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FreedomVOICE announced that Cory Dzbinski, Director of Sales Engineering at FreedomVOICE, will be speaking
on HD Voice at this year’s 2010 International CES, the world's largest consumer technology
tradeshow.

With over 11 years of telecom & IT experience, Cory Dzbinski has played a vital
role in spearheading the introduction and adoption of the FreedomVOICE Toll Free Number
Service, a small business virtual communication platform, and the FreedomIQ
Hosted VoIP PBX, a rapidly growing hosted VoIP business phone system. Now focusing
his efforts on HD Voice, Dzbinski has become a pioneer and industry expert in the
voice quality standard.

Discussion topics at the CES HD Voice Summit have been formulated to address the real
issues surrounding the wide adoption of the technology. Topics include profitability
and HD voice, HD Voice technology requirements, integrating cell phones and cordless

Raketu announces
the release of Raketu Mobile Video Calling. With Raketu's new mobile video calling,
mobile users on WiFi or data services will now be able to make video calls completely
free. Mobile users will also be able to make voice to voice calls, mobile to mobile
or mobile to desktop, over WiFi or data, completely free. Mobile and desktop users
can also take advantage of Raketu's low dialout calling rates at up to 65% lower than
Skype's. Raketu provides the most flexibility of calling with computer to computer,
computer to phone, and phone to phone calls. Raketu users can even make calls directly
from any browser without a download. And it's available using Raketu's calling plans
or at Raketu's ultra-low rates -- all from any device, anywhere in the world, mobile

ManageEngine announcesan update to its VoIP quality monitoring solution, VQManager, focused on meeting themanagement requirements of VoIP service providers. The latest release, VQManager 6.2,greatly improves on the application's existing VoIP packet processing capability,making it possible to support larger VoIP environments, monitoring up to 1000 simultaneousVoIP calls. And because larger environments are apt to have multiple operating systems,the new VQManager is designed to perform equally well on different versions and flavorsof Windows and Linux operating systems.

IPtimize hasacquired the assets and operating network of National Telecom & Broadband Services,a Florida corporation including Teliphonex, their business-class VoIP hosted PBX solution.Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the commercial VoIP business assets acquired byIPtimize serve small business and enterprise customers in multiple metropolitan areasincluding West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The acquisition addsapproximately 1,000 customer lines served by IPtimize and adds both expanded geographicreach and an established commercial customer base to the growing VoIP business atIPtimize.

DynaSis announces
its new partnership with IP phone system provider Fonality to
offer small to medium sized businesses access to affordable Atlanta VoIP solutions
comparable to large business phone systems. The barrier to entry for VoIP in Atlanta
for most small to midsized businesses has long been the cost involved with installing
and maintaining a full scale VoIP solution that can provide the sound quality and
features enterprise solutions offer. Enterprise solutions are often costly to maintain
because they require a skilled IT professional for minor issues such as simple additions
or deletions of extensions, and most of the cost savings realized from long distance

Just-released
research by independent market analyst firm Infonetics Research puts MetaSwitch for
the first time at the top of its global ranking of VoIP vendors for Class 5 softswitch
licenses. According to the report, "Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers
Q1 2009," MetaSwitch is now
the number one supplier of Class 5 softswitch licenses with 18.4 percent share. In
North America, the company continued its leading position in the same product category,
increasing its share to an impressive 60.1 percent.

As service providers seek ways to reduce the high operational costs of legacy networks,
many are migrating to packet-based architectures, with IP session control, call feature
servers, and media gateways playing a key role in this transition. Others are introducing

TalkSwitch announces the appointment of NETXUSA as an official distributor of TalkSwitch IP-PBX phone systems. NETXUSA specializes in the sales, service and support of VoIP products, is a trusted source of more than 5000 independent resellers and has provided over 30 years service to the communications industry.

With NETXUSA's distribution and sales centers located in the United States, TalkSwitch resellers benefit from east-coast and west-coast facilities that provide rapid regional response, economical product delivery and support.

SPIRITDSP and RMI Corporation havesigned a Partnership and Platform License Agreement to deliver high quality voiceand video over IP for RMI?s Alchemy Processor family, an advanced MIPS-compatibleprocessor solution.

Vitelity
Communications has launched a new Colocation and Hosting service designed specifically
for VoIP service providers and businesses using VoIP. The current lineup for their
hosting services will include a choice of Dell PowerEdge servers with options for
CPU, memory, storage, and RAID. In addition, Vitelity will pre-configure and optimize
each server with either: Asterisk, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash, or a base operating system
such as Windows or Linux. Customers can also ship their pre-configured PBX, switch,
or gateway to Vitelity for Colocation in their soon to be completed 10,000 square-foot
state-of-the-art data center in Denver, CO.

Cable telephony subscriber growth continues to be strong, with almost 8 million new subscribers added around the world over the past 12 months, reports In-Stat. Growth in North America has been particularly strong, as cable operators near the end of their transition to VoIP-enabled network architectures, the high-tech market research firm says.