With the expected growth in the housing market and aggressive pricing bundles from service providers, the VOIP market, which has been hammered by the shaky economy over the past two years, should begin to stabilize in 2010, according to DellOro Group. The number of VOIP subscribers should grow, but the equipment market may contract a bit because of price declines, the analyst firm said.
- An improved housing market and aggressive pricing bundles by service providers will help stabilize an IP telephony market that has suffered through two years of deep declines, according to market research firm DellOro Group. In a report Feb. 10, DellOro analysts said they expect that the number...

Jajah, a small Silicon Valley VOIP company, is being bought by Telefonica Europe for $207 million in an all-cash deal. Jajah's technology is designed to enable consumers and businesses to communicate over the Internet on any device and from any network. The company's voice-over-IP platform has made inroads into social networks, such as Twitter.
- After more than a week of speculation about its future including reports of interest from Cisco Systems and Microsoft VOIP vendor Jajah is being bought by Telefonica Europe. Telefonica, known better by the name O2, announced Dec. 23 that it is buying the smaller Silicon Valley company for $207 m...

Bankrupt gearmaker Nortel has just inched closer to becoming a gearmaker no more. On Dec. 23, the company announced a preliminary agreement to sell a unit that makes software and gear for making cheap Web calls to telecom gearmaker Genband for $282 million, a sum that is subject to adjustment.

The agreement is not final: More companies could bid for the unit in an auction early next year. Nortel has already sold a number of other business units over the summer.

Once the sale of this unit, called carrier VoIP and application solutions, is complete, Nortel will be left with only a few holdings, including a unit that sells so-called multi-service switches, which direct traffic along communications networks. It also still owns the majority stake in the LG-Nortel joint venture, which has sold wireless telcommunications equipment to carriers in South Korea. And Nortel still owns as much as $2 billion worth of patents, which it might hold on to or sell separately. I suspect that Nortel will finish selling its assets in the first half of 2010.

Agito Networks and Rivada Networks team to deploy an interoperable communications extension using VOIP in a mobile-deployable first responder communications solution.
- Agito Networks and Rivada Networks have been selected to aid in emergency response support for homeland security and defense missions. The companies' ICE24 (Interoperable Communications Extension) is an interoperable, mobile-deployable first responder communications solution allowing interoperab...

The IP telephony market grew 10 percent in the third quarter, thanks to service providers investing in such infrastructure projects as VOIP for businesses, according to a report from DellOro Group. At the same time, the market for high-speed server connectivity also grew in the quarter, due in large part to the blade server market, DellOro said.
- The IP telephony space grew almost 10 percent in the third quarter, driven in part by investments service providers have made in their infrastructure, according to market research firm DellOro Group. The market grew to $782 million in the quarter as the service providers invested in such offerin...

Google Nov. 12 confirmed that it had acquired Gizmo5 for an undisclosed sum. Gizmo5 makes Web-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Specifically, it provides a Web-based VOIP client that lets users make phone calls over the Internet, similar to programs such as Skype. Some speculate Gizmo5 will evolve into a new version of the Google Talk voice and video chat application, supporting Google Voice and its many voicemail management features, including automatic voicemail transcription. Many industry watchers agree this deal puts Google Voice and Skype, which Google reportedly tried to acquire earlier this year, on a collision course.
- Google Nov. 12 confirmed that it had acquired Gizmo5 for an undisclosed sum, giving the search engine technology that could help Google contend with PC-to-PC calling giant Skype. Gizmo5 makes Web-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Specifically, it provides a W...

We have been using Altigen PBX server (AltiServ 5.0.1.407) and its IP phone (IP600). Both the server and the IP phone only support H.323. For now, we got a new project to integrate the the Altigen box with a Trixbox CE server. The aim is to make it is able to call each office extension from both sides, and call the B city’s PSTN from the A city office, vice versa. The diagram should look like this: PSTN <-> A City office <- VOIP -> B City office <-> PSTN

As I am new to Trixbox (Asterisk), could you guys give me some suggestions on where I should start from? e.g.
1) How to make Trixbox CE support H.323 trunk?
2) What need to be modified in the Trixbox CE to make it work with Altigen?
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SALT LAKE CITY—-Famous Dave’s Utah Barbeque recently selected Telesphere , a Phoenix-based managed telecommunications and Internet services provider, to provide fully hosted voice and data services to their Salt Lake City call center.

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski late Tuesday praised AT&T for its decision to open its 3G wireless network to VoIP iPhone applications.

As part of its Patent Busting Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims it has discovered a prior patent and published reference material that should invalidate a patent granted to Acceris for implementing VOIP using analog telephones as endpoints.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Oct. 14 that it is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate a patent granted to Acceris for quot;hardware, software and processes for implementing VOIP [voice over IP] using analog telephones as endpoints. quot; The EFF claimed the pa...

In a reversal of its previous network management policy, AT T decides to stop blocking VOIP calls on the iPhone that bypass AT T's own voice service. The decision opens the door for the Skype iPhone application, which AT T previously provided connectivity only over Wi-Fi.
- AT amp;T changed its network policy Oct. 6 to permit VOIP iPhone applications most notably Skype that bypass AT amp;T's own voice service. Previously, the Skype Internet phone service for the iPhone was limited to Wi-Fi connectivity. The decision does not enable the Google Voice service application...

VOIP fax specialist FaxBack announces a beta of a fax ATA device, an alliance with voice over IP services company Epygi and a partner program offering to add Microsoft Fax capabilities into VOIP telecom offerings for free.
- Voice over IP fax server solutions specialist FaxBack announced a beta program for a new fax analog telephone adapter device, an alliance with Epygi Technologies and a new partner program at this years ITEXPO event in Los Angeles, which ran earlier in September. According to FaxBack, the Fax AT...

eBay is selling most of Skype to Silver Lake and other investors despite a pending licensing lawsuit with Joltid, Skype's co-founders' peer-to-peer company. eBay CEO John Donahoe expressed his confidence in the sale in a television interview with CNBC Sept. 1, but gave no indications that investors are protected in case Joltid wins the case and Skype is enjoined from using the P2P technology. Even so, it has become increasingly common for larger vendors to pay their way out of lawsuits.
- Now that eBay has agreed to sell 65 percent of VOIP specialist Skype to Silver Lake and other investors for $1.9 billion in cash and a $125 million loan from eBay, there remains the question of what sort of risk the investors are taking. Skype licenses its core technology from Joltid, a peer-to...