Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, a player in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, and Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI), a division of Telecom New Zealand, a full-service telecommunications provider, have announced a new partnership for the availability of a joint IPX voice service offering.

The companies are working together to offer a voice service based on managed IP interconnects using Sybase 365′s MPLS-based GRX community, combined with TNZI’s next-generation softswitch technology, which enables VoIP interconnections in Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and Africa, a TNZI official revealed.

Sybase 365′s IPX service is aimed at delivering services including global data roaming, MMS, Roaming Signalling, SMS, IMS services (presence, SIP-based messaging, P2P video) in addition to voice services, partnering with TNZI.

Ericsson has been selected to provide Telefonica O2 Germany with an IMS core system with an IMS-based VoIP application server. These two contracts include hardware deployment and software systems integration services.

This will see O2 migrate its existing fixed and mobile systems into a converged IP-based Next-generation network (NGN).

Ericsson will also integrate in Germany O2′s VoIP application server using IMS, making services such as IP Centrex, business trunking or presence functionality available to all fixed and mobile users.

Patton-Inalp Networks, creator of Smartnode VoIP technology, has announced that Cablecom, a cable-network operator in Switzerland, has selected the Smartnode 4630 Multiport BRI VoIP Router as customer premise equipment for its ‘connect PBX’ ISDN VoIP and data service for small-to-medium enterprises.

Providing up to 5 BRI ports and 8 VoIP channels, the Smartnode 4630 connects existing ISDN PBX systems to Cablecom’s IP network.

The ‘connect PBX’ service reportedly lowers overall communications costs for SMEs and preserves investment in classic ISDN equipment, while preparing a smooth path for future migration to an all-IP telephony system within the enterprise.

Ixia, a supplier of IP test systems, has announced the next generation in residential and business VoIP testing.

The company claims the IxLoad Voice matches the capacity of modern media gateways with a 1 million SIP- and RTP-based endpoints per chassis.

IxLoad tests VoIP network components, including IP-based PBXs, softswitches, call managers, session border controllers, and media gateways, using realistic scenarios involving multiple voice protocols, complex calling sequences, and triple-play mixes of voice, video and data traffic.

IxLoad’s subscriber modeling emulates user communities that vary in service usage and timing. The company believes this approach yields performance results that accurately predict live-network capacity – allowing service providers to correctly provision their networks.

Ixia supports all of the essential VoIP signalling and transmission protocols, including SIP, RTP, SCCP, MGCP, H.323, and H.248 – with complex call flows and Class 5 features.

Speakeasy, a Seattle-based broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service provider, has expanded its SIP IP voice and data integration capability as part of its ‘Integrated Voice’ service.

Speakeasy can now provide combined voice and data service over direct SIP trunks (Session Initiation Protocol), in addition to its existing service over analog and digital lines.

Integrated Voice connects to a traditional key system or PBX, and now with direct SIP, to an IP PBX, making it easy to take advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of Speakeasy Voice, the company said.

With Integrated Voice, available bandwidth is automatically allocated to data transmission, such as e-mail and general Web use, when calls are not in use. This reportedly optimises the customer’s network utilisation. In addition, by using an optional VoIP codex, G.729, customers can free up even more data bandwidth by further compressing voice traffic, the company added.

Ericsson is using its WCDMA/HSPA technology to help BSNL, a telecom operator in India, to launch 3G services across 11 cities in the country. The commercial launch of the 3G services in India is expected to allow consumers to experience improved communications including rich voice, video and data services.

As part of its roll-out strategy, BSNL plans to launch 3G services using WCDMA/HSPA technology across more than 700 cities in the first phase. Ericsson is BSNL’s strategic partner for 3G roll-out in over 400 of these cities.

The mammoth roll-out is also expected to strengthen BSNL’s position as a player with an offering including Wireline, GSM Mobile, CDMA mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, IN Services to Indian consumers.

Genband, a developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, has worked closely with PacketFront to transition local Finnish telecommunications operator Alands Telefonandelslag’s network to VoIP by providing connectivity at the border between the IP and TDM/circuit switched networks through its G2 Compact Gateway product line.

Genband informed that its G2 Compact Gateway brings voice traffic from V5.2 to MGCP, thereby maintaining the operator’s previous investment in their Ericsson AXE10 switch.

The company further informed that the G2 Compact Gateway is a carrier class, multipurpose gateway in an environmentally hardened, small form factor chassis.

Purpose-built for VoIP, the G2 uses the latest generation of advanced, all-in-one DSPs and platform architecture for VoIP and fax/modem handling.

BroadSoft, a provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications, has acquired Sylantro Systems, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California.

The acquisition is expected to help boost BroadSoft’s position in VoIP applications. To serve its customer base, BroadSoft now has development and customer operations centres in Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Gaithersburg, Maryland.

BroadSoft did not disclose terms of the transaction. The company intends to support Sylantro’s Synergy platform through its direct sales force and authorised Sylantro and BroadSoft partners.