Fonality announces the Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification (FtOCC) workshop, the first in a series of training and certification courses for the trixbox application platform. trixbox, the largest and fastest growing Asterisk-based platform and community, is quickly becoming the de facto standard for open source telephony. The FtOCC program will provide the tools and knowledge necessary to successfully implement trixbox in a business environment.

“Telephony is in the midst of a sea change and sea changes mean huge opportunity. But capitalizing on opportunity requires training and education,” said Chris Lyman, Fonality founder and CEO. “The FtOCC courses will quickly teach attendees how to begin earning real money from trixbox and Asterisk.”

Pulvermedia announces that it has expanded its list of media partners, to augment the array of activities planned to help VON exhibitors reach the largest and most qualified attendee audience anywhere in the IP communications industry.

"We're looking forward to the best Spring VON event ever, and in the weeks leading up to the show, we plan to do everything we can to help our vendors prepare their storylines, and get their messages out to their customers and prospects," said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "Our media partners play a critical role in the promotion of the event, and in much of the business that gets done during, and after the show, and we're thrilled with the impressive collection of media partners we've assembled for Spring VON."

Nuvoiz launches the company's first products, the Nuvoiz SoftPhone and the Nuvoiz VoIP Network Controller at the DEMO 07 conference in Palm Desert, California.

"Nuvoiz's CEO and founder Jin Koh has a focused and passionate vision for VoIP in the enterprise, particularly mobile VoIP, and we are thrilled to have him launch Nuvoiz's first products here with us," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO.

Enterprise Solutions for VoIP

While gaining in popularity among consumers, VoIP in enterprise settings is often problematic. In the enterprise, VoIP must meet more extensive user and network management requirements especially in the areas of mobility and integration into enterprise networks.

Nuvoiz believes it has successfully addressed these requirements with a complete VoIP system that finally enables wide scale adoption of VoIP in the enterprise.

"A consumer product like Skype just doesn't work for the enterprise," said Chong-Jin Koh, founder and CEO of Nuvoiz, Inc. "Enterprise users want a VoIP application with terrific sound quality that is IM-based, intuitive, and mobile, while enterprise IT executives demand a scalable, secure, and easy-to-deploy VoIP system. Nuvoiz is the first to deliver on both imperatives."

CMP Technology announced the highlights of VoiceCon Spring 2007, which will feature an expanded program featuring systems, software and applications payoffs, which offer attendees more insight and analysis than ever before on migrating and deploying IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications. The VoiceCon Spring program also has increased the number of sessions by more than 40 percent, and will present more vendors on the VoiceCon show floor than ever. VoiceCon Spring 2007 will be held March 5-8 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando. Registration for the event is now open at www.voicecon.com/spring/registration.

Pulvermedia announces that the 11th annual Spring VON Conference & Expo, taking place March 19-22 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, is tracking to be the biggest Spring VON in the company's history. Spring VON has increased in size each year, and the upcoming March event is tracking to be the largest Spring VON ever, bolstered by the presence of more than 300 vendors, 250 speakers, and the ever-expanding Video on the Net event -- which runs concurrently with VON, in the adjoining Marriott hotel in San Jose.

VON attendees are recognized to be the leaders in the IP communications industry. Independent survey data from market research and consulting firm Savatar, suggests that more than 84% of the VON attendee base has purchasing authority and plans to spend more than $30 billion on IP communications products and services within the next year.

Natural Convergence announced a partnership with BorderWare Technologies. The partners are working together to provide simple, scalable security solutions tailored for service providers to target the Small Business Market.

According to Eastern Management Group, in the United States there are 32 million key systems, with the average age of key systems being 12 years. This means that key systems are ripe for replacement and a replacement wave is quickly gaining momentum in the SBM.

As there are different types of service providers who are beginning to address the huge and largely underserved SBM, a one-size-fits-all approach neither works for small businesses nor for service providers. Regardless of the size of service provider, solutions must be reliable and secure and, more importantly, must fit each of their deployment models.

The IMS Forum, the industry association recognized as the voice of IP convergence, completed on January 19th its first IMS Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in Durham, N.H.

The event was attended by Ditech, Empirix, Ixia, Reef Point Systems, NE Technologies, Starent Networks, Tektronix, Tekelec, Sonus, Valid8, and sponsored by Empirix, Ditech, Sonus, GlobalTouch Telecom, Trendium and VOX.

January’s Plugfest is the first in a series of open IMS Forum Plugfests, to be hosted by the IMS Forum at the UNH IOL, which will run through 2008. The events will establish industry-recognized certification for IMS products and services that have achieved the highest level of interoperability.

A second IMS Plugfest is being planned for the second quarter of 2007. This event will build upon the established methodologies and reference environment and continue to grow IMS applications-specific tests for the triple and quadruple play over mobile, cable and fix networks.

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East 2007

AccessLine Communications

WHO: Jerry Knight, AccessLine Communications’ CTO, will participate in a panel discussion with industry executives from companies such as Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and GrandCentral Communications at the 2007 Internet Telephony Conference and Expo East.

Jerry Knight is a leader in the development of innovative communications technologies. While with Plessy, Sprint International and Infonet, he helped pioneer packet-switching in general and one of the earliest packet-voice initiatives based on a proprietary variant of X.25 and ADPCM, as well implemented some of the earliest and largest private cell-based voice and data networks in Western Europe. His protocols laid the foundation for today's telecommunications infrastructure and services. Today, he is the catalyst for AccessLine’s development of hosted VoIP services, leading to its current ranking in the top tier of next-generation service providers for the business market.

ClearOne announced that their market-leading audio technologies and state-of-the-art conferencing products are being showcased at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East in Ft. Lauderdale, from January 23-26. Some of the unique VoIP-capable products on display at the show include the Company’s personal conferencing products, the Chat 50 and Chat 150. ClearOne will also showcase their VoIP tabletop conferencing solutions, the MAXAttach IP and MAX IP.

ClearOne’s Chat 50 is the award-winning personal audio peripheral that connects to a wide variety of devices and provides crystal clear, hands-free audio communications. Its unmatched full-duplex capability enables users to simultaneously speak and listen with high-performance two-way audio. The crossover technology in the Chat 50, which allows it to connect to PCs, Macs, cell phones, telephones, and desktop video conferencing devices, enables hands-free communications in new ways that have not previously been possible. It also provides rich audio playback for music, gaming and other audio applications. It is slightly larger than a deck of cards, making it a truly one-of-a-kind go-anywhere personal conferencing device.

The Information & Communications Technology Group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its Exclusive 2007 Quarterly Webinar on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 12:00 p.m. CST / 1:00 p.m. EST.

The foundation for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) peering resides in the belief that there is no reason for traffic to leave the Internet protocol (IP) network. If traffic must be handed off to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), then VoIP-based providers are disadvantaged by not being able to offer certain services such as video calling and are consequently forced to compete based on pricing rather than features. Moreover, additional money is being paid out to time-division multiplexing (TDM) based service providers for interconnection and toll charges.

Highlights of the briefing include a discussion of current trends and benefits associated with VoIP peering, the VoIP ecosystem, ENUM and major market participants.

March 13-14 2007
New York Palace hotel, Budapest

With VoIP finally reaching the mainstream, the telecommunications industry is being revolutionised.

Recent developments in VoIP enabled mobile handsets and wireless VoIP are driving the market in new directions and the Global VoIP Strategies 2007 event will feature presentations, case studies and panel discussions covering the latest challenges in VoIP including:

• VoIP and triple / quadruple play
• Dual-mode handset development
• Global regulatory environment and implications
• Voice peering services
• VoIP specific customer offerings

More than 130 cool companies with hot products are set to forecast the future of business, consumer, lifestyle and digital technologies for work, home and play to reporters and industry analysts pre-registered to attend the first ShowStoppers press event of 2007.

ShowStoppers at CES 2007 takes place Monday, Jan. 8, 2007, 6-10 p.m. at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada -- immediately after the exhibit floor closes on the first day of the massive Consumer Electronics Show.

Nearly 1,400 reporters, editors, columnists, industry analysts and selected investment firms are signed up to attend, setting a new record for the invitation-only, private event.

"I don't schedule interviews. I do ShowStoppers," said Dick DeBartolo, "the Giz Wiz," ABC World News Now.

Fusion will showcase its Efonica VoIP products and services at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from January 8th through January 12th.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology and America's largest annual tradeshow of any kind. The 2006 show attracted approximately 140,000 attendees with 2,700 exhibitors. Fusion will be demonstrating its full suite of Efonica VoIP services, including the recently launched Mobilink service - the first service that allows consumers to make free in-network VoIP calls from their mobile phones without the need for special hardware or Internet access.

"Fusion is very excited to bring its revolutionary Efonica VoIP products and services to the consumer electronics marketplace this year. For the first time, Fusion will be among the CES retailers from around the world, and we intend to use this opportunity to broaden our retail distribution network for Efonica's premium VoIP products", said Matthew Rosen, President and CEO of Fusion.

China VoIP & Digital Telecom, Inc. subsidiary announces it will present at the ninth annual China VoIP Conference and Expo. The prestigious industry event will take place May 23 & 24 in Beijing.

Jinan Yinquan, a technology company that offers VoIP services in the People’s Republic of China, has been developing telecommunication solutions for China’s burgeoning Internet industry for more than half a decade.

Li Kunwu, President and CEO of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc. is scheduled to address the telecommunications summit.

Technology Marketing Corporation announced that its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2007, taking place next month in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, will contain a series of educational sessions designed to help businesses maintain business continuity when natural disasters, or other disruptive forces, strike their area.

The conference will be held January 23-26, 2007 at the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.