Households across the nation can now experience for themselves the most talked-about new consumer electronics device on the market, the Verizon Hub. The Verizon Hub is an intuitive device that puts a communications command center in the home that bridges wireline and wireless connectivity and runs on any broadband connection -- whether supplied by Verizon FiOS Internet or DSL or any other high-speed service provider.

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East 2009 takes place February 2, 2009 - February 4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida. Listed below are the exhibitor profiles.

Unicoi Systems announces the release of Fusion SIP version 5.0 for secure VoIP telephony. With this release, Fusion SIP now supports SIP over TCP/IP and secure SIP or SIPS. SIP is one of the signaling protocols most commonly used in VoIP telecommunications. SIPS is the security-enhanced implementation of SIP. Fusion SIPS provides secure SIP for telecommunications by allowing an IP telephone to encrypt all data transmissions between a SIP Proxy and the phone. Encrypting SIP transmissions is vital as more and more users move from POTS to the Internet alternative, VoIP.

SKyPRO announces the SKyCOM Unified Communications application that integrates with Novell GroupWise to provide Voice over IP services for voice and messaging communications. SKyCOM delivers improved user productivity and convenience, while lowering communications costs for companies.

SKyCOM increases user productivity by using the PC as the single interface for all communications. GroupWise integration enables the user to track all communications and use GroupWise as a simple CRM tool.

Verizon Business will provide a range of local voice and data services to federal agencies in five Mid-Atlantic states under a new agreement, valued at as much as $120.8 million, with the U.S. General Services Administration.

The agreement, known as the Mid-Atlantic Local Services Acquisition contract, covers three years and four renewable option years. Under terms of the deal, the GSA and other federal agencies in the Mid-Atlantic region -- which covers Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia -- can immediately buy local voice and data services. They include Centrex, ISDN services, network-based voice messaging, private line data services, and related managed and professional services.

Raketu announces Raketu calling at rates at up to 65% lower than Skype, perfect for consumers and businesses alike. Raketu provides the most flexibility of calling with computer to computer, computer to phone, and phone to phone calls. Raketu users can even make calls directly from any browser, without a download, or from any SIP device connected to Raketu. And it's all available using Raketu's calling plans or at Raketu's ultra-low rates all from any device, anywhere in the world, mobile or desktop/laptop.

Reportlinker announces that a new market research report, "Enterprise VOIP Equipment Market 2008-2011". VoIP is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. Equipment used for the deployment of VoIP services are referred to as Enterprise VoIP Equipment, which typically includes enterprise IP PBX/KTS Equipment, VoIP access points and gateways, VoIP adapters, VoIP Phones etc. The primary factors driving enterprises to deploy Enterprise VoIP Equipment in their core enterprise network systems are cost savings on long distance calls (through the use of toll bypass), ability to integrate with existing business applications, ease of use/manageability and flexibility, and relatively reduced operational costs in comparison to legacy equipment.

Braxtel Communications has become a Digium Software Partner. As a partner, Braxtel will be able to offer its powerful open source Contact Q contact center solution to small-to mid-sized businesses via Digium’s extensive base of channel partners.

Braxtel created the Contact Q contact center software by building on experience gained from developing its established offering, the Fluency Communications Suite. In addition to world-class contact center software, Braxtel delivers installation and support services to its business partners worldwide. The company has over 12 years of experience implementing automated call distributor, interactive voice response, call recording and dialer applications and has long worked with traditional PBX vendors such as Avaya, Cisco and Nortel.

Mark Collier, a leading telephony and VoIP security scientist, author, and blogger, announces the release of his “VoIP Security Trends and Predictions for 2009.” The latest edition of Collier’s annual prognostications was posted today to his popular VoIP security blog at www.voipsecurityblog.com, alongside a “2008 VoIP Security Year in Review” companion discussion posted on January 13, 2009. Collier is CTO and VP of engineering of SecureLogix Corporation, an enterprise telephony security, optimization, and management company.

TalkSwitch announces the availability of its TS-850i high-performance cordless DECT phone. The feature-rich TS-850i provides the ability to break away from the desktop while retaining full TalkSwitch IP-PBX phone system functionality.

The TS-850i sports a sleek design and sturdy construction. It's ideal for warehouses, retail stores, manufacturing facilities, teleworkers and any small business user on the move. It uses SIP for standards-based VoIP connectivity and also works with a landline. A TS-850i extension can be located anywhere in a home or office without a nearby phone jack.

Broadvox launched a new IP Man adventure at www.IPManAdventures.com. This is #5 in the series of IP Man Adventure stories about the Broadvox superhero; this one features AudioCodes.

In this episode, a SMB somewhere in North America is feeling the crunch of the recession and wants to transition to SIP Trunking saving them up to 70% of their telecom costs. Their technician is unable to find a solution to the high cost of telecom because their equipment is not IP-enabled and there is no budget to purchase a new PBX. The company is doomed and locked into high cost TDM service and equipment!

Acme Packet announces that InPhonex has chosen the Net-Net 9200 session border controller to help expand its subscriber base and further enhance its service offerings. An existing Acme Packet customer, InPhonex currently services approximately 200,000 direct VoIP subscribers and plans to exceed one million subscribers by the end of calendar year 2009. In addition to its retail business, InPhonex markets its services through a worldwide network of more than three thousand resellers under the VARPhonex brand. InPhonex’s business and residential subscribers are able to place VoIP calls to over 140 countries, choosing from a growing portfolio of fixed and variable rate service plans.

fring announces the launch of the Last.fm music radio add-on. Millions of fringsters will now be able to launch fring’s specially mobile-optimised version of Last.fm inside the fring client, enabling them to tune and listen to streamed music radio channels, including their own Last.fm library, tag favourites or ban disliked tracks, view album artwork and take their Last.fm music account mobile.

Sigma Systems will play an active role in the SCTE Canadian Summit in Toronto from February 3-4 at Toronto Congress Centre. Sigma will lead a panel discussion, and conduct live demonstrations of its solutions for Hosted Business VoIP and Advanced Video.

Sigma Systems is dedicated to helping operators deliver advanced IP service bundles, including voice over IP, digital video and high-speed data, for business and residential users.

In a dynamic move sure to rattle devotees of plain old home phones, Verizon Wireless will introduce the new Verizon Hub on Feb. 1. Only Verizon Wireless can launch a new touch screen home phone system designed to replace old-style home phones with a souped-up home communications system, bridging wireline and wireless connectivity in one simple service, that runs on any broadband connection – whether supplied by Verizon FiOS Internet or DSL or any other high-speed service provider.