Archived Business VoIP News

Monday, June 30th

• VOIP isn’t just a new phone

  Few agencies are facing a tidal wave like the one approaching the Social Security Administration. The agency estimates that 10 million people will retire in the next five years, but it doesn’t expect its workforce to grow along with the expanding base of customers. Technology is the only way to meet this demand. One of the technologies SSA will lean on is voice over IP. In March, the agency awarded a $300 million contract to Nortel Government Solutions to build a VOIP network for its 1,600 field offices. Thomas Hughes, chief information officer at SSA, spoke recently with Editor-in-Chief Nick Wakeman about VOIP and its potential to transform operations. ...

Wednesday, June 25th

• Covad Obtains Key Legal Victory Over Confidential VoIP Customer Lead Information

  A federal judge has denied an attempt by Revonet, Inc. to terminate a lawsuit filed by Covad Communications Company contending that Revonet misappropriated Covad’s VoIP customer lead information and sold this information to other customers. The case will now continue on its merits....

Thursday, June 12th

• Cedar Rapids-based Ascott Transcription Service Moves Servers/Staff to LightEdge Business Continuity Center

  Strong flooding in downtown Cedar Rapids have caused businesses to leave their offices and seek alternative business plans. Ascott Transcription Service, a Cedar Rapids company which provides medical transcription services for Veterans Administration hospitals, today reacted to the flooding by moving company servers and key staff to a business continuity facility located in Altoona, IA....

• Cedar Rapids-based Ascott Transcription Service Moves Servers/Staff to LightEdge Business Continuity Center

  Strong flooding in downtown Cedar Rapids have caused businesses to leave their offices and seek alternative business plans. Ascott Transcription Service, a Cedar Rapids company which provides medical transcription services for Veterans Administration hospitals, today reacted to the flooding by moving company servers and key staff to a business continuity facility located in Altoona, IA....

• Fonality Records 15 Quarters of High Growth, Leads Open Source Telephony Market

  Fonality, the leading provider of open source business communications systems, announced today that the first quarter of 2008 marked its fifteenth consecutive quarter of high growth, and that the company has doubled in size each year since its founding in 2004. Key to the company’s success is a reinvention of the architecture and delivery of the modern day business phone system. Today, 5,000 commercial customers worldwide depend on Fonality’s PBXtra® and trixbox Pro® products for affordable, VoIP-powered unified communications. In addition, Fonality’s open source project, trixbox CE, has achieved three million downloads and is now the number one open source telephony project in the world....

Wednesday, June 11th

• Report Finds 7.8 Million Business VoIP Lines by 2012

  P&F believes the market for 'Business VoIP Lines' will reach a total of 7.8 million lines deployed by 2012.
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Monday, June 9th

• Covad Adds T1 Service in 285 Cities Nationwide

  Covad Communications Company, a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, is extending the availability of its business-class T1 service to 285 new cities today through an agreement with New Edge Networks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EarthLink....

Saturday, June 7th

• Geckotech Gives Away Free Cisco IP Phones

  Geckotech is of a new breed of VoIP phone companies that gives small and mid-sized businesses a more flexible, reliable and scalable voice and data solution than the traditional telecom companies. Utilizing a carrier-grade softswitch hosted in a secure datacenter, Geckotech offers a high-end Cisco IP phone system as a managed service to its customers. Instead of purchasing an entire new phone system, companies that are moving, growing or just getting started purchase or lease Cisco phones and let Geckotech provide the system including caller ID, voicemail, seamless branch office integration, integrated web access to messages, fax-to-email as well as a full Internet T-1 line – all delivered using industry standard Cisco network hardware and IP phones. ...

Monday, June 2nd

• Testing the Managed PBX Waters

  Corporations that haven’t yet gotten involved with IP telephony have a new method to test-drive this technology without a lot of up-front investment: They can use a hosted PBX managed services provider. While that’s a mouthful, the idea is relatively simple: Take a systems integrator that can provision an Internet connection between its office and yours, buy a couple of IP telephones, and the integrator takes care of the rest. ...