Infrastructure

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

Fonality is now providing the market leading HUD 3.0 unified communications software to the trixbox Community Edition platform. The new HUD 3.0 will provide trixbox CE users with presence management and detection in a single interface for all types of office communications, including SMS, instant message, landline calling, mobile calling, chat, voicemail, email, conferencing, recording, and barging.

i2Telecom has created a community for cellular phone users deploying Internet telephony, "Mobile VoIP" on www.TMCnet.com. TMCnet's web site is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,600 sites in the world by alexa.com, TMCnet serves more than three million unique visitors each month.

Streamcore published
a list of key considerations for successfully deploying VoIP. Streamcore issues these
tips to inform organizations that VoIP phones are not to blame for dropped or delayed
calls, but rather the organization needs to ensure their network can handle the congestion
from other traffic as well as properly prioritizing VoIP traffic.

PBXpress Communications announces the addition of Web-based operator?s console interface to its range of recording VoIP PBX. The new operator?s console is a convenient way for any call center or CRM operator to handle incoming and outgoing calls with a mouse using a Web browser. The console allows a call center operator to monitor users? activities in real time, and perform typical operations.

Edgewater announces the availability of EdgeView Reports, an advanced yet easy-to-use reporting tool that provides valuable VoIP performance information to network planners, operators, product managers, executive management teams and end-users. The EdgeView Reports server works in conjunction with the EdgeView VoIP support System and EdgeMarc Converged Networking Routers to provide unprecedented visibility into the performance of today?s converged networks.

NeoPhonetics announces the launch of its Network Assessment Tool. Now, any company considering a data VoIP solution can determine whether their cabling, switching and routers, and network bandwidth are VoIP-compatible in a matter of minutes.

The Network Assessment Tool is an educational tool developed with non-technical users in mind. It is a first step in helping businesses determine whether their networks are ready for data VoIP.

At Spring VON Europe, Ari Takanen said something very interesting about security of legacy interfaces in the panel session on The Real Risks of VoIP Security. In the discussion of established phone networks versus VoIP or next generation networks, he pointed out that ?some interfaces are not designed to be open?, and therefore these can be particularly vulnerable to attack if for some reason that interface does get revealed.

Now available to businesses of all sizes, VoIP is experiencing rapid market adoption, offering the ability to reduce costs, improve productivity and streamline network management by converging voice and data communications over a single IP network. However, investigating and understanding the options available and deploying VoIP technology can be a challenging undertaking for many small and medium-sized businesses.