IPtimize has acquired the assets and operating network of National Telecom & Broadband Services, a Florida corporation including Teliphonex, their business-class VoIP hosted PBX solution. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the commercial VoIP business assets acquired by IPtimize serve small business and enterprise customers in multiple metropolitan areas including West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The acquisition adds approximately 1,000 customer lines served by IPtimize and adds both expanded geographic reach and an established commercial customer base to the growing VoIP business at IPtimize.

SabSe Technologies has acquired jaxtr. Over the past several years, jaxtr has built a robust consumer service currently providing free and low-rate international calling to over ten million members around the globe.

Under the terms of the deal, SabSe will maintain and expand upon the jaxtr service, which will continue to operate under the jaxtr brand, alongside the company's existing SabSeBolo brand. SabSe's acquisition of jaxtr brings together two valuable consumer and business telecom applications now on a common platform. Jaxtr's large active user base will enable SabSe to accelerate deployment of its additional applications, and to leverage an instant audience for its innovative technology.

Ixia has signed a definitive agreement with Catapult Communications, under which Ixia will acquire Catapult for $9.25 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $105 million, or $63 million net of Catapult’s cash and investments. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter.

Acme Packet has acquired privately-held Covergence for consideration valued at approximately $22.8 million, consisting of approximately $22.2 million of Acme Packet common stock and an aggregate of $0.6 million in cash payments to stockholders of Covergence and tax withholding payments. The Maynard, Massachusetts based company is an emerging, innovative provider of software-based session border controllers for delivering VoIP/IP telephony, Unified Communications and Service-Oriented Architecture applications within global 1000 enterprises.

Broadweave has reached an agreement to acquire Nuvont Communications’ Provo customers. The acquisition will give Nuvont customers a single network provider for all services, and enhance their video and data options. The acquisition also increases the Broadweave customer base by more than 10 percent, and completes the integration of all wholesale and retail services for residential customers in Provo.

Telekenex has reached agreement with One Connect IP to offer One Connect IP existing VoIP customers a migration path to Telekenex Hosted VoIP service. Telekenex Hosted VoIP is a fully hosted and managed business-grade telephony solution with no up-front capital expenditure.

The goal is to provide a seamless transition and maintain service uptime for One Connect IP customers without losing any of their current features. As a result, One Connect IP customers can keep all of their existing onsite equipments and can maintain all their existing PBX features. Additionally, customers migrated over to the Telekenex Hosted VoIP service will take advantage of the larger range of services that Telekenex offers, over a larger private national footprint.

BroadSoft has acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California. The acquisition extends BroadSoft's leadership in VoIP applications. To serve its growing customer base, BroadSoft now has development and customer operations centers in Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Droplet Technology has acquired privately-held Sipcall. Christian Rees, Sipcall's President and Founder, has joined Droplet as Director of Service Platforms. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

In April 2008, Sipcall launched "Hipsip," a mobile data service that allows users to make carrier-friendly VoIP calls worldwide from any mobile phone's web browser, using only their local mobile calling plan. Droplet has already begun integration of the Sipcall SIP infrastructure into Droplet's interactive mobile video service platform.

Sitestar has purchased the Internet related assets of Washington-based DONOBi Internet Services. The acquisition includes dial-up, DSL and high-speed fiber optic Internet accounts as well as web hosting and collocation. Sitestar has now completed acquisitions in each quarter this fiscal year a first for the Company.

Logitech has agreed to acquire privately held SightSpeed for approximately $30 million in cash. SightSpeed is an award-winning provider of high-quality Internet video communications services. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in early November.

The acquisition of SightSpeed will provide Logitech with video calling technology and a software and services development team that can be focused on future video calling initiatives that can enable cross-platform video communications with an intuitive, lifelike experience, for people sitting in front of a personal computer or with their family in a living room.

SkyWi has successfully completed its merger with One Connect IP, making the combined entity one of the largest regional companies to provide Internet, VoIP, and other related broadband services to customers throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. The merged company will operate under the SkyWi corporate brand and its service offerings will continue to be sold under the SkyWi, One Connect IP and ZiaNet brands.

iSkoot has acquired Social.IM, the social network IM client. This acquisition positions iSkoot to grow beyond mobile VoIP and create a compelling and valuable consumer solution with a growing lineup of Web communications that can be integrated and pushed to your phone.

Social.IM built a customizable desktop application and Web service that adds real-time communication and desktop notifications for social networks, online communities, and Web sites. The technology includes a desktop IM client and also the capability to deliver new message alerts, information, and content to social network or online community members. Social.IM also released a developer API that allows for social network application developers to reach their users on desktop.

IPtimize has acquired AFS’s broadband access and hosted VoIP telephone services business. Based in Boise, Idaho, the commercial VoIP business assets acquired by IPtimize serve small-business and enterprise customers in four metropolitan areas: Boise, Idaho, and its surrounding areas; Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada; and Salt Lake City, Utah. The acquisition more than doubles the number of IP endpoints served by IPtimize and adds both expanded geographic reach and an established commercial customer base to the growing VoIP business at IPtimize.

VoipReview.org has been acquired by an undisclosed buyer. Company founders and Denver entrepreneurs Eric Laughlin and Gary Gaessler successfully built and sold the company over a five-year period. Founded in late 2003, VoipReview.org features an interactive online search tool which helps shoppers find the best residential and business VoIP service providers based on price, features, local availability, and user ratings and reviews. Last year, the company announced it had helped 5 million visitors find, compare or purchase VoIP provider services -- a number that has swelled to more than 8 million.

Truphone has concluded an agreement to purchase the business of SIM4travel by way of an asset purchase agreement. The purchase means that Truphone will acquire both SIM4travel’s travel SIM capability and its Mobile Virtual Network Enabler platform. Integration of SIM4travel’s assets into Truphone’s own portfolio will begin immediately and take several months to complete.

Through the purchase, Truphone will take ownership of SIM4travel’s infrastructure, customer base, distribution and staff in Portugal and London.