VON: EarthLink expands line-powered voice
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--EarthLink is expanding its line-power VoIP offering to nine new cities, adding Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington...
VON: Rebtel rebels against mobile roaming
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A Swedish start-up company is rebelling against the wireless “cartel” in Europe and elsewhere, offering customers a way to use their mobile phones to make unlimited international calls on their mobile phones for $1 a week...
VON: MetaSwitch focuses on VoIP quality
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Having gained significant traction for its softswitch products among independent incumbents and competitive local exchange carriers, MetaSwitch is now focused on helping its customers improve VoIP quality and reliability through implementation of best practices and development of new industrywide requirements for service monitoring and troubleshooting...
VON: Interoperability top priority at Sonus
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--Sonus Networks will leverage the InterOperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire to launch an interoperability certification program around the delivery of SIP-based products. As part of its Open Services Partner Alliance, Sonus will conduct extensive testing with partners’ products...
VON sees birth of IP quality alliance
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--Ditech Networks, Empirix, Global IP Sound, JDSU, Polycom and Telchemy jointly announced the establishment of the V2oIP Quality Alliance this week that will attempt to shape and support the direction of voice and video-over-IP (V2oIP) quality issues...
VON: Connect123 partners with Perimeter
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Connect123.net, a Raleigh, N.C.- based provider of VoIP services in 915 U.S. markets, announced today it is using Perimeter Networks Unified Threat Management suite of managed security services to offer its small to mid-sized business customers...
VON: AOL dresses up AIM Phoneline
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--AOL is opening up its AIM Phoneline interface to outside developers, hoping to build a compelling product that can compete in the crowded VoIP space with Google, Yahoo!, Skype and others...
VON: Newstep adds voice mail recall
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--NewStep Networks, one of the pioneers in the fixed/mobile convergence space, this week added voice mail intercept to its roster of features, enabling customers to “recall” wireless calls that rolled over into voice mail by pushing a button...
VON: 8x8 enhances for business
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--8x8 is using the VON show to announce additional features for its business customers, including a business-class PBX softphone and new, higher-quality, fax-over-IP service...
VON: Qwest builds wholesale VoIP portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Qwest Communications yesterday announced new 800-number origination and hosted services for its wholesale VoIP portfolio...
VON: SunRocket chooses GC’s peering service
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Global Crossing announced this week that VoIP provider SunRocket will use its new VoIP peering solution, becoming the first announced customer of the service launched last week...
VON: SIP Forum helps enterprises with connectivity
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--The SIP Forum completed work by one of its technical working groups this week on SIPconnect, an industry recommendation on facilitating connectivity between the enterprise SIP-based networks and service providers’ voice-over-IP networks...
VON: Sylantro launches wireless virtual PBX
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Sylantro Systems is taking its VoIP feature servers into the wireless world, the company said today. Its latest release of Sylantro Synergy, 4.1, includes a wireless virtual PBX that enables wireless service providers to target the enterprise market...
VON: XConnect acquires IPeerX
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--XConnect has agreed to acquire IPeerX, the two voice-over-IP peering companies announced today....
VON: Covergence downsizes IP security gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Covergence introduced a smaller version of its IP edge security appliance today...
VON: AT&T adds softphone to Call Vantage
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON -- Reinforcing its renewed emphasis on consumer Voice over IP, AT&T today announced softphone capabilities for its CallVantage VoIP service, developed in conjunction with CounterPath Solutions. As part of the new service, customers can also do peer-to-peer videoconferencing....
VON: Voxbone takes virtual numbers global
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A relatively unknown Belgian company, Voxbone, is making waves at VON with a specialized wholesale service that offers local phone numbers in 50 different countries in Asia, Europe, North America and South America...
VON: 360 adds wholesale VoIP
By: By Caol Wilson
BOSTON--Leveraging its unique footprint in the wide-open spaces of the Western U.S., 360 Networks today announced it will offer wholesale VoIP services to service providers for business and residential customers...
VON: Yahoo! VoIP adds conference calling
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Yahoo! is adding free conference calling to its Yahoo! Messenger with Voice VoIP service, using a free plug-in from Vapps called ConFreeCall...
Nortel to use Followap presence server
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is stopping development of its own presence server for its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) portfolio in favor of using that of a third-party vendor, Followap...
Intrado proves VoIP auto-location in NYC
By: By Tim McElligott
Intrado picked the urban canyon environment of New York City to conduct a trial on automatically locating mobile VoIP 911 callers and delivering their VoIP location information to the appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP)...
Global Crossing enters VoIP peering market
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing this morning threw its hat into the VoIP peering ring, launching VoIP Community Peering, which brings its end-to-end IP connectivity to service providers...
Cisco big winner in IP telephony gains
By: By Tim McElligott
IP-based telephony showed strong growth in both the service provider and enterprise markets in the second quarter, according to new data from Infonetics Research...
Verizon upgrades call centers to IP
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today said it has IP-enabled its hosted call center services to include routing incoming calls over toll-free IP links, using IP trunking for greater efficiency and adding IP interactive voice response capabilities...
QoS meets Zoey
By: By Tim McElligott
Voice-over-IP subscribers may soon stop asking, “How do I sound?” before beginning conversations on their VoIP phones thanks, in part, to the introduction today by Montreal-based Minacom of Zoey, an automated service quality self-test system...
