XO Communications and Fonality announce that Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems have passed XO Communications' certification for standard interoperability with XO's SIP-based integrated voice and data communications solution.

XO Communications is a leading provider of business-class VoIP services and solutions, supporting more than 15,000 businesses and 500,000 customer employees. Fonality's IP-PBX phone systems are known for reliability, superior features, simplified deployment, and offering cost savings up to 80 percent off the price of competing solutions.

Unicoi Systems announces the release of Fusion SIP version 5.0 for secure VoIP telephony. With this release, Fusion SIP now supports SIP over TCP/IP and secure SIP or SIPS. SIP is one of the signaling protocols most commonly used in VoIP telecommunications. SIPS is the security-enhanced implementation of SIP. Fusion SIPS provides secure SIP for telecommunications by allowing an IP telephone to encrypt all data transmissions between a SIP Proxy and the phone. Encrypting SIP transmissions is vital as more and more users move from POTS to the Internet alternative, VoIP.

Voxbone introduced its new browser-based configuration tools that give its clients more self-sufficiency, flexibility and control over their use of DID services. These tools allow carriers to make many cost-vs-voice-quality tradeoffs previously made for them. They also enable customers to save money while ensuring call completion through pooled trunking capacity, redundancy and load balancing.

Educating end users, resellers, distributors and systems integrators about SIP trunking is on the agenda as Ingate Systems partners with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP trunking service providers and industry thought-leaders to offer "SIP Trunking: Everything You Need to Know" seminars at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo East 2009.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, these seminars will provide a comprehensive overview of SIP trunking, and include general information panels and technical insight sessions from both the service provider and enterprise perspectives. Speakers from VOIPSA and the SIP Forum will also participate.

SimpleSignal and Wesbell Technologies have entered into a distribution agreement to market SimpleSignal's SIP Trunking solution to Wesbell's AastraLink Response Point resellers. SimpleSignal's SimpleSIP solution gives SMBs and large enterprises advanced VoIP calling features and works with any PBX and IP-PBX phone system. SimpleSIP Trunking delivers productivity enhancing features, such as simultaneous ring, unified messaging and disaster recovery capabilities. Under the agreement, Wesbell resellers of AastraLink Response Point will be able to offer SimpleSIP to their business customers in the U.S. and Canada.

The IP5280 Communications SIP5280 service portfolio has been certified by Interactive Intelligence for installation and configuration with its contact center automation and enterprise IP telephony software. The SIP5280 service portfolio is a SIP trunking solution for enterprises that connects legacy phone systems to a broadband connection through standard integrated access devices or gateway routers. Benefits include reduced local, long distance and international call charges, and increased operational efficiencies through simplified network management.

Ingate has entered a partnership agreement with Codima. Ingate and Codima will create a vertical offering to provide SIP-based VoIP pre-assessment and post-deployment tools from Codima Toolbox combined with Ingate Firewall and Ingate SIParator products, to enable successful VoIP installations.

The market for Unified Communications is expanding rapidly and the partnership leverages the need for robust SIP-based VoIP solutions. Organizations today are looking for new opportunities to communicate such as Instant Messaging, presence, conferencing capabilities, the ability to share applications and more. At the same time, they are relying on their business-critical communications systems to perform 24/7. Opening up new ways to communicate cost-efficiently, SIP-based VoIP installations benefit from the innovative technologies developed by Codima and Ingate.

snom has integrated of its SIP-based phone portfolio with Sangoma Technologies. After rigorous testing and evaluation, snom's 3xx series VoIP phones and snom m3 wireless IP DECT phone received full certification by Sangoma's lab as interoperable and deployable with its AFT series of cards: A101, A102, A104 and A108 PCI and PCI Express cards.

Acme Packet obtains product certification for the GSM Association’s PathFinder Industry Partner Programme. PathFinder is a GSMA-managed service operated by NeuStar that enhances IPX (IP eXchange) services with destination discovery capabilities for voice and other sessions. The IPX is a managed interconnect service defined by the GSMA, offering secure, high-quality transit services to both mobile and fixed network operators for SIP and other IP-based services.

EnduraTalk is a PC based SIP softphone that uses SIP protocol to make IP calls, has GIPS Advanced Voice Engine embedded, is Private Labeled, Works in all blocked SIP ports, is now fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System.

Network operators and enterprises are increasingly turning to SIP trunking as a way to lower both capital and operating expenses for IP networks, according to the latest report published by Light Reading's VOIP Services Insider.

SIP Trunking: IP's Cheapest Delivery Package examines applications in the SIP trunking market, including benefits of SIP trunking and why it will become a hotter market, as well as SIP trunking marketing strategies. It also examines the next 12 to 18 months for SIP trunking, challenges the market faces, and partnerships, acquisitions, and future investment strategies vendors are considering. Additionally, this report provides a comparative analysis of 14 of the top vendors in the SIP trunk industry.

DIGITALK SIP Application Server has been certified XConnect-Ready having completed interoperability testing based on SIP signaling and ENUM queries with XConnect Federations.

XConnect’s certification ensures DIGITALK customers, such as Telfort, BT, and Cable & Wireless, will be able to rapidly connect to XConnect Peering Federations to reduce the costs of terminating VoIP calls to millions of telephone numbers in the XConnect registry, protect their networks from spam-over-Internet-telephony attacks, and reliably deliver new IP communications services across disparate and often separate mobile, wireline and IP based telephony networks.

Sangoma has partnered with 3CX. The technology partnership will ensure interoperability of 3CX Phone System Version 7.0 for Windows with Sangoma NetBorder Express gateway cards. Through this alliance, 3CX will be able to provide businesses with the option of running their PBX application on a server that has an internally or remotely deployed gateway.

For 3CX, the partnership enables them to execute a key company strategy: To offer an innovative SIP and PSTN-based IP PBX that can deliver a robust level of functionality at a very affordable price for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Sangoma gateway solution is seamlessly integrated with 3CX, ensuring an easy, user friendly implementation.

Raketu releases its RakSIP service. The new service allows users to connect any third party mobile or desktop SIP software client, or IP Phone, or SIP hardware device to Raketu so that they can take advantage of Raketu's RakOut calling rates. From any third party SIP device, Raketu users will be able to login to Raketu and make phone calls no matter what device they are using or where they are in the world.

VoSKY introduces the industry's first Skype-certified, enterprise-grade PBX-to-Skype gateway for SIP networks. Designed to enable medium and large-sized enterprises to maximize the value of their IP-PBX, the new VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX connects an IP-PBX to Skype to dramatically reduce telecom costs and enhance business communications. This latest addition to VoSKY's award-winning PBX-to-Skype gateway family is based on the company's next-generation Linux platform and offers enterprise-grade performance and scalability.