Jangl is unveiling an easy-to-use service that lets you call anyone with an email address, anywhere in the world.

Jangl gives everyone – from social network friends and IM buddies, to auction or classifieds buyers and sellers, to bloggers, indie media, and their audiences – a more flexible, safe, manageable, and inexpensive way to talk by phone. The new Jangl service, available today in 31 countries, is the first to connect people online to people on their phones, without the need for headsets, downloads, or installations.

With billions of email addresses and over a billion mobile phones worldwide, the potential market impact for a range of industries – social networks, online media, and mobile communications among them – is staggering.

Fusion and its new strategic partner DigitalFX signed an agreement for DigitalFX to integrate Fusion's advanced unified messaging and digital telephone service into DigitalFX's cutting edge web 2.0 offerings for enterprises and individuals that include video creation and streaming, digital storage and advanced convergence technology.

The announcement comes a week after Las Vegas-based DigitalFX made a $700,000 investment in New York-based Fusion, which has over one million digital phone subscribers in 100 countries. The investment was described as the first step of many synergistic relationships that signals major advances in both companies' converged multimedia solutions.

Phoenix Audio Technologies launches the Duet VCA satellite speakerphone for Video Codec set-top systems and for VOIP conferencing applications.

The VCA is a new member of the Duet family featuring the same sleek design and high level of reliability. This new member provides 360° room coverage with extended range. It incorporates twice as much processing power as its predecessors, providing extended performance and addressing the unique challenges posed by large conference room setups.

In addition to the analog interface, the Duet is equipped with a USB Plug-and-Play link that can be utilized with VOIP applications. The Duet VCA can be simultaneously connected to both a Video Codec system and a PC giving users the advantage of conferencing VOIP callers together with VC callers, hence creating 3 way conferencing. The VCA is also extremely versatile with 8 possible levels of output signals to address the large variety of input sensitivity levels required by different VC systems.

SoundTech announces the LightSnake Internet Chat, a USB headset with microphone that offers computer users one solution for many multimedia audio and voice applications. The LightSnake Internet Chat features SoundTech's patented "Live when Lit" technology that glows when connected and flashes when sound is being transmitted.

The LightSnake Internet Chat is ideal for anyone who participates in multiplayer gaming or voice chats over the Internet. The Internet Chat features clear, crisp audio and in-line volume controls perfect for listening to music or for VoIP calls with services such as Skype. In the office the Internet Chat built-in microphone can be used for voice input on videoconferences or speech recognition applications.

The LightSnake Internet Chat is fully plug-and-play compatible with a Mac or PC* -- no driver installs are necessary. In addition, the Internet Chat features a stereo output allowing a favorite pair of headphones or powered speakers to be used in place of the included Internet Chat ear buds.

snom products have demonstrated interoperability with Cedar Point Communications’ SAFARI C3 Multimedia Switching System. The announcement indicates that SAFARI C3 and snom VoIP phones, already deployed together in trials at leading universities, are certified to be compatible in field deployments.

The only totally integrated carrier class VoIP switch that incorporates all of the components that make up the voice switching infrastructure, SAFARI C3 simplifies the network by providing seamless evolution to SIP-based features and multimedia applications. SAFARI C3 provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony services while increasing network integrity, security and privacy.

BorderWare announces that its SIPassure, SIP Security Gateway is compliant with key Internet protocol communications solutions from Avaya.

BorderWare SIPassure combines the best features of a firewall, an application layer gateway and a session border controller. SIPassure is designed to secure all SIP-based applications, including voice over IP services, video conferencing and other messaging applications. SIPassure is now compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Communication Manager IP telephony software release 4.0 and Avaya SIP Enablement Services version 3.1.2, a standards-based communications architecture that bridges the public switched telephone network and Internet worlds.

Pingtel announces that The University of the Arts has selected Pingtel’s SIPxchange ECS to support 3,500 phones for faculty, staff, and students at its Philadelphia campus. The SIPxchange rollout begins from the student residential buildings that are connected to the campus gigabit backbone and will ultimately include all administrative and academic properties and offices currently served by The University of the Arts’ Fujitsu9600 ES PBX system. The new all SIP solution will provide The University of the Arts with a robust, redundant VoIP system that is easy to use and manage, and costs that are drastically lower than that of the competition.

“We looked at similar systems from a variety of vendors including Cisco and Avaya, but were quickly put off by their high costs, which were almost double that of SIPxchange ECS,” said Jeffrey Basoff, Director of Network Services at The University of the Arts. “We also considered implementing Digium’s version of Asterisk, but it does not scale as well as SIPxchange for the enterprise deployment. We have a small open-source Asterisk environment in production where some convenient features will be utilized and integrated with SIPxchange.”

DigiLinea announced a partnership with Rebtel to provide expanded mobile VoIP services for consumers in the United States and throughout Latin America.

Rebtel will leverage the DigiLinea platform to offer local Latin American telephone numbers, unlimited calling plans, and direct termination. Rebtel will leverage the DigiLinea platform to quickly and efficiently create customized internet-calling services that lower their customers' cost of communications to and from Latin America while increasing service-provider revenue and profit per line.

fring together with The Cloud announced the launch of the fring mobile VoIP client, which will be specially optimized for The Cloud. The joint service facilitates fring mVoIP communication for all Cloud users, allowing them to call and chat for free to other fring users and to Skype, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and SIP contacts over The Cloud’s Wi-Fi networks in addition to other Wi-Fi, 3G and GPRS networks.

fring enabled phones will automatically recognize, login and register on The Cloud network so users can make free mobile phone calls, chat and access the Internet over their Wi-Fi connection with their fring and Cloud credentials automatically activated and synchronized.

SightSpeed has announced that the latest version of its software, SightSpeed 6.0, was honored by PC World with a "100 Best Products of 2007 Award." The article is available now on PCWorld.com and also will be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12.

SightSpeed 6.0 placed in the top quarter of the list, landing in spot No. 21.

SightSpeed offers the first complete suite of personal video services delivered over the Internet. The services are available for both Windows PCs and Macintosh personal computers, and are interoperable between both.

CosmoCom announced that industry pioneer Jeff Pulver will keynote its annual event, CosmoCommunity 2007, on Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Anticipating widespread global interest in Pulver’s remarks about the state of the industry, CosmoCom and Pulver will make the address available as a free live webcast using the latest internet video streaming technology. For more information, please visit http://www.cosmocommunity.com

CosmoCommunity brings together CosmoCom’s global ecosystem of customers, channels, service providers, technology partners, and implementation partners. This year’s theme, Consolidation 2.0, will explore the nature and business benefits of contact center consolidation as well as the technologies and business processes that support this important industry direction.

Empirix invites you to join Chad Hart Wednesday, May 23rd at 11:00 AM EDT for a practical and informative discussion on Testing for Real World VoIP Problem Scenarios.

VoIP networks are subject to a number of known issues that are just beginning to become relevant as VoIP reaches the mainstream. Some of the most common issues include:

• Mass calling events – when an atypically large number of users attempts to make calls within a specified time period, stressing the network beyond its planned utilization;
• Power outage restoration – a flood of registration messages occurs when power is restored after an outage;
• Peer network floods – peer networks can unintentionally overload other networks if interconnecting equipment is not configured properly; and
• Malicious attacks – hackers can mimic the above scenarios and cause a number of other nuisances and security breaches. Surprisingly, many Tier 1 carriers have already found themselves unprepared for these scenarios and as a result, they have experienced major outages and service degradation.

VoIP Supply is now offering a suite of cost effective VoIP network assessment packages designed to for those who do not have the in-house technical expertise to design and purchase their own IP PBX system, create technical drawings with documentation, analyze their current data and voice networks, as well as purchase the required hardware, software and telecommunications service components for their VoIP deployment.

The VoIP Supply VoIP network assessment and evaluation packages offer a complete and comprehensive set of deliverables that gives businesses of all sizes the ability to make informed decisions about a potential migration to VoIP.

MediaRing announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to develop and deliver enhanced VoIP communications services targeting a rich end-user experience. Under this relationship, HP will pre-install the Singapore-based VoIP service provider’s MediaRing Talk VoIP client application on consumer desktops and notebooks shipped with Microsoft Vista platform.

MediaRing is launching their MediaRing Talk service, which offers a feature-rich Session Initiation Protocol standards-based VoIP client. Amongst its multiplicity of features, MediaRing Talk offers PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-PC calls along with Instant Messaging. The service also has Text Collaboration and on-demand Voice Conferencing capability.

iBasis carried a record volume of phone traffic over the Internet during Mother’s Day. One of the world’s leading wholesale carriers of international long distance telephone calls – and operator of the world’s most extensive international VoIP network – iBasis terminated 54.9 million minutes of traffic during the holiday. The mark topped the previous record by 1.3 million minutes, set on Christmas Day 2006, and represented a 27.50 percent increase over Mother’s Day 2006.

Data generated by the company’s network operating center showed The iBasis Network completed a total of 7,139,922 calls during Mother’s Day. Analysis also showed Latin America overwhelmingly taking top honors in Mother’s Day phoning activity with countries from the region dominating rankings in call volume, increase over prior year and over average Sunday traffic, and length of call duration (see below for complete rankings).