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NEWS

• 2013-05-24 - VoIPon Interview CyberData on the SIP Door Entry Intercom Range, Advantages over Rivals and Future Developments
• 2013-05-23 - VoIP Innovations Releases New International DID and Origination Pricing
• 2013-05-22 - iTalk to Acquire 1-800-GET-VOIP Brand for Global VoIP Subscriber Service
• 2013-05-20 - asterCC hosted call center released 1.2 with e-Commerce module
• 2013-05-20 - New White Paper: VoIP Theft of Service: Protecting Your Network
• 2013-05-20 - Release FreePBX E-book in Chinese
• 2013-05-19 - Are you using MLM phone service?
• 2013-05-14 - 3CX launches its mobile device management solution - 3CX Mobile Device Manager
• 2013-05-09 - 2N® Helios IP Intercoms now officially certified for use with Aastra products
• 2013-05-09 - Aradial VOIP & Convergent Billing Aradial releases new converged billing version 6.1 for VOIP and Data services.
• 2013-05-08 - Siremis v4.0.0 is out - web management interface for Kamailio SIP server
• 2013-05-07 - 3CLogic Expands its Cloud Platform for Contact Centers with New Features to Increase Performance and Reliability
• 2013-05-07 - WombatDialer 0.6.13 offers better support for queues and dynamic call lists
• 2013-05-06 - AT&T sues Brightlink
• 2013-05-06 - Vitelity announces White / Yellow / 411 Directory Listing Services
• 2013-05-06 - New White Paper: VoIP Security Best Practices
• 2013-05-06 - Sipaholic's Dream Machine: Anveo Direct
• 2013-05-05 - Aptus Telecom announces to launch Asterisk Phonebook, FonB
• 2013-05-04 - Vitelity launches new webinar series, new Webinar Using SMS Enabled DIDs May 15
• 2013-05-03 - Voip-Catalog.com updates its VoIP service provider directory. It is now easier to add your company to the VoIP directory for free
• 2013-05-02 - Security Flaw Discovered in Widely Used VoIP Telephone Adapters
• 2013-05-02 - Kamailio SIP Server Advanced Training - June 24-17, 2013, in San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2013-05-01 - BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army

News Resources

• Software Releases - Check here for recent VoIP-related software releases.
• VoIP Services - Check here for news on Voip Services.
• VOIP Event Calendar - Check here for news on VOIP Events, Trade shows, Training and Conferences
• Older News - Check out older news articles here

Getting Started

• What is VOIP? The very basics.
• Free VOIP Publications: Magazines and Newsletters free to qualified subscribers about VOIP related products
• Training: Seminars, tutorials, on-line classes. Check here for recent.
• VOIP Consultants: Finding help.
• VOIP Service Providers - VOIP service providers.
• VOIP Server Monitoring - VOIP server monitoring providers.
• DID Service Providers - DID VOIP call origination service providers.
• VoIP Practical Guide - VoIP Resources for Your Home and Business
• How to start a VOIP Business - Guides and Resources to Start your own ITSP

Connecting Phones to VOIP - VoIP to PSTN, PSTN to VoIP

• IP Phones: VoIP phones both hardware and software
• Analog Telephone Adapters: VoIP analog telephone adapters ATA - see Cheapest ATAs and Service
  • See also VOIP Routers
  • See also Asterisk hardware home analog: includes some comparison of external ATA and PCI card
• Digital Telephone Adapters: VoIP Digital/TDM telephone adapters
• Dial Pulse to Touchtone DTMF Converters - connect that old rotary phone to DTMF VOIP equipment
• VOIP Paging and Intercom
• VOIP Payphones
• VOIP and TTY VOIP and hearing impaired TTY terminals
• VOIP Paging Equipment - paging with VOIP
• Hosted VoIP
• Free VoIP Networks - list of Free VoIP Providers
• Mobile VoIP
• Wireless VOIP: Cut the wires! Roam free with wireless VOIP
• SIP Trunking
• Long Distance Phone Service

Connecting VOIP Networks to the PSTN and Cellular Networks

• Cheapest ATAs and Service - For Calling PSTN Numbers, or receiving phone calls from PSTN Numbers
• ENUM - Translating E164 numbers to VoIP addresses
• Failover Switches - Automated or Manual Switch PSTN Interfaces on failure for redundancy
• FXS-FXO Converters - Convert an FXS interface to an FXO interface
• PSTN Gateways - VOIP to PSTN gateways (also known as: Media Gateways)
• Routing calls using a free international calling service - How to use two-step dialing to save on costs.
• VOIP GSM Gateways - VOIP to GSM gateways
• VOIP Termination and VOIP Origination
• GSM Termination - SIM Server

VoIP PBX and Servers

Popular choices - please do not alter this list, add new entries here

• Asterisk: Open Source PBX & Asterisk Appliances
• Free VoIP Networks - list of Free VoIP Providers
• FreeSWITCH: Open source cross platform (*nix, Win, OSX) multiprotocol (SIP, IAX, Googletalk, Jabber, XMPP, WOOMERA/H.323, PRI/T1/E1) softswitch.
• Kamailio: Flexible and powerful open source GPL SIP ( RFC3261 ) server with integrated TLS (former OpenSer)
• Sip Express Router: High-performance, configurable, free SIP ( RFC3261 )
• sipXecs: SIPfoundry's sipXecs Project - The enterprise class SIP PBX for Linux (A-GPL) - Utilizes FreeSwitch, OpenFire and OpenACD
• Yate - open source softswitch/PBX, with E1/T1, ISDN, SS7, RBS, analogics, IAX, H.323, SIP, MGCP, Jingle (GoogleTalk), for Windows, Linux and BSD's
• VoIP providers customer reviews, pricing information, comparison tables, and more from VoipReview.org
• More: VOIP PBX and Servers, VoIP Hardware, Call Center Software, Virtual PBX

Voip Protocols

• IP Protocols COPS, ENUM, H.323, IAX, IMS, LTP, Megaco, MGCP, PINT, RTP, SCCP, SCTP, SDP, SIMPLE, SIP, STUN, T.37, T.38, TRIP, TURN
• ITU protocols SS7, ISUP
• OSP, PacketCable MRCP
• Encryption Protocols ZRTP

Markup

• Basic call routing and rules for UA's or VOIP servers CPL
• IVR Presentation and dialog management: VoiceXML, CallXML
• Call control / conferencing / call routing: CCXML
• IVR / Speech recognition definition: SRGS
• IVR / Speech synthesis definition: SSML
• IVR / prompting / recording / conferencing / DTMF / Voice: CallXML

Traditional Telephone Network

• Analog Telephone Information
• PBX features
• PSTN Interface Hardware
• RESPORG: Toll Free 800 Number Programming
• Telecom Dictionary
• Telco Engineering Information
• Telephone History

Related Topics to Business and VoIP

• Cloud Computing
• Hosted Collaboration
• Hosted Virtual Desktop
• Web Conferencing
• Web Hosting

VOIP Events and Conferences

• Training and Conferences - Check here for upcoming & recent Training and Conferences
• VOIP Event Calendar — List of upcoming VOIP related events, Conferences, Trade Shows, Training, etc.

Business Services

• Credit Card Merchant Services

Resources

• Twitter VoipUser Directory: Twitter VoipUser Directory
• VOIP Websites: Other VOIP websites on the Internet

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