ooVoo is a free program that uses technology to bring high-quality video and voice communications to people all over the world. Perfect for face time with friends and family — near or far — everyday.

With ooVoo, you can connect with anyone, anytime, with video calls, video messages, phone calls, text and more. Use ooVoo to get face time with people you can’t meet in person (and save travel time and money!). ooVoo makes life easier and more fun.

Video Calling:

• Video Calling See, hear and speak with up to 6 people.
• Web Video Call Friends who don’t have ooVoo can video call you from their Web browser.
• Video Chat Room A simple way to embed a video chat in any website, blog or social network.
• High Resolution Video Make video calls in amazing clarity.
• Video Call Recording Create and share instant memories.
• Video Messages Send a video greeting to multiple people at once.
• Video Effects Get creative! Customize your video calls and messages.

You Can Also:

• Desktop Sharing Make your video conferences more productive when you share your documents or photos.
• Phone Calls Phone a mobile or landline
• Text Chat Text with up to 6 friends at once.
• Send Large Files Send files up to 25 MB each.
• Sidebar View Change the size of a video call window.
• Search for Friends Find people you know or find new friends on ooVoo.
• Call Me Button Bring your blog or MySpace page to life with an ooVoo link.
• Set Privacy Controls Control who can see or contact you.

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Building an Internet-ready phone system is now easier than ever. Cisco Small Business IP Phones are designed to meet your needs today and scale with your business as it grows in the future.
Cisco Small Business IP Phones support:

* Flexibility: Assign a unique number or extension to each of a phone’s lines, or divide a shared line between multiple phones.
* Scalability: Get the phone that’s right for your business, with models ranging from one to six lines.
* Adaptability: Cisco Small Business IP Phones are specifically designed to incorporate the new features and functionalities that are continually introduced by service providers.
* Connectivity: You can use Cisco Small Business IP Phones to connect directly to an Internet telephone service provider, an IP PBX system, or a large-scale IP Centrex deployment.
* Simplicity: Power over Ethernet functionality (PoE) means you won’t need an additional power source to supplement the Ethernet cable for many of these phones.

Product Features

* Dual-switched Ethernet ports
* High-resolution display
* Power over Ethernet (PoE)
* Connects directly to an Internet telephone service provider or to an IP PBX
* Number of Lines: 4
* The functionality businesses demand for their phone systems: caller ID, speakerphone, call hold, transfer, conferencing, and more
* The adaptability to connect directly to an Internet telephone service provider, an IP PBX, or even a large-scale Centrex deployment
* Detailed performance measurement and troubleshooting, allowing for optimal deployment and easy fixes
* Power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, which minimize wiring by eliminating the need for an additional power supply
* Reliable, high-quality performance in a variety of price ranges

Product Description
Stylish and functional in design, the Cisco SPA942 4-line IP Phone with 2-port Switch is ideal for a residence or business using a hosted IP telephony service, an IP private branch exchange (PBX), or a large-scale IP Centrex deployment. The Cisco SPA942 uses industry-leading voice over IP (VoIP) technology from Cisco to deliver an upgradeable high-quality IP phone that is unparalleled in features, value, and support.Based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the Cisco SPA942 has been tested to ensure comprehensive interoperability with equipment from VoIP infrastructure leaders, enabling service providers to quickly roll out competitive, feature-rich services to their customers.

With hundreds of features and configurable service parameters, the Cisco SPA942 addresses the requirements of traditional business users while taking advantage of the benefits of IP telephony. Features such as easy station moves, presence, and shared line appearances (across local and geographically dispersed locations) are just some of the many advantages.Standard features on the Cisco SPA942 include two active lines, dual-switched Ethernet ports, 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) support, a high resolution graphical display, full duplex speakerphone, and a 2.5mm headset port. With a simple software update, the SPA942 is upgradeable to a 4-line phone. Each line can be independently configured to use a unique phone number (or extension), or can use a shared number that is assigned to multiple phones.

About the Author

Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Ted Wallingford began working with information systems at the age of 7, when his father brought home a used Timex Sinclair 1000 computer and a notepad of hand-written BASIC programs from a garage sale. This little machine was the start of an eclectic career in the business of bits and bytes. While working in the data center at ad agency J. Walter Thompson, Ted began to write articles for computer magazines. This led him into writing marketing materials for Gateway Computer and the former Amiga Inc., where he was also webmaster in 1999.

As I.T. Director for a large, private construction firm, Ted transformed a single-operator midrange computer room into a mission-critical 24×7 data center hosting services for lines of business across the country. Ted has designed and implemented Voice over IP on networks large and small. He offers network design for VoIP systems and product management assistance for up’n'coming VoIP carriers through his macVoIP.com consulting practice. Ted believes that VoIP and the Internet are today’s revolution in distance communication. Aside from technology and writing, Ted has served as a member of the board of trustees for an international adoption agency in suburban Cleveland, where he lives with his wife and two children. Ted is currently working on Switching to VoIP for O’Reilly Media.

Product Dimensions: 22 x 18.5 x 8.7 inches ; 14.6 pounds

Item model number: 520 for Small Business

Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Business, a critical part of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System, is a unified communications solution for small businesses that provides voice, data, voicemail, Automated Attendant, video, security, and wireless capabilities while integrating with existing desktop applications such as calendar, e-mail, and customer relationship management (CRM) programs.

This easy-to-manage platform uses business-class, proven unified communications technologies to full advantage and supports flexible deployment models based on your needs – a wide array of IP phones, public switched telephone network (PSTN) interfaces, and Internet connectivity.

VoIP is techspeak for “voice over Internet protocol,” but it could spell “saving big bucks” for your business! Here’s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.

Discover how to:
* Use VoIP for your business or home phone service
* Choose the best network type
* Set up VoIP on a wireless network
* Understand transports and services
* Demonstrate VoIP’s advantages to management

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Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for “voice over Internet protocol,” but it could spell “saving big bucks” for your business! Here’s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.

Contents:
Part 1 – VoIP Basics: Getting Down to Business with VoIP; VoIP: Not Your Father’s Telephone Service; Everything You Need to Know About Charges

Part 2 – Taking VoIP to Your Network: Road Map to VoIP Transports and Services; Getting Switched; Going Broadband; We’re Dedicated; Going Wireless; Using VoIP on the Internet; Telephones and VoIP

Part 3 – Making the Move to VoIP: Simplifying Cost Management; Locations Galore; Setting Up the Smaller Office; Providing Dollars and Support for VoIP

Part 4 – The Part of Tens: Ten Reasons Why Your Company Should Switch to VoIP; Ten Reasons Why You Should Switch to VoIP at Home; Ten VoIP Myths; Ten VoIP Manufacturers

Part 5 – Appendixes: VoIP Providers; Glossary

About the Author
Timothy V. Kelly has designed computer and telecommunications networks for companies of all sizes. He’s a professor for the Davis School of Business and Economics at ECSU, a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina.

NOTE: The Ooma Telo requires high-speed Internet and a router (sold separately).

Key Features

• Revolutionary device that gives you free calls within U.S. and low rates for international calls with no monthly charges or contracts
• Works with any corded or cordless phone; easy installation with no computer required. Not compatible with ooma Scout.
• Includes caller-ID, call-waiting, 911, and many other calling features
• Includes 60-day free trial of Ooma Premier — a suite of enhanced calling services features
• Includes everything needed for installation; backed by 30-day money-back guarantee and extendable 1-year warranty

Your one-time purchase of the Ooma system delivers:

* Free calling within U.S. and low-cost international calls with no monthly bills
* Caller-ID, call-waiting and 911
* Outstanding voice quality and secure, encrypted phone calls
* Easy set-up with any telephone; no PC required
* Option to keep your current number and landline service
* 30-day money-back guarantee and extendable 1-year warranty
* Free trial of Ooma Premier — a suite of enhanced features

Ooma Premier Subscription Features:

* Advanced Voicemail Options for voicemail forwarding and added privacy
* Instant Second Line for large households with busy phone lines
* Personal Numbers for all family members so you’ll always know who a call is for
* Call Blocking and Community Blacklist to help rid yourself of persistent telemarketers
* Multi-ring, which lets you forward your calls to your cell phone or any other phone you choose
* Three-way Conference Calls so that you can easily add a third person to your calls
* And much, much more.

Key Features
* Free calling in the U.S. with no monthly fees or contracts
* Caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail
* The reliability and crisp acoustic performance of a landline
* Easy setup in just minutes
* A new phone number from any calling area in the U.S.
* The option to keep your existing number for a one-time charge ($39.99)
* The freedom to hear your voicemail and control preferences online in the ooma Lounge
* Voicemail notifications to your email and your mobile phone
* Extremely low-cost international rates starting at a penny per minute
* A 30-day money-back guarantee and an extendable one-year warranty
* A free 60-day trial of ooma Premier

Features
* Includes both an ooma Hub and an ooma Scout
* Free calling to any number in the US
* All the features you’ve come to depend on, like caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail
* Voicemail notifications to your email and mobile phone; the flexibility to hear your voicemail and control preferences online in the ooma Lounge
* The freedom to talk on your existing corded or cordless phones with no PC or headset required

Requirements

* High-speed fixed-line Internet connection (cable, DSL, fiber-optic)
* 256 Kbps upstream network speed (384 Kbps recommended)
* Corded or cordless home phone
* Intended for residential use only

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.

It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality.

It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323).

Features

• Ease of use with a modern Graphical User Interface.
• Audio and Video free calls through the internet.
• Free Instant Messaging through the internet with Presence support.
• Audio (and video) calls to landlines and cell phones with support to the cheapest service providers.
• High Definition Sound (wideband) and Video Quality up to DVD quality (high framerate, state of the art quality codec and frame size).
• Free of choice of the service provider.
• SMS to cell phones if the service provider supports it (like the default provider).
• Standard Telephony features support like Call Hold, Call Transfer, Call Forwarding, DTMF.
• Remote and Local Address Book support: Remote Address Book support with authentification using the standard LDAP technology, Local Address support in Gnome (Evolution).
• Multi platform: Windows and GNU/Linux
• Wide interoperability: Ekiga use the main deployed stantards for telephony protocols (SIP and H.323) and has been tested with a wide range of softphones, hardphones, PBX and service providers.

Call

• Call Hold: This effectively pauses Video & Audio transmission.
• Call Transfer: You can transfer the remote user to another user.
• Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, on Always: This allows you to con?gure Ekiga to forward incoming calls to a speci?ed user.
• Message Waiting Indications Support
• Dialpad: This allow you to dial numbers using a graphical alphanumeric keypad.
• DTMFs Support: This feature is necessary when using services asking you to dial numbers.
• Calls History: This is a convenient way about all outgoing and incoming calls.
• Call Monitoring: Statistics about the network traffic caused by Ekiga are displayed in the status bar.
• Enum Support: Enum is a standard method to provide a unified numbering system between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and various VoIP providers. It is officially deployed country wide.

Operating System

Linux, Windows

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Twinkle is a softphone for your voice over IP and instant messaging communcations using the SIP protocol. You can use it for direct IP phone to IP phone communication or in a network using a SIP proxy to route your calls and messages.

Features

In addition to making basic voice calls Twinkle provides you the following features:

* 2 call appearances (lines)
* Multiple active call identities
* Custom ring tones
* Call Waiting
* Call Hold
* 3-way conference calling
* Mute
* Call redirection on demand
* Call redirection unconditional
* Call redirection when busy
* Call redirection no answer
* Reject call redirection request
* Blind call transfer
* Call transfer with consultation (attended call transfer)
* Reject call transfer request
* Call reject
* Repeat last call
* Do not disturb
* Auto answer
* Message Waiting Inidication
* Voice mail speed dial
* User defineable scripts triggered on call events
E.g. to implement selective call reject or distinctive ringing
* RFC 2833 DTMF events
* Inband DTMF
* Out-of-band DTMF (SIP INFO)
* STUN support for NAT traversal
* Send NAT keep alive packets when using STUN
* NAT traversal through static provisioning
* Persistent TCP connections for NAT traversal
* Missed call indication
* History of call detail records for incoming, outgoing, successful and missed calls
* DNS SRV support
* Automatic failover to an alternate server if a server is unavailable
* Other programs can originate a SIP call via Twinkle, e.g. call from address book
* System tray icon
* System tray menu to quickly originate and answer calls while Twinkle stays hidden
* User defineable number conversion rules
* Simple address book
* Support for UDP and TCP as transport for SIP
* Presence
* Instant messaging
* Simple file transfer with instant message
* Instant message composition indication
* Command line interface (CLI)

VoIP security

* Secure voice communication by ZRTP/SRTP
* MD5 digest authentication support for all SIP requests
* AKAv1-MD5 digest authentication support for all SIP requests
* Identity hiding

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Zoiper Classic IAX & SIP multilanguage and multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) softphone is a VoIP soft client, meant to work with any IP-based communications systems and infrastructure.

Zoiper Classic BIZ provides secure high-quality voice calls and conference, fax sending and receiving functionality, and enhanced IP-calling features wrapped in a compact interface and small download size.

With Zoiper Classic FREE you can:

• make and receive voice calls with supreme quality
• send and receive faxes (watermarked)
• transfer calls
• hold calls
• carry Zoiper wherever you go on a USB stick, flash card etc. You can run Zoiper Classic FREE from the USB/flashcard without writing to the Windows registry.
• With Zoiper Classic FREE you can register one SIP and one IAX account and 2 lines.

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