In today’s world, family and friends are oftentimes separated by thousands of miles, and the inability to see each other face-to-face is magnified during the holiday season,” said George E. Daddis, CEO of WorldGate Communications. “The Ojo Vision digital video phone easily overcomes this separation with affordable and revolutionary new technology that brings families and friends together by simply dialing a phone. We are proud to be a part of the 2010 WIRED Store, and our team is committed to sharing this important news and uniting family and loved ones for the holidays, and every day thereafter.”

Grandstream announces that its GXV3140 IP multimedia phone, which uses mega-pixel camera and H.264 codec to deliver razor sharp video calling over Internet, is officially certified by Skype and incorporates native Skype embedded software to allow Skype video calling without a PC. Skype's community of users worldwide, who already have the capability to send and receive free video calls to and from their computers, can now do so with Grandstream's IP multimedia phone.

Designed to strengthen relationships with business colleagues and customers, as well as keep in touch with family and friends, the GXV3140 offers FREE two-way or three-way video calling out-of-the-box along with real-time instant access to a variety of Web and popular social multimedia applications.

Toshiba and NextLevel Internet announce the certification of interoperability of NextLevel Clear Channel SIP Trunking Services with Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems. NextLevel Clear Channel Voice SIP Trunking is now available nationwide from Authorized Toshiba Dealers.

"With this agreement, NextLevel Internet brings the advantages of NextLevel's products and services, including SIP Trunking, to users of Toshiba Strata CIX VoIP business communication systems," said Eric Abing, senior product manager, Toshiba America Information Systems, Telecommunication Systems Division. "This certification substantiates the seamless integration of Toshiba's Strata CIX VoIP systems and NextLevel Clear Channel Voice SIP Trunking services, providing enterprises with the confidence that they have reliable telephone service and equipment."

Cisco celebrated a major milestone with the distribution of its 30 millionth Internet Protocol phone to one of the world's largest banking and financial services institutions, HSBC. As part of a standardization strategy to enable a uniform groupwide global standard, HSBC has already deployed over 100,000 Cisco Unified IP Phones across 87 geographic locations.

HSBC is using Cisco's Unified IP phones and Cisco Unified Communications Manager as they have found that standardization, consolidation and simplification further improves system performance, helps increase organizational agility and reduces the cost of supporting infrastructure. In addition, intelligent call routing, a single directory and a standardized dial-plan foster greater employee collaboration to help HSBC develop strategies to serve its customers better. By providing device identity, digital signed images, call tracing, and call recording, Cisco's IP phones provide HSBC with enterprise-level security to keep conversations of a sensitive nature confidential, as well as providing support for various device functions and applications directly on the handsets.

Dialogic announces that the Dialogic IMG 1010 Integrated Media Gateway has successfully completed interoperability validation testing with the BroadWorks IP communications server platform provided by BroadSoft. Service providers can now use the IMG 1010 Media Gateway in conjunction with BroadWorks, enabling tens of thousands of concurrent business VoIP subscriber sessions to access the PSTN.

8x8 has signed a partnership agreement with Polycom enabling it to offer Polycom's IP telephony and conferencing solutions to 8x8 Virtual Office hosted VoIP subscribers.

8x8's initial offering features the Polycom SoundPoint IP 335 desk phone. The SoundPoint IP 335 is a high quality, entry-level SIP phone that seamlessly integrates with 8x8's systems to deliver advanced telephony features such as auto attendant, voicemail, Caller ID, call forwarding, conference bridge and Polycom HD Voice at an affordable cost. In addition to providing a great customer experience, these phones also include a capability called Voice Quality Monitoring, which gives 8x8 the ability to monitor in real-time the quality of a customer's call. This feature helps 8x8 quickly diagnose customer issues, provide faster problem resolution and ultimately deliver better service. 8x8 will be introducing additional SoundPoint IP desktop phones, SoundStation IP conference phones and Polycom KIRK wireless phones and accessories in the coming weeks and months.

The result of the MegaPath-Speakeasy-Covad merger and one of the nation’s largest end-to-end communications networks, announced its limited-time free Cisco SPA 303-3 IP phone promotion. New business customers who purchase unlimited or global Hosted Voice calling plans and have a minimum of five lines will receive IP phones featuring a high-resolution graphic display for each employee. This program is part of the second phase of MegaPath’s post-merger integration, offering common products, pricing and promotions across all three company websites.

Forecasts from ABI Research1 show that the VoIP market is set to double in size in the next five years, exceeding $20 billion by the year 2015. By offering free phones, MegaPath is removing the last barrier to VoIP adoption – upfront costs. Speakeasy successfully implemented a similar promotional program earlier this year, which resulted in an increase in new customer inquiries by more than 40 percent.

Grandstream Networks has extended the portfolio of its popular GXP series enterprise SIP telephones with the introduction of the new GXP2110. Based on Grandstream’s broadly interoperable SIP stack, the GXP2110 SIP telephone delivers superior HD audio quality for crystal clear voice communications, packed IP telephony features and integrated Web applications, as well as support for highly flexible XML customization and strong security protection.

REDCOM unveils the new SLICE IP. The SLICE IP is an advanced Class 4/5 softswitch core powered by TRANSip, REDCOM’s VoIP technology suite that provides an innovative IP communications solution. TRANSip integrates key IP Multimedia Subsystem elements in one single platform, bringing call management functionality and directory services for IP subscribers.

Aastra announces a partnership with Telchemy to resell two products, DVQattest and SQmediator, which provide performance testing, monitoring and real-time reporting for VoIP interactions.

DVQattest is a distributed active test product for Voice and Video over IP that supports pre-deployment testing, network assessment, SLA monitoring and troubleshooting. DVQattest is based on VQmon, Telchemy’s widely used VoIP/IPTV performance analysis technology which provides accurate quality scores and a rich set of metrics for voice calls, video sessions and network tests.

InnoMedia has reached an agreement with Clearcable Networks to distribute InnoMedia ESBC products. This distribution agreement will allow Clearcable to deliver products anywhere in Canada. Clearcable is strategically located in Ontario and, with its focus on mid-market MSOs, it will be able to facilitate the adoption of Smart-DQoS technology as the premier solution to voice system bandwidth prioritization using InnoMedia's ESBC 8528-4B. The InnoMedia ESBC with Smart-DQoS is based on InnoMedia's exclusive Device-initiated DQoS technology.

D2 Technologies is showcasing the industry’s broadest range of VoIP platform offerings for OEMs/ODMs through on- and off-floor demonstrations with the world’s leading semiconductor vendors during the COMPUTEX 30 Taipei tradeshow. D2’s vPort Gateway embedded VoIP software allows manufacturers to use their IC platforms of choice to quickly deliver advanced Integrated Access Devices, residential gateways and other CPE with optimized, carrier-grade VoIP functionality over wireline, WiFi and WiMAX connections.

Virtual PBX has expanded its Open VoIP Peering service to include support of any SIP-compliant phones. Users of any SIP-compliant softphone or desktop phone can now tap into the benefits of the Virtual PBX Open VoIP Peering service. This service allows small businesses to take advantage of the robustness and features of traditional hosted PBX services and leverage the cost-effectiveness of VoIP technology. Today’s announcement allows customers more freedom to mix and match SIP-compliant phones with Virtual PBX’s hosted PBX services.

Global Crossing announces they are working together to expand the videoconferencing experience Global Crossing offers its customers, which now includes highly scalable and feature-rich, on-demand video-streaming.

Global Crossing is using ON24's industry-leading Webcast Center platform and Virtual Show solution in support of its suite of videoconferencing collaboration services to offer customers an interactive tool reaching audiences of thousands worldwide. Customers can leverage Global Crossing's offer to deliver a single online video platform that combines real-time, interactive and community-building capabilities of the social web with online content creation, analytics, and control.