BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced enhanced capabilities to its BroadWorks Assistant-Enterprise Toolbar, a carrier-class desktop communications product for everyday users of Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer. The new BroadWorks Assistant-Enterprise 13.0 allows users to easily access advanced call control features within the Microsoft mail and browser programs, affording service providers additional tools to offer their customers.

AccessLine Communications, a leading provider of hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, announced SmartVoicePlus Service, a new retail service that further expands AccessLine's growing SmartVoice Service portfolio. SmartVoicePlus is initially available in Seattle area markets, but will be rolled out to other cities across the country in coming months.

Netrake announced that its nCite leading Session Border Solution was selected by Telefonica, the world's third largest operator and the largest fixed line operator in Latin America, to deliver new hosted VoIP services for its clients in Brazil.

D-Link, the leading end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, introduced the industry's first flip-style mobile Wi-Fi phone that will ship with a full-featured softphone from TelTel, provider of SIP-based global Internet telephony services, allowing users to make free calls anywhere in the world where there is open Wi-Fi access.

Calls from the D-Link phone are made over the Public SIP Telephone Network (PsipTN) telephony backbone.

Trolltech, a leading provider of technologies that make advanced software faster to build and easier to use, announced that its Qtopia software for Linux-based embedded products is the application development platform for Leadtek's award winning IP broadband videophone, XTP 8830. Leadtek Research Inc. is an industry leader in video and IP technologies.

IPeerX, Inc., a subsidiary of Pulver.com Enterprises, announced that it has completed a VoIP interconnection and peering agreement with TelEvolution, developer of PhoneGnome the plug-and-play appliance that adds free Internet calling and advanced VoIP features to existing telephone service. This agreement expands PhoneGnome's free calling beyond other PhoneGnome users to an additional four million VoIP users who are part of the IPeerX extended network.

AccessLine Communications, a leading provider of hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, announced the Southern California market launch for the new retail version of SmartVoice Service -- the company's hosted VoIP service that delivers the benefits of advanced business telephone service at a fraction of the cost. Specifically designed and built for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), SmartVoice Service offers as much as 50 percent savings over traditional business phone service rates. Combining local, long distance, and toll free phone service with no need for the purchase of any phone equipment, AccessLine's SmartVoice Service delivers savings while making it easy for customers to transition from their current legacy phone service.

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. who have deployed VoIP systems are saying their new converged voice and data infrastructure has met or exceeded expectations, but not for the reasons VoIP providers have been touting. While providers continue to promote features, SMBs ranked system management capabilities at the top of their list when asked how well their system performed.

For those SMBs considering VoIP, their perceptions of the technology are clear: they want lower total cost of ownership and better system management. But providers trying to sell to these SMBs are still delivering confusing messages about feature sets that the SMBs don't understand.

SyChip, a leader in Radio Frequency Chip Scale Modules (CSM), today introduced SyVoice(TM) 1000 (SV1000), a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) integrated circuit that has been optimized for wireless VoIP applications. The SV1000 device is the newest in the SyVoice family of products targeted to mobile devices such as cell phones, single-mode wireless VoIP phones, PDAs, personal media players and portable gaming consoles. SV1000 combines a high-speed digital signal processor (DSP), A/D and D/A converters and power management logic in a single integrated circuit. SyChip will be located in Booth 1243 at Spring VON 2006 at the San Jose Convention Center.

Sonus Networks, a leading supplier of service provider voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced that KDDI, a leading telecommunication service provider in Japan, selected Sonus Networks as the exclusive vendor for their convergence-enabled packet voice network.

In the first phase of this multi-million dollar contract, KDDI is deploying Sonus' industry-leading architecture, including the GSX9000 Open Services Switch, the PSX Call Routing Server and the Sonus Insight Element Management System. The new packet voice network will deliver enhanced voice services to one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world and is planned to be the largest IP telephony network in Japan.

Vistula Communications Services, Inc., a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over IP ("VoIP") services to major telecommunications carriers, cable operators and Internet Service Providers, announced today that it has reached an agreement to provide its V-Cube VoIP solutions to Envox Telecomunicaciones IP, an enterprising telecommunications service provider in Venezuela.

With Vistula's V-Cube solution, Envox Telecomunicaciones IP, will be the country's first private telecommunications provider to offer a wide range of VoIP-based solutions to the country's large number of call shops or "Tele Cafe," as well as to the residential and corporate markets.

SightSpeed, the award-winning provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP), announced the release of SightSpeed 4.5 for the new Apple Intel platform.

The new Universal Binary version of SightSpeed 4.5 is fully compatible with Apple's newest line of Macintosh computers based upon the recently introduced line of Intel processors. By taking advantage of the added processing power and faster processing speeds of the new Macs, SightSpeed is able improve upon its already best in class video communications performance.

AccessLine Communications, a leading provider of hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, announced the Pacific Northwest market launch for the new retail version of SmartVoice Service -- the company's hosted VoIP service that delivers the benefits of advanced business telephone service at a fraction of the cost. Specifically designed and built for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), SmartVoice Service offers as much as 50 percent savings over traditional business phone service rates. Combining local, long distance, and toll free phone service with no need for the purchase of any phone equipment, AccessLine's SmartVoice Service delivers savings while making it easy for customers to transition from their current legacy phone service.

Atreus Systems, the premier supplier of provisioning software for IMS, VoIP and advanced IP service bundles, announced that Proxy Magazine has named Atreus to its list of the Top 10 OSS vendors to watch in 2006. Proxy Magazine's 'Top 10' features the companies that are best positioned to be IP communications innovators in 2006. The award honors Atreus as the IP service provisioning solution of choice for carriers worldwide and recognizes Atreus' continued leadership in helping large and emerging providers solve the critical service delivery challenges in deploying rich IMS-based applications within core communications networks.

RNKVoIP, an award-winning VoIP wholesaler, today unveiled its RNKVoIP for Small Business plan, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service with features and pricing designed for the burgeoning small business sector. RNKVoIP also announced that it will be a participating service provider in the Linksys Voice System 9000 (LVS9000) Program. RNK supports the Linksys LVS9000, a full featured IP-based PBX business phone system for small businesses.

RNKVoIP for Small Business is sold exclusively through RNKVoIP's Resellers.