Voice Peering

iBasis and TI Sparkle have implemented a multiservice IPX Peering connection. The new interconnection will support the exchange of voice, signaling and GRX traffic generated by and destined for network operators connected to each carrier's IPX and will ensure end-to-end quality of voice peering service.

Voip-Pal.Com Inc. (Voip-Pal), through its subsidiary Digifonica Limited Gibraltar (Digifonica Gibraltar), has completed beta testing of the recently acquired VoIP patented technologies on its ground-based server. These patents are currently being integrated Into Voip-Pal's Cloud Server.

AudioCodes' Mediant 2000 VoIP Media Gateways and 310HD High-Definition IP Phones is enabling high quality, reliable VoIP connectivity and voice peering for Polkomtel's Genesys-based IP contact center locations.

Colo Atl, a provider of carrier neutral collocation, interconnection and data center solutions, unveiled that it has added O1 Communications, a local exchange carrier offering voice peering services to enterprise businesses throughout California, and Telesphere, a provider of managed cloud communications solutions, as tenants at Colo Atl's facility in Atlanta.

Jamestown Properties unveiled yesterday that it purchased a 241,000-square-foot office building, located at 325 Hudson St. in New York City's Hudson Square area for $110 million. Jamestown has teamed up with Amerimar Enterprises and Hunter Newby as operating partners of the newly purchased building.

As Americans have moved to texting and emailing on their phones, voice peering and HD voice hasn't been the first priority for phone manufacturers and carriers. However, there are companies creating innovative solutions with voice, such as Audience with its noise-cancelling, sound-clarifying voice technology in phones like the Samsung Galaxy Note. Still, carriers try to cram voice calls into very skinny pipes, ultimately reducing call quality. But with Sprint's new HTC EVO 4G LTE, call quality will be drastically improved.

With the widespread use of smartphones, Internet calls have also mushroomed. As a result, mobile voice over IP (VoIP) telephony is taking off, and mobile operators are coming under tremendous pressure.

Facebook is continuously evolving to offer the latest communication services to members. Every month it seems that new applications are available for download to further push the envelope for Facebook. To stay ahead of the competition, Facebook must offer innovated services to use with the free social network. The newest feature is adding an application that allows voice messages to appear on Facebook profiles. This is in addition to sharing photos and links while playing games or chatting.

If you have been reading anything on technology in the last decade, the technology of Voice Peering and VoIP comes with a long list of benefits for anyone who is running a business. Of course, the term business applies to all sizes; small, SMB, and enterprise. VoIP does great things, no matter how you look at it.

Aastra, a company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market, announced the launch of the Aastra BluStar client at Enterprise Connect, March 26-29, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla.

After facilitating telephone number porting for its large clientele last month, netTALK.com, Inc., a fast growing telephone company has rolled out netTALK DUO WiFi. The new launch marks the next step in the evolution of netTALK DUO, the company's revolutionary VoIP device and digital phone service that enables free nationwide calls to any phone in Canada and the U.S. from anywhere in the world.

Avtex enhanced its IT infrastructure capabilities when it completed the acquisition of the Contact Center and VoIP division of Sage Innovations, a reputed technology solutions provider and Interactive Intelligence reseller.

In order to increase its position in emerging verticals such as VoIP, colocation and cloud services, Network Solutions Provider (NSP), acquired VoIP technology provider and installer Telecommunications Experts Inc. and Tier1 Data Centers, which builds data centers across the U.S.

CounterPath Corporation is all set to release its Bria Android Edition with video for smartphones and Bria Android Tablet Edition with voice, earlier than previously scheduled. The company will be offering an advance preview of the softphone applications to attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, this week Officials with CounterPath Corporation said that these standards-based, service agnostic softphones provide an intuitive user interface for making and receiving VoIP calls on Android smartphones and tablets, and in the case of smartphones, also video calls, sending messages and managing presence all over a Wi-Fi or a 3G/4G wireless connection.

Provider of next-generation Internet Telephony software and service Voiceserve has reported financial results for its third quarter and nine month period that ended on December 31, 2011. During the third quarter of the company's 2012 fiscal year, Voiceserve reported to have perfected its VoIP video-on-demand capability. The company won the Internet Telephony 2011 IPTV Excellence Award for its VOD platform.

Computer Support of San Diego, a provider of San Diego IT Support, San Diego IT Consulting and San Diego IT Services, has announced the expansion of its San Diego VoIP service. The company, as part of its current Hosted VoIP PBX services, is now offering support for Cisco, Grandstream and Aastra VoIP phones.

TELEHOUSE America, a provider of dedicated data centers, managed IT services and Internet exchanges, has a rosy glow to it - and it's not just because Valentine's Day is in a few days. Conversely, the company is celebrating an important milestone as its Los Angeles International Internet Exchange (LAIIX) is commemorating its 10-year anniversary.

TelcoDepot.com, a supplier of VoIP phones, business VoIP service, hosted PBX solutions, conferencing systems, general phone equipment and telephony support solutions for businesses, has introduced a reduced price for Aastra 6755i IP Phones ordered from its online store. In a standards based, carrier-grade advanced level expandable IP telephone, the 6755i from Aastra offers powerful features and flexibility. Company officials said that the 6755i features 144 by 75 pixel backlit LCD display and six dynamic context-sensitive softkeys.

Daum Communications has said that it has integrated SoliCall's Mobile SDK for improving audio quality in its VoIP Application.

Voice over IP provider ITP VoIP, one of the leading names in local phone service, is encouraging consumers to take advantage of its offer of a free router and adapter with every VoIP call plan. Officials with ITP VoIP said that users who visit http://www.ITPVoIP.com will note that the company provides these free devices to streamline the setup process for callers interested in saving money by switching to telephone and cable phone service.

Lenovo and Polycom have announced an agreement to deliver Polycom RealPresence HD video and HD Voice solutions on Lenovo laptops and tablets. As per the terms of the agreement, both companies are expected to develop innovative solutions that optimize and embed Polycom RealPresence video collaboration solutions on Lenovo laptops and tablets. This will deliver high-quality collaboration experiences to end-users from any location, according to company officials.

In an effort to create the first next generation network/VoIP federation in Germany, which will allow service providers to directly exchange IP voice and multimedia traffic, XConnect has teamed with DE-CIX, the world's largest Internet exchange.

VoIP provider ITP VoIP has its eyes on a new market in 2012 - real estate agents - as it claims that its plans and services are ideal for this group which spends most of its time away from the office. Officials with ITP VoIP said that ITP VoIP's numerous IP telephony plans all come with a wide variety of features, like call forwarding, call waiting, caller ID, voicemail, speed dial, music on hold, forwarding when busy, as well as online account management.

According to Christophor Rick, a reporter with ReelSEO.com, he was a bit skeptical when it came to whether the HD video compression service from Raystream could really do what the company claimed it could do - dramatically decrease the file size of high definition (HD) videos up to 90 percent, with an average of approximately 70 percent, with no loss in the quality or crystal clarity for which HD video is known.

SPIRIT DSP, a voice and video over IP engines provider, has made significant upgrades to its TeamSpirit cross-platform voice and video engines, a set of sophisticated SDKs (Software Development Kit) for service providers, software application developers and OEMs/ODMs to quickly launch HD (High Definition) voice and video calling applications and services across all popular desktop and mobile devices.

Bell Canada and Bell Aliant, sister telcos, announced they will cease the practice of slowing download and upload speeds of customers using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications, also known as "bandwidth throttling" with effect from March 1, 2012. Throttling has been used on both networks since 2008 at peak times (4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.). The decision was prompted by the relative proportion of traffic accounted for by P2P declining due to the increasing popularity of streamed video and other traffic, according to company officials.

Virtual PBX has announced that TMC, a global, integrated marketing company, has named Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere as a recipient of its 2011 Unified Communications Excellence Award. "With proven excellence in providing solutions in the UC marketplace, we are pleased to grant a 2011 Unified Communications Excellence Award to Virtual PBX for Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere," said Rich Tehrani, CEO at TMC.

Raystream announced that a free trial of its high definition (HD) video compression service is available to any business offering HD video content online. The company proprietary video compression technology decreases the file size of HD videos - up to 90 percent, with an average of approximately 70 percent. Company officials said that there is no loss in the quality or crystal clarity for which the HD video is known.

MO-Call has said that its application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad has been updated and is available for download from App Store or via iTunes. "We are delighted to launch the latest MO-Call update for the iPhone platform and excited to welcome new and existing iPhone users to enjoy the benefits of MO-Call," said Andrew Reid, CEO at Morodo.

BestVoIPServiceProvider.com is all set to release weekly video blogs on its YouTube channel, describing important Business VoIP industry and technology details, as well as reviewing business VoIP service providers. Company officials said that Best VoIP Service Provider provides valuable VoIP service information specifically tailored to small businesses, focusing on how VoIP can benefit the inner workings of small business operations.

Footage Search has announced the addition of over 30,000 new Royalty Free HD stock footage clips. Dan Baron, founder of Footage Search, said that the company is committed to providing comprehensive and affordable HD video clip options for the benefit of both customers and suppliers.

VOIP Phone Systems, a premier Internet phone installation company, has launched its website - http://www.voiptelephonesystem.org - in an effort to shed light on the availability of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to California residents. Although technically it works by using the same IP technology, VoIP is different from IP telephony in that VoIP uses the public Internet to carry voice communications.

The DIGITALK Consumer Platform, a next gen network service delivery platform, has received a lot of kudos this fall - most recently receiving the stamp of approval from Look International, a U.S. provider of "SINPIN" PINless calling service. This week, the company announced that it has selected the DIGITALK Consumer Platform to support its consumer services. Moreover, Look International will be relying on the DIGITALK SBC VoIP peering solution for carrier routing.

TelcoDepot.com, a supplier of VoIP phones, hosted PBX, conferencing systems and related services, announced the launch of 3CX open standard IP PBX VoIP Phone System to its online store. Based on open standards, the 3CX system offers freedom from expensive proprietary phone systems and enables businesses build scalable, Internet-powered, VoIP solutions without incurring high setup, maintenance and administration costs, according to company officials.

A recent research from Infonetics Research finds that the market for Carrier VoIP is down 12 percent in third quarter 2011 (3Q11). The Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast report, however, says like other previous quarters, 3Q11 was a weak one for carrier VoIP. The global service provider VoIP equipment market, which includes trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, voice application servers, lost the 12 percent it gained in 2Q11 with a 12 percent decline, to $441 million.

Master Call Corporation is the latest U.S. service provider to turn to the DIGITALK consumer and voice peering platform in an effort to enhance quality-based carrier routing.

Telecommunications equipment provider Huawei Technologies has extended its license with SPIRIT DSP for wideband Mobile VoIP and video calling. SPIRIT DSP is a voice and video over IP engines provider. As per the terms of the agreement, Huawei, an existing SPIRIT customer since 2007, has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine Mobile.

InfoRelay has announced its newest peering relationship with Amazon in the Los Angeles market. The addition of Amazon to the network peering arrangements is expected to aid InfoRelay in its efforts to build on current infrastructure. The company believes that this will enable it to become the nation's leading network infrastructure provider for cloud deployment initiatives.

Star2Star Communications, which develops and delivers business-focused Internet telephone systems and service, recognized Net Activity's successful track record of securing and implementing the Star2Star system over the past three years and has designated Net Activity as Master Distributor of VoIP Phone and Data Systems in Midwest. "We're thrilled to have Net Activity as a master distributor," said Joe Rhem, president of Star2Star, in a press release. "The team is exactly the kind of quality-minded people we look for."

Provider of software solutions EXTENSION has announced that it offers support for all versions of Cisco's call processing systems. Thanks to this announcement, Cisco healthcare customers - single-practice physician as well as large Integrated Delivery Networks - can take full advantage of EXTENSION's advanced clinical alerting solutions integrated with Cisco's Unified Communication platform.

IT solutions and connectivity provider InfoRelay Online Systems has expanded its Equinix data center footprint in the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, areas to accommodate a significant increase in demand for colocation and high availability data center solutions in the face of a growing cloud services market. The company's expanding footprint in Dallas is a direct result of its commitment to having the highest quality service for its customers, said Joseph Vajda, director of Network Operations at InfoRelay.

WhichVoIP has announced its elevation to the leading status in the VoIP affiliate program with the number one VoIP affiliate program in the industry. A provider of business VoIP, WhichVoIP has established beneficial partnerships with most of the prominent voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers in the U.S., from which affiliate partners can profit.

A huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in March brought down the voice-over-IP call processing supplied by TelePacific Communications to thousands of its customers. According to a recent analysis of VoIP security in NetworkWorld, this, as you might guess, prompted "a turning point for the local-exchange services provider in its thinking about security."

Level 3 Communications, a provider of IP-based communications services to enterprise, content, government and wholesale customers, announced its revised peering policy for Internet Protocol traffic exchanged within the United States. Aimed at accommodating a rapidly changing Internet, the new policy is available on Level 3's website at http://www.level3.com/Legal/IP-Traffic-Exchange-Policy.

Zayo has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange at Telx's Atlanta data center. This partnership will help Zayo continue to organically grow its 518 mile metro fiber network which today connects over 250 enterprise locations and more than 50 carrier pops, LSOs and Data Center facilities throughout the greater Atlanta area.

Voip-Pal officials have announced that the company is now ready to finish the development of two new sales channels, www.RupeeChat.com and www.RupeePhone.com. RupeeChat and RupeePhone are domain names licensed to Voip-Pal on an exclusive basis to market international VoIP telephone and cyber communications between traveling Indians and expatriates to businesses, family and friends living in India.

Expereo, a global wholesale provider of last-mile connectivity services, has joined the Telx Ethernet Exchange to expand the reach of its own Ethernet service delivery footprint in the Metro New York City region. Officials with Telx said that The Telx Ethernet Exchange provides a more efficient and simplified method of interconnecting service provider networks on a one-to-many basis.

Krush Communications has selected DIGITALK's Multiservice Platform to support all prepaid services and operations. Florida-based Krush is a provider of Homies phone cards for the Hispanic market. Over 10 years on a hosted solution, the company has grown its prepaid business. The success of its business has also made the company identify the need to take greater control of services via complete platform ownership.

Rockwell Collins has selected SRS Labs to integrate SRS WOW HD within its second generation dPAVES airline in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. Thanks to this integration, airline passengers can now enjoy high definition (HD)-quality audio for music and movies and get completely immersed in their in-flight entertainment experience, according to SRS Lab's officials.

Recent industry reports suggest that hosted VoIP services have grown and carved a niche in the U.S. telecommunications segment. The service of Comcast and other cable companies have, to an extent, helped drive the VoIP momentum in the country. Nationwide Telecom, a provider of VoIP services and technology, said it is ready to build up on future prospects on hosted VoIP and increasing demand. With VoIP technology, the company strives to help service providers deliver all the calling features at a fraction of the regular cost.

Glowpoint, Inc., a global provider of cloud managed video services, has announced that its cloud managed video business-to-business exchange services has reached nearly 450 enterprises. Officials with Glowpoint said that these companies are now connected to the company's global exchange for business-to-business (B2B) telepresence and video conferencing meetings. This makes Glowpoint the operator of the world's largest multi-vendor, global business-to-business exchange for telepresence and video conferencing.

One Source Networks (OSN), a facilities-based carrier agnostic communications solutions provider serving the Fortune 1000 enterprise market, has selected NetSapiens' VoIP service delivery platform for enterprise solutions Officials with NetSapiens also announced the successful launch of NetSapiens' SNAPsolution platform by OSN.

Session delivery networks provider Acme Packet has announced that Spanish telecommunications and data transmission carrier Jazztel has deployed Acme Packet Net-Net 4500 session border controllers (SBCs) to host IP PBX services for business customers and provide international wholesale peering services and in-country IP interconnects.

Provider of cloud-based Web and mobile acceleration technologies Cotendo has leveraged its global presence within Equinix's IBX data centers to quadruple its customer base and successfully deliver on the promise of its Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS), which boosts delivery of mobile websites and applications.

DSP Group, a global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications at home, has announced the availability of the first in a series of connected multimedia terminal reference designs based on the XpandR III system on a chip (SoC). A multimedia chipset solution, XpandR III supports high definition voice with DECT/CAT-iq 2.0, high definition video communication with Wi-Fi 11n, powerful graphic and security and more.

Level 7 Systems has announced the launch of its business communication system, claming that it will change the telecommunications of the future. Called VoIPdito, the new offering is a Web-based telephone system that companies of all sizes can tailor to their specific requirements, according to company officials. It eliminates the need to install any hardware.

Samsung has decided to pre-integrate NXP Software's LifeVibes VoiceExperience software on the Galaxy Tab Wi-Fi tablet, according to a statement recently made by NXP Software. Samsung intends to offer pre-installed Voice over IP (VoIP) applications as standard on all its tablets, starting with the Galaxy Tab Wi-Fi.

AboveNet Inc., a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has become the first carrier tenant to reside at TELEHOUSE's new, premium data center facility at 85 10th Avenue, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. Officials with TELEHOUSE said that AboveNet's expansion into the facility represents the company's on-going commitment to bringing to its customers robust carrier neutral options and reliable solutions that combine high-performance interconnectivity options.

From the outsourcing capital of Manila comes news of the NTC and Globe proposal for a local Internet exchange, "with PLDT rejecting the said proposal," according to industry journal MB.com.ph. PLDT is the Philippines' largest telecommunications company. As MB asks rather plaintively, "What is the big deal that the major telcos can't agree on this particular proposal?"

Philippine telecom industry observer Kathleen Martin recently noted that telecommunications firm Wi-tribe Telecoms has "thrown its support behind a regulator's plan of rerouting local Internet traffic through one Internet protocol (IP) exchange." Seems to be a hot topic these days from the Philippines to America.

SRS Labs, a provider of surround sound, audio and voice technologies, has won design contracts from six of the top 10 best-selling media tablets. With this achievement, SRS Labs has now become the leading provider of advanced audio and voice post processing technologies for tablet makers worldwide.

Acme Packet, a provider of session delivery network solutions, announced that Norwegian communications service provider Altibox is expanding its residential VoIP services, using Acme Packet's Net-Net 4500 Session Director (SD) session border controllers (SBCs). Altibox, a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider, offers multi-play services such as interactive TV, ultra-fast Internet and affordable fixed and mobile telephony over a single fiber cable with bandwidths ranging from 25Mbps to 800Mbps (symmetrical).

According to a recent white paper from Stealth Communications, powers of service creation are shifting to the general public. Yes, overall this is A Good Thing, but as they paper notes, it does cause a bit of confusion, as "the very definition of web, telecom and media services has become a moving target." Enter Voice Peering Fabric (VPF). As TMCnet has reported, The Voice Peering Fabric is a collection of several independent components that help service providers overcome challenges associated with legacy telephony network structures and business models. The system is especially beneficial for wholesale voice minute providers.

Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X is roaring with notable improvements and updates, including compatibility with Lion, Apple's newest desktop operating system, and HD video calling. According to a blog announcement from Skype, the newest version of Skype for Mac OS X will also work seamlessly with past versions of OS X, even all the way back to Leopard. These changes follow closely behind Skype's recently updated iOS client for iPad support.

Provider of innovative hands-free solutions Jabra has introduced its new portfolio of Skype-certified products. These products have been introduced to provide consumers in Singapore with a hands-free VoIP solution for all of life's situations in their mobile lifestyle, according to company officials.

Citrus Telecom has introduced DIGITALK's session border controller (SBC) VoIP Peering to its established DIGITALK network. With the voice peering application, Citrus expects to "rapidly" add multiple carrier groups and interconnect to terminate traffic. Company officials said that this will allow the company to offer its customers "greater service flexibility than other competing facilities management providers."

MegaPath, a provider of managed data, voice, and security services in North America, was recognized as one of the Top 10 hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers in Infonetics Research's North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Scorecard.

You can add to the list of everything that's been changing pretty radically the trading of voice termination between cities and countries. Deregulation's played a large part in that, of course, but so have "battles between wire line and wireless, monopoly or unregulated," all jousting for their share of the minutes pie, according to a good summary from The Voice Peering Fabric.

Enterprise business spending on IT and telecom services - cloud computing, wireless, wireline voice, wireline data, and business IP/VoIP - is expected to move in a positive direction in 2011, increasing by six percent over 2010, according to a new research report published by In-Stat, a market intelligence company.

A recent report titled "VoIP Peering & the Future of Telecom Network Interconnection" from Heavy Reading explores "the various functional elements of VoIP peering, identifies which elements each of the peering platform operators is addressing with their offerings, and provides insight into the future direction of this industry segment," according to report officials.

Voice communications leader Trilogy - a world class supplier of technologies for the defense and industrial sectors - will be providing a communications system for the Andøya Test Centre (ATC) located on the island of Andøya in northern Norway.

ABM Engineering, a subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated, a leading provider of integrated facility services, has been selected as facilities management service provider for California's courthouses in the southern region, now managed statewide by the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). The four-year, multi-million dollar contract expands ABM's work with California courthouses.

Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, can now enjoy the fact that it's the operator with the largest HD voice network in the world, thanks to a software upgrade from Ericsson. The software upgrade from Ericsson allows people to access the new service on compatible HD voice handsets. The strong partnership between Ericsson and Telstra has made it possible to create the largest HD voice network in the world, said Johan Wibergh, head of Business Unit Networks at Ericsson.

TMC has named Virtual PBX Complete as a 2011 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by its publication, INTERNET TELEPHONY, which provides views on the complicated converged communications space. Virtual PBX's new solution, Virtual PBX Complete, meets the needs of both its traditional and VoIP telephony customers. "The recognition demonstrates the significant impact Virtual PBX Complete innovation has had on our market," said Greg Brashier, COO at Virtual PBX.

Have you heard of The VPF ENUM Registry, made available by voice peering leader Stealth Communications? It might make sense for you, especially if you've been casting about for a way to avoid termination fees. Basically it's a multilateral voice peering service designed to let organizations send and receive calls among members directly, IP end-to-end - for no termination fee. To make it a sweeter deal, the use of the registry is free. And we mean without those "gotcha" hidden expenses; as company officials say, "there are no costs to register numbers and for querying."

interconnection and data center services in North America. Telx Internet Peering Exchange is considered a vital part of the Telx Interconnection Center family of services. With this membership, NBS offers connectivity with Telx on an advanced Internet exchange, or public peering point that allows ISPs to exchange Internet or VoIP traffic cost-effectively through a shared switch, the company said.

360networks, a wholesale provider of private line transport, Ethernet, IP, VoIP and local access services, announced that Montana Opticom will deploy its new Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) service. Leveraging the 360networks EVPL service, Montana Opticom will gain from a more scalable, cost effective and reliable connectivity alternative than traditional TDM or other connectivity solutions.

Highwinds, a provider of content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, announced the appointment of Mike Padula, Jr. as senior vice president of global sales, Content Delivery and Network Services. "Mike Padula is a welcome addition to our fast-paced and successful executive team," said Steve Liddell, president of Content Delivery and Network Services for Highwinds, in a statement.

As The Register reports, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange is rolling out Service Level Agreements "across its infrastructure - providing the guaranteed bandwidth needed if IP is going to conquer the world." Because as we all know, conquering the world is the goal. Just like Google. AMS-IX, the public peering hub, provides public peering between Internet companies. What's new is that as of 1 July, the hub "will be able to link companies together with guaranteed SLAs rather than the best-effort offerings available today."

A new report by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), an organization that represents mobile suppliers worldwide, has confirmed that operator investments in mobile HD Voice network deployments and trials are expanding across Europe and worldwide, according to reports. Mobile HD Voice uses Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband technology "standardized by 3GPP, and enables high-quality voice calls in mobile networks and an improved user experience."

If you buy or sell origination or termination for such clients as banks, carriers, government or hotels, you might be looking for a more secure, simple way to provide for them. Stealth Communication's Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) officials recently presented their platform built for mid to large size enterprises and service providers as a way to do just that. Specifically, VPF officials say that their network is a platform that connects carriers and enterprises" for the purpose of voice termination and accessing telephony applications," and for local, national and global carriers on-net.

GL Communications, a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, wireless, IP and VoIP networks, is looking to help better manage any traffic over T1 E1 lines including voice, fax and VoIP.

Inmarsat, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced multiple voice calling capability for FleetBroadband. The capability is expected to allow up to nine simultaneous voice calls through a single terminal. Inmarsat is planning to introduce the new multiple voice calling capability in the last quarter of 2011.

Taqua, a supplier of next-generation wireline and wireless switching and backhaul solutions, has introduced new high-capacity IP eXchange peering applications. The new high-capacity IP peering application provides low-cost, secure, high-capacity IP peering of voice, video, and data traffic utilizing its flagship Taqua T7000 Intelligent Switching System (T7000).

Whether your business is a hospital, law firm or call center, Stealth Communications, a voice peering leader, has enterprise VoIP network solutions for your business.

A white paper published in 2005 still serves as a useful introduction to the concept of voice peering.

Instead of forwarding calls over the public switched telephone network (PSTN), something which can rack up costs because of call charges or be plagued by poor quality, voice peering forwards calls directly to other provider networks through the use of VoIP technology. For all of the VoIP providers out there, take note, as this can be a more efficient way of delivering voice traffic.

It's interesting to take a look back from time to time over several years and see what was presented as the "new phenomenon" in technology. A few years ago, according to a white paper, the new phenomenon in the field of broadband telephony was voice peering fabric. A white paper entitled "Broadband Services, Applications, and Networks: Enabling Technologies and Business Models," presented by the International Engineering Consortium in 2004 but still widely circulated by Stealth Communications today, touches on the past and present methods of voice communications and where the new world of VoIP is heading.

Stealth Communications, a New York based company, has been committed to providing network platforms for the interconnection and peering of applications and services since 1995.

What happens with tier 1 SIP peering will play a key role in the future of HD voice, according to new research from HD Voice News, in collaboration with TMC.

In a move that will improve convenience for Sprint subscribers, Google has announced that mobile phone customers of the carrier will now be able to pay for the apps they buy in the Android Market via their monthly cellphone bill, the Google Android Developers blog said yesterday. A phased roll-out of the service has begun, and will reach all users in the next few days, according to the blog.

Viacloud, a global mobile services company that supports mobile operators through its carrier-grade mobile virtual network aggregator (MVNA) based in the United Kingdom, has recently chosen DIGITALK SBC VoIP Peering platform to carry out advanced quality-based routing for the launch of its MVNA operations in the United Kingdom.

Four weeks from today is the deadline set by the Federal Communications Commission to receive comments about how it should regulate VoIP peering.

Voice peering fabric is a new phenomenon in the field of broadband telephony. Industry experts suggest that it is important to shift toward voice peering and away from traditional methods of communication as users throughout the global marketplace are operating in an all-IP world.

Sprint and Google have recently announced that Sprint is integrating the Google Voice digital telephony protocol into its cell phone network arsenal. This announcement came shortly after the start of the Sprint Nexus S 4G rumor that began with a simple blog posting.

A recent in-depth study from Stealth Communications does a good job making the case for voice peering, to "help organizations accelerate the movement towards end-to- end IP communications."

Verscom Solutions, a developer of next generation network and service infrastructure solutions, announced it signed a contract with Samatel, the third telecom operator in Oman, to supply IP and voice peering network gears and to offer managed services and strategic consultancy services.

Voice peering company SoTel Systems has introduced its "SoTel Simple" Program to the U.S. Marketplace. The program enables small- and medium-sized businesses to receive new VoIP telephony or Unified Communications platform equipment and business telephones included when they sign a SoTel SIP connection contract.

Voice peering serves as an ideal alternative for VoIP providers to deliver voice traffic. As the demand for this alternative channel continues to grow, opportunities for innovative companies leveraging next generation technology are also growing.

Acmetel, a next-generation voice carrier operator, has announced that it has selected Digitalk as its preferred platform provider to support its international wholesale and retail services.

Floreat, provider of embedded multimedia software and services has announced the availability of FloVFoIP, an integrated software suite of host and embedded voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and fax over Internet protocol (FoIP) solutions.

Advanced American Telephones, a licensed manufacturer of AT&T-branded telephones, has recently announced the launch of added functionality to the Synapse phone system to support the launch of the Synapse T1/PRI Gateway (SB67060). The Synapse T1/PRI Gateway with the upgraded software enables the Synapse phone system to support 100 extensions and up to 39 lines with Direct Inward Dialling (DID) when paired with the SB67010 PSTN Gateway. The Synapse phone system will be catering to the needs of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs).

Officials of Clarus Systems, which sells integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) management software and services, have announced that the company achieved "a positive performance" for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010.

Voice-over-IP (VoIP), "the technology that has revolutionized voice services over the past several years and has brought calling costs down for residential and business customers alike," is spreading from the fixed-line world to the mobile world.

Don't you love those good news/bad news deals? Which do you want first as concerning a new traffic termination deal between business VoIP provider Bandwidth.com and Verizon? The good news? We thought so.

VoIP service is not necessarily new, but market information indicates that its penetration in the field will allow it to remain relevant for some time to come, especially in a consumer capacity. The figures from industry analysts Point Topic, seem to reiterate the fact service providers, businesses and consumers are using VoIP systems at an ever increasing rate.

The excitement was intoxicating as I signed in to hear and watch Skype's keynote speech at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas streaming live. How could it not be? The live chat was filled with anticipation as one viewer commented, "I've been waiting for this all week." Viewing numbers rapidly increased - 234 … 238 … 263… - and then, nothing. About ten minutes past the scheduled airing time, rumblings began via Facebook, Twitter and live chat: Skype is having difficulty with VoIP, ironic.

Internet phone services other than those provided by China Telecom and China Unicom have been made illegal, which is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country, People's Daily reports.

Telcentris, a vendor of cloud communications products, has announced the availability of its white label product, which company officials describe as "an end-to-end managed wholesale VoIP enablement platform that offers customers a complete suite of services and robust back-end infrastructure."

In a recent research report by In-Stat entitled, "U.S. Business Spending by Size of Business and Vertical, 2009-2014: Business IP Communications" indicated that application-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) spending might increase nearly 60 percent by 2014.

New research from Ami-Partners, which involves opinions from small and medium businesses, indicates that VoIP market will grow in coming years. According to the research, over 30 percent of small businesses (1 - 99 employees) and 50 percent of medium businesses (100-999 employees) say that VoIP will become critical to their business operations.

New video services that require new IP set top boxes (STB) are being added by telcos in the highly competitive pay TV services market. The growth of the IP set top market in the next few years will be strongly contributed with the addition of more HD channels and Over-the-Top or OTT video services. This information has been provided by In-Stat.

In a press release, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) along with Crossfire Media and AU24 announced that Acme Packet has been named a Platinum Sponsor for their Voice Interconnect and Peering Conference (VIPeering).

Market research firm, Infonetics Research released its third quarter report for Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers, as well as for the worldwide IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Equipment and Subscribers.

We suppose it would be fair to say VoIP has been a net plus for the telecommunications industry. As industry observer James Waldrop notes, "Consumers have used services such as Vonage and Skype to lower telephone bills and connect with loved ones around the world. Businesses have reaped far greater benefits from VoIP when they have installed IP-enabled telephone systems and hosted PBX services."

Global mobile VoIP traffic, "could be set to rise after new research shows that the international smartphone market has grown rapidly over the past 12 months."

VoIP technologies are part of enterprise communications products and services that include fixed mobile convergence (FMC), contact center, IP/TDM PBX, messaging, and conferencing and collaboration. And, enterprises are ramping up their investments in VoIP technologies, both on customer premises equipment and hosted VoIP, according to new data from ABI Research.

For companies trying to cut costs, VoIP is a viable option, and for residents, it is a phenomenal leap into the future of communications. The latest figures from industry analysts, Point Topic, seem to reiterate this fact and even service providers are finding VoIP critical for penetrating the consumer market.

Broadvox, a well-known VoIP provider, is acquiring Cypress Communications, a unified communication service provider, under a merger agreement that is expected to close within a few months.

A 27-year-old Venezuelan man convicted of stealing and reselling more than 10 million VoIP minutes has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to a report on Maximum PC.

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba) and Newroads Telecom, a provider of cost-effective IP communications products and services to small and medium-sized businesses, announced the certification of interoperability of Newroads Business SIP Trunking with Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems.

Progressive innovation within the telecommunications industry relies on active trends. Those companies who are able to anticipate and embrace these trends tend to enjoy the most success. The most significant trend in this space today is the change in regulations, according to Aelea Christofferson, President of ATL. Christofferson recently participated in a TMCnet interview in anticipation of the upcoming ITEXPO West 2010 event. When asked about the one product or service needed most in the market, Christofferson pointed to hosted and outsourced options as the economy continues to struggle.

The report states that in spite of a reduction in capital expenditures by North American and European service providers, the Service Provider Router demand market has shown a tendency to increase at a very rapid rate.

Officials with Sonus Networks said that the Sonus NBS-9000 Network Border Switch supports a hybrid configuration, which serves both TDM-to-IP and IP-to-IP traffic through a common platform.

People placed more than a million calls with Google's new phone service in its first day of operation, according to a news report this week. The Vancouver Sun reported the quality of the calls is similar to Skype and other voice-over-Internet services.

Voice Peering Fabric, VPF, seeks partners who have or are developing technologies and services that perform or assist in the interconnection of telephony networks.

Voice Peering Fabric, VPF, seeks partners who have or are developing technologies and services that perform or assist in the interconnection of telephony networks.

Enterprises can harness the reach and reliability of the NTT Com Global Tier-1 IP Network to deploy VLink for connecting to three or more 'Point of Presence' or 'PoP' locations in the United States. The solution is also helpful for them in integrating their L2VPN and Internet access, which might be IPv4 or dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, on the same physical port. It cuts down the number of required ports and connections.

As a new member of the Atlanta communications processor family, Atlanta 1000 delivers up to two channels of carrier-grade Voice-over-IP "VoIP" and wire-speed data throughput over IEEE 802.11n WiFi, according to a press release.

Also, the company is offering exclusive savings for the new VoIP solutions. These solutions are custom tailored to meet the demands and needs of small business.

Faced with various cost cutting measures, businesses are increasingly opting for internet-based, or cloud, services. As SIP trunking is increasingly proving the preferred means to connectivity, many companies are taking their SIP network to the clouds.

The new solutions enable system OEMs to develop advanced routers based on Broadcom wireless silicon integration technology and their proven VoIP software suite, company officials said.

Rumors are that the new feature will allow users to make voice calls over the Internet and it may go beyond Gmail. In April, TechCrunch reported that Google "built a Google Voice desktop application to make and receive calls." That application is being tested internally and it was built using technology from Gizmo5, a VoIP service acquired by Google last year.

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast focuses primarily on two user groups the consumers and businesses; it was developed as a yearly study for estimating the global IP traffic growth and trends. The forecasts, inputs and methodology are first validated by Cisco with the data provided by service providers established all around the world.

VPF officials say it can also match business growth with cost-effective options and flexible scalability: "Connecting one location or connecting a nation-wide chain, VPF assists you grow your network as you grow your business." Growing a business without paying as careful attention to growing the network is, we'd all agree, rather foolhardy.

Unified communications maintains its position at the top of the Heat Index of data voice and video networking infrastructure solutions, with 25 percent of large and midsize enterprises indicating that they expect to boost the use of email, unified messaging, audio conferencing and instant messaging as a part of their UC strategies this year.

With remarkably excellent - if accidental - timing in view of both the Icelanic volcano eruptions and the likewise disruptive and costly Greek economic crisis, Frost and Sullivan predicts that the European videoconferencing endpoints markets will reach over $1.03 billion by 2015 from $383.6 million in 2009: an 18 percent compound annual growth rate. The report, "European Videoconferencing Endpoints Market" covers group systems and executive desktop systems videophones in both HD/SD modes.

The suite also contains an after-hours solution and a telepresence/teleconference capability to serve as an alternate means for conducting business in case the traditional methods fail to work.

In the long term, visual collaboration endpoints are expected to fare well. The analysis report finds. Also, there may be a change in the product format by which immersive telepresence is delivered, but the overall demand for its unique features and benefits will continue to grow.

Apparently, divesting the ownership of the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol "TIP" was a condition of Cisco's $3.3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, the Norwegian videoconferencing company.

Telepresence provides "being there" video so detailed and real, capturing all the vital visual nuances in interpersonal communications that make it a strong substitute for travel that you can imagine smelling the others' aftershave or cologne.

Here's the short answer - the VPF ENUM Registry is a multilateral peering service that allows organizations to send and receive calls among members directly, IP end-to-end, for no termination fee.

Twenty five Polycom HD video systems spanning Atlanta, India, Indiana, London and Paris, have now displayed active network logs an upwards of 300 calls per month, thanks to the upgrade.

Acme Packet, a major player in session border control solutions, has reached two significant milestones with the acquisition of its 1,000th end customer and shipment of its 10,000th Net-Net session border controller "SBC."

For 2010, Frost & Sullivan expects a growth of 64.4 percent, with revenues of just over $73.0 million by year-end with weaker growth expected thereafter. Also, revenues for ready-built telepresence suites in Asia-Pacific were estimated to have grown 71.1 percent in 2009 - up from 46.6 percent in 2008, according to the research.

Voice peering products, such as the ones offered as part of Voice Peering Fabric, are network platforms connecting carriers and enterprises for the purpose of voice termination and accessing telephony applications. They usually offer a wide range of local, national and global carriers on-net, so companies can select the type of service to fit their business operations.

The Exchange Review researched and surveyed the top exchange providers and managed service providers that are providing both wholesale and retail exchange services.

HD voice makes just about every voice application better, but the biggest winner - and where companies are pushing the upgrade from narrowband - is in conferencing.

Officials with VeriSign said that the six-month pilot will build upon the set of operating rules created by the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange, or "CORE."

Business wideband is used almost exclusively for in-house calls, Stanford says, since businesses still mainly use PSTN trunks, "and even when they use VoIP trunks the trunking provider rarely supports wideband. And even if the trunking provider supports wideband, the chances are slim that at the remote end of the call the trunking provider, the PBX, and the phone, all support wideband."

Weinstein said that the addition of iPhone support to the GIPS stable of products allows solution providers and mobile carriers to provide videoconferencing, including one-way video and two-way synchronized audio, to an even larger audience.

"With demand for Unified Communications and desktop video conferencing on the rise, video quality issues such as delay and freezing must be addressed in order for users to effectively connect and collaborate," said Joyce Kim, Chief Marketing Officer at GIPS.

"People thought Jimmy Stewart was crazy when he talked to his imaginary six-foot rabbit friend, Harvey," says ABI Research vice president Stan Schatt. "Now hundreds of senior executives are talking to virtual friends around the globe and no one is laughing anymore."

In early February, you get the chance to visit wild, wonderful Austin, Texas to attend the Council for Electronic Billing and Payment's Winter Meeting.

A whitepaper from Stealth Communications, "Connect With Trading Partners Globally Using Voice Peering to Reduce Time to Market and Risk,"offers service providers insight into how The Voice Peering Fabric or "VPF" can help speed time to market, interconnect cost-effectively, peer next-generation applications, enhance the customer experience and tap into the VPF community.

Through the voice electronic marketplace, telephony-related services can be exchanged between service providers and enterprises while avoiding the public Internet and any un-necessary delays and relays.

The VPF is a Layer-2 Ethernet peering fabric built and operated specifically for VoIP networks. It is located in a core interconnection facility and offers a particular value to today’s marketplace as it can reach more metro, domestic and international long-haul routes.

"As more companies adopt VoIP and migrate away from traditional TDM voice services, there is a definite need for affordable, scalable technologies to securely exchange voice traffic," Dan Dooley, president of Sprint Wholesale Solutions said.

According to company officials, as their partner community grows, this new network will offer a cost-effective alternative for those companies looking to lower long distance fees.

A white paper, "Enhancing VoIP with Voice Peering," by Jinci Liu, co-founder and Managing Director of Stealth Communications, explains the value of voice peering through the VPF and looks at various methods of voice peering.

In a bid to take advantage of the fast growing VPF ENUM Registry, XO Communications, Inc. has announced it is now interconnected with Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric, or "VPF".

Voice Peering may be the wave of the future. According to market research firm Infonetics Research in its second quarter Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast report, worldwide service provider Voice over IP equipment revenue totaled $598 million in Q2 09.

Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric allows VoIP peering interconnect where one provider plugs into one city location and another carrier to plug into another location in another city with the VPF providing the link connecting the two cities.

In this economy, businesses need to save money and can't afford disruptions in communications, which is why voice peering can be beneficial. Using voice peering to deliver voice data is an efficient and cost-effective way to ensure that corporate communications never falter.

A national study of U.S. broadband consumers by RVA LLC Market Research and Consulting suggests home buyers are more inclined to buy homes that have high-speed broadband internet services carried on fiber all the way to the home.

For isolated locations, satellite or fixed wireless might be the only feasible method. For many other locations, such as homes located more than 2.5 miles away from a remote terminal, but less than 10 miles distant, terrestrial wireless is likely to make financial sense, though wired facilities are possible if a provider has the stomach for investing $4,000 a home.

A new survey by Forrester Research states that updating important legacy applications is the top software initiative for companies this year. The company surveyed more than 2,200 IT executives and technology decision makers in North America and Europe for this report.

The International Nortel Networks Users Association (INNUA), an user-driven association serving Nortel users worldwide, recently unveiled the results of its annual survey of 500+ Nortel customers spread globally, and these highlight the vital link between business importance and user satisfaction that the majority of customers are realizing with Unified Communications (UC) deployments.

If you ask your average IT professional what a T span is, the usual response will be that it is a 1.5MB connection to the internet. Ask your average telecom tech what a T span is and you will be told it is 24 channels of dial tone! As a VoIP Engineer what a T span is and you should get the answer: "what do you want it to be"?

FreedomVOICE, the creators of the FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX, has released a review of the Cisco WIP310 Wireless-G VoIP phone. Known as the FreedomIQ, this segment is the first in a series of video reviews surrounding VoIP-related products.

A recent research study report by T3i Group entitled "InfoTrack for Unified Communications: The Business Value of UC" indicated that nearly half of business executives plan to spend less on Unified Communications (UC) this year. On the other hand, it is predicted that the percentage of enterprises (businesses with 500 or more employees) reporting end result gains from deploying UC technology will rise considerably.

At our sister publication, INTERNET TELEPHONY, VoIP Peering columnist Hunter Newby makes a further between VoIP Peering and Voice Peering: "VoIP Peering is where a call originates as IP, is transported as IP, and terminates as IP. Voice Peering is where a call either originates as TDM, terminates as TDM, or both, but is converted to IP in between for transport (provisioning) purposes. Since true IP-to-IP calls are, in the big picture of total calls, few in number these days, it is a popular belief that most peered calls are actually voice peered. This assumption will change over time, of course."

Do not even think for one second that VoIP Peering, or any of its various dimensions, are napping - and XConnect is the proof. In their latest announcement XConnect has laid down the VoIP Peering Law. For a quick recap here are the highlights...

Larger service providers have had questions about VoIP peering federations for reasons having little to do with interconnection and exchanging traffic. Large carriers participate in an elaborate and extensive set of business relationships that provide real financial benefit, and they aren't anxious to opt out of those programs. So the ability to interconnect and exchange traffic through a " peering" federation has been relatively unattractive if it requires a change of business logic.

Forrester Research says nearly one in eight households, or about 13 percent now have gone "mobile only." The National Health Interview Survey says16 percent of U.S. adults were mobile-only at home, growing every six months.

I doubt this is the year, in fact neither is the next, the year that mobile VoIP is deemed to be a wireless version of "Carterfone," the seminal decision that lead to a consumer right to own and attach their own phones and modems to the public network. But those wheels seem to be in motion.

In a recent white paper from Tekelec, this paper looks at how new, innovative SMS solutions can be used to optimize the current legacy SMSC network.

VeriSign Enterprise Security Services announced the availability of its Web application Firewall Management Service which will be enabled by a strategic agreement with Imperva, specializing in application and database security technology.

Though its supporters will not like the analogy, there are so many questions, and so little time to make firm decisions, that the "broadband stimulus" programs will wind up being uncomfortably like the "stimulus bill" in general: "vote before you've read it." The perfect should not be the enemy of the good, but there are too many public policy issues here to be adequately and reflectively addressed in the time that remains before June, when the first round of funds must be awarded: not "applied for," but awarded.

Being able to connect to the Internet, for some, is an important factor in terms of staying connected with worlds far away as well as their local communities. DragonWave, a global supplier of high-capacity, wireless native Ethernet backhaul solutions for mobile and access networks, has announced that the South Georgia Regional Information Technology Authority (SGRITA) has deployed DragonWave's Horizon Compact radios in a broadband network throughout Baker, Calhoun, Early, Miller and Mitchell counties in South Georgia.

According to SecurityManagment.com, "following a request from Italian legal authorities, a European Union (E.U.) crime fighting body is considering ways to investigate eavesdropping on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Skype."

Another reason cited for the slower growth of the market is that existing business VoIP users still have plenty of legacy TDM voice solutions in place and are likely to choose solutions involving less up-front costs, or rock-solid financials rather than redrafting further deployment strategies, the report said.

In any business, large or small, there is one mantra that gets chanted over and over anytime the economy goes even a little weak: cut costs. Of course when the economy completely tanks and ordinary citizens start wondering if they should keep their money in their mattresses instead of the major banks, the mantra does seem to get noticeably louder.

It is very encouraging to see that even in the current disaster of the global economic meltdown voice peering businesses can find funding. This says volumes about voice peering in general and that the benefits are clear to those within and around the business as well as the venture capital community. It also says a lot about one company that got funded, IntelePeer.

IP telephony (Internet Protocol telephony) is a term for Internet Protocol's packet-switched connections to exchange voice, fax, and other forms of information that have traditionally been carried over dedicated circuit-switched connections of public switched telephone network (PSTN). The service uses the Internet to manage calls as they travel as packets of data on shared lines, avoiding the tolls of PSTN.

Aside from the obvious relationship there is an apparent not-so-obvious distinction that needs to be made. Internet Protocol is NOT the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol is NOT Voice over the Internet. Voice over the Internet is also referred to as Internet Telephony although even those two applications of voice have their differences as well and should not be used interchangeably.

I've been using YouTube as a way to disseminate information via video for a couple of years now and I just crossed a milestones of sorts. Recently an interview from the June 2008 Voice Peering Forum in San Francisco with me, Rich Tehrani and Gary Kim was posted and it has been recognized by YouTube.

Officials at 800 PBX – a provider of virtual PBX and IVR solutions – starting today are offering a new free service, "SantaCalls."

An IP communications infrastructure has announced that it has been selected by Belgacom International Carrier Services (ICS), the ninth largest wholesale voice carrier, to transform its network with next generation IP technology.

Stealth Communications, a partner of Acme Packet, a session border control solutions, has announced that Acme Packet will demonstrate a series of live solutions presented at an industry event.

Voxbone, a provider of local telephone numbers to communications services providers and businesses worldwide, has introduced iNum— one global telephone number that enables anyone to establish a local presence anywhere in the world.

In the long migration to VoIP, network operators and service providers have discovered the need to efficiently and securely (not to mention inexpensively) exchange traffic in a native IP format without having it dive in and out of the PSTN. This is where VoIP Peering comes in, a general term describing service solutions that can connect carriers or, in another form, enterprise and consumer customers.

It's often the case that, when new technologies or systems emerge, early adopters get on board for one of two reasons: the "coolness" factor, or to save money. This trend seems to be playing out in the voice peering marketplace.

A significant change is sweeping through the telecommunications industry. It is no longer the honchos of the telecom industry that are calling the shots; instead, the power of service creation is gradually shifting towards the general public.

The Voice Peering Fabric, run by Stealth Communications, now offers what it calls "functional separation" — making exchange services available using the public Internet.

Stealth Communications, a provider of voice peering solutions for next generation networks, is gearing up for its Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008 event.

Imagine that your corporate Ethernet LAN (Local-Area Network) and any other Fortune 500 company LAN can connect via a Voice Peering Fabric (www.thevpf.com), a service of Stealth Communications. Calls from any LAN business or otherwise can be routed through the VPF and then to your LAN and to your desk.

Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) pulls together a network of members and partners who pool their resources to address challenges and provide solutions to clients.

Voice peering offers an automated method of interconnecting networks and applications without ever leaving the IP domain.

Voice peering and other peer-to-peer arrangements are an important part of streamlining interconnections.

Making the business case for voice peering is getting easier as the advantages of this approach become increasingly apparent.

The VPF is on to its fourth year of life as of October 2007 and this most recent Forum was its first as a four-year-old.

Voice peering solutions company Stealth Communications is gearing up for its third annual Voice Peering Forum.

VoIP service providers are finding that the challenges associated with cost-effective routing of voice traffic are best overcome by using voice peering. The Voice Peering Fabric, run by Stealth Communications, is one of the best-known examples of such a system.

Stealth Communications said its annualized run-rate for its Voice Peering Fabric service reached more then 200 billion minutes on August 2, up from 100 billion minutes in October, 2006.

Stealth Communications, a company that specializes in voice peering solutions, recently announced that it won a 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine.

Voice peering company Stealth Communications recently rolled out a new set of features for its Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) service.

Voice peering eliminates the involvement of PSTN and multiple unnecessary IP-to-TDM and TDM-to- IP conversions.

Voice Peering Fabric is a Layer-2 Ethernet peering fabric built and operated specifically for VoIP networks.