Ubiquity Software, a leading provider of SIP application solutions that are enabling a new generation of communication services, announced the debut of Ubiquity Voice Plus, a cost effective, highly scalable and feature rich solution for consumer IP telephony and multimedia services. Building on Ubiquity's early success in consumer VoIP applications based on three commercial deployments, Voice Plus is a carrier-grade, pre-built voice over IP solution for Internet-based service providers (ASPs, ITSPs, ISPs) who want to deliver IP-based voice and other multimedia services to their residential customers over cable, DSL, WiFi, or other consumer broadband access networks.

Mammoth Networks has announced a fivefold increase in wholesale DSL demand by VoIP providers. The company allows VoIP providers to provision standalone DSL, or DSL without a phone line, enabling VoIP providers to deliver a telephone-like product to their End User.

In the last half of 2005, Mammoth signed an increased number of VoIP providers to its wholesale DSL platform. The company cites its ability to deliver a standalone DSL over a private network as the reason for this increased demand. Because standalone DSL enters a home or business on its own telephone pair, VoIP can be delivered without the need for an expensive traditional telephone line.

Signate, a leading global provider of VoIP telephone solutions based on industry standard hardware and open source software, announced the general availability of the Signate Telephony Stack, a complete software infrastructure for 32-bit IP telephony applications on a single CD. Signate's installer loads all the software and creates a ready to configure VoIP telephony server in about fifteen minutes.

"Signate's Telephony Stack is the same software foundation that Signate uses for its telephony installations around the world," said Paul Mahler, Signate's CTO and author of VoIP Telephony with Asterisk. "Signate downloads it from community sources semi-annually, or as major enhancements are released, and tests it to ensure that the entire stack operates as expected. We make bug fixes when called for and return them to the appropriate project," he said.

Intrado Inc., a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions and leading provider of VoIP 9-1-1 services, announced an agreement with RedSky Technologies, a leading provider of E9-1-1 location information management solutions, to market VoIP E9-1-1 services. Under terms of the agreement, RedSky will market Intrado V9-1-1 for Enterprise to Fortune 500 and mid-cap enterprises.

InfoTelis, sister company of Broadvox a leading VoIP services provider, announced the debut of an exciting new service offering in the Greater Cleveland area for small-to- medium size businesses. The offering is a powerful array of Broadband Business Solutions, premiering Hosted Telephony Services, which are uniquely identified and designed to meet the specific needs of the businesses they serve. The owners of InfoTelis and Broadvox believe the offering to be the most compelling yet in the Service Provider arena of Hosted Telephony and Broadband Business Solutions.

8x8, Inc., the Packet8 broadband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications service provider, announced that the Packet8 Virtual Office solution for small businesses received Network Computing magazine's Editor's Choice award over competitive offerings from Covad Communications and Velocity Networks.

Intrado Inc., a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions and a leading provider of VoIP 9-1-1 services, announced an agreement with XTEND Communications Corp., a provider of Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) systems, to market VoIP E9-1-1 services. Under terms of the agreement, XTEND Communications will market Intrado V9-1-1 for Enterprise to large businesses that operate and support their own Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX) based networks.

Intrado Inc., a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions and a leader in VoIP 9-1-1 services, announced that it will expand Intrado V9-1-1 Services to include offerings for the enterprise market. Intrado V9-1-1 for Enterprise addresses the challenges faced by enterprise telecommunications managers in supporting applicable regulatory and employee safety requirements.

The Voice Commerce Group announced the launch of its latest version of WhitePhone, the next generation of VoIP technology that uses advanced voice functionality to help online businesses improve sales and customer retention. Whitephone enables any website to integrate voice services into their offering and offers a range of new technologies including…

• A white label voice enabled browser with feature rich communications functionalities -- including voice mail, video mail, free PC to PC calls, and low cost calls to telephones globally
• 'CastAlive' -- broadcasting of text, audio and video to opt in groups
• 'Click-to-talk' -- allows end users to click to call a sales representative direct before they buy

Netcentrex, the leading enabler of next generation converged voice and video solutions, announced the release of its Voice over Broadband Starter Kit (VSK) for the Americas market. The VSK is a cost effective entry level platform designed to meet the needs of new VoIP Service Providers.

Netcentrex' VSK is an affordable platform optimized to deliver the full suite of Netcentrex voice and multimedia applications for residential or business customers. It can deliver these services over DSL, Cable, Fiber or Broadband wireless. VSK comes with a complete administrative and provisioning environment for rapid service deployment and end-user customization. Operators will be able add a wide range of revenue generating video telephony and multimedia services.

Venali, Inc. announced the launch of their Branded Internet Fax Service that makes it easy for VoIP and Telecom providers to offer fax services to their clients while increasing their recurring revenues and profits. The company announced that VoIP provider Kancharla will be the first branding partner to profit from the new service.

VoIPSter has announced the formation of The OpenZoep Foundation and the premier release of the OpenZoep communications engine.

OpenZoep will enable the proliferation and rapid development of standards based telephony application throughout the world as VoIP grows and continues to take hold with users and service providers.

"Building VoIP clients using OpenZoep is very straightforward," said Dirk Griffioen, VoIPSter's Senior VOIP Engineer. "The OpenZoep API offers simple methods to communicate with the OpenZoep client-side VoIP engine and server-side web services."

AT&T Inc. and Avaya Inc., a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, announced a global strategic alliance to help businesses and government agencies manage through one of the most significant technology evolutions they face - the migration to voice over IP/IP telephony.

The alliance leverages AT&T's industry-leading global IP network, network design and management expertise with Avaya's enterprise IP communications technology to deliver end-to-end managed solutions from the wide area network to the IP phone on the desktop. The solutions provide comprehensive migration to IP telephony and the associated local area network (LAN) and wireless LAN infrastructure.

Net2Phone a pioneer and innovator in the field of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), announced that it has secured its 31st patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent titled "System and Method for Managing a Flow of Network Status Messages at a Network Operations Console" was issued on December 27, 2005.

SkyPilot Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class broadband wireless systems, announced that Costa del Sol Online SL (CDSO), a multi-faceted reseller, system integrator and network operator based in Malaga, Spain, has selected SkyPilot equipment to rollout advanced wireless voice, data and Internet access services across Western Europe. CDSO's network operator subsidiary, Bamboo Telecom, is actively deploying SkyPilot equipment to a large rural subscriber base in Malaga, Spain to deliver voice-over-IP (VOIP) and Internet access services. Based on its own success in building out a service provider network based on SkyPilot gear, CDSO is initially reselling this equipment to network operators in other regions of Spain and Holland in preparation for an aggressive expansion plan across new geographies.