Source: www.voip-news.com

Dialogic Brooktrout SR 140 Fax Software has been certified as interoperable with Global Crossing’s SIP Trunking service. The fax over IP software can integrate fax servers and document management solutions into VoIP networks.

According to Dialogic:

The SR140 can be deployed in SIP, H.323, and MGCP
environments and provides native SIP and H.323 support. It has been
successfully tested for interoperability with IP-PBX and VoIP gateways
from leading vendors, and is suitable for a variety of network-based
fax applications that enable integration with document management and
business process automation systems to support compliance with
regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel II. Dialogic
products give the enterprise customer the flexibility to deploy FoIP in
the IP environment of their choice, based on their individual needs.

“The Global Crossing Certification is a testament to Dialogic’s ongoing efforts to provide interoperability with industry-leading gateways, IP-PBXs, and SIP trunking providers,” said Jim Machi, senior vice president of marketing at Dialogic. “Our products give the enterprise customer the flexibility to deploy FoIP in the IP environment of their choice, based on their individual needs.”

Source: www.voip-news.com

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 can now have access to Global Crossing’s SIP Trunking solutions. Global Crossings is among the first SIP Trunking providers to qualify for use with the server.

“By extending Global Crossing’s SIP Trunking offering to Microsoft’s unified communications systems, we are helping expedite the adoption of VoIP services for global enterprise customers,” said Dave Carey, chief marketing officer with Global Crossing. “Our Global IP solutions help exceed our clients’ need for cost-effective and efficient communications tools for the 21st century.”

According to Global Crossing:

SIP Trunking is the de facto interconnection standard for VoIP calling applications, serving as an alternative to circuit-based fixed lines on the public switched telephone network (PSTN). SIP Trunking can offer enterprise customers significant cost-savings from the elimination of gateways, costly ISDN facilities, and the maximization of bandwidth utilization in a converged IP environment.

“The combination of Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 and Global Crossing’s suite of SIP Trunking solutions provide a powerful new way for people to collaborate and offers customers a rich and integrated communications experience,” said Eric Swift, senior director of the Microsoft Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Corp. “Global Crossing is adding significant value to enterprise communications and enabling businesses to better connect people, information and business processes.”

Source: www.voip-news.com

Global Crossing is growing. The VoIP company is now offering CounterPath’s eyeBeam softphone as part of its market offeringVoIP solution in South America. With CounterPath’s IP Telephony softphone allows employees to access a full suite of corporate telephony services through their computer from any broadband connection in the world. That includes voice, video and Instant Messaging features.

“It is a strategic objective of CounterPath to be the dominant provider of VoIP technology that allows people to connect, communicate and collaborate. Being selected by Global Crossing to be a part of their initiative to bring advanced IP Telephony services to South America brings us one step closer to achieving that objective,” said Donovan Jones, President and CEO, CounterPath. “Through this collaboration, businesses and employees in South America can now enjoy carrier-grade, PC-based communications while gaining the cost-savings, productivity and mobility benefits associated with softphone technology.”

Global Crossing is a growing company that currently offers its services within countries including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

“Global Crossing is committed to offering the most comprehensive suite of communication services available in the market today,” said Guillermo Marmora, Vice President of Technology & Operations – Voice Services at Global Crossing Latin America. “CounterPath’s open-standards softphone technology is a welcome addition to our Voice and Collaboration Solutions offering in South America. For many of our customers’ employees who travel both within and outside of Latin America, a PC softphone is an intuitive, enjoyable, and cost-effective means of staying connected to their essential voice and conferencing services.”

Source: www.voip-news.com

It’s good to be king . . .

An independent survey recently revealed 100 percent satisfaction with Global Crossing’s collaboration services — as in conferencing. The survey was conducted by KS&R, but was paid for by Global Crossing.

Eighty-five percent of respondents said that they were very likely to recommend the service to others.

“The latest survey results reflect our commitment to providing a superior customer experience and high level of account support that differentiates us from our competitors,” said Dan Wagner, executive vice president enterprise sales and collaboration services. “Now, especially as use of Global Crossing’s collaboration services around the world continues to accelerate, our award-winning collaboration services take the element of geography out of the business equation and allow companies to improve productivity, while reducing their travel costs and carbon footprints.”

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

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Source: www.voip-news.com

Good news for enterprises in Latin America: Global Cross is expanding its advanced fiber-optic MPLS-te network into Latin America, allowing for bandwidth-intensive applications. The platform is ideal for converged IP services like VoIP, IP VPN and IP video.

“We’re responding to the continuing strong demand for IP services that give enterprises the ability to connect globally with colleagues, customers and suppliers, and that give end users an enhanced experience with applications such as video streaming, music and video downloads. These are the main drivers for our IP network expansion,” said John Legere, Global Crossing’s chief executive officer. “Our IP Supercore platform transports Internet traffic around the globe with higher performance and also allows us to integrate the former Impsat IP network, providing seamless connectivity to all our customers in the region.”

The company has installed new Supercore routers in Buenos Aires, Santiago and Sao Paulo. There were already routers in St. Croix, USVI and Fort Amador, Panama. The new routers triple Global Crossing’s PoP-to-PoP core capacity.

Latin America is expected to see an increase in enterprise IP service spending, according to IDC.

“We’re seeing strong enterprise adoption of IP and Ethernet services across Latin America,” said Diego Anesini, telecom consulting and research manager for IDC. “The region is well-poised for sustained growth in next generation enterprise telecom services driven by convergence and virtualization, a trend that is bolstered by a relatively positive economic outlook.”

Source: www.voip-news.com

Global IP solutions provider, Global Crossing, is increasing its classes of service (CoS) from three to six for its Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) service. The six CoS will allow customers to prioritize applications such as voice and video differently. Current customers will be rewarded with an upgrade from Basic, Enhanced and Premium services to the new “Plus” versions of the services without any increases in cost.

“Global Crossing is dedicated to an excellent customer experience and continues to meet customer requirements with innovative solutions that provide meaningful capabilities,” said Gary Breauninger, chief marketing officer. “Having six classes of service gives our enterprise customers a greater ability to ensure uninterrupted transmission of their most time-sensitive and important data, allowing them to control IP VPN performance as they increasingly rely on a single IP-based platform for real-time and converged applications.”

With prioritizing, users will be able to maintain a hierarchy of what’s most important or time-sensitive. For instance, businesses can set it up so that certain applications such as email can be put off during times of high network congestion while time-sensitive applications like voice traffic is prioritized.

“As multinational enterprises consolidate many applications on IP, they end up mixing delay-sensitive traffic, important transaction data and general traffic,” said Brian Washburn, an analyst with Current Analysis. “Having more classes of service gives these companies greater control to meet the delivery requirements of mission critical applications. Global Crossing now offers enterprise customers this flexibility, which ensures support for their customer’s current and future application needs.”

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I love when companies give Walt Mossberg something to test, and like it even more when Walt tries extra hard to make something easy to understand like he did today.

Basically in his review of the T-Mobile @ HOME service he points out the warts of the system, especially the Home Alarm system and Fax machine issues. The Home Alarm issue can likely be solved by Next Alarm, as their Alarm Broadband Network is the ideal compliment to an IP based phone system. The faxing issue is one that has been a hassle for most people in VoIP also and while there are solutions, what I’m finding easier these days is to scan and email to send a fax, and to have one of those free services to receive faxes by email.

The best and most revealing line about the @HOME service though is this one:

This new system is not a so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol phone system, such as Vonage. It doesn’t carry your phone calls wholly over the Internet, but merely uses the Internet to get them to the T-Mobile cellphone network, which then carries the calls as if they had been made on a cellphone.

What Walt’s referring to is UMA and how T-Mobile uses ATM to transmit data from one point to another. Its not IP end to end, but does use the ‘Net from his house to the ATM backbone. I’m glad he said that because it differs from other services already out there which do use SIP and IP end to end like Earthlink’s TrueVoice, BroadVoice and mostly CallVantage, though some users are on MGCP.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

VoIP IP Telephony @ http://snapvoip.blogspot.com

Atlanta, Georgia (USA) –– Feb 14, 2007. TransNexus, Inc. has made the OSP Toolkit and RAMS open source projects publicly available on SourceForge. The OSP Toolkit is a client side implementation of the OSP peering protocol. The OSP Toolkit, written in C, is a mature open source project begun in 1999 and has been integrated into numerous commercial and open source VoIP products. The RAMS OSP server is a java based OSP server developed for testing and as a reference implementation.

The Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) is an IP Operations and Billing Support Systems (OSS/BSS) protocol defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI TISPAN), www.etsi.org. OSP is officially known as ETSI Technical Specification 101321 for inter-domain pricing, authorization and usage exchange. OSP is unique because the way it uses PKI services to enable secure peer to peer communication between VoIP networks. “The OSP protocol was developed to enable direct multi-lateral peering among VoIP networks. OSP provides secure inter-domain access control and eliminates costly network bottlenecks”, stated Richard Brennan, Chairman of ETSI TISPAN Next Generation Network Architecture working group.

RAMS is a java based server useful for managing inter-domain VoIP routing, called number translation and Call Detail Record collection. RAMS supports the European Telecommunications Standard Institute’s OSP Peering protocol (ETSI TS 101 321).

The OSP Toolkit and the RAMS OSP test server is available at links provided below. A free version of the TransNexus commercial OSP based peering server is available at www.transnexus.com.

Links;
The OSP Toolkit
RAMS server
www.transnexus.com

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

My previous article "SER vs OpenSER, There is no real Comparison" is little out of touch. Even though I wrote the article I still partial to SER. Look at the links on the right side, "My favorite SIP Router" it has been the same since I started this blog. What drove me to write the article was the same reason that OpenSER came to be. Corporate or political bickering’s, and nonoperational home site, (one day it was up and next day it was down) so much so I stopped even trying to visit iptel.org site. I did visit Berlios developer site. That is the time I discovered OpenSER. What do you expect? it was a source of encouragement for me. I started immediately to work on OpenSER. I will continue to do so until SER assures me that it will not play the old tricks. I still have both the tracks and have deployed SER and OpenSER for many of my clients. I am also a very good fan of Asterisk and TrixBox (formerly Asterisk@home) and there are instances that I needed Both SER and Asterisk to find a solution for certain clients.
VOIP IP Telephony is very much more than what you see in the press. I have Academic, and corporate deployments that you will not read about in the press. Some of the deployments I have hit the ceiling on most of the OSS software but was able to overcome by using other OSS solutions like clustering to solve my problems. Although I like to code, due to the nature of my work and academia, I spend more time in design and deployment. So I let the others do the coding. That is why I rely on SER, Asterisk and the likes so much. One thing is for sure. Unless client insists, all my designs are OSS based. And it stand close to 90% OSS now.
But as time went by, things started to change at SER. New and better management, a new and certainly better IPTEL.ORG site and has come a long way. I do still work on SER and I did write about New SER.

All this said, SER is still a better solution than OpenSER. But for that information, please wait for the Soon to be written "Technical Diffrences between SER and OpenSER"

Links; as they were published on my site;
VOIP IP Telephony: What’s new in SER 0.10.x ? A lot and…

VOIP IP Telephony: SER gets a new home, Migrating to Drupal.

VOIP IP Telephony: SIP Express Media Server, SEMS, design documentation released by IPTEL.ORG

The article relating to SER vs OpenSER
VOIP IP Telephony: Ser VS OpenSER, There is no real comparison!

Ser at IPTEL.ORG
OpenSER Site

Source: voip-tech.blogspot.com

At this URL: http://www.video4skype.com you can download a free plug-in for Skype™ (still in beta version), after you complete the easy installation, this free software will allow you to make a videoconference by Skype™, of course you need a webcam or a video source connected to you computer.
This software is compatible just with Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP, it will not work with older operating systems; also is possible to make videoconference just between 2 users, at the moment multi videoconference is not contemplated.