VocalTec announces that over 10 service providers in Brazil have selected VocalTec as their VoIP/NGN provider. The telecommunications market in Brazil is by far the largest market in Latin America, with Voice over IP positioned as one of the fastest growing sectors in this market. With over 2 million VoIP subscribers today, market research estimates that the VoIP market in Brazil will grow by around 40% in 2010.

As the market for SIP trunking heats up, service providers are increasingly turning to Metaswitch Networks. Carriers including Birch, LightBound and Fibernetics are finding that the feature richness, field-proven interoperability, and reliability of the MetaSphere platform enable them to differentiate their offerings and win in this increasingly competitive market.

Digium is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 Digium Innovation Awards. The company announced the winners today at AstriCon, the official conference for Asterisk, the world's leading open source PBX, telephony engine and telephony applications toolkit. The Innovation Awards, presented in five categories to seven recipients, recognize innovation, enterprise-class solutions, measurable return on investment, use of Asterisk in businesses outside of the communications industry and contributions to the Asterisk community.

TM Forum reveals that residential broadband Communications Service Providers are meeting rising customer expectations for rapid service delivery and fast problem resolution. This assessment of residential broadband services is made in TM Forum’s Insights Business Intelligence Report, “Winning in a Shrinking World: Seizing the Opportunities,” based on TM Forum Business Benchmarking studies and Analysys Mason projections.

snom is the first company to enable the auto configuration of VoIP terminals using the TR-069 standard. TR-069 has been developed by the International Broadband Forum to enable various devices to contact auto-configuration servers in order to automatically obtain the latest updates and security settings.

Sigma Designs and CopperGate Communications have entered into a definitive agreement for Sigma to acquire CopperGate in a cash and stock transaction with an agreed value of $160 million, net of CopperGate’s cash at the closing of the transaction.

CopperGate is a leading provider of silicon-based modem solutions enabling distribution of broadband digital content over all three types of wires in the home: coax, phone and power. CopperGate solutions are deployed by service providers enabling the delivery of HDTV, VoIP and fast Internet services. CopperGate is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with operations in the U.S. and Taiwan.

InnerPass announces that the number of Skype users leveraging InnerPass to share and collaborate has passed 1.5 million. InnerPass is the only business application to combine meetings, Internet communications via Skype, and persistent file sharing and storage. InnerPass adoption using Skype has been doubling every 60 days and currently serves over 30,000 users a day with persistent business collaboration services.

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AltiGen Communications and Unified Communications announce the availability of AltiGen's MAX Communications Server 6.5 VoIP Unified Communications platform. MAX Communications Server 6.5 includes the following technology enhancements for businesses looking to deploy a complete, software-based IP-PBX.

Digium announces the 10th anniversary of the creation of Asterisk, the world’s leading open source telephony engine and toolkit. Asterisk was created by Mark Spencer who is the founder and CTO of Digium, the company that created, leads and coordinates Asterisk. Digium will be celebrating Asterisk’s 10 year anniversary at the AstriCon conference taking place from October 13-15, 2009, at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa near Phoenix, Arizona. More about this annual event is available at http://www.astricon.net.

PhoneFusion announces the availability of its Fusion Voicemail Plus app in Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Fusion Voicemail Plus for Windows Mobile is a free, downloadable visual voicemail application that gives any Smartphone user with a wireless data and text messaging plan the ability to centralize all of their voicemail boxes and see -- right on the screen of their mobile device -- a list of their voicemail messages and faxes.

Fusion Voicemail Plus significantly enhances basic visual voicemail applications. Key features include a voice-to-text option that allows users to hear and read voicemail messages. Another new feature lets users create special voicemail greetings to play only for certain callers based on Caller ID or on specific days or times of the day. Windows Mobile users also have the ability to receive faxes right on their Smartphone. Users can use their existing mobile number or register a new number to receive faxes.

Telesphere announces the closing of additional financing, totaling $32 million over the past 24 months. The funding news comes on the heels of Telesphere’s July announcement that it would acquire the VoIP services business of Denver-based Unity Business Networks. The acquisition has now closed after receiving FCC approval.

AT&T has taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on iPhone to run on AT&T’s wireless network. Previously, VoIP applications on iPhone were enabled for Wi-Fi connectivity. For some time, AT&T has offered a variety of other wireless devices that enable VoIP applications on 3G, 2G and Wi-Fi networks. AT&T this afternoon informed Apple and the FCC of its decision.

BroadSoft announces its intent to acquire privately held, Cupertino, California-based Packet Island, a pioneer of SaaS-based quality of service assessment and monitoring tools for VoIP and video networks and services.

The acquisition enables BroadSoft to address the critical need in the market of ensuring QoS, and quality of experience, for real-time communications. BroadSoft's expanded solutions portfolio will now enable service providers to offer significantly enhanced QoS assessment and monitoring capabilities of their communication services. These solutions enable service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy VoIP and video services with guaranteed end-to-end "carrier-grade" service delivery.