Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "SIP Security" to their offering.

This book gives a detailed overview of SIP specific security issues and how to solve them While the standards and products for VoIP and SIP services have reached market maturity, security and regulatory aspects of such services are still being discussed. SIP itself specifies only a basic set of security mechanisms that cover a subset of possible security issues. In this book, the authors survey important aspects of securing SIP-based services. This encompasses a description of the problems themselves and the standards-based solutions for such problems. Where a standards-based solution has not been defined, the alternatives are discussed and the benefits and constraints of the different solutions are highlighted.

Ingate and Dialogic have completed the necessary testing to validate the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series as interoperable with Ingate SIParator and Ingate Firewall products. The combination of a DMG2000 gateway and an Ingate SIParator or Ingate Firewall will allow enterprises utilizing legacy PBX and Contact Center systems to easily and securely adopt SIP trunks as a replacement for traditional PSTN voice services.

Acme Packet and BroadSoft announce new enhancements to their joint SIP trunking solution that enables service providers to ensure business continuity for large enterprise customers. The solution, which integrates BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform with Acme Packet’s Net-Net session border controller, delivers advanced IP-based communications services that were previously not available with premise-based PBX solutions. These services include Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5, video-enabled SIP trunking and fixed-mobile convergence.

TalkSwitch announces a communications solution using TalkSwitch and Covad Integrated Access combined phone and Internet service providing quality, performance and even more affordability to small business. Together, TalkSwitch and Covad deliver equipment and services with all the big business features that small business needs, and the ease of use, flexibility, reliability and cost-savings they want.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in the 520 and 928 area codes. VoicePulse expands its coverage, adding 12 more rate centers to give Arizonans more choices when it comes to Broadband Phone and SIP Trunking services.

snom introduces the snom MeetingPoint a SIP-based conference phone for the North American enterprise and small and medium-sized business markets at VoiceCon Orlando 2009. Designed for both medium to large size meeting rooms, the snom MeetingPoint features Konftel’s OmniSound 2.0 audio conferencing technology with advanced noise suppression and high fidelity wideband audio and offers a host of powerful conferencing capabilities. Featuring snom’s fourth generation SIP technology, the snom MeetingPoint provides enterprise and SMBs businesses with the same advanced SIP calling features and broad compatibility with standards-based IP PBX, hosted VoIP and unified communications solutions as snom’s 820 and 3XX series desktop VoIP phones

Skype announces the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol, is an open standard and the leading voice over Internet protocol used in businesses telephony networks at millions of locations globally. According to IDC, 438,000 IP PBXes were shipped worldwide in 2008.

Speakeasy expanded its SIP IP voice and data integration capability as part of its comprehensive 'Integrated Voice' service. Speakeasy can now provide combined voice and data service over direct SIP trunks, in addition to its existing service over analog and digital lines. Speakeasy's Integrated Voice connects to a traditional key system or PBX, and now with direct SIP, to an IP PBX, making it easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of Speakeasy Voice.

AireSpring was awarded the coveted Members' Choice Award as the top "SIP Trunking" VOIP provider from the Telecom Association, a national professional membership organization of over 3,200 Telecom industry professionals. In addition, AireSpring was awarded 2nd place in the CLEC/LEC and Reseller categories and finished in the top 10 for Carrier, Internet/Data, and Multi-Location provider. The total of 6 major awards reinforces the effort that AireSpring has put into the creation of its Local, Long Distance, and Data products as well as the revolutionary next generation IP network which supports AireSpring's SIP products.

XO Communications and Fonality announce that Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems have passed XO Communications' certification for standard interoperability with XO's SIP-based integrated voice and data communications solution.

XO Communications is a leading provider of business-class VoIP services and solutions, supporting more than 15,000 businesses and 500,000 customer employees. Fonality's IP-PBX phone systems are known for reliability, superior features, simplified deployment, and offering cost savings up to 80 percent off the price of competing solutions.

Unicoi Systems announces the release of Fusion SIP version 5.0 for secure VoIP telephony. With this release, Fusion SIP now supports SIP over TCP/IP and secure SIP or SIPS. SIP is one of the signaling protocols most commonly used in VoIP telecommunications. SIPS is the security-enhanced implementation of SIP. Fusion SIPS provides secure SIP for telecommunications by allowing an IP telephone to encrypt all data transmissions between a SIP Proxy and the phone. Encrypting SIP transmissions is vital as more and more users move from POTS to the Internet alternative, VoIP.

Voxbone introduced its new browser-based configuration tools that give its clients more self-sufficiency, flexibility and control over their use of DID services. These tools allow carriers to make many cost-vs-voice-quality tradeoffs previously made for them. They also enable customers to save money while ensuring call completion through pooled trunking capacity, redundancy and load balancing.

Educating end users, resellers, distributors and systems integrators about SIP trunking is on the agenda as Ingate Systems partners with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP trunking service providers and industry thought-leaders to offer "SIP Trunking: Everything You Need to Know" seminars at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo East 2009.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, these seminars will provide a comprehensive overview of SIP trunking, and include general information panels and technical insight sessions from both the service provider and enterprise perspectives. Speakers from VOIPSA and the SIP Forum will also participate.

SimpleSignal and Wesbell Technologies have entered into a distribution agreement to market SimpleSignal's SIP Trunking solution to Wesbell's AastraLink Response Point resellers. SimpleSignal's SimpleSIP solution gives SMBs and large enterprises advanced VoIP calling features and works with any PBX and IP-PBX phone system. SimpleSIP Trunking delivers productivity enhancing features, such as simultaneous ring, unified messaging and disaster recovery capabilities. Under the agreement, Wesbell resellers of AastraLink Response Point will be able to offer SimpleSIP to their business customers in the U.S. and Canada.

The IP5280 Communications SIP5280 service portfolio has been certified by Interactive Intelligence for installation and configuration with its contact center automation and enterprise IP telephony software. The SIP5280 service portfolio is a SIP trunking solution for enterprises that connects legacy phone systems to a broadband connection through standard integrated access devices or gateway routers. Benefits include reduced local, long distance and international call charges, and increased operational efficiencies through simplified network management.