Sigma Systems will demonstrate its residential and business VoIP service fulfillment solutions and Device Provisioning Manager at BroadSoft Connections 2009: Voice & Vision, October 25 - 28, at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. The annual event, which is in its seventh year, will bring together service provider executives and leading telecommunications solution providers to discuss and demonstrate differentiated service offerings that expand beyond voice.

Skype announced the selection of Net-Net OS-Enterprise session border controllers from Acme Packet for its Skype for SIP beta offering. Acme Packet is the leader in session border contro solutions and the sole SBC partner for the Skype for SIP beta program.

Skype’s deployment of Acme Packet’s SBC simplifies the interoperability and feature compatibility of the Skype for SIP beta offering with enterprise IP-PBX equipment and next-generation unified communications platforms which utilize the SIP standard. As a result, Skype for SIP will allow those enterprises with an on-premise IP PBX to take advantage of an innovative IP-enabled communications tool and to benefit from end-to-end interoperability. The implementation of an SBC by Skype as part of the Skype for SIP beta program also enables the delivery of high-quality, real-time interactive communications, while minimizing the exposure to risks for those companies who sign up for the trial.

ClearOne announces the Converge Pro VH20, the newest member of ClearOne's Professional Conferencing family of products. The VH20 provides a direct connection between Converge Pro audio conferencing systems and VoIP PBX phone systems so that users can transport audio signals across their IP networks. The VH20 easily links with any of ClearOne's Converge Pro products to create a complete audio conferencing system that can quickly be integrated with Cisco, Avaya and many other VoIP PBX phone systems for 100% interoperability. The Converge Pro VH20 delivers wideband audio for rich and crystal clear sound, provides guaranteed quality of service, and ensures full security with TLS, AES and SRTP encryption. These features combine to deliver the most advanced professional quality VoIP audio interface available on the market today.

Mindspeed announces that the company’s Comcerto 100 customer premises equipment processor is the core enabling technology behind the Ooma Telo. A key feature of the Ooma Telo is DECT 6.0 technology which, unlike previous 2.4 GHz cordless protocols, will deliver improved call quality, while making future Ooma Telo handsets virtually immune to household interference from wireless networks and other sources. Mindspeed’s Comcerto 100 processor further enhances Ooma’s Telo DECT 6.0 voice quality through the use of innovative advanced echo-cancellation techniques.

VoIP Logic announces its launch of BroadSoft BroadWorks VoIP application platform as a managed service as well as BroadWorks-integrated Cortex OSS for provisioning and billing. BroadWorks will complement and ultimately replace VoIP Logic’s Sylantro Synergy platform. It will provide telephony features, messaging and SIP Trunking commonly sold in Class 5 enterprise hosted PBX and consumer VoIP service offerings. VoIP Logic anticipates that this offering will provide real value for carriers and service providers that are looking for improved visibility, flexibility, cost control and scalability in running their Class 5 operations.

8x8 has been awarded United States Patent Number 7,606,221 entitled, "Network Communications Having Endpoint Device with Automatic Connection to IPBX." The patent issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 20, 2009.

The patent relates to a telephony communications approach that implements an auto-discovery feature that enables an endpoint device to automatically locate and establish communication with a desirable server in a web of interconnected servers. In one specific example implementation, the endpoint device is an Internet-type telephone communicating with a remote server in an Internet-based Private Branch Exchange.

Metaswitch announces that SureWest Communications has selected the MetaSphere Application/Feature Server to provide advanced IP telephony services for business customers. Delivered over SureWest's state-of-the-art network, the new MetaSphere-based services are expected to provide SureWest's business customers with increased communications efficiency, productivity and flexibility, and an array of innovative telephony applications.

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.

VoIP in India is yet to gain acceptance in India, but possesses great future prospects. Low call-rates as compared to conventional telephony and increasing Internet penetration are set to drive growth of the VoIP-based services in India. The market is expected to change the dynamics of the Indian telecom industry once the necessary regulatory changes are in place.

snom has teamed with CudaTel to deliver an affordable, reliable and easy to deploy end-to-end VoIP communications solution to the SMB and enterprise markets. The pairing enables businesses to use snom’s portfolio of Linux-based SIP VoIP phones with CudaTel’s recently launched CudaTel Communication Server offering, an IP PBX and communications appliance that delivers dozens of new features and functions managed via a Web-based user interface. CudaTel’s platform is based on FreeSWITCH, a free open source software communications platform for voice and chat-driven products released under the MPL free software license.

Speakeasy introduces EasyVoice Mobile for iPhone, published by JNSoftware LLC. EasyVoice Mobile brings the savings and flexibility of Speakeasy Hosted Voice (VoIP) to business customers using the iPhone, including free international calling to 22 countries and integration of Speakeasy's Remote Office functionality.

Voiceserve through its company Voipswitch announced its release of the Voipswitch Android-powered "Soft-phone" at the GITEX exhibition in Dubai.

Vippie Mobile is a downloadable application that will allow Android users to place local and international calls via the WIFI, GPRS, 3G or Edge connections. Calls between registered "Vippie" users via WIFI are not charged and are for free irrespective of Global location. The Voipswitch softphone utilises SIP protocol, its usage in not only confined to that of Voipswitch subscribers and is designed to be fully compatible with any softswitch or 3rd party server. The Vippie for Android, like the other Voipswitch Mobile softphones has integrated VOIP tunnel technology, enabling communication even from otherwise blocked regions.

AltiGen has signed an exclusive agreement with Italian distributor and telecom equipment provider Hypercom. The company will direct the sale and distribution of AltiGen's Microsoft-certified applications through Telecom Italia.

Hypercom, with offices in Rome, Milan and Padova, has been supplying telecommunications solutions to Telecom Italia since 1980. The company has its own business phone system product line, CIE, and has added the AltiGen product line to provide VoIP, advanced call center capability and integration with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

Recognizing the surging demand from consumers and businesses for a high value communication experience, HD voice is the next critical offering in IP communications across all IP communication devices, wireless and wireline service providers, Internet Service Providers, equipment manufacturers (mobile and telco), application developers and enterprise software developers.

HD voice gives a more ‘life-like’ communications experience that provides crispness, clarity and better understanding compared to standard Internet Telephony, there's no interest in returning to standard telephony. Similarly, people are familiar with the benefits of HD video, thanks to HDTV and Blu-ray, and today it's pervasive.

DIDX announces its partnership with VOIP Today Magazine to promote the best IP communications content possible together. VOIP Today released its first issue on October 1, 2009 with the latest news and views about VoIP, Asterisk PBX, IP PBX, converged networks, hosted PBX, and other business telephony solutions. DIDX members offer solutions among all of these topics.