Source: www.voip-news.com

Verizon Business is paving the way for an easier transition to enterprise VoIP in Europe. The company says that the move will help European companies reduce their operating costs and make their network management simpler.

“Verizon Business is staying a step ahead of its competitors with its sharp focus on global enterprises voice and IP Telephony requirements, particularly in the area of SIP Trunking,” said Dustin Kehoe, principal analyst at Current Analysis. “Verizon Business has the largest IP Trunking deployment in Europe with availability across eight countries. The latest offer is multisite IP Trunking, which allows enterprises to use a centralized PBX that can support locations in multiple countries and allows them to eliminate premises gateways at remote locations.”

There is a new centralized model of Verizon IP Trunking, their premier business service. IP Trunking lets customers implement a central IP PBX hub in one location and extend their VoIP services to other sites across country lines. The centralized model allows the companies to have their VoIP service work in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the UK.

“Many European enterprises are looking to tackle the time-consuming and costly challenges of managing their voice services across Europe, and the centralized multisite, multicountry design of Verizon IP Trunking can help accomplish that,” said Rebecca Carr, vice president of global enterprise marketing, Verizon Business. “Benefits are maximized and network complexity is reduced — therefore freeing up valuable time for the enterprise to focus on its own business goals.”

Additionally,  Verizon Business has certified three additional IP PBX equipment platforms. Here’s the detes:

– Avaya Communication Manager 5.1, the company’s flagship IP Telephony
software platform.
– Avaya Communication Manager Branch, a centrally managed, session
initiation protocol (SIP)-based virtual workplace communications
solution that easily scales to meet the needs of large enterprises
with distributed sites.
– Cisco Unified Communications 520 System, an affordable, easy-to-manage
communications solution for smaller businesses, in addition to support
for Cisco Unified Communications Manager for medium to large
enterprises.

Source: www.voip-news.com

RoamAnywhere Mobility Router is now available in Europe. Agito Networks, the company behind RoamAnywhere, says that their solution lets companies cut back on telephony expenses by bringing the capabilities of VoIP over WLAN to mobile phones.

“In a lot of enterprises, people are using their mobile phone as their primary phone, instead of their deskphone,” said Gaetan Claeys, Business Development Manager Mobility at Dimension Data. “Many companies today are thinking of using dual mode phones and are looking for a solution such as Agito to reduce and better control cellular charges and roaming charges, save money by not having to buy deskphones for some users, and improve reachability of users. Agito’s solution will help our customers better control and reduce their cellular charges while offering to end users enterprise-class features on their mobile device. As a network integrator with strong expertise in both wireless technology and unified communications, we are now uniquely positioned in the market to provide our customers with complete enterprise mobile telephony solutions.”

According to the company:

Agito offers the broadest handset and PBX support of any solution in the space, including European support for Alcatel and Shortel PBXs in addition to existing support for Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft, Nortel and Asterisk IP-PBXs. It has qualified support for more than 35 different types of handsets from Nokia and those running Windows Mobile 6 Standard and Professional operating systems. Unlike other eFMC solutions that require enterprises to tamper with their enterprise route plans and desk phones during deployment, Agito, with its line-side capabilities, integrates seamlessly into existing customer networks, requiring no changes to the ecosystem.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Voice Over IP Weblog reports that Fring and Boingo are teaming up. But why? What’s the benefit? Read it here.

Sipcall’s new Hipsip lets you make free VoIP calls from any mobile phone. Pretty nifty. Read about it on the UK’s VoIP-News.

SIPVicious is doing some more blogging from Blackhat Europe. Read it here.

Source: www.voip-news.com

There’s a great article about VoIP statistics and Europe over at TeleGeography. It seems as those VoIP is really exploding in the European markets, with traditional telephone providers and new companies all vying for a piece of the pie.

Here’s a snippet:

Consumer VoIP subscriber growth continues to soar in Western Europe, reaching 21.7 million at mid-year 2007, up from 15.6 million only six months earlier. TeleGeography estimates that the ranks of European VoIP subscribers had grown to 28.9 million by year-end 2007.

While VoIP is often associated with competitive carriers and cable companies, many European incumbents have counter attacked by launching their own VoIP services, often with great success. France Telecom has emerged as by far the largest consumer VoIP provider in Europe, while BT, Telecom Italia, and KPN all rank among the top ten European VoIP operators.

Read more here.

Source: voipcentral.org

In its IP Telephony report, Point Topic claims that there are about 24 million people pay to access retail VoIP services. It is mainly due to cheap VoIP offerings by the service providers.

The IP Telephony report says the number of retail VoIP subscribers increased by 80 percent to 18.7 million during 2005. Obliviously, the figure does exclude users who make PC to phone calls using Skype.

Highlights of the report

Maximum number of VoIP users is from the Asia-Pacific region, however fastest growth takes place in Europe and the USA.

The number of VoIP subscribers in Europe has increased three times to touch 5.3 million mark last year.

In Europe, France has the highest VoIP adoption. It has now more than 2.8 million paying subscribers.

BTs VoIP package could not get expected number of subscribers last year but is picking up in early 2006.

In USA, VoIP is popular because of the marketing strategy. In terms of Point Topic, VoIP is described in simple terms customers understand such as digital telephone.

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Source: voipcentral.org

To provide better VoIP services to the customers and commercial set ups, the leading telecommunication company AT&T has expanded its Network Integration Services in Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan.

The globalization and free market forces are compelling the companies to expand their networking. So that the companies can meet the demand of the customers and will able to create a special reorganization in the global market. Perhaps this is the basic objective behind the AT&T major expansion of its networking. The networking services of AT&T will help industries to solve communication related problems.

Mark Keiffer, the chief marketing officer-business at AT&T Operations commented,

This past year has seen impressive growth in the networking market as well as a strong need for these types of services.

With expanded networking in the major regions of the world, AT&T will able to provide cost effective services to its customers.

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