Trisys announces REPLAY VoIP, a software-only, SIP-based solution for recording phone conversations in an IP PBX environment. The latest in Trisys’ family of voice recording solutions, REPLAY VoIP is cost-effective, powerful, easy to implement and integrate, and simple to use. With its friendly Web-based interface, authorized personnel can search and retrieve call recordings based on a variety of search criteria.

REPLAY VoIP creates Call Detail records from SIP headers. This call control information is recorded for all calls accessible to the recording PC. The voice recordings are constructed from RTP packets, and are recorded for designated extensions.

Microsoft has selected Junction Networks as a preferred SIP trunking and gateway service provider for its Microsoft Response Point small business phone system. The Response Point SP 1 will feature services from Junction Networks pre-configured for simple account activation and maintenance.

Microsoft chose Junction Networks for the provider’s strict adherence to SIP standards, its commitment to customer satisfaction and for its established phone service for small to medium-sized businesses. Response Point customers will enjoy the convenience of Junction Networks’ simple account set-up process: The SIP-based voice service from Junction Networks is pre-configured in the Response Point Administrator software. A small business needs only a working Internet connection to acquire service and lines in minutes.

Cox Business is the first multiple system cable operator to join the SIP Forum , further demonstrating the communications provider's commitment to advanced voice services. The SIP Forum's mission is to advance the adoption of SIP-based products and services through collaborative working groups with representatives from leading IP communications companies.

Cox Business launched SIP-based Cox Business VoiceManager in November, 2007. The feature-rich platform integrates existing desktop phones, PCs and wireless devices and can scale to deliver productivity, mobility, business continuity and unified messaging solutions to small businesses and large enterprises. Cox Business VoiceManager is currently available to business customers in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Oklahoma City, Okla., Omaha, Neb., and Wichita, Kan. The company plans to offer this fully hosted and managed IP telephony service in several additional markets by the end of 2008.

sipgate announces the immediate availability of a free application for the iPhone, which, for the first time allows consumers to natively use any VoIP service which uses the industry standard SIP. Consumers can now use their iPhones to make and receive VoIP calls from their devices over a Wi-Fi Internet connection using a wide variety of VoIP providers. The VoIP-enabling software is available from sipgate's website.

With the sipgate service, users can dial any number without using minutes from a wireless plan. This is particularly useful when calling to or from other countries, as call costs can be as high as $3 per minute. However, when using a VoIP service, costs can be kept as low as $0.01 per minute. sipgate is giving new users 111 free minutes for domestic calls for users to test out VoIP usage on the device.

Another benefit of sipgate is that consumers can use any domestic or international number provided by their VoIP service on their iPhone. This means that they can make and receive calls from different domestic and international numbers, all on a single device.

Digium and Fanstel announce a partnership that will help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products. Fanstel SIP telephones are now “Digium|Asterisk Certified,” allowing companies that want the flexibility and cost-savings of a VoIP platform based on Asterisk Business Edition to benefit from full-featured Fanstel telephones.

Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium’s family of software and hardware appliances, including AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox.

snom announces the first open, standards-based native Office Communication SIP telephone. The snom OCS edition will be introduced to the public for the first time at CeBIT Australia, booth C58, Sydney, 20-22 May 2008. With the snom OCS edition, users can integrate any of snom’s 3xx series VoIP phones with Microsoft Office Communication Server providing them with advanced communications features of Microsoft OCS. To call someone, the user simply has to click on the active directory and the computer can place the call. Furthermore, users can search for their contacts and view their status and send files directly out of OCS. Thus, snom OCS edition is the first VoIP phone to provide professional business communication features like VPN through open standards.

The SIP Forum proudly announces it has experienced a dramatic surge in membership since the beginning of 2008, with both dues-paying, corporate Full Membership and individual, “Participant” membership experiencing a 100% growth rate compared to the last quarter of 2007. Currently, the SIP Forum has 46 Full Member companies and more than 5,000 individual members from around the world.

According to Marc Robins, SIP Forum Managing Director and President of SIP Forum, “The recent surge in our membership ranks is a clear signal that the work of the Forum is resonating with equipment vendors, service providers and developers of SIP-based IP communications products and services. Indeed, one of the reasons for our recent growth is the expanding support and momentum behind the SIP Forum's SIP trunking initiative called SIPconnect, which provides an industry-approved set of rules and guidelines for accomplishing trouble-free, direct IP peering between SIP-enabled IP-PBXs and SIP-enabled VoIP service providers.”

Research and Markets announces the addition of "SIP Enabled Servers and IP PBX Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014" to their offering.

SIP based IP PBX markets are poised for significant growth as people move to purchase IP based servers for communications. Significant pent up demand will be converted to sales as systems are put on the market that permit implementation of voice over IP that works. Voice over IP systems purchases have been postponed for ten years or more, waiting for technology that works. VoIP technology finally works.

Velocity Networks now offer additional value to their corporate clients through its hosted VoIP phone service. Velocity Networks has combined their IP network expertise with solutions provided by CommPartners and Transera to provide enterprise grade VoIP services and call center solutions for business customers.

Voice Over IP is a much more cost effective means of transmitting voice vs. traditional phone services and is packaged as flat rate plans vs. the pay per minute plans of traditional telephone companies. Additionally, Hosted VoIP provides business phone system features like voicemail, IVR, voicemail to e-mail, hunt groups, etc without requiring expensive PBX equipment. These services are often referred to as Hosted PBX services and have made phone features traditionally reserved for large enterprises available to small and medium sized businesses.

Sipcall.com launches Hipsip providing Skype, SIP and EmailCall from any mobile phone. Hipsip, the new mobile communications community from Sipcall, was launched today. Hipsip is a mobile VoIP service that allows calls to Skype and SIP contacts from any mobile phone, and does not require the installation of an application on the mobile phone. The browser-based Skype and SIP calling service is initially available in 7 countries.

Hipsip was created to make cost effective Internet calls available to anyone with a mobile phone, regardless of model or make. Consumers today wish to make free or inexpensive Skype and SIP calls from their mobile phones. Hipsip provides VoIP on mobile, without the need for an advanced 3G or Wifi mobile phone.

SimplyWiFi allows you to chat and make free internet calls or low cost regular calls. It works wherever there is a broadband connection; offices, residential areas, airports, cafés, hotels and public hot spots. No laptop, headset or cables needed.

SimplyWiFi is a small and light weight phone with high audio quality and an extraordinary talk time of 10 hours and 250 hours stand-by time. Smart navigation and a simple set-up make it easy to use and easy to set up. All functions can be configured on your phone by the operator before delivery. SimplyWiFi enables you to make encrypted calls over a radio link, handle your contacts and send instant messages, besides the traditional functions of mobile phones.

The build-in WiFi functionality includes all common features such as DHCP, authentication and encryption.

With its flexible open source Linux platform, SimplyWiFi phones can be designed to fit most VoIP software and technical standards, as well as specific industrial design requirements.

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Radware and IPTEGO announce that the two companies have entered into a strategic original equipment manufacturer agreement to ensure carrier-grade high availability, scalability and security for SIP-based VoIP networks. The Radware and IPTEGO partnership has resulted in the creation of a more complete and robust SIP-based solution. Using Radware's SIP Director, a fully SIP-aware intelligent ADC solution as an integral part of IPTEGO's SIP-based VoIP framework, enables IPTEGO to offer a more cost-effective carrier-grade solution that meets carrier requirements for scalability and greater interoperability integrating service availability, performance and security.

Intelligent communications solutions from Avaya attained SIPconnect Compliant certification from the SIP Forum, a leading independent IP communications industry association comprised of individuals and companies who contribute to the development of global IP communications based on the SIP standard.

SIPconnect certification provides enterprise customers with validation that Avaya Communication Manager, the company's software platform for IP communications, and Avaya SIP Enablement Services, which enable companies to take advantage of SIP-based connectivity to public networks of service providers, achieved SIPconnect compliance for SIP trunking.

Reignmaker Communications says customers will have clear calling when using its newly launched SIP Trunking services. And they are backing up their claim with a 60-day no-risk guarantee -- the industry's strongest satisfaction guarantee. Reignmaker Communications has partnered with Edgewater Networks, utilizing the company's EdgeView VoIP Support System and EdgeMarc network appliances as mandatory components to Reignmaker Communications SIP Trunking.

Voxalot launches VoxPremium a service plan that adds a wealth of sophisticated calling features, as well as inbound calling from PSTN phones, to its basic offer of value-added services, expanded free calling range and management tools.

Voxalot is designed for users who subscribe to one or more SIP-based Internet voice service (or VoIP) plans, enabling them to switch plans without changing their published contact information. Users also have the ability to route outgoing calls through any one of multiple providers, choosing the best-quality or least-cost provider for different destinations. Members make these choices by setting up “Smart Call Rules” on Voxalot’s Web site. The service’s free features include advanced telephony tools and free calling not only to Voxalot members, but to subscribers of 2,000 other SIP-based voice services.