VoIP Vendor News

Can Ribbit Pull Off a VoIP Revolution?

18 December 2007

Lisa Pierce, vice president at Forrester Research, said she thinks that Ribbit has a challenging path before it with its SmartSwitch technology that promises to revolutionize VoIP. "But if Ribbit is successful," she said, "it very likely will be acquired by one of the major players -- companies Ribbit's brochure treats with some disdain."

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XO's New VoIP Pricing Model

16 January 2008

In a move that could help small and medium-size businesses save money, telecom carrier XO Communications has rolled out a new pricing model for VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services based on the bandwidth a business uses, instead of the number of lines.

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Digium Acquisition Shakes Up Open-Source VoIP

27 September 2007

Digium is stirring up the open-source community it helped create by buying one of the vendors that has built an IP-PBX on its Asterisk VoIP platform.

Digium Thursday will unveil plans to acquire Switchvox, one of the many SMB-focused vendors that have cropped up in recent years with products built on top of Digium's open-source Asterisk VoIP software. Digium is the primary developer of Asterisk.

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3Com parades new VOIP telephony kit

02 October 2007

New IP telephony offerings targeted at small and medium sized businesses.

The impending acquisition of 3Com by Huawei Technologies and Bain Capital, overshadowed its US unveiling of new IP telephony offerings targeted at small and medium sized businesses (SMBs).

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SpeedVoIP Debuts VoIP Anti-blocking in Dubai

18 October 2007

As VoIP business users in Dubai are being blocked. Many users are turning to VPN solutions to allow the ability to use VoIP and get around the current blocking issue. This however is an expensive and unnecessary solution with SpeedVoIP Technology. To resolve this situation, SpeedVoIP has released it's new solution for Voip Blocking called VGCP (VoiceGuard Control Protocol).

In todayâ€™s market, VoIP for business has become more and more popular and necessary than ever before.

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Fonality makes Insightful purchase

08 November 2007

Vendor aims to release a combined CRM and PBX product to sell through the local channel in Q1 next year

Phone systems vendor, Fonality, has acquired SugarCRM specialist, Insightful Solutions, for an undisclosed sum.

Former co-founder and CEO of Insightful, Marc Englaro, said it had done a handful of projects around Fonality's SugarCRM system and began discussions about how they could develop joint products.

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Siemens sees 400% jump in uptake of VoIP systems

20 December 2007

The number of businesses using Siemens HiPath 8000 real-time VoIP (voice over IP) UC (unified communications) system have jumped more than 400% in the last year.

The company suggests that increased user collaboration and productivity are the reasons, and states that itâ€™s seeing uptake in all industry sectors and across companies of all sizes.

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Freshtel, Siemens goes cordless with VoIP

20 December 2007

International voice vendor, Siemens has chosen Australian VoIP provider, Freshtel, as its partner in providing VoIP handsets to the market.

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Truphone offers its VoIP software for Nokia's N80 handsets

18 October 2006

LONDON: VoIP operator Truphone is offering its software for Nokia's N80 mobiles enabling users to make free VoIP calls.

London-based Truphone is launching a free download for these Wi-Fi-enabled devices in the next few days, following introduction of similar software for Nokia's E series business handsets. Using Truphone software, users can make free calls to other mobile handsets within Wi-Fi hotspots.

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Apple and Cisco share iPhone name

22 February 2007

Apple and Cisco Systems have resolved their dispute over the iPhone brand, with both companies agreeing that each can use the name for their products.

Last month Apple announced its forthcoming iPod-based mobile phone would be called iPhone, but Cisco had registered it in 2000.

Under the deal, they will also work together in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.

The financial terms of the agreement have not been released.

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