Event Sponsors

Aculab

Aculab offers developers and service providers a wide range of hardware and software building blocks for integration into high performance communications solutions – such as fax, conferencing, contact centers and military applications.

Products include Prosody media processing platforms – available for TDM, IP and converged environments. Prosody’s capabilities include rich media processing resources, VoIP protocols and voice codecs, which meet the demands for increased security and resilience supporting a number of VoIP security standards, like Secure RTP and SIPS. DSP-based media processing platforms are available in PCI, PCIe, and cPCI formats, with optional E1/T1 digital network access encompassing SIP, H.323 and SS7. Host-based media processing software is available in a flexible and cost-effective format.

Aculab also offers GroomerII – a cost-effective solution for inter-exchange and VoIP access carriers where a media and signalling gateway with intelligent call routing between SS7 and SIP-based IP networks is required. 1U and 6U rackmount configurations offer telco grade features with SNMP, RAID and N+1 redundant power supplies ensuring essential, high availability operation.

Support is available to help developers through each stage of their product’s lifecycle, including pre-sales consultancy, technical support, training and co-marketing providing the essential mix of capabilities to meet the changing needs of the converged communications market.

Digium

Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first Open Source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium’s PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.

Digium solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP implementations through open source, standards-based software and innovative hardware solutions, including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, and next generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium hardware supports traditional voice and data protocols, and packet protocols such as IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk eXchange), and SIP VoIP.

Digium provides a highly refined selection of quality hardware and software products, developed and implemented using innovative engineering techniques (primarily open source development). A full range of professional services complement these product lines, including consulting, technical support, and customer software development services. The open source communications revolution is here, and Digium is leading the way.

8x8, Inc. Corp.

8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) offers voice and video Internet-based telephony services for business and residential customers. Marketed under the Packet8® brand name, these hosted communications solutions - Virtual Office iPBX, Complete Contact Center, Virtual Trunking and Hosted Key System - enhance the value and functionality of existing broadband Internet connections by delivering advanced features and digital quality phone service at a fraction of the cost of legacy, copper wire alternatives.

The Packet8 Virtual Office® service, currently in use by over 12,000 companies, eliminates the need for traditional business phone systems by delivering all telephony services over managed or unmanaged Internet connections. This affordable, easy-to-use alternative to traditional PBX systems or Centrex class services allows high-speed Internet users anywhere in the world to be part of a virtual PBX that includes automated attendants, conference bridges, extension-to-extension dialing and ring groups, in addition to a rich variety of other business class features normally found on dedicated PBX equipment. The Packet8 Complete Contact Center is a multimedia distribution and management platform that works with any broadband Internet service and provides enterprise class contact center functionality combined with Virtual Office hosted iPBX calling features and Packet8's cost efficient business VoIP calling plans. Packet8 Virtual Trunking services deliver a broadband agnostic IP trunking solution that allows businesses to benefit from the flexibility and cost efficiencies of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), while retaining their existing phones and phone system hardware and optimizing the use of their existing connectivity to the Internet. The Packet8 Hosted Key System solution provides businesses accustomed to shared line appearance functionality with an opportunity to migrate to VoIP without altering the features and user behavior they have traditionally relied upon.

8x8 also offers residential, video and mobile digital phone services. For additional company information, visit 8x8's web site at www.8x8.com. For information about Packet8 products and services, visit www.packet8.net.

ABP Technology

ABP Technology is a Dallas, TX based, value-added distributor of IP Communications products and services marketed throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. The ABP portfolio includes VoIP phones and IP-PBXs, IP cameras, IP peripherals, Mobility solutions with WiFi, DECT and Dual mode technology, engineering consultation services, technical support, IP training, provisioning and configuration services. ABP sells and supports proven Interoperable IP products based on Open Standards offering connectivity, security and mobility at optimal TCO with ease of deployment and high functionality. ABP's clients include channel partners, specialized VARs, Service Providers, government entities and educational institutions.

Allworx Corp.

Allworx, a wholly owned subsidiary of PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET), is redefining SMB communications with a family of award-winning phone and network systems for small-to-medium sized businesses distributed through a network of Authorized Resellers. The product line includes the Allworx 6x and 24x systems and Allworx 9100 and 9200 series of phones along with a complete package of software options. By combining the advanced features of today's VoIP systems with the critical system features SMBs have grown to rely on, Allworx systems are ideal replacements for the millions of aging TDM PBX and key phone systems in use today. Allworx' Consulting Division delivers elite software and digital hardware engineering services to both large and small companies seeking to enhance and compliment their research and product development capabilities. For more information please visit www.allworx.com.

AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC) provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, network equipment providers and system integrators. AudioCodes offers its customers and partners a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies, based on VoIPerfect™ – AudioCodes’ underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture. The company is a market leader in voice compression technology and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. AudioCodes’ international headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel, with U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.

Interactive Intelligence

Interactive Intelligence Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of unified business communications solutions for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and enterprise messaging. In 1997 the company released the first “all-in-one” communications software suite offering single-platform architecture with inherent multi-channel processing minus the cost and complexity introduced by multi-point vendors. Interactive Intelligence is a leader in the adoption of voice over IP with its release in 2002 of the first converged communications application software suite to fully incorporate the session initiation protocol (SIP). Interactive Intelligence has combined this innovation with breadth of experience, today offering its more than 3,000 global customers a comprehensive solution-set comprised of premise-based and hosted offerings, including software, hardware, consulting, support, education and implementation. The company’s long-term success is backed by hundreds of industry accolades, including Software Magazine’s top 500 global software and services suppliers, NetworkWorld’s top 200 North American networking vendors, BusinessWeek’s top 50 hot growth companies, and FORTUNE Small Business Magazine’s top 100 fastest growing companies. Interactive Intelligence was founded in 1994 and employs approximately 600 people. It’s headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and has six global corporate offices with additional sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft® Response PointTM is advanced phone system software designed especially for small businesses that have 1 to 50 employees. The user-friendly management center empowers an average computer user to set up a phone or make system changes in minutes. The unique voice-enabled user interface instantly connects employees and customers with the people or information they need. With the entire system in one affordable package and support for both traditional phone service and VoIP, Response Point phone systems are easy to manage, easy to use, and a great choice for any small business.

Trade & Economic Development Ministry of Ontario

Ontario is Canada's high technology heartland - home to 6,000 software, hardware, and service firms. A delegation of up to eight leading internet telephony companies will exhibit at the Ontario-Canada pavilion in a visit coordinated by the Consulate General of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please contact Mauricio Ospina, Area Director USA - ICT sector, at 416-325 6151, or mauricio.ospina@ontario.ca

Cylogistics is a specialty distributor feauring VoIP products from Ring Carrier, Lan Power & TrueBill.

Ring Carrier is a complete integrated hosted solution for LECs, CLECs, & ITSPs. It allows you to scale from 1 user to millions. It supports a Provider, Enterprise and end-User interface.

LAN Power Systems invents Power over Ethernet Products that are feature-built for modern Networks. LAN Power Products exceed today’s PoE specifications and your expectations.

TrueBill is an IP billking system that includes VoIP billing. It is a very comprehensive package with a very easy to use interface. It supports PrePaid, Post Paid, Wholesale, Agents, Taxes and much more.

NetSapiens simplifies the delivery of IP voice and multimedia business communication services by providing turnkey solutions. NetSapiens’ SNAPsolution™ integrates applications software, hardware, and services that enable competitive providers to quickly deploy services for increased revenue. These applications range from pre-paid calling, Hosted PBX, to unified messaging, conferencing, and call center solutions.

Quintum Technologies, Inc.

Quintum Technologies, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., manufactures Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switches and Gateways which support analog and digital communications in enterprise and service provider networks, offering H.323 and SIP-based support for IP telephony migration, legacy VoIP enablement, multi-office VoIP, survivable branch office, Hosted IP PBX, SIP trunking, and unified communications applications.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: NWK), headquartered in Fremont, CA, has provided voice and data communications equipment for enterprise and government multi-service networks requiring high performance and reliability. NET’s VX Series is a line of feature rich, high performance VoIP switching gateways. The VX offers VoIP solutions designed to support the integration of unified communications into the existing Voice TDM and VoIP network environments. Supporting robust security features, high call processing rates, and active directory, the VX can support the most demanding UC deployments.

Both Quintum and NET are Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Quintum is a Nortel Developer Partner and an Avaya DeveloperConnection Partner, and NET is an HP Business Partner.

Sangoma Technologies Corp.

Sangoma is a premium provider of PC-based telephony hardware and software products for proprietary and open-source-based networking and telephony solutions.

Sangoma's telephony and data hardware empower your PC to deliver superior auditory quality when communicating with public telephone networks.

With Sangoma, you're not limited by your choice of application: Asterisk®, FreeSwitch™, CallWeaver™, Yate™. Incorporate our hardware into a high-quality, cost-effective PBX or simply route data. Sangoma – unparalleled price and performance. Visit Booth 519 to find out how to incorporate Sangoma into your solution.

Smart Network Solutions

TelcoBridges

TelcoBridges provides the best technologies telecom solution developers can use to realize their bright ideas in order to create a clear future.

Our customers are telecom solution developers building carrier-grade VoIP or TDM solutions for the media gateway, switching and value-added services markets.

By supplying the industry’s most pioneering hardware and software products, TelcoBridges is on its way to become the preferred supplier of telecom platforms. Founded in 2002, TelcoBridges and its customers have deployed systems in more than 35 countries for some of the world’s largest telecom operators.

TELES Communication Systems

TELES USA, a division of NWBD, offers next-generation networking (NGN) solutions from TELES. Core elements, such as IP-TDM solutions, have a modular architecture which can be combined with TELES’ access gateways, consisting of business IADs, VoIP gateways and mobile gateways, to enable flexible, carrier-grade NGN applications for your business.