For example, Bandwidth.com launched its SIP Trunking VoIP product. Bandwidth.com’s SIP Trunking product is designed to eliminate the need for additional hardware to convert TDM traffic to VoIP, providing a simple end-to-end SIP VoIP connection to their network of carrier gateways. The product’s unique selling point is that businesses can oversubscribe each VoIP trunk, enabling them to purchase trunks only for the number of concurrent calls they support, rather than buying one for each individual employee. Bandwidth.com has chosen to entice customers by offering the product with unlimited incoming and local calls and very competitive long-distance rates, for under $.02 cents per minute.

CommuniGate Systems announced a new customer: Versature has chosen the CommuniGate Pro platform as the foundation for its managed IP PBX (News - Alert) offering for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Versature, an established service provider of businessclass VoIP, initially developed a premise-based system, which proved to be complex and time-consuming. The system also prevented Versature from standardizing its offering to generate value-added revenue for enhanced services. Versature was in the market for a scalable solution to enable the move to a scalable, fully hosted, and virtualized PBX model.

After evaluating multiple solutions, Versature selected CommuniGate Pro, which enables them to offer services beyond SIP-based VoIP, such as e-mail, instant messaging, and collaboration packages. Deploying the CommuniGate product has enabled Versature to offer their customers voicemail and auto-attendant, self-service, Web mail access to voicemail, multiparty conference calling, and secure instant messaging.

Victor, NY-based REDCOM introduced the REDCOM TRANSip call controller at their annual government users meeting. TRANSip provides flexible voice and network capabilities across both VoIP and legacy TDM networks and provides network operators and users with integrated call management, gateways, and controller services and multiple other communications-related features.

AVST made news in August with new SIP integrations for its CallXpress unified communications platform. The company announced they were expanding CallXpress’ compatibility by focusing on SIP, with plans to provide additional SIP integrations with other communications products, including Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Live Communications Server.

Oh and one last piece of news from the “slow news month:” We’ve recently hired Richard “Zippy” Grigonis as Executive Editor of SIP Magazine. Richard will be taking over the reins beginning with the November issue of this bi-monthly publication, thus freeing me up to devote more time and energy to our Web resource TMCnet. It’s been an honor and a privilege serving as the founding editor of this magazine. I am confident that under Richard’s leadership, SIP magazine will continue to deliver news and analysis of this exciting market space, and will continue to be viewed as the #1 resource serving the SIP community.

Greg Galitizine