Esnatech has added Location centric Presence to MS live messenger and Skype with its new Presence manager Utility. For its leading Telephony Office-LinX unified communication platform version 7.5. As part of its ongoing goal for interoperability and to offer the richest presence and collaboration integrations in the market, Esnatechs new Presence Utility delivers its Location Centric Communication technology to third party presence applications such as Microsoft Live communication server and now MS Live messenger and the Skype desktop VoIP application. Users can call into the Telephony Office-LinX Unified communication serve and change their status, availability and location over the telephone and automatically the new Presence Utility will propagate these status and presence information to the users other IM clients at the same time.

Bandwidth.com announces that it will be powering all Mitel Solution Centers across the country enabling customers and VARS to preview innovative solutions, including SIP Trunking technology in a live environment. Mitel operates solution centers in five locations; Chicago, Costa Mesa, Atlanta, New York and Herndon (Virginia), all of which will be equipped with Bandwidth.com's SIP Trunking VoIP solution by the end of June.

In conjunction with this project, Edgewater Networks, Inc. and Ingate Systems, both Mitel partners, are providing hardware equipment for the solution centers. Both devices are certified by Bandwidth.com and Mitel for SIP Trunking and offer additional features necessary in most customer installations. Bandwidth.com has been a Mitel partner since September 2006, bundling its IP Trunking technology along with Mitel's industry-leading Unified Communications solutions for the enterprise businesses market throughout the U.S.

Centennial Business Solutions announces that it has selected Citel to supply its Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter for Centennial’s Aptus hosted IP service. This service, combined with Citel’s Portico TVA and the BroadSoft, Inc. BroadWorks enterprise telephony platform, enables enterprises of all sizes to obtain the feature and cost-savings benefits of Voice over IP utilizing their existing PBX telephones and wiring infrastructure.

The solution from Citel and Centennial Business Solutions delivers the features and functionality of VoIP without the costs associated with typical “rip and replace” VoIP migration solutions. With the Portico TVA, enterprises avoid the cost of network upgrades, new handsets, and retraining. PBX handsets connect over existing wiring directly to the Portico TVA, which connects to Centennial’s Aptus network over Ethernet via the SIP protocol.

Truphone selects FreeSWITCH and TelcoBridges' proven, reliable and highly redundant carrier-grade telephony platform to enable VoIP calls on mobile phones. Truphone is a mobile internet network operator that brings VoIP to mobile phones via WiFi using SIP. The three companies have collaborated closely to port FreeSWITCH's open source telephony application code to TelcoBridges' hardware platform and have adapted it successfully to fulfill Truphone's requirements for a media gateway, bridging calls between the Internet, using VoIP, and the PSTN.

"Truphone is an innovative mobile VoIP company requiring carrier-grade solutions to deliver free or VoIP-rate calls from mobile phones. Truphone works wherever there is access to the Internet via WiFi," said James Body, Network Director of Truphone: "Scalability, reliability and support for the AMR voice codec were the key decision criteria for Truphone when selecting our media gateway solution. We found all this with TelcoBridges' platform."

snom announces a strategic partnership with Brekeke. Now, snom’s VoIP phones are interoperable with the recently introduced Brekeke PBX v2.x.

Brekeke’s award-winning product, Brekeke PBX is a full-featured IP-PBX system, easily managed through a Web-based administrative interface. Brekeke PBX is feature rich and fully scalable to meet the needs of any size organization. Brekeke PBX solutions are flexible and affordable, from Basic with traditional telephony features, to Pro which includes a full set of Call Center features.

Simpliphones small business PBX system will now be available through Staples.com nation-wide. Simpliphones is the first in the telecom industry to create an "all-in-one-box" PBX system that can be set up by the buyer without enlisting expensive technicians or VAR help. Each Simpliphones package comes complete with a full featured, high quality PBX system, Voice over IP capability (VoIP), robust voice mail (500 hours), auto attendants, Control Center and all the other features needed by small business. Simpliphones can also grow with company needs by adding additional expansion cards and telephones without on-site technical help. Simpliphones 8-phone, 16-phone and 24-phone products available on Staples.com can all easily expand up to 40 phones, 20 lines and 10 VoIP ports.

Zarlink announces that it is demonstrating its latest hands-free voice processing products with 5V Technologies at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2007.

The Zarlink and 5V Technologies solution combines their respective voice enhancement and IP phone expertise to allow equipment manufacturers to rapidly evaluate and develop cost-effective IP phones sets supporting high-quality speakerphone capability. The solution integrates Zarlink's high-performance acoustic echo canceller technology and 5VT's cost-effective ARM9-based VoIP SOC (5VT13XX Series). This solution is available as a reference design for qualified customers.

Zarlink's ZL 38004 voice processing platform helps solve quality concerns that have plagued voice-over-IP equipment. The platform is based on the same technologies currently deployed in telecom applications, where voice quality is an absolute requirement. This proven expertise allows hands-free and IP-based communication equipment manufacturers to ensure reliable voice performance.

AudioCodes announces the release of its VoIPerfect solution for WiMAX CPE applications, adapted for Intel WiMAX Connection 2250 (previously codenamed "Rosedale 2") chipset.

AudioCodes provides a complete and ready to use toolkit including a hardware reference design for a VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) and a Linux-based SIP VoIP application, fully integrated and tested with the Intel WiMAX Connection 2250. The VoIPerfect architecture, which has been deployed for over 12 years, includes a DSP firmware, media processing VoicePacketizer stack, SIP stack and call control layer for a complete SIP VoIP application. Additionally, an infrastructure is provided to allow the configuration and management of the stand-alone SIP VoIP application from the user's main application.

SIPphone announces a free service that lets users receive international calls from any phone worldwide. Local numbers, commonly sold for $5 to $30 per month for each number, are now being offered as a free service in over 20 countries. Using free local numbers, mobile and landline phones can directly call any computer for the price of a local call. Users can also receive calls on their mobile or landline phones using call forwarding.

Free local numbers offer significant cost savings over traditional local number services. For example, to setup the same international local numbers with Skype could cost a user $100’s per month. SIPphone now offers local numbers around the world for free. Users can even assign multiple local numbers in multiple countries. See a complete list of countries at gizmocall.com/countries.

At gizmocall.com, users can assign a local telephone number to any mobile or landline phone worldwide, for free. When a local number is called, the incoming call can either be answered on the user’s computer or from a user's mobile or landline phone when they enable call forwarding.

TalkPlus introduces TalkPlus Country Connect and TalkPlus Global, two new services that dramatically reduce the cost of international calls to and from the United States.

TalkPlus Country Connect is a subscription service that gives you access to international phone numbers that ring on the phone of your choice in the US – mobile, home, or work phone. When your friends call that number, they only pay the cost of the local or in-country call and you pay the TalkPlus Country Connect rate of 2.7 cents per minute. Activated in less than 5 minutes, the service features advanced voicemail and carrier-grade voice quality. With no download required, you can sign up immediately online or over the phone.

TalkPlus Global lets you make international calls from your mobile or landline phone. You simply enter your phone number at www.TalkPlus.com, and the number of the person you would like to call. TalkPlus calls you first, then the person you’re calling, connecting you both. Calls are activated on the web, but executed over the regular phone line, so no mobile application is required and call quality is the high level that you expect from your voice carrier. As a prepaid service, there are no contracts, monthly fees, or hidden charges.

Jangl is unveiling an easy-to-use service that lets you call anyone with an email address, anywhere in the world.

Jangl gives everyone – from social network friends and IM buddies, to auction or classifieds buyers and sellers, to bloggers, indie media, and their audiences – a more flexible, safe, manageable, and inexpensive way to talk by phone. The new Jangl service, available today in 31 countries, is the first to connect people online to people on their phones, without the need for headsets, downloads, or installations.

With billions of email addresses and over a billion mobile phones worldwide, the potential market impact for a range of industries – social networks, online media, and mobile communications among them – is staggering.

Pingtel announces that The University of the Arts has selected Pingtel’s SIPxchange ECS to support 3,500 phones for faculty, staff, and students at its Philadelphia campus. The SIPxchange rollout begins from the student residential buildings that are connected to the campus gigabit backbone and will ultimately include all administrative and academic properties and offices currently served by The University of the Arts’ Fujitsu9600 ES PBX system. The new all SIP solution will provide The University of the Arts with a robust, redundant VoIP system that is easy to use and manage, and costs that are drastically lower than that of the competition.

“We looked at similar systems from a variety of vendors including Cisco and Avaya, but were quickly put off by their high costs, which were almost double that of SIPxchange ECS,” said Jeffrey Basoff, Director of Network Services at The University of the Arts. “We also considered implementing Digium’s version of Asterisk, but it does not scale as well as SIPxchange for the enterprise deployment. We have a small open-source Asterisk environment in production where some convenient features will be utilized and integrated with SIPxchange.”

VoIPVoIP.com is designed for the US business and residential markets which features one VoIP account providing VoIP solutions anywhere in the US with or without a VoIP device.

VoIPVoIP.com enables customers use their VoIP service like Vonage to replace their phone company at home and at the office, or like Skype to make free phone/video calls with other VoIPVoIP users, or like Truphone to make free calls with their mobile phones, or like PennyTalk as a phone card when high-speed Internet connection is not available. What's more, they can receive calls under any phone number from 30+ countries regardless of where they live.

Vocalscape announces that they have signed a contract with NTeL.

The Vocalscape calling card solution will bring a number of benefits and enhancements to NTeL in a phased approach. Initial improvements will allow NTeL to better understand how customers use their system by providing detailed records and reports.

Phase two will allow NTeL's customers to recharge their calling cards online so they won't have to visit a retail outlet in order to purchase more minutes. Additionally, NTeL will have even more control over their system through a management interface that allows them to have and control multiple rates and packages as well as Least Cost Routing.

GlobalRoam has used TelcoBridges' telecom platform as the key building block to enable an innovative application called gCroix, allowing mobile phone users to talk and send SMS text messages to their contacts on Internet who use VoIP and instant messaging clients such as Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger.

When communicating with VoIP contacts on the Internet, a mobile user simply registers a contact's userid with the gCroix system to obtain a telephone number associated with that contact. The mobile user then dials the new telephone number to directly reach the VoIP contact on Internet. gCroix bridges voice calls between mobile networks and VoIP providers such as Google Talk, or any other provider registered with the service, anywhere in the world.