Infradapt announces its participation in the 2009 Association of TeleServices International 2009 Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ATSI's 65th annual convention and expo will be held June 17-20 at the Weston Convention Center, 1000 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA.

Global IP Solutions has published a whitepaper entitled "How to Select the Best Codec for HD voice." There is a growing demand for HD, which provides a more 'life-like' experience - on TVs, PCs, and telephones. HD voice promises rich collaboration applications, whether it's 1-to-1 phone calls or multi-party conferencing.

FreedomVOICE lists nine recommendations to help business leaders slash phone costs and increase productivity during a recession. In an effort to help business owners realize the tremendous savings and productivity benefits a hosted VoIP PBX phone solution can provide, FreedomVOICE has compiled a list of 9 ways to slash phone costs and increase productivity in a recession. By subscribing to the FreedomIQ hosted VoIP PBX service, you’ll be able to save money in the following ways after the jump.

Texas A&M University faculty, students and administrators will benefit from the reliability and flexibility of advanced communications services provided by Verizon Business. Under a three-year, $20 million renewal of its master services agreement, Verizon Business will provide traditional voice and data network services, cabling, and managed services. Under separate agreements, Verizon Business will also migrate the majority of Texas A&M's operations to VoIP while also providing the university with advanced audio-conferencing services.

Digium released details about the sixth annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition. The event brings together open source and telephony developers, systems integrators, entrepreneurs and Digium partners to discuss Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony platform for creating custom communication solutions. Digium invites those who would like to speak at AstriCon to submit information for consideration by June 1, 2009, at www.astricon.net.

Nortel has signed up several new regional carriers across the U.S. bringing the total number of Communication Server 1500 customers to more than 135 globally. Hancock Telephone, ArkWest Communications, Venture Communications Cooperative and Dakota Central Telecommunications are the latest regional carriers to select Nortel's CS 1500 solution. This IP multimedia softswitch gives regional subscribers and small and medium sized businesses a low-cost but highly-reliable solution for providing traditional voice services, as well as multimedia applications like IPTV, fiber to the premises, and end-user Web portal access.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in the 520 and 928 area codes. VoicePulse expands its coverage, adding 12 more rate centers to give Arizonans more choices when it comes to Broadband Phone and SIP Trunking services.

Codima announces that the company has established operations in the Benelux market. With head offices in Brussels, the local multi lingual team will offer services in sales, marketing and technical support to new and existing resellers throughout the Benelux region. The Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg operation is the Company’s fourth European roll out in 2009.

VIXXI Solutions has developed an online application that 9-1-1 dispatchers can use to pull up location information for VoIP callers in the rare case that only the call-back number or ESQK is delivered. The tool, called VIXXI-NRF (for ‘No Record Found’), saves valuable time over the traditional method of having to call a provider’s help desk in the middle of an emergency situation.

Recently published reports predict that nearly 75 percent of corporate phone lines will be using VoIP in the next two years; expectations are that half of small-to-medium sized businesses and two-thirds of all enterprise organizations will be using VoIP. By this year's end, the global total number of VoIP subscribers (residential and commercial) is expected to reach nearly 100 million users. Because of the ubiquity of VoIP, it is quickly emerging as a new and substantive threat vector to businesses worldwide. The following are the leading threats to business networks that use VoIP:

Empirix has received the prestigious 2009 Global VoIP Test & Monitoring Equipment Market Leadership of the Year Award from research firm Frost & Sullivan. The Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership of the Year is given to the company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of market strategy. In order to earn this award, the recipient has displayed excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics.

Polycom and MetaSwitch are teaming to deliver the Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone to MetaSwitch customers worldwide. MetaSwitch offers its customers the full line of Polycom SoundPoint IP desk phones and recently added the VVX 1500 to its product portfolio. With the addition of the VVX 1500, MetaSwitch is bringing to market its first-ever visual communication solution, augmenting the HD Voice capabilities of the Polycom phones.

The VVX 1500 is the only business media phone to combine a personal video conferencing system with a fully featured VoIP telephone with Polycom HD Voice, an intuitive color touch-screen interface, and an open API and a microbrowser for real-time delivery of personalized Web content as well as integration with key business applications.

BroadSoft announces that iiNet Limited now supports more than 100,000 residential VoIP customers. iiNet's iiTalk VoIP service is powered by the BroadWorks VoIP application platform. While residential VoIP adoption rates have been low in Australia compared to other countries, a 2009 Convergence and Communications report by the Australia Communications and Media Authority indicates a changing trend. With over three quarters of Australian households connected to the Internet and a growing awareness of VoIP, broadband telephony is positioned for growth.