VoIP Supply has been named as one of Western New York's Top CEO's/Top Private Companies for 2011. Buffalo Business First and Dopkins & Co. LLP unveiled their annual list of top chief executive officers leading Western New York's top private companies, marking this the seventh straight year that VoIP Supply has been honored with the ranking.

Starting in 2005, when the award was known as Western New York's Top 100 Private Companies, VoIP Supply occupied the modest 96th ranking. After six consecutive years of nominations, VoIP Supply climbed to the 56th position in 2010. Now, in less than a decade, VoIP Supply ranks as the 50th top private company in the region.

OnSIP announces a phone certification program that will recommend desk phones and soft phone applications that are verified to work with OnSIP’s popular hosted PBX phone service. By partnering with OnSIP, phone manufacturers and developers are able to guarantee reliable SIP phones to their customers. Phones will pass several use cases in a rigorous multi-point interoperability test prior to being OnSIP-certified.

The partnership will improve the reach of both phone manufacturers and OnSIP through joint promotional efforts. Certified phone manufacturers will be prominently featured on the OnSIP website.

Aria Technologies announces a partnership with engin. This partnership culminates in the availability of business-grade VoIP solutions that combine advanced IP telephony equipment from LG-Ericsson, with cutting-edge IP network infrastructure from engin, Australia’s first VoIP service provider.

Completely NBN-ready, the new packages will allow businesses to take advantage of VoIP technology immediately, providing savings on their communications costs with aggressive call pricing as well as providing a broad and comprehensive feature set.

Datora is growing wholesale capacity using the SBC VoIP Peering solution from DIGITALK. The DIGITALK carrier solution now supports more than 1,000 VoIP carrier interconnects at Datora, using SIP, SIP-T and H.323, and incorporates remote media access to minimise international call latency.

The DIGITALK SBC VoIP Peering platform is a complete network solution for international wholesale service providers. The solution is based on DIGITALK's carrier-grade, high capacity Carrier Session Border Controller supporting signalling interworking, carrier and topology hiding, media relay, DTMF interworking and dynamic media transcoding. The platform’s management capabilities include advanced margin- and quality-based carrier routing, real-time rating and credit control, and service monitoring and reporting.

Telchemy announces DVQattest Version 2.0, a powerful new active test system for unified communications. DVQattest generates Voice over IP and Videoconferencing calls with SIP signaling, synthetic HTTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS and DHCP transactions and a range of IP network tests. This advanced test product supports pre-deployment testing, SLA monitoring and troubleshooting for converged networks and services.

DVQattest Agents are compact but highly featured software applications that can be installed on a range of operating systems and hardware platforms, including Linux servers and appliances, Android mobile phones and directly integrated into network equipment and CPE. Tests can be run on-demand or scheduled to run indefinitely. Agents can run multiple concurrent tests to other Agents or to IP phones, Web sites, Email sites and other network-based services. DVQattest Agents support complex networks with overlapping IP address spaces, VLANs and a range of SIP infrastructure configurations.

Infonetics Research released excerpts from its third quarter 2011 Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast report.

“Seasonally the third quarter tends to be a weak one for the overall carrier VoIP equipment market, and 3Q11 was no exception,” notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research. “No vendor is immune to the challenges of delayed orders and shifts in technology choices, although there were some standout performances by vendors in 3Q11 in specific segments, including Dialogic, GENBAND, Huawei, Metaswitch, and Sonus. Sequentially, all market segments are down in 3Q11, but from the year-ago quarter, there is one bright spot: session border controllers, with global revenue up 13%. The SBC and voice application controller segments are on track to be up in 2011, reflecting the continued shift to all-IP networks.”

eVoice and j2 Global announces the availability of its latest mobile application for Apple devices. Now, owners of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or a 3G/4G network using VoIP. This saves precious cell phone minutes while helping to reduce the chance of dropped phone calls.

Essentially, the new eVoice Mobile App transforms an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a multi-purpose business phone system with powerful features, including:

• Make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or 3G/4G network using VoIP
• 24/7 auto attendant to answer and route inbound calls professionally
• Multiple extensions for employees, including intercom functionality
• Enhanced voice mail service with transcriptions and audio files sent to email or text
• Advanced call handling features including call screening

VoIP Supply will be donating 1,000 turkey dinners to the Buffalo City Mission to feed needy families this Thanksgiving. Just a few weeks ago, the City Mission announced that it "still needs donations to help feed many impacted families this year," and VoIP Supply is stepping up as part of its civic duty.

"We have experienced remarkable success and feel strongly about giving back to the community," said Garrett Smith, VoIP Supply's CMO. "Thriving local companies like VoIP Supply have an obligation to be socially responsible and civic aware. We're happy to help and know that fewer families will go hungry this holiday season. As a company that likes a good challenge, we challenge other Buffalo area companies to match or exceed our commitment this year."

Help further the Buffalo City Mission's goal and make a donation.

SPIRIT DSP announces FRITT has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Conferencing product, comprising of SPIRIT's cross-platform, HD voice and videoconferencing engines, including the TeamSpirit Conferencing Server, TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine PC and TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile clients for iOS and Android.

FRITT was established in 1957 and has successfully developed a set of advanced communication products and won 120 major scientific and technological achievements for China's telecommunications industry.

FRITT will be using the TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine platform running on both server and client sides, allowing FRITT's emergency management customers the unique ability to conduct HD-quality, multi-point voice and videoconferencing across popular PC and mobile devices.

Digium announces the availability of the TE820 Octal-Span digital card. This new high-density solution compliments Digium’s existing broad suite of telephony card offerings designed specifically for Asterisk-based communications systems. The TE820 enables Asterisk integrators and OEMs to build large scale telephony deployments that are both high performance and cost-effective.

Asterisk is the most widely used open source software for creating business phone systems and other communications applications. The combination of Digium hardware and Asterisk software provides a cost-effective platform for building numerous communications solutions, from PBX systems and VoIP gateways to IVR servers, call centers and complete unified communications suites. The TE820 supports up to 192 channels (in T1/J1 mode) or 240 channels (in E1 mode) and is available with or without hardware echo cancellation.

Verizon has expanded its VoIP service within the Asia-Pacific region, enabling multinational companies in key commercial hubs across the region to take advantage of a wide range of the latest unified communications and collaboration applications to help increase productivity and efficiency.

By leveraging Verizon's expansive global IP network and feature-rich architecture, the VoIP solution offers customers in Australia, Hong Kong, India and Singapore access to applications including social networking, video chats, mobile-device support, instant messaging and presence.

Verizon is also adding intercompany high-definition voice and video capabilities for select VoIP customers that use the service's popular VIPER feature. This is a cloud-based IP-to-IP routing option that eliminates additional per minute domestic and international charges on calls between VIPER-enabled locations customers.

SPIRIT DSP announces that Huawei Technologies has extended its license with SPIRIT DSP for wideband Mobile VoIP and video calling. Huawei's products and services are deployed in over 100 countries and serve 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators, as well as one third of the world's population. Under terms of the agreement, Huawei, an existing SPIRIT customer since 2007, has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile.

The popularity of 3G and 4G smartphone devices, along with the emergence of applications and faster connectivity and the increasing popularity of tablet PCs (which is quickly becoming one of the most prominent business collaboration tools), makes it an ideal platform for developing applications that incorporate real-time, VoIP and videoconferencing. Jupiter Research predicts that mobile VoIP users will exceed 100 million by 2012 and In-Stat projects 288 million mobile VoIP subscribers by 2013. According to a recent study from Allot Communications, VoIP and instant messaging became the fastest growing application type in the first half of this year, with usage increasing by 101 percent. Video streaming came in second at 93 percent.

C2Call announces the availability of its latest version of FriendCaller for Android. The browser-based VoIP solution now features echo-free video calling via any Android-based smart phone or tablet, or via the FriendCaller Web phone.

New features of the latest version of FriendCaller include:

• Availability on more than 650 different devices and all popular desktop browsers
• An enhanced user interface
• The ability to earn free minutes that can be used to dial U.S. and international phone numbers by watching short video clips from FriendCaller sponsors

The SIP Forum announced today that it will host the second annual SIP Network Operators Conference, a two day educational conference focusing on the challenges and opportunities related to the deployment of SIP-based carrier services globally. SIPNOC US 2012 will be held in Herndon, VA on June 25-27, 2012 and will build on the success of the inaugural event last spring, which attracted leading technical and operations personnel from the global carrier community and earned high praise from attendees for its educational, non-commercial and technical content that focused on the real-world challenges operators face when deploying SIP services in global IP networks.

The SIP Forum will release further details about SIPNOC US 2012 including sign-up for early bird registration in mid-November at its conference website http://www.sipnoc.org.

AT&T smartphone customers now have another way to stay in touch with family and friends abroad. Introducing AT&T Call International – a free mobile VoIP app – providing international long distance calling at low, competitive rates.

Developed with and operated by 8x8, AT&T smartphone customers can use the app to make calls from the U.S. to international numbers; and when abroad, customers will benefit from the same low rates using the app over Wi-Fi. Countries and rates are available at www.att.com/callinternational.

The app provides simple, step-by-step instructions to establish an AT&T Call International account. Once established, customers can immediately make international calls through the app by either dialing directly or by accessing their existing contacts list. All calls are billed directly to the customer’s credit card.