NextAlarm.com announced at the 2007 International CES that it is offering VoIPAlarm. The company also explained features of its value-added reseller (VAR) program.

The VoIPAlarm program targets alarm companies that want to expand their products and services without switching customers over to a different service or changing equipment. VoIPAlarm allows alarm companies to seamlessly integrate NextAlarm’s unique patented monitoring services into their existing product and service offerings.

“VoIPAlarm provides alarm companies an Internet/VoIP solution to their customers,” said Alex Elliot, NextAlarm.com’s founder and CEO. “In addition, the program allows the alarm company to maintain full control of their accounts at a lower cost than cellular back-up systems.”

Aksys Networks announces its KONNECT Office Phone System, the first serverless full-featured telephone system for small offices that operates standalone, requiring no additional equipment. The simplicity of connecting multiple offices together will transform small businesses.

KONNECT fills an important need for businesses seeking the benefits of VoIP, but that are wary of business interruptions. Most small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) aren’t willing to rely solely on Internet connections for their phones, because cable modem and ADSL services experience outages from time to time, which can prevent or terminate important calls. In addition, many offices aren’t ready yet to trust their main inbound number to VoIP technology. With KONNECT, offices can continue using their existing telco lines and use VoIP for free interoffice calls, selecting either VoIP or the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for outbound calls. In this manner, KONNECT offers offices the best of the old and new.

LignUp Corporation announces that Color Broadband has expanded its wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, which are powered by the LignUp Communications Application Server.

Color Broadband, Southern California’s leading business VoIP and wireless broadband provider, offers a full suite of solutions for delivering data and voice over a hybrid WiMax and WireLine Broadband network. Based on its retail success providing LignUp-powered VoIP services direct to business customers, the company is now offering wholesale VoIP services to building management firms (eSmart program) and service providers (eVoice program). The services create new revenue streams for both Color Broadband and its wholesale partners.

Lingo and American Telecom Services announce the launch of a program to sell Lingo's broadband phone service bundled with American Telecom Services' Digital Clear Internet phones through office superstores and mass market retail channels.

Lingo offers several competitive and high quality Internet phone service rates plans for consumers and small businesses. The first bundle to be offered through leading national retailers will be the new and recently Lingo certified ATS X10001P Digital Clear DECT 6.0 Internet phones and the X10002P extensions. The combination of ATS' Digital Clear Internet phone and Lingo's broadband phone service plans offer consumers the ability to save hundreds of dollars a year on their total phone expense using interference-free cordless technology. Lingo and ATS intend to expand their service offerings and Digital Clear telephones to provide consumers and small businesses with a wide selection of offers and savings.

SIPBox announced it has become a certified Polycom reseller. SIPBox recommends the use of Polycom VoIP phones in all of its telephony deployments, specializing in Asterisk, the industry’s first open source telephony platform.

“We are eager to continue our growth in the open source market through our relationship with SIPBox,” said Jim Kruger, Vice President, Voice Marketing at Polycom. “As a value-added-reseller, SIPBox is making significant progress in the VoIP market and together we hope to bring our customers the total VoIP solution and support needed in a fast growing enterprise.”

Atreus Systems announced that Shift Networks have successfully deployed Atreus' solution in twelve days to automate the provisioning and management of its business VoIP service. In addition to VoIP, Shift is leveraging Atreus' library of provisioning modules for advanced IP services, to accelerate the delivery of their self-service Microsoft Exchange offering.

"We selected Atreus based on their robust functionality, proven deployment experience, and unmatched ability to operationalize their customers within weeks," said Erik Lagerway, chief technology officer, Shift Networks. "By simplifying complex VoIP provisioning flows and enabling customer self-service and administration, Atreus is helping us streamline a sophisticated suite of call applications for our business customers. As we grow our customer base with VoIP and advanced IP services, Atreus will continue to help Shift reduce the cost and complexity of managing our service offerings."

Verso announced that VoxTelecom has expanded its Verso Clarent VoIP solution with an SS7 interconnect system.

The solution is combined with a session border controller for IP-based interconnection to existing Verso softswitching technology located with the incumbent fixed line operator as well as South African mobile operators.

Microsoft opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, to 2,500 IT professionals. Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology into existing telephony infrastructure, eliminating the need for expensive network overhauls and also extending the useful life of existing investments. The new voice server will also allow workers to instantly launch a phone call from 2007 Microsoft Office applications, such as Office Word 2007, Office Outlook 2007 or Office Communicator, by simply clicking on a colleague's name to determine his or her availability and initiate a person-to-person or multiparty call.

CounterPath Solutions has earned certified status in Microsoft Corp.'s Partner Program recognizing CounterPath's expertise and total impact in the technology marketplace.

As a Microsoft Certified Partner with an ISV/Software Solutions Competency, CounterPath has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customer needs. Microsoft Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, which give them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

CounterPath's SIP softphones, including the eyeBeam 1.5 softphone, and softphone SDKs (Software Development Kits) provide VoIP, Video over IP, IM (Instant Messaging) and Presence functionality. They can be preconfigured to our customer's VoIP service and either co-branded or private labeled, making them the leading choice among VoIP service providers and manufacturers.

Fonality announced it is arming resellers with new telephony products, programs and margins to address 50 to 500 seat middle market customers. Fonality introduced its new, tiered reseller certification and training programs, which provide data and telephony resellers with enhanced readiness and expanded support for selling PBXtra, the company’s award winning IP-PBX phone system. For the first time, Fonality is delivering resellers higher profit margins, and the ability to provision IP phones and move phone licenses. These new programs combined with Fonality’s new middle market products, PBXtra Professional Edition IP-PBX and HUD (Heads-Up Display) Team application, equip resellers with everything they need to deliver higher margin, open source phone systems to the middle market.

RingCentral announces that numerous small online retailers, including eBay PowerSellers, are using RingCentral’s suite of on-demand telecommunications services to gain a competitive edge against traditional retail giants this holiday season. RingCentral’s feature-rich capabilities, including click-to-call and customized voicemail greetings with auto-attendants, enable small online merchants to provide online shoppers with a toll free number and a more personalized and informative shopping experience. Powered by RingCentral, small online retailers are well-poised to significantly maximize holiday sales and bolster customer loyalty.

Collax announced expanded bandwidth management of the Collax Security Gateway. The UTM solution in Version 4.0.10 prioritizes and guarantees bandwidths in Virtual Private Networks; giving Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and other critical business applications such as ERP systems, priority in the VPN tunnel.

The Collax Security Gateway 4.0.10 offers all the premises to enable VoIP in company networks. The Tagged-VLAN technology (according to 802.1q) ensures that data packages are separated from voice packages thereby guaranteeing the security of internet telephony. The SIP-based Voice-Traffic is analyzed via Stateful Inspection. Combined with Traffic Shaping, these technologies ensure that the voice packages are filtered at the right part of the gateways and are offered priority in the VPN tunnel, before any other data streams. Thus a superior quality of real time voice transfer across data networks is achieved without downtime.

Speakeasy has launched ONE, a plan which eliminates upfront phone, equipment and installation costs for its fast-growing business Voice over IP service. With the introduction of ONE, Speakeasy is the first nationwide provider to remove the initial voice and data equipment and installation costs so that small and medium business subscribers can easily access the power, productivity and cost benefits of Internet-based communications.

Voxbone has joined Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Fabric to enable it to exchange voice traffic directly with other VoIP providers.

As a VPF member, Voxbone can now interconnect with carriers and enterprise to buy, sell and peer DID/termination services across a private network. Additionally, through the use of the VPF ENUM Registry, Voxbone can now send and receive calls with VPF members directly, completely bypassing the public telephone network and the public Internet.

“We are committed to providing our customers with the highest levels of service quality combined with highly competitive pricing,” said Rodrigue Ullens, co-founder of Voxbone. “Joining the VPF is consistent with both of these goals.”

VSNL Singapore announces that its been chosen by Yahoo! for voice peering and termination services to exchange high quality VoIP traffic on a global basis and provide premium international retail call termination for Yahoo!’s voice services.

Yahoo! is using the Teleglobe VoIPLink service, a fast, simple and cost effective way to bridge interoperability between VoIP networks, to terminate traffic anywhere in the world. Yahoo! is also utilizing the Teleglobe VTS Service to ensure high quality, cost effective retail termination for users of Yahoo! Voice’s Phone Out (PC-to-Phone) service worldwide. VSNL International is among a suite of providers delivering high-quality termination calling services for Yahoo! globally.