Voice Over Internet VoIP

Skype Technologies said it bought Internet voice company Sonorit Holding and subsidiary Camino Networks for $27 million in eBay stock.

Integrics is pleased to announce the release of ITSP version 1.6. This version has the following new features:

- Comes in 2 Editions:

* Carrier edition, for 250 to tens of thousands of users on hosted systems. Integrics sells this edition directly and through partners.

* Office edition, for 10 to 250 users. This edition is sold only through our partners, for them to sell as PBX systems at their customers' sites.

- Post-paid and external application billing, as well as the existing pre-paid billing.

- PDF invoices, including invoice management for both resellers and customers.

- Call shop interface.

- First version that can be installed by our partners rather than by Integrics staff. We'll be launching a formal partner and reseller programme in a few weeks; more details to follow.

- Many customer self sign up wizard improvements, such as credit card capture, click through terms and conditions which can be set by resellers, etc.

- Lots of smaller improvements based on customer feedback.

The demo system at:

Demo System

Running 1.6. Further information, including a feature list, is at:

http://integrics.com/products/itsp/

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Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 20 799 39 799
sip:acunningham@integrics.com

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony Relevant Products/Services from , once a tool used primarily by uber techies, has matured into a viable and less-expensive alternative to the PBX systems used by businesses of all sizes. With VoIP, companies have the opportunity to discard the prepackaged offerings of traditional telecommunications and instead opt for a phone system that is customizable and highly adaptable.

According to a report released in January from the research firm Yankee Group, the VoIP market is expected to reach $3.3 billion in service revenue by 2010. The report said that businesses are favoring VoIP because the technology offers measurable savings, an excellent converged platform for voice and data, and improved ways to manage communications within the enterprise.

"Virtually all major carriers, systems integrators, and equipment vendors now offer different varieties of business VoIP services," said Taher Bouzayen, a senior analyst for telecommunication strategies at the Yankee Group. "And those that are not already exploring ways to capitalize on this revenue opportunity need to start now."

Even the U.S. military is contemplating a move to VoIP. Avaya, a VoIP vendor, recently announced that the Air Force is testing the technology with an eye toward deploying it for military communications in the field. According to Avaya client executive Vic Galante, the Air Force realized that it would have to turn to commercial technologies to save money.

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Symantec has announced IM Manager 8.0, the first fruits borne from its purchase of IMLogic earlier this year. The instant messaging management system is the first such product put out under the Symantec name.

April 6, 2006 Macomb Community College, located in Warren, Michigan, serves 24,000 students through its five campuses. As the second-largest community college in Michigan, it offers two-year programs as well as four-year degrees through some state and local universities that have developed close ties with the college and have presence on the campus. Ten years ago, Norman Schlafmann joined the college as its new vice president of IT, with the goal of bringing the latest …

Talk about mind-boggling changes. A new project will allow businesses to connect GoogleTalk users to their Asterisk, telephony servers, Mark Spencer told me yesterday. He should know. Spencer is the author of the Asterisk open source, IP PBX and CEO of Digium, the company packaging Asterisk as a business-grade solution

The project is currently in beta with availability set for some time around June, smack in between the May release of Digium's Business edition of Asterisk B.1 and the next rev of the public Asterisk 1.4 release in July.

I'm so incredibly excited about this project for lots and lots of reasons. Inter-company collaboration will become a lot easier now for Asterisk users. Extending out the Asterisk network is a cinch and think of all of the cool applications one could create for GoogleTalk. Heck, just real termination becomes easier.

But I get ahead of myself.

One of the things that's always puzzled me is why Google didn't just support SIP or even Mark's own IAX protocol used in Asterisk. Mark had the same question until he studied Google's SIP replacement, Jingle

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Note: After helping break the story about SIP to Skype progress it is nice to see products coming out in a more refined form.



SIP protocol is regarded as the industry standard for VoIP. A number of telephone companies, IP phone manufacturers and virtual IP based PBX systems have been using this protocol for connecting calls. On the other hand, Skype has been using a proprietary protocol and whenever one wants to call from a SIP based VoIP service to Skype, one requires an adapter which acts as a gateway so that calls be made as SIP and Skype are not interoperable.

NCH Swift Sound has come with Uplink which connects SIP based voice calls to Skype and it works in both directions. It can be easily configured and used. Once the software has been installed, go to the options to give the path to Skype executable, enter SIP service setting and dial options when Skype calls SIP and vice versa. If configured in the right manner, it works perfectly and provides a good voice quality.

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