FierceVoIP Names Pactolus as one of the "Fierce 15" VoIP Companies of 2008

Pactolus Communications Software named to the annual FierceVoIP "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top IP communications companies of the year. FierceVoIP editors evaluated hundreds of organizations, and found Pactolus to be amongst the "fiercest," proven by their creativity and innovations in the marketplace.

The award recognizes the industry-leading scale of Pactolus IP voice services, and the unlimited service creation capabilities enabled by Pactolus' RapidFLEX Service Creation Environment, whose rich, easily-usable object palette allows developers to create any IP voice or voice/Web 2.0 hybrid applications they can envision. The foundation for unique services now successfully deployed by Tier 1 and innovative service providers, the RapidFLEX SCE does not require advanced developer mastery of C++, Java or protocols such as SIP and DIAMETER. The RapidFLEX SCE and SDP are freely downloadable at the SIPdev.org open developer community website

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Jaxtr lays off some staff, CEO steps down

VoIP and social network startup Jaxtr Inc. has laid off 13 of is employees and its chief executive has stepped down.

In June the Menlo Park-based company raised $10 million to expand its Web-based service that allow users to make less expensive long-distance calls, and said that along with that as-yet unspent funding and its revenue streams, the company will be able to stay afloat for at least 18 months.

On the company's blog, interim CEO Bahman Koohestani said Konstantin Guericke is stepping down to spend more time with his wife and two young daughters. "I like to thank Konstantin for his leadership, marketing insights, and social networking know-how to get jaxtr past its initial phase," Koohestani said. "I’m also glad that Konstantin will remain with us as chairman, and I am very excited and look forward to working with the stellar team here to deliver all the enhancements our members have been asking for..."

Earlier this year Guericke said the service has registered more than 10 million users in 220 countries and spent no money on advertising.

Guericke was also co-founder and CEO of Mountain View-based social networking site LinkedIn Corp.

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Who Killed the VoIP Revolution?

"VoIP is dead," Skype General Manager for Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke figuratively, of course, but he may well have been right. While proponents of Voice over Internet Protocol had long promised a decade of creative destruction, they themselves appear to have become the victims.

The full potential of a technology is not always realized once it converges with market forces. In this case, the gravitational pull of the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) has always proved difficult to resist. Most of the VoIP industry, while loudly proclaiming the "session-initiation protocol" SIP era as the beginning of the end for monopoly communications, secretly courted the incumbents in hopes of profiting from replacing their long-amortized investments in the fixed-line business. By tying their fortunes to the whimsy of the ILECs, many of the upstarts suffered, destroying billions of dollars in shareholder value in the process.

Recently, PulverMedia, which spurred the VoIP crowd and rode its financial crest, shut its doors amid a swirl of controversy. As of this writing, Sonus Networks (SONS), once a highflier trading at 95 a share in 2000, goes for about 2.29. Even Cisco (CSCO) has thrown in the towel, discontinuing its BTS series of softswitches, which provide the routing logic for VoIP networks. These dismal stories perfectly mirror the ride of the VoIP industry in general.

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VoIP Providers Using IP-Based E911 as Cost-Effective, Competitive Differentiator

E911 is commanding even greater attention in the voice-over-IP (VoIP) market as Monday's FCC ruling became more stringent and reports of casualties related to VoIP E911 limitations are publicized. Not only could the liability of ignoring emerging 911 capabilities be disastrous for a VoIP company, sales could also suffer as consumers are beginning to seriously evaluate 911 functionality in their voice buying decisions. To be competitive, VoIP companies are getting in front of FCC compliance and consumer demand for public safety. Historically, 911 technology enhancement was cost-prohibitive for VoIP providers, but rising IP-based E911 companies are allowing them to compete both on technology innovation and price, due to a lower cost infrastructure.
E911 companies are catering to the safety-conscious market. VoIP providers are using companies like VIXXI Solutions, an IP-based, nationwide E911 provider that focuses heavily on product innovation. They have developed efficient geospatial technology that far exceeds current compliancy standards while reducing costs for VoIP providers. In addition to supporting nomadic VoIP users, they provide unlimited caller-customized data, such as pre-existing health conditions, to a public safety answering point (PSAP). Additionally, they offer the ability to simultaneously notify relatives when a 911 call is made, with strong implications for the elderly living alone or parents of traveling teenagers.
These VoIP providers can now improve their time-to-revenue and the safety of their customers with immediate address validation in the 911 master street address guide (MSAG). The new Internet-based technologies additionally allow for real-time PSAP boundary updates ensuring correct call routing, a current FCC ruling. Also for compliancy, VIXXI uniquely provides their VoIP customers with 711 (deaf relay).

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VoIP salaries in high

It is reported that the salaries in VoIP are going northbound. It is recommended you to switch to VoIP if you have right qualifications,
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Ramesh

CallCopy Introduces New VoIP Call Recording Solution for Businesses

CallCopy, Inc., a leading provider of call recording and quality monitoring software, today announced the availability of CallCopy Essential, the company's new VoIP call recording solution that will help small businesses to quickly and easily capture and archive inbound and outbound calls. CallCopy Essential was developed specifically for the small office to help companies improve customer service, increase productivity and meet compliance regulations.
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Intel to Add Wake-on-VoIP Technology to Mobos

On Thursday, Intel said that four new unspecified motherboards would include a capability called Remote Wake, an improved version of the Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN technology that has been around for about a decade.

The new addition to the technology is the ability for a VOiP call to wake up the PC, a feature that's obviously geared toward Skype and other VoIP providers. VoIP provider Jajah announced support for the technology. However, both Orb Networks and CyberLink did as well, evidence that Remote Wake will be used for media management, such as recording TV shows, in addition.

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