Tone Software announced that its ReliaTel VoIP management solution is compliant with key IP telephony solutions from Avaya.

The ReliaTel solution provides comprehensive VoIP quality and service level management for converged environments, including real time VoIP QoS and QoE analysis and trunk performance reporting for Avaya Communications Manager through the SAT interface. The ReliaTel RTCP, SNMP and SAT functionality is now compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Aura Communication Manager 6.0.

Axia Technology Partners announces its implementation and vendor partnership with Sonus Networks and the NBS 5200 platform, giving this leading national provider of converged IP solutions a more scalable and robust solution to improve growth and operating efficiencies for their national client base.

Axia TP is a leader in the technology services realm and has established peering access to 29 of the nation’s largest carriers. The Axia converged IP solution offerings include nation-wide VoIP services, Enterprise and Call Center PBX solutions, Wide Area Network connectivity, and Internet Access. Providing state of the art infrastructure exemplifies the company’s commitment to quality customer service and consistent care. For Axia, having upgraded infrastructure is a vital part of providing next generation services.

This system is able to combine data, voice and high-speed Internet connectivity over one connection, thereby providing existing and potential customers significant cost-savings while enjoying the benefits of VoIP.

SIP is a service that is deemed more cost-effective than any other telephony solutions available today. It is a streamlined next generation IP telephony solution which allows exchange of voice traffic through Internet connectivity rather than traditional physical cables or PRIs, which translates to cost savings and enhanced efficiency.

Tone Software Corporation announces the immediate availability of its ReliaTel Management Solution 3.1 Release featuring full support for virtualized environments. ReliaTel now supports virtualized deployment of the ReliaTel application to monitor and analyze VoIP quality, manage network performance, and ensure communications service levels throughout converged environments -- regardless of their technology mix.

Fueled by the proliferation of cloud computing and the aggressive pursuit of cost efficiencies, demand for virtualization support in the industry's leading hardware and software technologies continues to grow. As an organization's VoIP traffic and converged communications expand, the volume of critical data and processes to monitor and analyze also grows exponentially. ReliaTel's virtualization support enables organizations to easily expand their ReliaTel image to manage their growing VoIP and converged network environment from end to end -- from SIP at the core, to softphones at the edge -- on demand, without re-configuration efforts. Highly scalable, users can host the ReliaTel VoIP QoS and Converged Network management solution in a virtualized instance sized to meet current voice workloads -- and easily scale the solution into a larger virtual instance that supports expanded voice traffic and network loads in the future.

Sangoma launches the D150 voice transcoding series, the latest addition to its transcoding board offering, targeted for the embedded and stand-alone VoIP solutions markets.

In a constant battle to maximize capital investment and improve ROI, network operators need to push as much voice traffic through their existing infrastructure as possible. Operators may choose to encode (or compress) the voice signals with any one of a variety of VoIP codecs, such as G.723 or G.729. Moreover, if a call needs to traverse two different networks that each support different codecs, the voice signal must be transcoded in real time. The processes of encoding and transcoding are processor intense and can often cause load related issues with the server that is managing the process. The D150 boards are specifically engineered to perform the required transcoding without impacting the host performance, allowing the system to support a significantly increased number of calls.

Iristel and snom announce the snom 3xx and snom 8xx series desktop phones, as well as the snom m9 DECT phone and MeetingPoint conference phone, have passed rigorous interoperability tests, qualifying snom endpoints as preferred devices for operation within the Iristel network.

The combination of snom endpoints, network services and infrastructure products and Iristel’s Hosted PBX (private branch exchange) Solution offers Iristel customers a fully integrated IP telephony solution with HD audio capabilities and VoIP functionality for both large and small business environments, and residential scenarios.

3CX announces that all customers will be able to benefit from quality, low cost, business calls after the interoperability testing with OpenIP had proven successful. This interoperability between 3CX and Paris based VoIP service provider, OpenIP, allows the customers who use the 3CX VoIP PBX for Windows to benefit from the OpenIP high quality internet telephony services for voice calls as an integrated solution.

3CX and VoIP service provider, OpenIP, will provide fully integrated VoIP solutions for SMB’s in Paris, France. The OpenIP SIP Trunk configuration has been fully integrated into the latest version of 3CX’s software, allowing the company to become a 3CX Supported SIP Trunk provider. As a multitude of businesses throughout France already take advantage of the 3CX VoIP PBX for Windows, they now have the added value of OpenIP being onside to provide high quality internet telephony services for voice calls as an integrated solution.

Sipera Systems announced that its award-winning UC-Sec enterprise communications security solution is undergoing compatibility testing with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator security management platform.

When the testing is completed, security managers can gain visibility into the entire spectrum of IP-based business communications -- including voice, video, data and web applications -- from a single central management point. This enables security managers to have unprecedented control over the security of voice-over-IP, IP video conferencing, SIP trunks, collaboration applications and other UC applications.

CounterPath announces a new release of its Bria multimedia softphone will be available later this month. The Bria 3.2 update for Mac and Windows adds support for multiple Instant Message and Presence accounts and the introduction of a Ribbon for Microsoft Outlook 2010, among other features.

Bria is a highly secure, standards-based, multi-platform softphone that enables voice and high-definition video calls, making it ideal for enterprises, government agencies and other organizations that want to replace their desk phones or add unified communications functionality to their existing IP phone platform.

Bria integrates seamlessly with a wide variety of enterprise and carrier infrastructure equipment from major vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Genband, Metaswitch Networks, NEC and Nokia Siemens Networks, enabling fast, cost-effective implementations. Bria also supports Asterisk-based telephony systems.

4PSA announces the official sponsorship of the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, one of the area's largest non-profit organizations focused on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.

4PSA's mission is to deliver solutions that help people communicate easily and collaborate on a whole new level. The company is committed to supporting all non-profit organizations that strive to make this world a better place. 4PSA provides free licensing for VoipNow Professional, its award-winning Unified Communications solution, to charities, non-profit, non-governmental, and non-commercial organizations, Open Source projects and communities, and last, but not least, to academic institutions for classroom learning purposes.

ASC announces the successful implementation of its VoIP communications recording solution, EVOip, supplemented with WEBplay and POWERplay, to ensure the safety of older and disabled citizens residing in the District of Harborough in the United Kingdom.

The solution was installed at the Harborough Lifeline Center, a contact center providing 24/7, 365-day service, integrated with community emergency organizations including police, ambulances and firemen. It allows immediate replay of the most recent call to assist operators in complex situations as well as remote access from any web browser to let managers working from home listen to a critical call and determine the best course of action.

VoX Communications has developed video voice mail, adding a unique and enhanced feature to the Ojo Vision phone. A video message cannot normally be sent to the mailbox of customers that use the Ojo Vision phone without this development effort.

Pervasip's Chief Information Officer, Mark Richards, noted, "We continue to use our expertise in cloud-based telephony and VoIP to bring exciting and innovative features to the devices that run on our network. Our customers, including the customers sold to by our new marketing partner, Globalpreneurs, can now send and receive a video voice-mail message on the Ojo Vision phone. We expect that the extra features that we provide to our customers will give an advantage to organizations that market our product. Now grandchildren can leave their grandparents a special video message, or people can leave friends and family a surprise video message."

Talari Networks announces that its appliance-based WAN Virtualization solutions are compliant with key IP telephony solutions from Avaya. Talari’s Adaptive Private Networking technology for WAN Virtualization enables enterprises to combine two or more sources of inexpensive and abundant public network connectivity to create a network with equivalent or better performance than expensive private WAN connectivity such as MPLS. The Talari APN appliances, running APN Software 2.1, now are compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with:

• Avaya Aura Communication Manager - 6.0
• Avaya Aura Session Manager - 6.0
• Avaya Aura Communication Manager Messaging - 6.0
• Avaya Modular Messaging - Messaging Application Server - 5.2
• Avaya 9600 Series IP Telephones (H.323 3.1.1) and (SIP 2.6.4)
• Avaya Modular Messaging Server (5.0).

Fonality announces the general availability of Fonality trixbox Pro 5.2, a hybrid-hosted IP-PBX software solution designed for small and mid-size businesses. A hybrid-hosted solution combines the reliability of a premise-based VoIP system with the flexibility and costs savings of a hosted-cloud model. Users will experience increased productivity and lower total cost of ownership while leveraging advanced Unified Communications, contact center and VoIP calling features.

Fonality trixbox Pro 5.2, available only through certified Fonality resellers, is an open standard, software-based IP-PBX solution that can be delivered with most commercial servers and SIP phones. By leveraging a cloud-based, hybrid-hosted model for remote management capabilities, Fonality trixbox Pro 5.2 simplifies the ability to add new features and users.

Powernet has launched ViBE, a ‘game-changing’ IP telephony solution, which removes critical Quality of Service obstacles that prevent widespread VoIP adoption. ViBE uses innovative bandwidth optimisation technology that enables at least 60 concurrent business quality calls over an average UK ADSL connection, with minimal impact on data traffic. Powernet is actively looking for resellers for the product.

This breakthrough technology removes the QoS problems associated with VoIP implementations and slashes connectivity costs to offer businesses a scalable and affordable IP solution. It also brings within reach the possibility of a wholly VoIP-powered call centre on a single ADSL connection for the first time.