Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "IP Telephony: Deploying VoIP Protocols and IMS Infrastructure, 2nd Edition" to their offering.

All you need to know about deploying VoIP protocols in one comprehensive and highly practical reference - Now updated with coverage on SIP and the IMS infrastructure

This book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the technology behind Internet Telephony, providing essential information to Network Engineers, Designers, and Managers who need to understand the protocols. Furthermore, the author explores the issues involved in the migration of existing telephony infrastructure to an IP - based real time communication service. Assuming a working knowledge of IP and networking, it addresses the technical aspects of real-time applications over IP. Drawing on his extensive research and practical development experience in VoIP from its earliest stages, the author provides an accessible reference to all the relevant standards and cutting-edge techniques in a single resource.

Mirial is glad to announce that Mirial ClearSea can be seamlessly used also on iPad 2, taking full advantage of the new front facing camera with the possibility of switching between cameras even during the video call.

ClearSea is the first professional video conferencing solution providing a software client for iOS devices, enabling organization to connect any Pc, Mac, Android or iOS device and any standards-based H.323/SIP equipment. It allows to integrate traditional room based video communication systems or to deploy a new HD desktop and mobile solution without the need to invest in expensive infrastructure.

GENBAND announces that the SIP Business Trunking softswitch solution offered on its market-leading GENBAND C20 Converged Softswitch has achieved interoperability qualification with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Additionally, GENBAND announced that its C20 softswitch is an integral component of the Swisscom SIP Trunking Solution which was recently certified for use with the Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider, announced last month that Microsoft certification of its VoIP Gate service enables the Company to offer its corporate customers a complete IP-based communications solution that is both innovative and reliable.

Versadial Solutions announce the release of SIP trunk capabilities for its VS Logger call recording system. Call data can now be captured directly from the SIP trunk, including start/stop times, caller ID or dialed number and other details.

The Versadial recording solutions are designed to help companies in a variety of industries, including public safety and 911 emergency response, financial services, contact centers, health care, legal services, and all types of small and medium sized businesses. Compatible with business communications system providers, including Avaya, Cisco, NEC, Alcatel, Nortel, Panasonic, Siemens, Mitel, ShoreTel and Toshiba. VS Logger and Adutante applications can help companies to improve risk mitigation, quality assurance, customer retention, dispute resolution, regulatory compliance requirements and other critical business concerns.

IntelePeer announces its SIP Trunking services have been qualified for interoperability with Microsoft Lync 2010. Formerly known as Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2, Lync is the next generation of Microsoft's Unified Communications services with feature-rich multimodal communications capabilities.

The qualification allows IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, to provide a turnkey SIP Trunking solution for enterprises using Microsoft Lync by delivering a seamless connection to any Lync or OCS deployment federated via IntelePeer's global SuperRegistry directory as well as to any Public Switched Telephone Network communications device reached through IntelePeer's Peering Grid services. IntelePeer's services, available through the company's channel partners, are interoperable with any Lync deployment and are consistent and supportable in accordance with Microsoft's rigorous standards.

LiveVox announces the availability of a cloud predictive dialer with virtually unlimited line capacity for telesales call centers. The patented LiveVox platform can scale outbound call processing in real time to maximize agent talk time, while predictive pacing controls abandonment rates.

Unlike managed services or point-solution competitors that limit line capacity, LiveVox is a fully burstable SIP-platform delivered solely from the cloud. This enables multi-site, multi-source workgroup creation on demand and the ability to scale processing as needed to ensure agent productivity. The solution integrates ACD, IVR, call recording and business analytics for seamless call blending and global call routing.

Acme Packet announces that Aspect has deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Director enterprise session border controller to enable the SIP trunking connection between Aspect’s Microsoft Lync 2010 UC&C environment and Verizon’s IP Trunking service. The Net-Net SD was recently qualified under Microsoft’s Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program with Microsoft’s Lync 2010 Server and Verizon’s IP Trunking service.

Aspect helps organizations apply Microsoft unified communications and collaboration to enable its customers to achieve optimal results through enhanced business processes across the enterprise and in the contact center. Aspect also leverages Microsoft Lync globally for all of its own voice and voicemail services, audio and web conferencing, instant messaging and presence. Aspect was among the first of Verizon’s and Microsoft’s mutual customers to benefit from effectively employing Microsoft unified communications applications across Verizon’s IP Trunking solution for more cost-effective and high-performance application delivery.

SoTel Systems has introduced their "SoTel Simple" Program to the U.S. Marketplace. The program enables small- and medium-sized businesses to receive new VoIP telephony or Unified Communications platform equipment and business telephones included when they sign a SoTel SIP connection contract. This program offers companies the opportunity to easily upgrade their phone system, while delivering new technology, more robust solutions with industry-leading service at a lower cost than they were previously paying with their prior dial tone service provider.

In order to provide more intuitive and quicker quotes for their end users, SoTel's VARs can utilize a single pricing and quoting tool hosted on SoTel's dealer portal. Additionally, SoTel can also provide their VARs pre-configuration of the telephone system allowing the VARs a simpler method of installing systems for an additional charge.

Grandstream Networks and Broadvox jointly announce the interoperability and certification of Grandstream’s newest GXP21xx/14xx series enterprise HD IP phones and the GXV3175 next-generation IP Multimedia Phone on Broadvox’s GO!VBX- a hosted IP PBX platform. With this announcement, the organizational and financial investment SMB and Enterprise customers make when migrating to Unified Communications has become easier and more affordable to implement. VARs and integrators can now seize business growth opportunities and the guaranteed financial advantages of installing hosted IP solutions for business customers disinterested in on-site phone system solutions.

Grandstream Networks announces that its SIP-based phones are now interoperable with sipgate, a pioneering VoIP service provider in Europe. Grandstream’s GXP1450 and GXP21xx series of Enterprise HD IP telephones were successfully tested and certified on sipgate One, a full-featured, Internet-based phone service that comes complete with a free telephone number, no set-up costs and no monthly minimums. Resellers, integrators and SMBs/SMEs worldwide seeking a high quality yet affordable, easy-to-setup, easy-to-use phone service that replaces or supplements existing landlines can use sipgate One VoIP service and Grandstream’s SIP HD phones from anywhere in the world.

Sipera Systems will be conducting live demonstrations of its SLiC smartphone security system at the Enterprise Connect 2011 conference in Orlando, February 28 - March 2, 2011.

The company also announced SLiC's integration with CounterPath's Bria iPhone Edition application, a SIP-based phone for Apple iPhone and iPod touch that uses Wi-Fi or 3G connections to make and receive calls.

Sipera will be conducting the demonstrations in its Gaylord Palms Convention Center booth, #628, Cisco booth #1009, and Presidio Networked Solutions booth #1037.

Brekeke has confirmed interoperability between JeraSoft VoIP Carrier Suite and Brekeke’s telephony platform products, including Brekeke SIP Server and Brekeke PBX. JeraSoft VCS serves telecom operators worldwide with customer usage of up to 500 million minutes per month. This new interoperability between our products allows service providers that use Brekeke’s platform products to add billing capability with minimal deployment time.

Contributing to truth and business development in VoIP and SIP-related business is a quest of The SIP School, Techistan online magazine, DIDXchange and thousands of others who will participate in Enterprise Connect Feb. 29 - March 3, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. The trio will use this opportunity, of the gathering of brightest minds, organizations and ideas, to share results of the complete cycle of months of systematic observation, measurement, experiment, formulation, testing and modification of the industry's experience with SIP.

One of the main themes of the conference program will be SIP and SIP Trunking, which is the focal point in The SIP School's inquiry and study, but also Mobility, Unified Communications, The Cloud and Virtualization, and Planning and Implementation of IP Telephony.

Tone Software announced the immediate availability of SIP management through its ReliaTel VoIP quality of service and Converged Infrastructure Management software. The SIP management facility strengthens the ReliaTel core competency of managing voice quality, network service levels and the physical voice and data infrastructure from end to end, across virtually any convergence technology mix.

With SIP trunking permeating corporate telephony networks at a rapid pace, SIP technology is becoming a foundation for deploying and implementing unified communications, mobility, collaboration and telepresence applications. Further, SIP trunks are often justified based on expected cost-savings for enterprises. As a result, effectively managing SIP trunks is imperative to ensure the service levels of the SIP transport layer, the quality of voice traffic as it enters the corporate network, and the expected financial ROI.

After the recent launch of ClearSea Client for iPhone and iPod touch 4th generation Mirial announces that iPhone 3GS and iPad have been added to the list of certified devices for Mirial ClearSea.

ClearSea is the first professional video conferencing software including a client for iOS devices that enables organization to connect every Pc, Mac, Android or iOS device and any standards-based H.323/SIP equipment. It allows to integrate traditional room based video communication systems or to deploy a new HD desktop and mobile solution without the need to invest in expensive infrastructure.