snom introduced a new beta release of firmware for its snom UC business phone portfolio for Microsoft Lync. Called "Apollo," the new snom software features new configuration and management capabilities designed to accelerate the speed and simplicity for deploying and operating Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice and snom UC edition phones in large multi-site business environments.

The new snom UC firmware also supports unique features for its 'Qualified for Lync' endpoints designed specifically for enterprise level installation of voice-enabled Microsoft Lync, including Music on Hold, Boss/Admin and integrated Presence capabilities.

VoX Communications is now offering its mobile voice Android app to Facebook users. Facebook is running millions of impressions a week to promote VoX's Android app. Ads are being shown primarily to college graduates in ten countries. The countries selected are the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Egypt, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.

A VoX user can subscribe entirely on the phone and choose a U.S. phone number without leaving the interface, which makes the sign up process more elegant than many competitors. The Mobile VoIP paid plans start at $4.95, which is a low cost of entry for a high quality and reliable VoIP service offering. VoX also offers 500 minutes for $9.95 and unlimited calling to more than 60 countries for $29.95 per month. New subscribers can download the app for a free 60-minute trial and make calls to any country on the unlimited calling list.

The VoX Mobile VoIP App can be viewed or downloaded here.

Voip-Pal.Com Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed beta testing of several of the recently acquired VoIP patented technologies on its ground based server. Integration of these patents onto Voip-Pal's Cloud Server is currently underway. Further announcements will be made as each patented technology is integrated and deployed into Voip-Pal's revenue model.

As previously announced, Voip-Pal.Com acquired several revolutionary and proprietary digital voice technologies as part of the "Digifonica Gibraltar" transaction. The patent portfolio greatly enhances shareholder value and will substantially increase revenues for Voip-Pal.Com once the individual patents are brought on stream. In addition to the intrinsic value of each individual patent, revenues will be derived not only from Voip-Pal's subscribers using our retail site (www.pointsphone.com), but also from licensing the technologies to other VoIP service providers and their millions of subscribers.

DIGITALK has announced the addition of US Jurisdictional Routing to its SBC VoIP Peering platform, enabling US service providers to apply margin and quality-based routing to domestic as well as international long distance carrier routing.

The routing of long distance calls across the North America Numbering Plan is complicated by the division of number ranges across both geographic and administrative boundaries, as well as their ownership by the different operating companies. Number ownership transfers due to number portability also need to be taken into account. Altogether, the complexity of the numbering structure and routing rules, plus the volume of number ranges to be supported, demand an automated solution for effective US Jurisdictional Routing.

WorldCall and PortaOne announce that PortaSwitch has been formally certified for interoperability with the VoIP network offering from Colt, Europe's leading information delivery platform. WorldCall, a major PortaSwitch user, supplied essential technical resources to ensure successful completion of the interoperability testing.

With the certification, PortaSwitch users worldwide are now able to make assured SIP interconnection to the proprietary, Intranet-based VoIP network of Colt, one of the world's largest Tier 1 VoIP operators. PortaSwitch is now published as a formally certified PBX solution within Colt.

VoxOx In Business announces changes to the structure and pricing of the company’s white label VoIP program. The white label program, previously offered with three separate pricing plans, is now being offered as a single, streamlined package with both metered and bundled minute options for SIP trunking and hosted IP PBX business solutions, as well as single line user (“SoHo” and residential landline replacement) deployments. As part of the new program structure, the company has also introduced highly competitive flat rate pricing for origination and termination services and reduced initial startup fees for customers by 50 percent or more.

With respect to new functionality, the white label VoIP program now offers redesigned, fully brandable end-user and administrator portals, which enable easier access to CDR information and more account management and call control functions. The latest portal design provides both administrators and end-users with a more intuitive user experience. OSS/BSS platforms for ordering and billing provisioning have also been enhanced in conjunction with the program update.

One year ago Divox International Inc. was announced as the 100th customer of the MediaCore Softswitch. Over this time Divox has increased the capacity of the softswitch 50 times starting with 300 and upgrading it to 15 000 concurrent calls! At the moment the company leverages geographically distributed servers cluster which allows them to maintain the system. With the help of the carrier-grade Class 4 MediaCore Softswitch Divox International is tracking towards 5 billion minutes in the year 2012.

‘The MediaCore Softswitch is the complex routing and billing solution which makes the business more efficient, increases productivity of NOC and Account departments. There are lots of boundaries in VoIP business and most of them can be cleared with the MediaCore Softswitch’ says John Mathew, Divox CEO.

snom announces an e-learning program giving value added resellers the knowledge to provide end-to-end support of snom ONE IP PBX solutions. The class is available free to registered snom VARs from North and South America, Australia and New Zealand who are interested in gaining certification for the company's software-based snom ONE IP PBX and hardware-based snom ONE plus IP PBX appliance. The online course is a convenient path to snom ONE certification for the company's IP PBX family of products - and increased profitability.

Busy VARs can gain valuable, hands-on experience with all aspects of the snom ONE IP PBX product family, without the time and expense of traditional courses. "Based on the popularity of our instructor-led snom University VAR certification, we are pleased to offer an online version of the curriculum," said Mike Storella, Chief Operating Officer of snom technology.

VoIP Supply enters its second decade of successful business, reflecting on its most significant accomplishments and its vision for continued industry leadership.

Founded by Benjamin P. Sayers in 2002, Buffalo-based VoIP Supply has grown rapidly and continuously—adding revenue, profitability, and staff—with a sustained compound annual growth rate for the entire decade exceeding 20 percent. VoIP Supply's annual revenue in 2011 exceeded $21.5 million, double its 2005 annual revenue despite an industry-wide downturn in 2008-2009, supported by its staff of 36 full-time employees.

VoIP Supply delivers seven thousand product SKUs from 90 vendors, to more than its 120 thousand customers.

VoIP Supply attributes this sustained growth to its focus on providing value to its customers especially in vertical markets like telephony, video and voice-over-IP. By focusing on its core expertise, it delivers in-depth product understanding to its customers, with expert technical support for provisioning and installation. Unlike other web-based retailers, VoIP Supply has created its own category and has become the leading vertical-etailer, or v-tailer. By hiring right, their team members are experts in the entire range of products it offers. That expertise is one way VoIP Supply has become a value leader in ecommerce. By having a tight focus on vertical market sectors VoIP Supply successfully provides value to customers looking for products in the product and services verticals it now operates in.

snom announces a partnership with Chinook Communications, a Seattle-based hosted IT services provider for small and medium-sized businesses, to deliver a new cloud-based integrated IP telephony and unified communications service called Total Connect. The Chinook solution, the first production release of Microsoft-supported Lync Server 2010 Multitenant Pack for Partner Hosting, will utilize snom UC edition business phones as the preferred endpoints within its cloud hosted Microsoft Lync service.

snom is debuting Chinook's new Total Connect hosted unified communications and telephony solution with snom UC edition desktop phones this week in Orlando, FL at Enterprise Connect 2012 (booth #737) and at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo (booth #541) in Las Vegas, NV.

Empirix announces the availability of the Empirix xCentrix VoIP and Media Analysis Package, a solution for identifying and predicting key customer, service and operational trends in VoIP networks, contact centers and Unified Communications infrastructures. The package leverages the company’s extensive technical, industry and solution expertise to transform data into key metrics and intelligence that deliver significant value for companies looking to provide a better user experience, communicate more efficiently, find new opportunities to profit and realize the full value of their technology investments.

The VoIP and Media Analysis Package provides enterprises with specialized VoIP call quality, errors and traffic analyses, as well as customer, destination, network element and carrier metrics delivered via the Empirix xCentrix network analytics platform. It intelligently correlates key data points and provides reports that enable users to evaluate performance and trends from many perspectives. For more free-form analysis, Empirix xCentrix includes a web-based interface for drilling into micro events for root cause analysis or layering multiple data points and KPIs to reveal hidden trends. It quickly manipulates large volumes of data and presents it in a way that is insightful for users across all departments and job functions.

Imagination Technologies announces its HelloSoft V.VoIP (Video + VoIP) MediaEngine SDK at the Enterprise Connect 2012 show in Orlando (Stand 305).

Imagination's HelloSoft V.VoIP MediaEngine SDK is a comprehensive suite of highly portable software components for high quality video and voice over IP (V.VoIP) media processing that delivers consistent, superior quality user experiences for devices in both wired and wireless enterprise environments.

The HelloSoft MediaEngine SDK consists of a wide range of all commonly used video and voice codecs, together with advanced Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Quality of Service and telephony components. The HelloSoft V.VoIP MediaEngine SDK also provides well-defined APIs and sample test wrappers for ease of integration with the call management software stacks of IP based voice and video conferencing products.

AltiGen is pleased to announce the general availability of the iFusion SmartStation on retailer VoIP Supply's online webstore.

The iFusion SmartStation is a multi-function iPhone docking station that pairs the iPhone with the iFusions's ergonomic handset or business-grade speakerphone via built-in Bluetooth that is functional up to 33 feet away. Additionally, the iFusion also charges the iPhone, offers streaming music playback, an audio jack for external speakers and USB pass through for syncing to a Mac or PC. Compatible with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S, it also integrates seamlessly with a variety of voice-enabled applications such as Siri, FaceTime, Skype, AltiGen's MaxMobile, Cisco Mobile, and Avaya one-X Mobile.

Media5 Corporation announces the signing of a reseller agreement with VoIP Supply. Under the agreement, VoIP Supply will resell the complete range of award-winning Mediatrix access devices and secure gateways to the North American market.

"We are pleased to be partnering with VoIP Supply. Their extensive VoIP expertise and high profile will expand our market reach while offering the technical knowledge and experience required to properly promote the Mediatrix line of VoIP communications solutions in North America," explained Philippe Babin, General Manager of Media5 Corporation.

4PSA announces the successful integration between VoipNow Professional, its award-winning Unified Communications solution, and Parallels Automation, the popular operations and business automation system for service providers. The announcement was made in Orlando during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts a global audience of over 1,200 leading participants from across the cloud and hosting industry.

VoipNow Professional offers an extended set of features at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. Its scalable architecture with enriched hosted PBX functions, video, instant messaging, conferencing, fax, presence management, web integration, and groupware, is now available to Parallels partners. "By integrating VoipNow and Parallels Automation, service providers are able to easily deliver fully-featured cloud Unified Communications services to businesses of all sizes," said Elena Carstoiu, 4PSA's VP of Sales & Marketing.