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ITEXPO WEST, LOS ANGELES – September 30, 2010 – Addressing the growing demand for Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) among large enterprises Ingate® Systems announces the new Ingate SIParator® 96 E-SBC and Ingate Firewall® 2960, two high-capacity products that enable secure SIP communications such as SIP trunking and Unified Communications beyond the protected enterprise network.

The SIParator 96 and Firewall 2960 are the highest-capacity products offered by Ingate to-date. They are in addition to a complete refresh of the full line of award-winning Ingate Firewalls and SIParators.

“Businesses are accelerating their adoption of SIP trunking and are beginning to expand their use of SIP to Unified Communications,” said Steven Johnson, President, Ingate Systems. “This is generating a demand for proven solutions like Ingate’s E-SBCs that can handle the rise in SIP usage. Ingate’s new Firewalls and SIParators meet the capacity needs of businesses of every size at more

Voxbone Honoured as a Leading European TMT Company

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 30, 2010 – Voxbone, a leading provider of telephone numbers to communications service providers and businesses worldwide, was named as a Young Bulls winner for the inaugural 2010 Bully Award honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies as presented by White Bull Summits.

A total of 60 European companies were named as finalists for the 2010 Bully Award, and 30 were honoured as winners. The deserving winners were selected from a pool of entries that included hundreds of nominated European TMT companies.

The winners fall into three categories:

• Yearlings: firms that seek or have received angel/seed rounds or equivalent; classic start-ups
• Young Bulls: firms that seek or have received Series A financing; early stage companies
• Longhorns: post Series A firms; growth stage companies

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FREMONT, Calif., September 29, 2010—Actelis Networks®, the leading global supplier of Ethernet over copper solutions, today announced that G4 Communications (G4), the largest CLEC in New Hampshire, has selected Actelis to accelerate ubiquitous deployment of high-speed symmetrical data services, including FastReach® Managed Internet Access and Xconnect, on their VPLS/MPLS network. G4’s XConnect is a Remote Local Area Network (RLAN) solution that connects geographically separated locations, enabling them to share information, resources, and security across G4’s next-generation network. By leveraging the Dynamic Rate Boost (DRB) capabilities built into Actelis’ Ethernet solutions, G4 has significantly increased its ability to deliver greater symmetrical broadband rates and reliability, as well as reach more customers, while dramatically reducing expenses.

“Actelis’ ML600 product portfolio, with DRB built in, allows G4 to build a next-generation EFM network that delivers advanced business-class services that are backed with our reliable service level agreements,” said more

Under One Contract, Carriers Can Provision Domestic and International
Phone Numbers That Receive Text Messages, as Well as Voice Calls and Faxes

BRUSSELS, Belgium – September 28, 2010 – Voxbone, a leading wholesale provider of international numbers and call-origination services, today announced new, one-stop support of short messaging service (SMS) for its direct inward dial (DID) numbers.

By enabling end users with phone numbers in foreign markets to receive text messages, as well as voice calls, at local rates, the new function takes further advantage of Internet protocol (IP) networks’ capacity to converge voice and data. It also replaces a multi-step, multi-contract process for Voxbone’s carrier and enterprise customers.

Voxbone’s support of SMS is starting with phone numbers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Numbers in other countries within Voxbone’s 50-country inventory will be added in the next few months. Using more

Conference to be held October 12-14, 2010 in Chicago

Chicago, IL – Sept. 23, 2010 - The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) announced today that its Sixth annual VoIP Conference and Expo will take place October 12-14, 2010 in Chicago. This conference, where industry and academia meet, brings together technical professionals and executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, government agencies, as well as the business community. The presentations, exhibits, social events, and session breaks provide opportunities to discover different aspects of this rapidly evolving field.

“The overall theme of the conference is “Where Industry Meets Academia”, said Carol Davids, Alva C. Todd Professor of Information Technology and Management, Director, IIT SAT Voice over IP Laboratory. “Many conferences strive to bring senior level technology and business leaders together in more

The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) has announced the names of four individuals who will be inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame during the Foundation’s Oct. 5, 2010 dinner in San Francisco. The 2010 inductees are (in alphabetical order):

• LeRoy T. Carlson—founder and chairman emeritus of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. and founder of U.S. Cellular, Chicago, IL

• Edward Samuel “Ted” Rogers, Jr. (posthumously)—president and CEO of Rogers Communications, Inc., who built Canada’s largest communications company, Toronto, ON

• Stanley T. Sigman—retired president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility , San Antonio, TX

• Raymond C. Trott—RF engineering pioneer and founder of Trott Communications Group, Irving, TX

The dinner will take place at the Palace Hotel the evening before the CTIA Enterprise and Applications™ 2010 tradeshow Oct. 6-8. In addition to honoring the new inductees, the program will also more

IntelePeer Infrastructure Provides Dramatic Telecom Termination Cost Savings
To Ooma with Expanded SuperRegistry Reach

DALLAS – September 14, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced that Ooma has joined the expanding IntelePeer SuperRegistryTM and is able to route calls over the IntelePeer Global Voice Peering Network to realize dramatic cost savings.

By joining the IntelePeer SuperRegistry and the IntelePeer Global Voice Peering Network, Ooma – which markets a consumer electronics device that provides free U.S. telephone calling and advanced telephony services to customers worldwide – gains a single point of interconnection that aggregates more than 416 million telephone number destinations, extends native IP transport and generates significant cost savings. Further, Ooma customers will become additional end-point destinations accessible to other SuperRegistry participants, now numbering over 50 service providers.

The IntelePeer SuperRegistry is an advanced, carrier-grade numbering and more

New On-demand Services Enable Outbound Contact Centers to Simplify and Reduce the Cost of Communications

ORLANDO, Fla. – September 13, 2010 – Today at the American Teleservices Association Convention and Expo 2010, IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via Cloud-based infrastructure, announced new contact center services designed to enhance outbound contact center revenues and performance while reducing communications costs. Delivered from IntelePeer’s on-demand platform, these services enable contact centers to immediately leverage the benefits of next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) communications without replacing their legacy infrastructure.

The new IntelePeer services provide hosted SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking for voice connections utilizing the IntelePeer Global Voice Peering Network and the more than 50 global service providers partnering in the IntelePeer SuperRegistryTM. By routing all calls through its scalable peering infrastructure, IntelePeer provides a direct connection, from contact center to message recipient, that improves the delivery of more

HD Voice Peering Federation Extended to Include U.K. Participants

LONDON, Sept. 8, 2010 – XConnect, the leader in next-generation interconnection and carrier ENUM-registry services, today announced an initiative with leading technology companies Polycom, BroadSoft and Dialogic to promote the adoption of high-definition (HD) voice by service providers in the United Kingdom.

The initiative was launched in response to U.K. service providers’ interest in HD voice services, reflected in discussion during a recent Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA) meeting. Through workshops and cooperative communication and marketing, the HD initiative is designed to raise awareness and educate service providers about the benefits of HD voice and help them resolve implementation challenges.

The companies joining XConnect in the initiative are market leaders in their sectors of the HD voice ecosystem. Polycom set an early stake in the ground through its SoundStation®IP conference phones and SoundPoint® desktop more

TM Forum’s Management World: Destination Dublin

New state-of-the-art venue to host the world’s leading communications and digital services management conference in 2011

MORRISTOWN, NJ—September 3, 2010—TM Forum announced today that after eleven years in Nice, France, its flagship Management World conference will move to Dublin’s new, state-of-the-art Convention Center - the CCD - May 23-26, 2011. Dublin and the CCD will provide the perfect business environment for Management World attendees—a leading capital city that is easy to get to, easy to do business in and with a reputation for hospitality that is second to none.

As a vibrant European hub for global technology companies, including major communications service providers, IT organizations and large online businesses such as Google, Facebook and eBay, Dublin is a natural fit for the increasing scope of the industry’s premier conference.

“One of the keys to growing an event more