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Fonality Serves up 1 Billion Cloud VoIP Calls?
Today, Fonality announced it has served up its 1 billionth cloud call on their hosted VoIP platform called UNBOUND. UNBOUND is Fonality’s fully hosted cloud phone system and VoIP service solution and starts at $24.99/mo. Of course, Fonality also offers fully premise-based IP-PBX solutions as well. I like Fonality and the Fonality team, including Chris... »
Avaya Reveals Roadmap for Nortel Enterprise Assets at ITEXPO
Rich Tehrani and I are both excited to hear the future roadmap Avaya has in store for Nortel’s enterprise assets that Avaya recently acquired. Will Avaya slowly phase out these Nortel enterprise products, continue the product line with the Avaya brand, integrate best-of-breed technologies from Avaya and Nortel and offer new SMB products? The... »
Information Week Says Skype and Avaya Are Talking Enterprise Market
When the news gets slow around the holidays you can always expect the rumor mill to be running at full tilt around the household company names. Well, I don’t think this is a rumor at all when I read that Skype and Avaya are in talks to bring Skype into the enterprise. One reason is back... »
Top Stories of 2009: SIP trunking and Unified Communications gain momentum
In 2009 it was hard to look through VoIP news and not bump into another announcement about a SIP or Unified Communications (UC) deal. Both items have gained momentum and are becoming the rule in the VoIP world. According to Infonetics, SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate... »
XO and Panasonic announce SIP certification
XO Communications and Panasonic System Networks today revealed that certain Panasonic telephone systems are now certified to work with XO’s SIP trunking solution. The Panasonic NCP and TDE series business phone systems now work with XO SIP making it easier for companies using Panasonic IP-PBX to use SIP to connect to the public phone network.... »
Dialogic, Digium team on media gateway interoperability
Dialogic, a provider of media gateways that provide PBX integration between applications on SIP-based media servers and the installed base of TDM and hybrid IP-PBX systems, has just signed an interoperability partnership with Digium. With this interoperability partnership, Dialogic’s 1000 Media Gateway Series and the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series are now certified for compatibility... »
Positron Telecommunication’s Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI “Asterisk-on-a-card”. They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
Cool Skype for SIP Upgrades, Enhanced Inbound Routing and more
Some important news for Skype for SIP beta “open” users I thought I’d share. Just last week Skype announced going from closed “beta” to “open” to the public, and now today they’re adding some cool new Skype for SIP features. Once the upgrades are complete there will be cool new features, such as direct inward... »
Adtran throws hat into UC arena
When you think of Adtran, you might usually think of DSLAMs, routers and LAN equipment, but you might also have heard they are dabbling in IP-PBX systems and SIP trunking. As they ramp up their VoIP technology line-up, they are also exploring Unified Communications (UC). The company plans to launch an IP-PBX capable of supporting 2,000... »
XO uses BroadWorks VoIP platform to deliver new enterprise SIP
XO Communications and BroadSoft today announced a new enterprise SIP trunking offering from XO. XO’s new offering uses Broadsoft’s BroadWorks VoIP platform and its enterprise trunking features to build out the enterprise SIP service. “XO Enterprise SIP is an enhanced SIP trunking service offering for large enterprises, that enables them to transform their distributed PBX/PSTN interconnection to... »
Tying Up Loose Ends: Microsoft, Yahoo, Nortel & Avaya
Minutes after the U.S. stock markets started winding down for the weekend, a few technology giants made some announcements that amount to nothing more than tying up loose ends. Avaya got the go-ahead from Canada to buy Nortel’s PBX business for $900 million in cash. Microsoft & Yahoo finalized their search agreement that was first announced... »
Say Hello To The Skype Pipe
Skype for SIP is now live and in my view Skype just created a massive pipe into the corporate market. While some may immediately want to draw unfair comparisons to SIP Trunking, I'd dubbed this the "Skype Pipe" as in all reality now Skype has the pipe into the business phone market that have for... »
Skype for SIP Beta Now Open!
Skype today announced that their Skype for SIP beta program is now “open” to everyone. I was invited to their private beta to test it and have been pleased with the results so far. Though if you read my article you will see I do have some price concerns. Check out the news… LUXEMBOURG, 2 December... »
Digium|Asterisk World Expands At ITEXPO
TMC and Digium announced that all exhibit space sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place Jan. 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida. Recently, TMC was forced to expand the Digium|Asterisk World exhibit showcase since all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold. There are... »
DoubleHorn Announces Integrated SIP Trunking
Texas-based communications service provider DoubleHorn Communications has announced integrated SIP Trunking for legacy PBX and key telephone systems, which allow it to operate seamlessly with the hardware of other vendors, such as Toshiba Strata, Panasonic, Nortel Norstar, Avaya and Digium, the company said.“While many companies have welcomed our hosted solution …(128 words) ... »
VoIP in Google ChromeOS
Google released their ChromeOS operating system yesterday. So naturally, as a VoIP fan I was curious if ChromeOS could run VoIP. Since Google’s ChromeOS has a Flash Player built-in, in theory it can run a Flash-based VoIP client. The first VoIP solution that came to mind was Flaphone (formerly Flashphone), a Flash-based VoIP app... »
AltiGen reports Q4 results – seeing a turnaround?
Microsoft-based VoIP phone system provider, Altigen, reported their Q4 09 financial results this week and they weren’t too bad. Year-over-year results were not so impressive as fiscal 2009 revenue was $17.4 million, compared to $18.9 million for fiscal 2008 and its $4.7 million net loss was wider when compared to a net loss of $3.9 million... »
Run Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtualized
According to Microsoft, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can now be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners. Running OCS 2007 R2 “virtualized” is a hot topic, so knowing exactly how and which components can be... »
Digium CEO Danny Windham to Deliver Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami
Some good internal news at TMC. Technology Marketing Corporation today announced that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place Jan. 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, Jan. 21 9:45 a.m. EST,... »
New Skype for SIP Features Improve Business Functionality
In December, Skype will announce some new features for Skype for SIP (beta), which will make it more business-friendly. Skype for SIP, which is now part of Skype’s Business Control Panel (BCP). Skype for SIP will support DID routing by supporting the SIP To field. You will be able to add an extension number... »
eOn Communications launches Linux-based eConn IP-PBX
eOn Communications used this week’s VoiceCon show to debut eConn, an IP-PBX server-based IP communications platform. eConn IP-PBX uses commercial off-the-shelf hardware and the Linux operating system with support for SIP VoIP and TDM voice. The system offers all the services eOn’s Millennium Converged Communications Platform provides and works with eOn’s eNterprise 7000 Series IP Telephones, audio conferencing units, analog sets... »
Are Corded Phones Endangered?
Yesterday at VoiceCon in SF a debate between industry pundits ensued over the potential of cutting the cord in the enterprise market. My take is we will start to see more and more use of mobile convergence devices from the likes of RIM, Nokia and especially Android. Here’s why. Cost. WiFi is cheaper to install than wired... »
Skype Announces Open Source – Sort of…
Slashdot was abuzz with the news that Skype was going open source. Not so fast my friend. Have you not forgotten Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who now run JoltId are in a legal fight with Skype? Surely Skype wouldn’t be so bold as to release their P2P ’secret sauce’ while still in... »
Report: VoIP market grew to $20.7 billion
We’ve heard this before: the bad economy was a boon for VoIP. Well now there is some pretty decent evidence coming out of Infonetics Research with their latest report VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers Report. According to the report, for the first half of 2009 the VoIP services market worldwide grew to $20.7... »
Halloween in VoIP Land
Check out Fonality’s “corporate culture” in this pic below. Apparently, things must be financially good in Fonality-land, since they’re pretty relaxed enough that the co-founders (Chris and Samy) wore these outfits to the office for Halloween. Fonality co-founders Chris Lyman (Pink Ape) and Samy Kamchar (Bruno) While we’re on the topic of... »
Research Report Shows VoIP Kicking PSTN’s Ass
According to Infonetics Research, VoIP services brought in $21 billion for service providers in the first half of 2009. According to their report, the number of residential/SOHO VoIP subscribers is forecast to top 225 million by 2013. In other words, with about 310 million Americans that means 75% of all residential subscribers will be... »
Report: SIP Trunking catching on
A new report, SIP Trunking Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey, by Infonetics shows that purchase decision-makers at medium and large companies are either already spending money on SIP Trunking or they are planning to head in that direction. Many companies have deployed VoIP within their organizations, but they are still using legacy TDM... »
Xorcom, Broadvox Asterisk-based IP PBX and SIP trunking certified interoperable
Xorcom, an Asterisk based IP PBX provider, and Broadvox, a VoIP solutions provider, announced that their Asterisk-based IP PBX and SIP trunking services respectively have been certified as interoperable. Xorcom’s devices allow communication using both VoIP and legacy telephony while Broadvox’s SIP trunking enables the use of bandwidth for voice and data apps while lowering... »
SimpleSignal Brings Call Control Toolbar to Hosted VoIP
Hosted VoIP is making great strides, but there is often one problem – with hosted VoIP you don’t get desktop call control. Well, today SimpleSignal introduced its Call Control Toolbar, which adds advanced business VoIP calling features while leveraging their hosted environment. Personally, I am very computer-centric and hate managing my phone calls... »
VoIP Ringing Up Billions in Sales
Can you believe that VoIP-based telephony services brought in nearly $20.7 billion in revenues during the first six months of 2009? Incredible as it might sound, it is indeed true, according to data reported by market research firm Infonetics Research. I fondly remember the early part of this decade when folks dismissed VoIP as little... »