Acme Packet obtains product certification for the GSM Association’s PathFinder Industry Partner Programme. PathFinder is a GSMA-managed service operated by NeuStar that enhances IPX (IP eXchange) services with destination discovery capabilities for voice and other sessions. The IPX is a managed interconnect service defined by the GSMA, offering secure, high-quality transit services to both mobile and fixed network operators for SIP and other IP-based services.

Virtual PBX announced its introduction of native support for open-system VoIP peering. Small businesses looking to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness of traditional hosted PBX services and VoIP technology now have the best of both worlds. Customers will be able to mix and match a VoIP network, softphone and handset to best meet their needs for features, cost and reliability. In addition, clients can choose VoIP calls for cost savings or traditional phone service for calls to landlines or cellular phones, or enable both and let the system automatically send calls via the most appropriate method.

Ribbit announces general availability of the Ribbit developer platform, opening the doors to software developers, integrators, and carriers around the globe that are looking for ways to develop and deploy the next-generation of telecommunications services. Ribbit launched the platform today, just 4 months after their acquisition by BT, at the Adobe MAX conference. Adobe MAX is the premier venue for the next-generation Web developers that populate Ribbit's 7,500-plus community.

How the world crisis affects telecoms? What tricks can you expect and how is it possible to protect yourself from them? We decided to talk about it with Daniel, executive manager of www.voipfraud.net – so far the most reliable anti-fraud web-portal concerning VoIP business. He noted that during the last month the number of publications about cases of fraud on www.voipfraud.net increased by about 20 percent against the previous month. “We had 5 companies added only during the last two days” – he says, - “the number of registered users on our portal has essentially increased as well. We believe, it shows that people are concerned about the situation on telecommunications’ market and they are trying to get as much information, as they can, to protect themselves.”

snom integrates its suite of desktop and mobile VoIP phones with Brekeke PBX. After rigorous testing and evaluation, Brekeke's IP-PBX received full certification by snom as interoperable and deployable with snom 3xx series VoIP phones and their mobile snom m3 IP Dect phone. Users of Brekeke's SIP communication platform can now enjoy all advanced IP-PBX features available on Brekeke PBX seamlessly with snom phones.

XO Communications announces a new referral agreement with VIXXI Solutions in which XO will refer current and future XO VoIP customers to VIXXI as an E911 provider. VIXXI was chosen because their IP-based, geospatial technology is ideal for VoIP vendors who are required by the FCC to provide their customers with an E911 Solution that identifies caller location information and correctly routes emergency calls to the appropriate PSAP.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "VoIP Services Market 2007-2010" report to their offering. Since the introduction of PC-to-PC communication software in March of 1995, VoIP-based service has steadily grown to be a serious competitor to Public Switched Telephone Network. As an increasing number of enterprises investigate VoIP to combat rising telecommunications costs, migration to IP telephony will not be a wholesale swap of current PBX installations. Rather, VoIPs appearance in enterprises will be a gradual transition.

Wireless and Internet world leaders are converging at the Hotel 480 in San Francisco next week for one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year. The Open Mobile Summit, November 19-20, is a groundbreaking conference exploring the move to open up the mobile value chain, and deliver the mobile Internet.

The Open Mobile Summit features industry heavyweights from both the wireless establishment – mobile operators, handset manufacturers and software giants – as well as Internet, WiMAX, VoIP and mobile web players.

Vyke launched a beta version of its mobile VoIP software and service for all Windows Mobile 6.0 and higher based smartphones which is being rolled out across Vyke’s enterprise channels. This move demonstrates Vyke’s commitment to the enterprise sector in which a significant proportion of the market is Windows Mobile based, and where demand for VoIP services are rapidly increasing as business sees the real benefits of mobile VoIP in the workplace

Nortel is showcasing IPTV and Video solutions that are blurring the boundaries across TV, Internet, consumer devices and mobile phones by integrating services like text messaging, VoIP, media sharing, and interactive applications into the entertainment experience. Nortel is demonstrating these capabilities at TelcoTV 2008 from November 11 to 13.

Keynote Systems released the results of its latest VoIP Service Provider Study, which evaluates how end users experience the reliability and audio clarity of leading voice service providers. The study compares the relative performance of AT&T landline service or POTS (plain old telephone service) with six broadband VoIP providers (AT&T CallVantage, EarthLink trueVoice, Lingo, Packet8, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage) and two cable voice service providers (Time Warner Digital Phone and Comcast Digital Voice) for the month of October, 2008 by collecting data from calls made from residential locations in New York and San Francisco. Overall, reliability is improving slightly, however audio quality is significantly different from the previous study.

VoIPshield is making its first-ever announcement in a new category of research related to security vulnerabilities in VoIP and Unified Communications systems. These vulnerabilities affect applications that use media stream protocols like RTP, a popular standardized packet format for delivering audio and instant messaging over the Internet.

NetQoS published its completed VoIP management ebook with a new fourth chapter on unified communications. The ebook is a guide to managing VoIP quality of experience and introducing unified communications applications such as video, presence, and unified messaging on the network.

Titled “Do You See What I’m Saying? Managing VoIP Quality of Experience on Your Network,” the ebook is written by NetQoS software architect and VoIP expert Jeff Hicks. Its chapters cover everything from an introduction to VoIP protocols to VoIP call setup and call quality performance to unified communications, with the aim of helping network and IT professionals

Voxbone announces iNum—one global telephone number that enables anyone to establish a local presence anywhere in the world. Voxbone is making use of the +883 “country code,” newly created by the International Telecommunication Union, to create a global country code and associated banks of DID numbers.

Voxitas has completed the expansion of its business VoIP network into the southeast United States. This network expansion allows Voxitas to serve virtually the entire southeast including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi with our business class Quality of Service based services.