DynaSis announces its new partnership with IP phone system provider Fonality to offer small to medium sized businesses access to affordable Atlanta VoIP solutions comparable to large business phone systems. The barrier to entry for VoIP in Atlanta for most small to midsized businesses has long been the cost involved with installing and maintaining a full scale VoIP solution that can provide the sound quality and features enterprise solutions offer. Enterprise solutions are often costly to maintain because they require a skilled IT professional for minor issues such as simple additions or deletions of extensions, and most of the cost savings realized from long distance savings are eaten up by maintenance and initial installation costs.

ARC announces its latest Sound-to-Silicon solution aimed at the new category of broadband-based multimedia device, the Media Phone, which is predicted to replace telephone handsets and be the “fourth screen in the home.” The Media Phone is being heralded as one of the hottest new devices for consumers, and combines DECT cordless speaker phone technology with direct access to Internet-based entertainment and applications via a color touch screen. ARC’s new solution provides SoC partners and OEMs with a cost effective platform for quickly entering and gaining share of the fast-growing Media Phone market. It includes ARC’s award-winning Sonic Focus audio enrichment software, full range of codecs, and development tools that are optimized for ARC’s latest AS 211 SFX Audio Subsystem intellectual property.

Truphone launches Truphone 3.0, a major new upgrade to its mobile VoIP application for the Apple iPod touch. The new version dramatically builds upon the success of previous versions of the VoIP application for the iPod, enhancing users’ instant messaging and account management experience, faster than ever before, and delivering a new standard for call quality.

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.

snom announces the integration of its snom klarVOICE phones, its portfolio of wideband VoIP phones, with ZipDX, the audio conferencing service. ZipDX is the only conferencing service that offers standards-based wideband audio enabling high-fidelity conference calls with the highest quality and clarity.

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.

With the release of Switchvox SMB 4.0, Digium, now makes it easier than ever to deploy snom VoIP phones. The partnership between Digium and snom allows Switchvox, the web-aware IP PBX designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses, to automatically detect and provision snom 3 series phones, as well as the company’s new 820 phone. This capability reduces setup time and allows businesses to easily and inexpensively deploy phones to the desktop.

Codima announces the launch of operations in the French market. A fully operational organization with local staff will offer sales, marketing and support to new and existing resellers throughout France from the company's offices in Paris. With the expansion, Codima strengthens its position in the French market and continues its successful adaptation to new markets implementing local organizations.

Ixia announces the next generation in residential and business VoIP testing. With its IxLoad Voice matches the capacity of modern media gateways with an unprecedented 1 million SIP- and RTP-based endpoints per chassis – five times the capacity of its nearest competing product. Ixia’s new Acceleron-XP load module implements voice protocols with hardware to reach these major capacity milestones.

JAJAH announces advanced solutions for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian. The new services, which enable VoIP calls to be made either via WiFi or over the cellular network, are offered as white label solution to enable carriers and non-carriers to launch the service under their own brand.

The new services follow JAJAH's recent release of a solution that transforms the iPod touch into a fully functioning mobile phone. The company now has tailored solutions for more than 500 million mobile phones, smartphones and other mobile devices worldwide.

JAJAH has pioneered the concept of making high quality, low cost phone calls from any device since it first launched in 2006, including world-first applications for the iPhone and PlayStation portable. It has since opened its back-end platform to allow other companies to launch these services under their own brands.

Amatole Telecoms has selected VocalTec's Essentra VoIP solutions in partnership with RedLinx. The project includes the deployment of VocalTec's VoIP solution over Amatole Telecoms' WiMAX carrier-grade, converged IP network. VocalTec's Essentra solution will support Amatole Telecoms' requirement to provide customers with innovative residential and enterprise services, over a next-generation network architecture. This complete VoIP infrastructure will enable the provision of subscriber services at reduced cost, while enhancing service flexibility as well as the rapid deployment of value-adding services and applications.

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.

SKyPRO announces the SKyCOM Unified Communications application that integrates with Novell GroupWise to provide Voice over IP services for voice and messaging communications. SKyCOM delivers improved user productivity and convenience, while lowering communications costs for companies.

SKyCOM increases user productivity by using the PC as the single interface for all communications. GroupWise integration enables the user to track all communications and use GroupWise as a simple CRM tool.

Ingate extends its firewall certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, to now include its VoIP module. This add-on certification assures users that the product meets ICSA Labs' strict requirements for successfully supporting VoIP traffic, while the firewall blocks VoIP security threats and properly mitigate them.

LiveVox announces the release of QuickTrace, a new feature for credit and collections organizations that will automate skip tracing and dramatically increase campaign efficiency by at least at least 300%. QuickTrace makes skip tracing once again affordable at a time when creditors and agencies need to find ways to contact their high potential accounts.

Until now, billing and collection organizations have used inefficient and time consuming manual processes to execute skip tracing campaigns. The unlimited dialing capacity and predictive pacing of the LiveVox Hosted VoIP Dialer allows organizations to quickly and systematically dial up to 10 numbers associated with accounts to locate hard-to reach consumers.