VoIP Trends

Newfound Communications, Inc., a leading provider of call recording, interactive voice response (IVR) and dialing solutions for the telecommunications industry, today announced it has entered into a strategic reseller partnership with AdvanTel Networks, a full-service, nationwide technology solutions provider. Under the terms of the agreement, AdvanTel Networks will resell Newfound’s full portfolio of solutions including, IP Call Recorder, VXML Dialer and MediaMixer.

Never miss a business call again – multiple VoIP landlines and mobiles ring at the same time

11 May 2010.  Cloud Net, the business phone systems company, has introduced its advanced Multi-Ring Follow Me service, which rings a user’s landline and mobile phones simultaneously until the call is picked up on whichever handset a user selects.   The feature also allows teams to set up incoming calls to be received on multiple users’ handsets, regardless of whether they are mobile or fixed lines.

“Unlike other many other UK VoIP providers, Cloud Net owns its own network and has a dedicated developer team, so enabling us to listen to our customers’ requirements and develop new features to improve our service offering,” said David Hill, Chairman of Cloud Net.

The new Multi-Ring feature overcomes the issues with diverting desk phones to mobiles: the call will no longer ring off on the desk phone as it does with normal follow me or call divert services; the call recipient will be confident that the incoming call is professional business call, since they will be greeted with a message informing them that “follow me call” is waiting and invited to press 1 to receive the call; small business VoIP users who may not have a separate business mobile, will no longer have to remember to turn off their diverts and finally, the service helps to combat the problems of business calls diverted to mobiles which are passing through poor signal areas, by routing the call automatically to a business landline.

Users can also set up an incoming number to ring multiple lines. For example, the Cloud Net system rings the main incoming landline and team members’ mobiles and desk phones simultaneously. The first recipient to get to the call can then answer by picking up on any one of the phones – pressing 1 to accept the call.

“We have developed this service in response to customer feedback and the launch of services such as Vodafone Sure Signal.  Our Multi-Ring service requires no investment in new hardware for our existing users.  For teams, the new service ensures that even in busy periods someone will answer the call, even if that person is away from the office on their mobile,” commented Charles Chance, MD of Cloud Net.

The new feature is part of Cloud Net’s all inclusive monthly business phone package.  Cloud Net’s monthly packages start from £8.50 for an all inclusive switchboard including an IP phone and features such as voicemail, conference calling, voice recording, IVR and fax handling. Cloud Net VoIP handsets currently include a Cloud Net IP phone, Grand stream operator phone or a Siemens Cordless DECT phone.

For further information, please visit, www.cloudnetuk.com, call 01922 21 33 33 or email solutions@cloudnetuk.com

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About Cloud Net

Cloud Net supplies business phone systems to SMEs and start ups with the advantage of no capital expenditure necessary to run a professional PBX and dramatically lower running costs. Cloud Net has developed a dedicated small business VoIP network providing free calls within the network.  The company has a happy and growing customer base.  Cloud Net is privately financed and started trading in March 2009.

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San Francisco — May 10, 2010 — Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS), the leading provider of media processing for mobile VoIP, today announced that it has been selected by LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, to provide HD voice for its innovative Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution. FMC allows telecom operators to combine fixed telephony, cellular telephony and Broadband into unified end-user services. LG Electronics added cutting-edge HD Voice capabilities to its FMC application by integrating GIPS VoiceEngine™ Mobile, which includes advanced acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) technology. Good AEC implementation is critical to improve quality of voice calls on mobile devices.

“GIPS’ strong local support and expertise team in South Korea ensured a smooth implementation of voice processing technology in our smartphone model SU210/KU2100/LU2100 for FMC solution,” according to LG.

“We’re delighted that GIPS’ technology enabled LG to develop innovative products which lead the mobile trend and enhance users’ everyday lives,” said GIPS’ Chief Executive Officer Emerick Woods.

Implementing GIPS HD voice technology provides users a great communication experience and offers Service Providers assurances that network, bandwidth and delay issues will be overcome.

About Global IP Solutions
Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS) provides best-in-class voice and video processing in IP communications. GIPS enables its customers to deliver unmatched quality, with a faster time-to-market and with less risk than alternative solutions. GIPS serves application developers, wired and wireless service providers and network and telecommunications equipment vendors. Its customer list includes ANET, Cisco, CommuniGate, fg microtec, Nimbuzz, Nortel, KT Networks, Oracle, PCCW, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL and other key players in the voice and video over IP markets. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong. For more information, visit http://www.gipscorp.com.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN) announces the expansion of its converged communications services to Northwest Arkansas. Windstream’s Integrated Solutions combine voice, data and Internet services over the same connection for maximum value and flexibility.

The Windstream Integrated Solutions product is a fully managed business phone system and Internet solution that provides everything a business needs: equipment, installation, maintenance, support, updates and more. It provides a converged communications solution that combines voice services and Internet over a single IP connection utilizing a customer’s existing phone system, therefore eliminating the expense of purchasing new equipment.

“As with all of our next-generation data products, Windstream strives to develop advanced business solutions at an affordable price,” said Don Perkins, vice president of business marketing. “We’re excited to be offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional voice and Internet services in Northwest Arkansas.”

Windstream VoIP solutions deliver affordable local voice, long distance and Internet access, all over Windstream’s reliable state-of-the-art IP network. Customers will benefit from significant cost savings, increased productivity, easy communications management, and the flexibility businesses need with Windstream Integrated Solutions. Plus customers get everything on one bill and have a single point of contact for service.

For more information about Windstream’s converged communication solutions, or any of Windstream’s next-generation data services, visit www.windstream.com/business.

About Windstream

Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN), headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., is an S&P 500 company with communications operations in 21 states and about $3.7 billion in annual revenues. Windstream provides phone, high-speed Internet and high-definition digital TV services. The company also offers a wide range of IP-based voice and data services and advanced phone systems and equipment to businesses and government agencies. For more information about Windstream, visit www.windstream.com.

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ANDOVER, MA, May 03, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Enterasys, the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG, today announced that Oral Roberts University of Oklahoma has deployed Enterasys solutions to achieve a more automated IT infrastructure providing high-availability connectivity for more than 3,000 students and 700 staff across its main campus. Through Enterasys solutions and support, the University’s small IT staff now leverages an easily managed campus network that will support future initiatives such as VoIP and streaming video.

“We evaluated several leading network providers when it came time to replace existing Cisco infrastructure, including HP and Brocade solutions,” said Tannie Olsen, CIO with Oral Roberts University. “With Enterasys, we saw an opportunity to not only replace the entire network, but also immediately realize the benefits of the performance, security, management and support features that would have been cost-prohibitive add-ons with other vendors’ solutions. We now have a high-end, QoS platform on which we can launch the next-generation services our students and faculty will need as the University grows.”

Enterasys engineers and support team members worked closely with the University’s network operations staff to meet an aggressive upgrade timetable, replacing the entire network topology in a single weekend. Enterasys Modular and Stackable switches now serve at the network’s core and distribution layers, delivering high-speed, reliable network access to all campus network users, including students, faculty, contractors and guests. Over the University’s summer break, the deployment’s next phase was completed, including the installation of Enterasys Network Management Suite (NMS) and Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM), for granular visibility and control that reaches beyond ports and VLANs down to individual users, applications, and protocols.

“Students love to plug devices into our network, and with SIEM and NMS, no matter how many moves, adds or changes occur in our environment, we can keep everything in view and under control through role-based access controls and network behavior monitoring,” Olsen said. “NMS can even manage beyond Enterasys hardware to deliver standards-based control of other vendors’ network equipment, including our wireless network equipment. We were told by other vendors that this type of granular control wasn’t possible at the price point we required.”

The University’s IT team also sees great value in Enterasys’ award-winning Global Technical Assistance Center (GTAC) and training support programs. “Coming from a Cisco background, I was concerned about being up to speed on the management of our new network,” said Carlos Maldonado, network and security administrator for Oral Roberts University. “We have found the training offered by Enterasys to be of excellent quality, and the GTAC team is the best technical support team we have ever worked with. We never have to jump through hoops when we have a question, and they work quickly and responsively to resolve any issues.”

About Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning “Open Communications” approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company’s OpenPath(R) commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG includes Cycos and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG or Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com

Cedar Point Communications, a worldwide leader in integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) switching technologies for service providers, today announced that it is previewing new applications on its SafariFusion™ Application Platform that are designed to bring telecommunications functionalities to a diverse set of endpoints as part of its overall PacketCable 2.0/IMS (PC 2.0/IMS) product portfolio.

At its stand (H21) at the ANGA Cable Show in Cologne, Germany this week, Cedar Point will be showing the SafariFusion™ Visual Communications Suite (VCS), a suite of communications applications that harnesses the flexibility of new network architectures to give subscribers greater control over telecommunications activities at the PC, mobile phone, and TV. The applications enable cable system operators to offer new, highly-differentiated services that expand beyond existing, television-based call management applications.

“Since our announcement of the SafariFusion™ Application Platform and the first two applications to run on it at the SCTE show last October, our intent has been to continually drive innovation and bring true advanced communications services to market,” said Jeff Walker, vice president of marketing for Cedar Point Communications. “With SafariFusion VCS, we can now provide operators with the ability to bring standard communication services features to any endpoint that may be part of the consumer’s day to day life. By leveraging the SafariFusion Application Platform’s standards-based development kit, we are rapidly iterating a new generation of converged services that can significantly improve the way subscribers can access messages, dial calls and manage communications in general.”

A critical part of Cedar Point’s next generation PC 2.0/IMS solution, the SafariFusion Application Platform leverages industry standard Web 2.0 tools and applications for rapid deployment of multimedia communications services. SafariFusion also has been designed to enable an evolutionary strategy that combines seamless migration to PC 2.0/IMS architectures with investment protection for existing NCS and SIP endpoints.

Cedar Point has shipped more than six and a half million SAFARI C3 lines to customers in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. SAFARI C3 supports up to 250,000 lines of capacity in less than a cubic meter of space, incorporating all of the components that make up the voice switching infrastructure. It is being deployed for residential and business services by a diverse customer base that includes Cable System Operators, CLECs, Wireless Operators and Universities.

About Cedar Point Communications
Cedar Point Communications’ integrated switching platform enables the scalable, simplified and cost-effective delivery of VoIP and multimedia communication services for service providers and network operators. Designed to provide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network integrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point’s products support a full range of carrier-class telecommunications, including legacy circuit, NCS. SIP-based and PC 2.0/IMS voice services. The company is based in Derry, NH with its European headquarters in Meersburg, Germany. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com.

Today, National Airline Passenger Rights Advocate and Executive Director of FlyersRights.org, Kate Hanni announced the launch of a new application that will empower passengers by providing real time data on the status of their flights via GPS. Hanni also expressed concern impact of a proposed ban on cellular communications and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in the House version of the pending Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization legislation that could curtail the rights of passengers to use new technologies while on board commercial aircraft.

“It is essential that airline passengers are empowered with the latest applications and in-flight technology to ensure that the airlines are accountable and full compliance with the new 3 Hour Tarmac Rule, going into effect today at the Department of Transportation,” said Hanni. “Passengers in the U.S. should be allowed to avail themselves of in-flight connectivity and technology to capture, record, and transmit information vital to the enforcement of their new rights.”

With the new application, available on FlyersRights.org website, the GPS component of the iPhone will be able to pinpoint a passenger’s location and the passenger will confirm location.

The passenger will be able to input their airline and flight information into a centralized database and update their status in terms of delays or cancellations while in flight. Passengers will also be able to take photos, video and audio recordings and attach them to the record in real time.

The House of Representatives version of the FAA bill, passed last year, contains language that would ban the usage of cellular communications and VoIP on commercial aircraft in U.S. airspace. The recently passed Senate version of the FAA legislation contains no ban. Currently, 20 international air carriers, flying to 72 nations around the world are equipped with in-flight cellular service — with over 2.3 million passengers a month flying on aircraft with the service.

“The enforcement and protection of rights of people around the globe have become increasingly dependent upon the transmission of data and images in real time thanks to cellular technology,” added Hanni. “Rather than ban it outright, Congress should allow the FAA and the FCC to evaluate the use of in-flight voice service and connectivity as a valuable tool for passengers in the U.S. taking into account potential benefits to consumers and the real world experience of its deployment throughout the rest of the world.”

Source: Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights

/newswire/ – San Jose, CA, United States, 05/03/2010 – Monitis, the leading provider of all-in-one Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, today announced a major new product launch: a SSH/Telnet-based server management tool.

This critical addition to Monitis’ already revolutionary toolkit enables users to not only monitor their servers, but immediately fix them, as well.

Available free within Monitis’ all-in-one suite of tools, the new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool is activated when users click on the SSH/Telnet icon. This opens a telnet screen, which enables users to access a given server and perform server management functions like restarting applications and cleaning storage.

Lightweight and available from any web browser, Monitis’ new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool opens SSH/Telnet access to any device connected to the internet. Besides supporting ANSI formatting and enabling file uploads via SCP, the tool is especially useful when users setup Cloud monitoring. The auto-login feature means there is no need to remember logins and IP addresses – routine hassles that are inconvenient and drain time and productivity from IT managers’ already overloaded schedules.

Monitis already offers platform-independent monitoring of public and private clouds (like Amazon’s EC2 or Rackspace’s cloud), and provides lists of running instances. With its new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool, Monitis users now only need to click on an instance and open automatically logged-in terminal access to that particular service. This significantly reduces the time required to fix problems and ultimately leads to better up-time.

According to Monitis’ Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan, “Monitis’ new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool changes the game. It helps IT managers move from monitoring problems to fixing them in one-click. It further reinforces our mission of helping the world’s IT managers save massive amounts of time.”

About Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform

Monitis is the only service that provides Cloud Monitoring from the Cloud. It is leading a new era of systems management tools – the Cloud generation. Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution, offered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.

Monitis consolidates back-end monitoring, application monitoring, website monitoring, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

About Monitis

Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud.

Besides Monitis’ enthusiastic and loyal user base of 50,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community. Recently, because it’s Cloud-based monitoring helps companies reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures, Monitis was named the Most Innovative Start-up for 2009 by The 451 Group at their annual Client Conference. In April 2010 Monitis were named as one the OnDemand 100 for 2010 – a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn of the world’s top 100 private companies that are taking old notions of data management, customer relationships, and infrastructure and forging solutions that will lead to industry shake-up and huge value creation opportunities.

Monitis (monitis.com) was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and fed-up and worn-out developers who were tired of complaining about the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis is lead by a team of IT professionals with deep experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Using a global workforce, particularly its R&D team based in Yerevan, Armenia, Monitis is poised to move from strength to strength. At present, it has a loyal and enthusiastic user community of 50,000, and an average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

Add the Metaswitch Forum to the list of events that will help define this decade. While past decades have been defined for us, by events as memorable as 12 seconds of flight on a cold December morning, the first moon landing, Jedi space operas and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this current decade is more completely in our own hands: the hands of broadband-centric, social networking, communication-rich individuals. With the future of the telecom industry itself an urgent common interest, attendees from four continents and more than 200 carriers will converge on the Metaswitch Forum in Nashville, Tenn. to discuss their own specific goals in this currently uncharted era.

Now in its seventh year, the Metaswitch Forum offers customers, partners and industry opinion formers an up-close and personal opportunity to learn about leading product and service offerings and advances in the operation, security, management and maintenance of their integrated networks.

This year’s packed agenda commences with pre-conference workshops on innovation, subscriber migration, service deployment and the engineering secrets behind the industry’s leading VoIP infrastructure solutions. For the three days that follow, attendees will be treated to more than 30 sessions that cover topics from network security, through hosted service roll out, to wireless service integration and the latest in advanced voice applications. These sessions will be anchored by keynote presentations from Dr. Robert Ballard, Ocean Explorer and the man who found HMS Titanic; Kevin McGuire, vice president of Technology at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association; and Ken Paker, vice president of Network Services at TDS Telecom.

This year’s Expo will feature more than 50 exhibitors, supported by Platinum Sponsor ADTRAN, Gold Sponsors Aastra, Cisco Systems, Edgewater Networks and Occam Networks, and Silver Sponsors Acme Packet, Calix, Cordell, Enablence Systems and Polycom.

“As the leading supplier of IP Business Gateways and SIP Trunking solutions, the Metaswitch Forum is a natural fit for ADTRAN. We are pleased to continue our leadership role as the platinum sponsor for this important industry event,” said Gary Bolton, vice president of Global Marketing, ADTRAN. “The Metaswitch Forum provides a unique atmosphere where leading technology suppliers, like ADTRAN, can interact with customers, share the latest technologies, and ultimately influence how the carrier landscape develops.”

“Metaswitch Forum is now a recognized industry event,” said Steve Gleave, vice president of Marketing for the Carrier Systems Division of Metaswitch. ”It is made so not only by the breadth and candor of our conference sessions but also by the fabulous support of our customers, partners and sponsors. We’re excited to embark on another decade with them all.”

For more information on the agenda, speaker profiles and registration, please visit www.metaswitch.com/forum2010.

About Metaswitch Networks

Metaswitch Networks is a leading provider of the technologies and solutions that are powering the migration of communications networks to open, next-generation architectures. Hundreds of network operators worldwide depend on its reliable, scalable carrier systems solutions, while its high performance, fault-tolerant software technologies are licensed by all the world’s leading communications equipment manufacturers. For more information, visit www.metaswitch.com.

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