VoIP Vendor News

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 it’s seeing uptake in all industry sectors and across companies of all sizes.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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).

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 today’s market, VoIP for business has become more and more popular and necessary than ever before.

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.

Fonality Challenges Telephony Giants With Latest Open Source IP-PBX

07 November 2006

Fonality announced the release of its new PBXtra Professional Edition IP-PBX and HUD (Heads-Up Display) Team application. Together, these award winning products challenge mainstream PBX leaders and allow Fonality to compete in the middle market at 40 percent to 80 percent less cost. The solution creates a scalable platform for the 50 to 500 seat market, including rich branch office support.

AsteriskNow Rocks Open Source Telecom World

05 February 2007

Solution providers searching "Mark Spencer" on YouTube will find not only a bizarre clip about a homemade cake and humorous downloads regarding British department store Marks & Spencer, but a sure-fire way to increase sales in the lucrative IP PBX and VoIP market courtesy of Asterisk open-source PBX creator Mark Spencer.