Toshiba and AireSpring announce the certification of interoperability of AireSpring SIP Trunking services with Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems. AireSpring SIP Trunking services are now available nationwide from Authorized Toshiba Dealers.

AireSpring SIP Trunking services provide businesses with a secure, cost-effective and scalable VoIP solution that is easy to manage. AireSpring leverages its decade-long leadership in the telecom industry to bring the customer a robust and reliable SIP Trunking product at a fraction of the cost of PSTN solutions or even other SIP providers.

New research from In-Stat reveals that the government vertical is among the strongest industry verticals for VoIP adoption. Based on In-Stat’s survey, 48% of respondents in government institutions report that VoIP is deployed in at least one location. The research reveals interesting distinctions among key vertical segments.

VoIPstreet and VoIP Innovations, have come together to create an all-in-one VoIP solutions provider that offers both retail and wholesale VoIP services and boasts one of the nation's largest networks.

VoIPstreet will keep its name on the group's retail solutions due to a well-established presence and track record within the industry, but will officially be under the VoIP Innovations umbrella.

VoIP Innovations already boasted one of the largest nationwide networks in the industry. Now that VoIPstreet is offering its retail services under the VoIP Innovations moniker, that already robust, fully redundant network swells to more than 7,500 rate centers across the contiguous U.S.

STMicroelectronics has been selected for next-generation IP telephones from snom technology. Combining an advanced ARM processor core with a rich set of audio, communication and connectivity interfaces, ST's SPEAr 300 microprocessor forms the heart of the newest snom 870 VoIP telephone. The Linux-based phone, which boasts an intuitive user interface with a high-definition touch-screen color display, wideband audio, an integrated XML browser, and plenty of additional features, arrived on the market in September 2009.

Verizon is offering three new VoIP and Internet packages available through the Verizon Global Wholesale division. The offers are designed to respond to the rapid growth of VoI in the small and medium business realm and the resulting demand for powerful high-speed Internet connections. In addition, the offers support Verizon Global Wholesale customers' marketing efforts to small and medium sized businesses.

8x8 announces that at the end of February 2010 its subscriber base reached a new milestone of 20,000 business customers. For the December quarter, 8x8's average business customer subscribed to 7.3 paid services.

Over the past year and throughout the economic downturn, 8x8 has added approximately 1,000 net new business customers each quarter as small businesses increasingly seek ways to reduce expenses and improve the efficiency of their operations. The 8x8 Virtual Office phone service provides these customers with new, IP-enabled telephony capabilities along with advanced features and unlimited local and long distance calling -- all at a much lower cost than traditional landline phone services. In addition to the 8x8 Virtual Office service, 8x8 offers hosted Call Center and Key System services as well as IP Trunking and Unified Communications solutions, all of which are designed to operate over a business' existing broadband Internet connections, enabling employee connectivity from anywhere a high speed Internet connection exists.

360networks has selected Empirix’s Hammer XMS to enhance its monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of potential issues across its more than 17,000 route miles of fiber optic network across the western United States.

360networks helps its voice, data and web-based application and service provider customers quickly pursue next-generation strategies, migrate from legacy networks, grow into new markets and services, and increase network diversity. By providing increased efficiency for analyzing, diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues, as well as providing the ability to correlate multiple VoIP and SS7 protocols, Hammer XMS enables 360networks to deliver high quality services to these customers

VoX Communications has become the first carrier to deploy a mobile-VoIP, unlimited data and voice service, on the latest full-featured smart phone from Nokia. There is considerable interest about the Nokia N900 on the Internet, which compares very favorably to devices such as the iPhone. An iPhone comparison can be found at this website.

Sigma Systems and Cedar Point have entered into a partnership to provide Next-Generation Operators an integrated VoIP solution for faster commercial and residential deployments. Sigma Systems Service Management Portfolio of fulfillment solutions has demonstrated interoperability with Cedar Point's SAFARI C3 Multimedia Switching System in a live, residential VoIP service offering with a major cable operator. A truly successful rollout of a commercial services offering will require tight integration. Sigma Systems and Cedar Point will be working together to provide this integration in the form of a complete end-to-end commercial voice solution for that same cable operator.

Nuvio Corporation announce the launch of its NuvioFlex virtual PBX product. With NuvioFlex, businesses are able to purchase and use business VoIP in a much more cost-effective manner.

Historically, hosted VoIP PBX has been sold based upon the number of "seats" or "users," resulting in large bills or crippled service for customers migrating from a premise phone system. This pricing model prevented adoption in many cases, especially for small-to-medium sized businesses. NuvioFlex revolutionizes business VoIP by providing a true outsourced phone system that is purchased the same way as an in-house system. Simply determine the number of extensions and lines needed, order those services, and effortlessly make changes when necessary.

Global IP Solutions announce that Argela Technologies has integrated GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile to ensure excellent call quality on its TT WiRO calling service. TT WiRO allows customers to avoid international roaming costs.

The TT WiRO mobile soft-client enables customers to be charged under their home or office phone line for calls made from any location either using a Wi-Fi supported mobile phone or laptop. To ensure that callers have the best experience without delay, jitter or echo, Argela selected GIPS to provide carrier-class voice quality.

ASC will demonstrate its new VoIP recording solution, EVOip 10.0 together with its new quality monitoring solution, INSPIRATIONpro 10.0, at UC Expo, London, England on March 10-11, at the Olympia Exhibition Center.

UC Expo is widely considered to be Great Britain’s leading business communications event focusing on collaboration, mobile, visual and voice solutions. More than 100 exhibitions and seminars will be presented for a target audience of IT and telecommunications professionals, system integrators, infrastructure providers and end users.

XO Communications has been selected by Vitelity to provide dedicated long-haul network connectivity between Denver and Los Angeles. The 10 Gbps backbone will be the Denver-based company's first long-haul route to Los Angeles. Vitelity also is upgrading its Denver metro network service with XO, moving to a 10 Gbps backbone. By expanding and upgrading its network services with XO, the company is well positioned to offer customers high-speed, high-capacity VoIP services at a competitive price, as well as continue to grow its network footprint.

ScanSource Communications announces a new partnership with BroadSoft to distribute BroadSoft’s PacketSmart and BroadWorks solutions. ScanSource Communications reseller and service provider partners now have access to BroadSoft PacketSmart, a set of SaaS-based quality of service assessment and monitoring capabilities, which enables them to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy superior quality VoIP and video communication services to their customers.

Digium has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation to distribute its Switchvox business phone systems and telephony cards to resellers in the U.S. and Canada. SYNNEX is a distributor that supplies more than 15,000 resellers in North America. Digium will work with SYNNEX’ dedicated telephony group to provide unified communications solutions to resellers that service the small-to-medium sized business.