8x8 announces that at the end of February 2010 its subscriber base reached a new milestone of 20,000 business customers. For the December quarter, 8x8's average business customer subscribed to 7.3 paid services.

Over the past year and throughout the economic downturn, 8x8 has added approximately 1,000 net new business customers each quarter as small businesses increasingly seek ways to reduce expenses and improve the efficiency of their operations. The 8x8 Virtual Office phone service provides these customers with new, IP-enabled telephony capabilities along with advanced features and unlimited local and long distance calling -- all at a much lower cost than traditional landline phone services. In addition to the 8x8 Virtual Office service, 8x8 offers hosted Call Center and Key System services as well as IP Trunking and Unified Communications solutions, all of which are designed to operate over a business' existing broadband Internet connections, enabling employee connectivity from anywhere a high speed Internet connection exists.

360networks has selected Empirix’s Hammer XMS to enhance its monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of potential issues across its more than 17,000 route miles of fiber optic network across the western United States.

360networks helps its voice, data and web-based application and service provider customers quickly pursue next-generation strategies, migrate from legacy networks, grow into new markets and services, and increase network diversity. By providing increased efficiency for analyzing, diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues, as well as providing the ability to correlate multiple VoIP and SS7 protocols, Hammer XMS enables 360networks to deliver high quality services to these customers

VoX Communications has become the first carrier to deploy a mobile-VoIP, unlimited data and voice service, on the latest full-featured smart phone from Nokia. There is considerable interest about the Nokia N900 on the Internet, which compares very favorably to devices such as the iPhone. An iPhone comparison can be found at this website.

Sigma Systems and Cedar Point have entered into a partnership to provide Next-Generation Operators an integrated VoIP solution for faster commercial and residential deployments. Sigma Systems Service Management Portfolio of fulfillment solutions has demonstrated interoperability with Cedar Point's SAFARI C3 Multimedia Switching System in a live, residential VoIP service offering with a major cable operator. A truly successful rollout of a commercial services offering will require tight integration. Sigma Systems and Cedar Point will be working together to provide this integration in the form of a complete end-to-end commercial voice solution for that same cable operator.

Nuvio Corporation announce the launch of its NuvioFlex virtual PBX product. With NuvioFlex, businesses are able to purchase and use business VoIP in a much more cost-effective manner.

Historically, hosted VoIP PBX has been sold based upon the number of "seats" or "users," resulting in large bills or crippled service for customers migrating from a premise phone system. This pricing model prevented adoption in many cases, especially for small-to-medium sized businesses. NuvioFlex revolutionizes business VoIP by providing a true outsourced phone system that is purchased the same way as an in-house system. Simply determine the number of extensions and lines needed, order those services, and effortlessly make changes when necessary.

Global IP Solutions announce that Argela Technologies has integrated GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile to ensure excellent call quality on its TT WiRO calling service. TT WiRO allows customers to avoid international roaming costs.

The TT WiRO mobile soft-client enables customers to be charged under their home or office phone line for calls made from any location either using a Wi-Fi supported mobile phone or laptop. To ensure that callers have the best experience without delay, jitter or echo, Argela selected GIPS to provide carrier-class voice quality.

ASC will demonstrate its new VoIP recording solution, EVOip 10.0 together with its new quality monitoring solution, INSPIRATIONpro 10.0, at UC Expo, London, England on March 10-11, at the Olympia Exhibition Center.

UC Expo is widely considered to be Great Britain’s leading business communications event focusing on collaboration, mobile, visual and voice solutions. More than 100 exhibitions and seminars will be presented for a target audience of IT and telecommunications professionals, system integrators, infrastructure providers and end users.

XO Communications has been selected by Vitelity to provide dedicated long-haul network connectivity between Denver and Los Angeles. The 10 Gbps backbone will be the Denver-based company's first long-haul route to Los Angeles. Vitelity also is upgrading its Denver metro network service with XO, moving to a 10 Gbps backbone. By expanding and upgrading its network services with XO, the company is well positioned to offer customers high-speed, high-capacity VoIP services at a competitive price, as well as continue to grow its network footprint.

ScanSource Communications announces a new partnership with BroadSoft to distribute BroadSoft’s PacketSmart and BroadWorks solutions. ScanSource Communications reseller and service provider partners now have access to BroadSoft PacketSmart, a set of SaaS-based quality of service assessment and monitoring capabilities, which enables them to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy superior quality VoIP and video communication services to their customers.

Digium has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation to distribute its Switchvox business phone systems and telephony cards to resellers in the U.S. and Canada. SYNNEX is a distributor that supplies more than 15,000 resellers in North America. Digium will work with SYNNEX’ dedicated telephony group to provide unified communications solutions to resellers that service the small-to-medium sized business.

GENBAND announces that its agreement with Nortel to acquire substantially all assets of Nortel's Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business has been approved by bankruptcy courts in Canada and the United States.

GENBAND announced on Dec. 23, 2009 that it will purchase substantially all CVAS product platforms, all patents predominantly used and other IP exclusively used in Nortel’s CVAS business, including softswitching, gateways, SIP applications and TDM products and services. The agreement also provides for the transition of substantially all of Nortel's CVAS customer contracts to GENBAND. GENBAND anticipates closing the sale in the second quarter of 2010, which is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

In-Stat estimates the total number of mobile VoIP users will reach 288 million by the end of 2013. Of these, well over half will be associated with online mobile VoIP providers, under one-third will utilize mobile VoIP with 3G MVNOs or mobile operators, and 11% with WiMAX/LTE operators. On a geographic basis, mobile VoIP will be heavily biased towards the Asia Pacific region, particularly among the online mobile VoIP services.

REDCOM has completed SIP interoperability testing for REDCOM’s HDX and SLICE 2100 Carrier-Class 4/5 softswitches with a wide range of SoundPoint IP phones from Polycom.

REDCOM tested several Polycom SoundPoint IP models (320/321/330/450/550/560/650/670), as well as the VVX 1500 Business Media Phone for verification in REDCOM’s lab to ensure that the company’s HDX and SLICE 2100 softswitch solutions are fully interoperable. REDCOM successfully provided rigorous and comprehensive SIP interoperability testing in its company lab in Victor, which verified 100 percent integration and functionality between the Polycom VoIP phones and REDCOM’s HDX and SLICE 2100 SIP call control platforms.

Skype and Nokia jointly announce the release of Skype for Symbian. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia’s one-stop shop for mobile content.

Broadvox announces that SoftSyl Technologies has selected GO! SIP Trunking to be offered with their gateway as a complete product. This enables SoftSyl to provide cost-effective, all-in-one IP IVR solutions incorporating GO! SIP Trunking to businesses that purchase a SoftSyl UVX Gateway or to offer GO! SIP Trunking itself to existing customers.