SIPBox, announced that it is the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for its role as an emerging company with vast potential in the enterprise telephony equipment services market. With a specialty in Asterisk, the industry’s first open source telephony platform, SIPBox offers a complete solution and handles the entire process on site, from design to implementation to ongoing management and support.

Arcosoft Inc., announced the release of VONaLink TeamRecord. TeamRecord works with any VoIP phone system based on the open SIP standard, such as Asterisk or Vonage, to centrally record all phone calls for a company workgroup.

Call recording benefits a company by allowing business transactions over the phone to be verified and disputes resolved. With traditional phone systems, calls are recorded with either analog equipment or expensive, proprietary products from the phone company. With the latest VoIP systems built on open, standard protocols, calls can be recorded by monitoring network packets.

snom technology, announced that during the VON Europe show in Berlin, Germany and SIMO in Madrid, Spain, snom technology will be demonstrating the compatibility of its SIP based VoIP phones with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

The security provided by SIP-based (Session Initiation Protocol) IP communications offers a complex, protected, and unassailable communications infrastructure. Both snom and Microsoft customers benefit from the increased security measures that are put into place when using a SIP-based infrastructure.

Data Connection Limited, the world's leading independent provider of communications protocol software, announced its participation in SIPit 19, the nineteenth SIP interoperability test (SIPit) event organized by the SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org).

SIPit is a week-long event, held twice a year, to improve the quality of the SIP specification and forge global interoperability among SIP implementations. Data Connection was one of over seventy vendors who participated in the event, which was hosted by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory.

Covergence, the leader in scaling and securing access to VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), announced the availability of its secure SIP trunking solution for customers using Avaya’s IP telephony products. Delivered through its Eclipse family of SIP security solutions, Covergence's secure SIP trunking solution enables enterprises using Avaya's SIP Enablement Services (SES) to securely connect their Avaya Communication Manager (CM) platforms to an IP network. With the Covergence solution in place, enterprises can quickly and easily implement secure VoIP throughout their organizations, yielding significant cost savings, while protecting all user information through comprehensive application-level security to defend their VoIP service from attacks and intrusions, even over untrusted networks.

Popular social communities are adopting VoIP telephony to better serve users with new instant communication features based on the latest VoIP technologies. With services such as free worldwide calling, conference calling, instant messaging (IM), online presence display and more, users are now interacting in real-time with friends rather than by posting static text replies. Today LiveJournal, one of the web's leading online communities hosting over 10 million users, became the first major social network to roll out integrated voice and instant messaging software for their users, SIPphone Inc. announced. The new software is available as a free download at www.livejournal.com/chat/download.

Estacado Systems, a provider of real-time communication software products and services, announced a freely available version of its SIPWright Proxy Server. This release, Version 2.0, leverages a highly customizable message-processing framework to provide a general purpose SIP server that is easy to install, manage, and use. The server can provide SIP proxy, registrar, and redirect services.

"This proxy incorporates the most robust and standards-compliant SIP implementation available today," said Ajay Deo, CEO of Estacado Systems. "This free release gives educational institutions, carrier test labs, and enterprise IT departments a solid, easy-to-use building block for their networks."

Covergence, the leader in scaling and securing access to VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), announced that iTalk Broadband Corporation (iTalkBB) will use its Eclipse SIP security solution to deliver the industry’s first secure residential VoIP service. With this new offering, iTalkBB – for the first time – will offer to its residential subscribers fully secure "bullet proof" access to the real-time, multi-modal applications and services that they demand.

M5T, the leading provider of software solutions for secure real-time multimedia communications over IP, announced that M5T and Global IP Sound (GIPS) has teamed up to leverage their industry expertise to develop a comprehensive and portable Secure VoIP SIP Client Software Development Kit.

CounterPath Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP SIP softphones, announced a licensing agreement with Primus Telecom Australia, part of the Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc., to deliver the Primus Internet Phone as part of its TalkBroadband product range.

The Primus Internet Phone enables users to be up and running in a few minutes, allowing them to use the TalkBroadband service on their computer and to start enjoying savings on local, long distance and international calling.

SIPphone, Inc., developers of the free Gizmo Project Internet calling and IM software, announced their All Calls Free calling plan is available for businesses worldwide, providing significant savings for small to mid-sized companies who want to enjoy free calling between co-workers and/or remote offices. Any business using the free Asterisk PBX software, or other premium PBX solutions, can also boost savings and workforce efficiency with access to high-end features previously only available to large businesses. More information may be found at www.gizmoproject.com/business.

Motorola, Inc. expanded its family of voice-enabled cable modems with the introduction of the SBV5100 series. The new models, based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), one of the more common voice and multimedia protocols in the telecommunications industry, provide greater choice to cable operators as they select the ideal technology for their systems.

Mitel and Bandwidth.com announced an agreement that bundles the native SIP capabilities of the Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP) with Bandwidth.com's nationwide SIP Trunking services. Existing and new 3300 ICP customers that sign up to Bandwidth.com's SIP Trunking voice over IP (VoIP) service bypass costly traditional circuits and extend the capabilities of their own IP network beyond the enterprise with a single, secure, reliable connection to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

The SIP Forum announced the completion of a new initiative to streamline how service providers and their enterprise customers leverage interactive IP communications services and solutions. Developed by The SIP Forum's Technical Work Group, this new industry recommendation, termed SIPconnect, is designed to directly tie enterprise customers to VoIP service providers using an end-to-end IP connection.

SIPconnect provides detailed instructions and architecture specifications to deliver direct SIP connectivity with VoIP service providers to ensure consistent quality-of-service, low cost and full-featured telephony for SIP-based VoIP calls.

Bandwidth.com, a nationwide provider of complete business telecom services, announced the launch of its SIP Trunking VoIP product. SIP Trunking is used extensively by businesses that have purchased SIP-enabled IP PBXs to replace their traditional phone system in an effort to lower-cost and benefit from more flexible voice services.