Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions unveiled the latest enhancements of its state-of-the art Communication Server 2000 carrier IP softswitch at the Supercomm 2009 tradeshow. This success is the result of proven and leading-edge VoIP solutions: Business voice and multimedia solution, Consumer voice and multimedia solution, Transit and Multimedia Interconnect solution, and the Class 5 solution. These solutions have been successfully deployed across the globe to satisfy the needs of both the small and the large Service Providers deployments. The solutions are media agnostic, are fully featured with full PSTN transparency, can be deployed in either fully SIP or hybrid environments, are bundled with key capabilities to meet all VoIP networking and management requirements, and are fully tested out to the end points.

snom has teamed with Jazinga for a technology partnership that continues snom’s leadership in interoperating with open source Asterisk-based VoIP platforms. Through the pairing, businesses can now use snom’s portfolio of VoIP phones in concert with Jazinga’s all-in-one MGA120 appliance to ease deployment of VoIP systems and reduce IP telephony costs in the SMB. The interoperability between snom’s suite of SIP based business phones and Jazinga’s MGA120 IP PBX appliance creates a fully integrated end-to-end IP-based phone system for small businesses that blends robust enterprise-class IP PBX and networking features at a dramatically lower price point than alternative solutions.

Digium and Incendonet announce that companies using Asterisk for their IP-PBX communications needs can now add speech recognition-based solutions in a plug and play manner to improve customer service, reduce operating costs and increase mobile worker productivity with Incendonet’s SpeechBridge.

VocalTec announces that over 100 telecom service providers and partners have deployed VocalTec’s Essentra VoIP solutions on IBM System X server platforms. Customers are seeking new and innovative ways of deploying Next-Generation Networks that are based on open, IP-based standards. By tapping into the economies of scale afforded by commercial, off the shelf IT technologies, customers are able to dramatically lower their costs while delivering new telecom VoIP integrated services on Class-4 and Class-5 softswitches.

C2Call launches with FriendCaller 3 its iPhone OS 3.0 version of FriendCaller, the only iPhone app on iTunes that can establish a free Internet call with anyone on the Internet. This breaks with the convention of allowing free calls only between registered users of a service who had to have installed identical software first.

FriendCaller is an easy-to-use, browser based VoIP solution allowing users to make free calls from the website to anyone on the Internet, with no software installation for the “callee” or person being called. Additionally, the invited call participant is not even required to register. The peer-to-peer calls work with any browser on Windows, OS X and Linux, and now with FriendCaller 3 as an OS 3.0 app for the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS and the iPod touch (2nd Generation).

Sipera Systems announces an initiative with Westcon Group the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, to provide comprehensive VoIP/UC security solutions customized for education, healthcare, and finance.

Sipera Systems now employs Empirix’s Hammer VoIP testing solution, enabling them to develop superior VoIP and UC security solutions. With the Hammer solution, Sipera is able to discover, prioritize and correct potential issues during the pre-deployment phase, reduce the cost of bringing its products to market and ensure that its UC-Sec security appliances can simplify and protect VoIP and UC implementations with comprehensive security.

DynaSis announces its new partnership with IP phone system provider Fonality to offer small to medium sized businesses access to affordable Atlanta VoIP solutions comparable to large business phone systems. The barrier to entry for VoIP in Atlanta for most small to midsized businesses has long been the cost involved with installing and maintaining a full scale VoIP solution that can provide the sound quality and features enterprise solutions offer. Enterprise solutions are often costly to maintain because they require a skilled IT professional for minor issues such as simple additions or deletions of extensions, and most of the cost savings realized from long distance savings are eaten up by maintenance and initial installation costs.

ARC announces its latest Sound-to-Silicon solution aimed at the new category of broadband-based multimedia device, the Media Phone, which is predicted to replace telephone handsets and be the “fourth screen in the home.” The Media Phone is being heralded as one of the hottest new devices for consumers, and combines DECT cordless speaker phone technology with direct access to Internet-based entertainment and applications via a color touch screen. ARC’s new solution provides SoC partners and OEMs with a cost effective platform for quickly entering and gaining share of the fast-growing Media Phone market. It includes ARC’s award-winning Sonic Focus audio enrichment software, full range of codecs, and development tools that are optimized for ARC’s latest AS 211 SFX Audio Subsystem intellectual property.

Truphone launches Truphone 3.0, a major new upgrade to its mobile VoIP application for the Apple iPod touch. The new version dramatically builds upon the success of previous versions of the VoIP application for the iPod, enhancing users’ instant messaging and account management experience, faster than ever before, and delivering a new standard for call quality.

Ingate and Dialogic have completed the necessary testing to validate the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series as interoperable with Ingate SIParator and Ingate Firewall products. The combination of a DMG2000 gateway and an Ingate SIParator or Ingate Firewall will allow enterprises utilizing legacy PBX and Contact Center systems to easily and securely adopt SIP trunks as a replacement for traditional PSTN voice services.

snom announces the integration of its snom klarVOICE phones, its portfolio of wideband VoIP phones, with ZipDX, the audio conferencing service. ZipDX is the only conferencing service that offers standards-based wideband audio enabling high-fidelity conference calls with the highest quality and clarity.

Acme Packet and BroadSoft announce new enhancements to their joint SIP trunking solution that enables service providers to ensure business continuity for large enterprise customers. The solution, which integrates BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform with Acme Packet’s Net-Net session border controller, delivers advanced IP-based communications services that were previously not available with premise-based PBX solutions. These services include Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5, video-enabled SIP trunking and fixed-mobile convergence.

With the release of Switchvox SMB 4.0, Digium, now makes it easier than ever to deploy snom VoIP phones. The partnership between Digium and snom allows Switchvox, the web-aware IP PBX designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses, to automatically detect and provision snom 3 series phones, as well as the company’s new 820 phone. This capability reduces setup time and allows businesses to easily and inexpensively deploy phones to the desktop.

Codima announces the launch of operations in the French market. A fully operational organization with local staff will offer sales, marketing and support to new and existing resellers throughout France from the company's offices in Paris. With the expansion, Codima strengthens its position in the French market and continues its successful adaptation to new markets implementing local organizations.