Research and Markets announces the addition of "SIP Enabled Servers and IP PBX Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014" to their offering.

SIP based IP PBX markets are poised for significant growth as people move to purchase IP based servers for communications. Significant pent up demand will be converted to sales as systems are put on the market that permit implementation of voice over IP that works. Voice over IP systems purchases have been postponed for ten years or more, waiting for technology that works. VoIP technology finally works.

Velocity Networks now offer additional value to their corporate clients through its hosted VoIP phone service. Velocity Networks has combined their IP network expertise with solutions provided by CommPartners and Transera to provide enterprise grade VoIP services and call center solutions for business customers.

Voice Over IP is a much more cost effective means of transmitting voice vs. traditional phone services and is packaged as flat rate plans vs. the pay per minute plans of traditional telephone companies. Additionally, Hosted VoIP provides business phone system features like voicemail, IVR, voicemail to e-mail, hunt groups, etc without requiring expensive PBX equipment. These services are often referred to as Hosted PBX services and have made phone features traditionally reserved for large enterprises available to small and medium sized businesses.

Sipcall.com launches Hipsip providing Skype, SIP and EmailCall from any mobile phone. Hipsip, the new mobile communications community from Sipcall, was launched today. Hipsip is a mobile VoIP service that allows calls to Skype and SIP contacts from any mobile phone, and does not require the installation of an application on the mobile phone. The browser-based Skype and SIP calling service is initially available in 7 countries.

Hipsip was created to make cost effective Internet calls available to anyone with a mobile phone, regardless of model or make. Consumers today wish to make free or inexpensive Skype and SIP calls from their mobile phones. Hipsip provides VoIP on mobile, without the need for an advanced 3G or Wifi mobile phone.

SimplyWiFi allows you to chat and make free internet calls or low cost regular calls. It works wherever there is a broadband connection; offices, residential areas, airports, cafés, hotels and public hot spots. No laptop, headset or cables needed.

SimplyWiFi is a small and light weight phone with high audio quality and an extraordinary talk time of 10 hours and 250 hours stand-by time. Smart navigation and a simple set-up make it easy to use and easy to set up. All functions can be configured on your phone by the operator before delivery. SimplyWiFi enables you to make encrypted calls over a radio link, handle your contacts and send instant messages, besides the traditional functions of mobile phones.

The build-in WiFi functionality includes all common features such as DHCP, authentication and encryption.

With its flexible open source Linux platform, SimplyWiFi phones can be designed to fit most VoIP software and technical standards, as well as specific industrial design requirements.

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Radware and IPTEGO announce that the two companies have entered into a strategic original equipment manufacturer agreement to ensure carrier-grade high availability, scalability and security for SIP-based VoIP networks. The Radware and IPTEGO partnership has resulted in the creation of a more complete and robust SIP-based solution. Using Radware's SIP Director, a fully SIP-aware intelligent ADC solution as an integral part of IPTEGO's SIP-based VoIP framework, enables IPTEGO to offer a more cost-effective carrier-grade solution that meets carrier requirements for scalability and greater interoperability integrating service availability, performance and security.

Intelligent communications solutions from Avaya attained SIPconnect Compliant certification from the SIP Forum, a leading independent IP communications industry association comprised of individuals and companies who contribute to the development of global IP communications based on the SIP standard.

SIPconnect certification provides enterprise customers with validation that Avaya Communication Manager, the company's software platform for IP communications, and Avaya SIP Enablement Services, which enable companies to take advantage of SIP-based connectivity to public networks of service providers, achieved SIPconnect compliance for SIP trunking.

Reignmaker Communications says customers will have clear calling when using its newly launched SIP Trunking services. And they are backing up their claim with a 60-day no-risk guarantee -- the industry's strongest satisfaction guarantee. Reignmaker Communications has partnered with Edgewater Networks, utilizing the company's EdgeView VoIP Support System and EdgeMarc network appliances as mandatory components to Reignmaker Communications SIP Trunking.

Voxalot launches VoxPremium a service plan that adds a wealth of sophisticated calling features, as well as inbound calling from PSTN phones, to its basic offer of value-added services, expanded free calling range and management tools.

Voxalot is designed for users who subscribe to one or more SIP-based Internet voice service (or VoIP) plans, enabling them to switch plans without changing their published contact information. Users also have the ability to route outgoing calls through any one of multiple providers, choosing the best-quality or least-cost provider for different destinations. Members make these choices by setting up “Smart Call Rules” on Voxalot’s Web site. The service’s free features include advanced telephony tools and free calling not only to Voxalot members, but to subscribers of 2,000 other SIP-based voice services.

HelloSoft will demonstrate its VoIP products in Texas Instruments booth #9 at the Symbian Smartphone show to be held in London at the Excel Center on October 16-17, 2007. HelloSoft will demonstrate its power-efficient and low-footprint comprehensive SIP-based VoIP product (HelloMobileCommunicator-Lite) on TI's OMAP850 and OMAPV1030 processors with Windows Mobile 5.0 OS. HelloSoft will also demo their award-winning VoIP on Nokia N series phone, which is an S60 base with HelloMobileCommunicator-Lite which runs on a single-RISC Core. These products are the industry's most optimized and power-efficient VoIP solution for mobile handsets. They are trusted by tier-one handset OEMs/ODMs and Semiconductor vendors and have been widely interop-tested with major commercial SIP servers worldwide.

Ixia announces the IxLoad SIP solution, the first VoIP test platform to provide both functional and bulk VoIP testing. Ixia’s VoIP test solution provides an environment of real-world triple-play traffic that accurately models live network environments. Using Ixia’s test platform and the IxLoad SIP 3.40 solution, a single test chassis emulates millions of realistic call scenarios — surpassing the scale of most network appliances.