New Mobile App Enables VoIP Calling From the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch for Small Businesses Using eVoice(R).

Customers can now make & receive calls over a data connection from anywhere in the world without using carrier plan minutes.

MARKETWIRE via COMTEX, eVoice(R), a “Radically Better PhoneNumber” and brand of technology leader j2 Global Communications, Inc.

Announced availability of its latest mobile application for Apple(R) devices.

Now, owners of Apple’s iPhone(R), iPad(R) and iPod touch(R) can make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or a 3G/4G network using VoIP.

This saves precious cell phone minutes while helping to reduce the chance of dropped phone calls.

Additionally, the new eVoice Mobile App enables iPhone users to keep their personalphone number private by maintaining a separate eVoice line for business use on the same device.

Smart phones and tablet devices are becoming more powerful every day and are starting to replace desktops and laptops as the business tool of choice,” said Mike Pugh, vice president, marketing for j2 Global.

With eVoice and its new app, people can detach themselves from their desk and still conduct business.

Without worrying about cell phonecoverage issues or dwindling minutes.

Essentially, the new eVoice Mobile App transforms an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a multi-purpose business phone system with powerful features, including:

Make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or 3G/4G network

using VoIP.

24/7 auto attendant to answer and route inbound calls professionally.

Multiple extensions for employees, including intercom functionality.

Enhanced voice mail service with transcriptions and audio files sent

to email or text.

Advanced call handling features including call screening.

According to a survey of small and mid-sized business owners conducted by The Business Journals (a division of the American City Business Journals) earlier in 2011, and reported in a press release posted on smallbiztrends.com.

The use of desktops and laptops is decreasing while the use of smart phones and mobile applications is on the rise.

Thirty-seven percent of SMB owners surveyed have used a smartphone or a PDA in the past year a 10 percentage point increase over the previous year.

Another survey conducted in 2010 by market research firm Techaisle found that one-fifth of the small businesses in the U.S., U.K., Brazil and Germany surveyed used iPads.

eVoice Mobile App helps solve the problem of dropped calls in environments notorious for poor connectivity.

Such as a subway, train, basement office or a rural home office.

Many of these locations often have good WiFi connections even when 3G/4G networks are unavailable.

Utilizing the eVoice mobile application with a WiFi connection.

Voip-Pal.Com Inc. (“Voip-Pal”) (OTC Pink sheets: VPLM) announces that it has completed redeployment of its retail website PointsPhone.Com (www.pointsphone.com) and is now accepting orders from new customers.

New users can register, make a payment and begin making calls anywhere in the world using the built in PC Dialer for as low as 1 cent per minute.

Redeployment of the PointsPhone website includes a significant update of its management softswitch platform or Web Portal.

Once users register or login into their account on PointsPhone.Com.

They will enter the PointsPhone Web Portal which allows them to manage their account and make calls using the built-in PC Dialer.

The new platform has many enhanced features including a user friendly interface that not only makes it look better but easier to navigate.

In addition, because PointsPhone can now manage all user access data on a separate database, the login process for users is a safer and more secure procedure.

The new system will generate automatic activation for new users and allow users to preview their call and payment history as well as manage their virtual numbers (DID).

“The new updated version of the PointsPhone Web Portal makes it easier and safer for our users and us,” states Dennis Chang, CEO.

“This latest in technology now gives us the ability to customize our services to our clients’ needs and generate more revenue.

The enhancements to our system have been focused on functionality, efficiency and safety.

New versions of our family of PointsPhone Mobile Apps are being tested on this new updated platform.”

About PointsPhone.Com

PointsPhone.Com is Voip-Pal’s retail website where users can.

Register and/or login.

Recharge airtime minutes.

Coming Soon!

PointsPhone Mobile™ Apps for Android OS, BlackBerry OS, iPhone OS, Symbian OS and Windows 7 OS.

PointsPhoneGuard™ Anti-Virus Protection for your mobile smartphone.

June 22, 2011
Adds three new markets and 25 market-capable sites between Dallas and El Paso

SEATTLE, WA – June 22, 2011 – 360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of telecommunication services, today announced availability of a new 640 mile route between Dallas and El Paso capable of supporting up to 100G line rates.

This expansion extends the company’s footprint in support of the region’s telecommunications, cable, content and cloud services providers’ growing need for capacity and connectivity for their end users.  These customers can now access 360networks’s more than 18,000 route miles to over 60 tier 1 to 4 markets across 22 states and British Columbia.  The expansion also creates a highly redundant path for the Dallas market, as well as throughout Texas, Colorado and New Mexico.

“Adding the Dallas to El Paso route is a natural progression of our strategy to take customers deeper into the geographic areas we serve while increasing value through redundancy and scalability,” said Brady Adams, chief technology officer for 360networks.  “Look for 360networks to continue to drive value for our customers by expanding our network and services.”

For this expansion 360networks installed Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) technology enabling Waves, IP, Ethernet, and TDM access in Abilene, Ft.Worth, and Midland.  The route also covers 25 new market-capable sites including Aledo, Arlington, Baird, Barstow, Big Spring, Cisco, Eastland, Ft.Hancock – Alamo Alto, Ft Hancock – McNary, Kent, Loraine, Merkel, Monahans, Odessa, Pecos, Santo, Sierra Blanca, Socorro, Stanton, Strawn, Sweetwater, Toyah, Van Horn, Weatherford, and Westbrook.

“Our next-generation optical technology is part of a converged backbone solution, which means that 360networks can intelligently manage traffic and support their customer’s new bandwidth-hungry applications, such as live-streaming high-definition video, over a fully redundant network,” said Robert Vrij, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Americas region. “The scalability and flexibility of our DWDM network will help 360networks support capacity and connectivity needs as it continues to expand across Texas and throughout its geographic area.”

Heard of Etisalat? It is a major provider of ISP, telecommunications and more. A Techistan editor interview the Nigeria Numbering Manager after she met him at a Comptel Conference. Listen … and read on about a wonderful action on the part of Etisalat Nigeria.

Telecom operators, Etisalat Nigeria, over the weekend,   donated a complete primary school structure comprising 11 classrooms, eight modern toilets and a borehole with water treatment, to the Lagos state government as part of the telecommunication’s company support for educational development in the country.

While commissioning the Edward Blyden Memorial Primary School project located on the Lagos Island, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan expressed government’s appreciation and of the people of the state, to Etisalat for its support to the educational sector which remains the foundation for growth in other sectors of the economy.

According to her, Etisalat has contributed immensely to the development of education in Lagos state.

“We appreciate Etisalat’s great support and commitment in the educational sector and selfless service to our country. In addition to the project, we are commissioning today, I am aware of their support for other schools in the state as well as their scholarship programme for university students across the country. It is my wish that we have more corporate organizations emulating Etisalat in this worthy cause to enhance the quality of our youths who are the leaders of tomorrow,” the Deputy Governor said.

The Etisalat Nigeria CEO, Steven Evans, said the telecommunications company believes corporate social responsibility (CSR) was important. “We strongly believe in the provision of support for the community we depend on for our business success; and in adding value to the societies in which we work being a good corporate socially responsible organisation contributing to the socio-economic well-being of the people.”

The school which is one of the oldest in the state, was founded in 1938 by Mr J. Albert.

Edward Blyden Memorial Primary School is one of the three schools adopted by Etisalat Nigeria in partnership with the Lagos state government under its Adopt-a-School programme. The other are Rabiatu Thompson Primary School, Surulere and Akande Dahunsi Secondary School, Victoria Island. The old structure of the school was demolished and reconstructed by Etisalat within a 9-month period; having commenced the project in February 2010.

Today, you can start internet business without much capital. There are lots of affiliate networks that you can join for free. You can earn tonnes of money without having to learn about product creation. However, to make real money from affiliate programs is not that simple. You need to drive lots of traffic.

For years already, companies and top marketers spend time on several traffic generation strategies. This includes banner ads, text link ads, PPC advertising, PPV ads and blog review. However, in most cases, the best traffic source come from search engines.

People who hit one website via search engines already in ready-to-buy mindset. They search for your business and not you who come and deliver the sales pitch to them. When someone is ready to buy something online, he will enter one keyword query based on the product. So, you can understand and send him to the right products.

Knowing the benefits of search engine traffic to your business, you should understand a few tricks to get higher ranking on search engines. One way to do that is by creating lots of backlinks to your website.

In most cases, relevant content alone is not enough to boost your ranking in search engines. To determine relevancy, search engines will also see how humans react with one website. One way to do that is by counting total backlinks pointing to one website.

The following are some sources of backlinks that you can obtain on the internet:

1. Article directories.

Posting to article websites is the easiest way to obtain lots of quality backlinks. You need to write lots of articles or outsource someone for this purpose. Then, submit the articles to several directories that you can find on the internet, including Go Articles, Free Library, Ezine Articles and Article City.

2. Use video marketing as well.

Video sites a loved by Google and other search engines these days. They found out that people love videos and in most cases, videos can deliver the right information. Which means, if you upload videos and link to your website, you will get lots of quality backlinks.

You can create videos for free using programs like Camstudio or Windows Movie Maker. After that, upload to several video sharing sites and don’t forget to include your website link in the video description. If you want to do this fast, you can try free service at Tubemogul.

3. Web 2.0 blogging sites.

There are tonnes of web 2.0 sites that allow users to publish content for free. The number will continue to grow soon. You can obtain lots of quality backlinks from sites like Webs, Blogger, Vox, Xanga and Squidoo.

You need to create an account and a blog there first. Make sure to include the targeted keywords in your blog name, title and description. This will have effect on the link later on. Then, publish a quality post into the blog and link back to your site.

Are you tired of submitting videos, articles and bookmarks to many directories? Save time and energy by using Magic Submitter program. This program will automatically register your account then post content. Discover more about this useful program in Magic Submitter website.

VOIP Today magazine (www.voiptoday.org) is privileged to conduct exclusive interview with Kamailio (OpenSER) co-founder and core developer of OpenSER and SER projects Daniel-Constantin Mierla. (Read on and head over to iTunes or DIDX podcasts to listen to Techistan’s Suzanne Bowen interview Mierla in 2009.)

Kamailio (former OpenSER) is an Open Source SIP Server released under GPL, able to handle thousands of call setups per second. Among features: asynchronous TCP, UDP and SCTP, secure communication via TLS for VoIP (voice, video), SIMPLE instant messaging and presence, ENUM, least cost routing, load balancing, routing fail-over, accounting, authentication and authorization against MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Radius, LDAP, XMLRPC control interface, SNMP monitoring. It can be used to build large VoIP servicing platforms or to scale up SIP-to-PSTN gateways, PBX systems or media servers like Asterisk™, FreeSWITCH™ or SEMS.

VOIP Today magazine spoke with Daniel-Constantin Mierla about Business , technology and products .

voiptoday.org:   What is different about Kamailio and other open source telephony solutions ?

 Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Kamailio is a SIP server, not a pure telephony engine like Asterisk or FreeSWITCH. What means that? Kamailio handles only the SIP signaling traffic, no media (e.g., audio or video) processing, therefore using Kamailio for telephony is just a subset of what can do. Of course, one of the typical use cases is for telephony, but as easy as that you can use Kamailio for instant messaging and presence or machine to machine communication.

Because of its design and purpose, Kamailio targets performance and stability in first places. When we talk about performances we mean more than 5000 call setups per second and more than 300 000 SIP phones registered to same SIP server instance. These figures show also why Kamailio is used very often as load balancer in front of IP PBXes, PSTN gateways or media servers.

voiptoday.org:    What is your average annual growth rate?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: I could see interesting trends during all these years.

First, there are not many options out there for this kind of needs and all are based on the same initial project SIP Express Router (SER). Since 2008 Kamailio (which started as fork of SER in 2005 under the name OpenSER) and SER teams work again together, so we practically talk about same application, yet different names.

Back to your question, the project started in a research institute, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin, in the very early days of SIP and VoIP. After SER was released as open source in 2002, we had a good rate of adoption in academic institutes.

Next wave was realtime communication innovators – they couldn’t afford to wait big vendors implement their needs, therefore this was their chance.

Today is clear that SIP is the protocol for telephony services. More and more of the classic telephony companies started using it. I can say also that building SIP trunking services is very popular.

 To understand where we stand today as a project, here are some numbers:
•    since its beginning, the project counted over 70 registered developers and hundreds of contributors
•    the users mailing lists have over 63 000 posts
•    the development mailing lists have over 40 000 posts
•    over 2000 commits during 2009
•    over 170 extension modules
•    over 3000 downloads per month only from main web site
•    project management: 11 individuals (from 5 countries)

voiptoday.org:    What were your greatest achievements and implementations since your beginning on 2001?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: It is hard to count the implementations, I was directly involved in several hundreds so far. In the first stage of the project, the biggest achievement was making it the reference implementation for a SIP server and keep it so.

One of the largest deployments I am aware of is 1&1 Germany – they have about 4 millions phone lines configured, routing more than 1.5 billions minutes per month. These are public data anyone can find on the net, but there are other big deployments and the companies keep them confidentials. Anyone can go to project web site and look at the references page for more examples.

Kamailio received the Best of Open Source Networking Software award at BOSSIE’09 by InfoWorld magazine, a recent project achievement that make us very proud of and confirmed us its spread and popularity.

voiptoday.org:    What are the future plans for Kamailio, both short term and long term?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: In short term, there is a lot of effort in improving asynchronous processing to face the larger signaling traffic demands brought by instant messaging and presence. Right now the missing part is asynchronous TLS, we have asynchronous SIP message processing and asynchronous TCP since release 3.0.0. TLS should be added in a matter of few weeks and released with 3.1.0. You cannot find these anywhere else.

Another short time goal is to make the maintenance straightforward and adoption easier for new comers. We talk here about a SIP routing server, that means an administrator needs to know pretty much about the protocol itself. People managing telephony systems or IP PBXes don’t interact usually with protocol layer, they deal with calls, not much importance for them if beneath is TDM, H323 or SIP. Here we work to make their life easier.

For example, in the upcoming release we added interactive configuration file debugger, a nice way to troubleshoot your config as well as understand what is going there. Also, we added include and define directives that allow to separate the SIP routing logic from parameters, so system administrators have to change just few lines to adapt the config to their needs. Asipto released SIREMIS (http://siremis.asipto.com), a complete web management interface that helps to do provisioning easier.

voiptoday.org:    What is the competitive advantage for Kamailio?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Reliability was always the strongest point of this project. Configure it properly, start it and forget about it – simple as that. Core team is more or less the same since 2002, one left out of four, but others joined and there are over 50 registered developers, about 20 being very active. SIP v2.0 was released in 2002, this shows the expertise the team carries on.

Processing capacity is also an important characteristics – with an usual server you buy now for less than $2000, one can handle several ten thousands of registered phones and thousands of active calls.

voiptoday.org:    What kinds of platforms like Skype and OCS do Kamailio support?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Haven’t tried myself, but I heard Skype offers SIP interconnect right now, that makes Kamailio – Skype communication straightforward. Integration with OCS for trunking is possible via TCP or TLS, using SIP as well.

Practically any device that speaks SIP just works with Kamailio. Over the time I combined it with Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and many PSTN gateways or Media servers such as Cisco, Audiocodes, Telcobridge, Teles, etc.

voiptoday.org:    What is kamailio next product and what distinguishes it?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Kamailio 3.1.0 is the next major release, scheduled for this autumn. Novelty is not missing at all. Some new features were mentioned already, like config file debugger or asynchronous TLS, the others include embedded Lua and Python on configuration file, interprocess message queues, geo IP API, registration to remote SIP server, tree-based caching container and several more listed at:

http://sip-router.org/wiki/features/new-in-devel

voiptoday.org:    Does Kamailio ‘s solutions support any open source codecs?

 Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Good question since it allows to clarify some things. The answer is short: yes, all that are available and those yet to be released. Why? Because we do not process media. If you build devices that speak SIP for signaling and they are able to transmit 3D video, Kamailio is ready for it. Understanding media stream is an end-to-end affair, we just connect origin with destination.
voiptoday.org:    What is the average cost for an integrated solution provided by Kamailio?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Kamailio is the open source SIP server, the application, like Asterisk. Then there are several companies involved in development and building solutions with it, like Digium and other companies for Asterisk. More or less the same, Kamailio has a business environment  around the project.

I can talk about my company, Asipto, solutions span from low range of load balancers to high end complete unified communication platforms, with a save of at least 30% comparing with telco vendors and the main benefit of owning everything and being able to enhance as you wish, the power of code is in your hands.

voiptoday.org:    How did the slow economy affect the business?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: Global economic crises affected everyone, fortunately we were affected less that others. We play in cost effective solutions market and price became a major criterion to select a product. Furthermore, the reputation of reliability and the number of features keeps us in a good position on the market.

voiptoday.org:    What are your predictions regarding market expansion in the future?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: We were constantly growing since the project started. We are ahead implementing features that would really get the momentum in very near future. Just want to mention here TLS for secure communication and spit protection, then IPv6 which gains more market every day. Both of them are very well supported right now, so we are ready for that moment.

voiptoday.org:    Do you carry on any special events or exhibitions?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla: We do have dedicated events. At least once a year we have developers’ meeting, next is going to be on 8th of June, in Berlin. It is face to face meeting, open for community members as well, were we discuss existing issues and brainstorm future development.

On business side, we used to tie with various events where we had dedicated tracks, running one or more days. Lately we went for smaller events, targeting local or country-level markets. In the business we act, massive call volume routing, you don’t have too many potential customers in a region. Trying to get personal is important. In this fashion we run this year The Presence and Future of SIP Routing, first was in London, UK. Soon we will announce dates for other places in Europe.

Besides those, we participate to many related events. SIPit 26 was las week in Sweden, where I participated to test, main interest for me being TLS and IPv6. Then we have presentations at Amoocon 2010 in Rostock and LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin in less than one month – at LinuxTag the project has a booth for the entire 4 days exhibition.

Another group of events are trainings and certifications, next to come are Miami, USA, June 21-23, and Malaga, Spain, July 5-9.

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