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A key hospital in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, has announced the implementation of a brand new, sophisticated internet protocol (IP telephony) system covering its entire site.

The hospital – the Specialised Medical Centre Hospital (SMCH) – employs nearly 2,000 staff, including doctors, paramedics and support personnel. The SMCH also has capacity for more than 450 overnight stay patients, together with extensive outpatient facilities.

Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), has announced that it intends replacing its out-of-date telephone exchange with a state of the art internet protocol (IP) telephony system.

The NHMRC says the new system is needed to properly service the various communication needs of its 220 Melbourne-based staff, together with the additional 25 staff at its Canberra-based office.

Leading global market analysis firm Infonetics Research has produced a new study which, it says, demonstrates the increasing demand for unified communications (UC) solutions among enterprises across all regions worldwide.

The new study – the Enterprise UC, VoIP, and TDM report – is the latest in a series of quarterly surveys carried out by Infonetics Research into the ongoing development of these markets.

A new study by independent market analysis provide Reportlinker has identified considerable ongoing growth in the take-up of internet protocol (IP) telephony in the US.

According to the report – entitle ‘North American VoIP Access and SIP Trunking Services Market’ – this growth has been buoyed by both the need to replace ageing business phone systems and by an increasing realisation among potential business customers of the benefits of IP telephony.

Business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) handset manufacturer and supplier Yealink has been honoured with a prestigious award from independent global research organisation Frost & Sullivan.

The award – the 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth leadership – was presented to Yealink in recognition of its considerable and concerted expansion in the field of international business VoIP phone sales.

The government’s well-publicised plans to boost additional superfast broadband expansion throughout the UK – by providing £530m in funding towards private enterprise broadband infrastructure development schemes – has been approved by the European Union (EU).

The EU consent had been essential given that state aid of this kind – and the magnitude of the investment – might otherwise have been challenged as anti-competitive under EU guidelines.

Wiltshire College has revealed that, since having replaced its business phone network with a single system based on internet protocol (IP) telephony and business VoIP (voice over internet protocol), it is on course to secure annual savings on its phone costs of £70,000.

The new IP telephony system is understood to link more than 1,000 phone extensions over the college’s four campuses and is capable of handling around 15,000 calls each week.

A business group set up to push for the development of high speed broadband services in the area surrounding Chipping Norton has put its weight behind a managed investment scheme designed to encourage further funding for the project.

The scheme – set up by investment management group, Enterprise Private Equity (EPE), and understood to be the first of its kind in the UK – has received the full support of the Cotswold Broadband Group in its bid to ensure high speed broadband provision is in place in the west Oxfordshire area by June next year.

In apparent further evidence of what many argue to be the seemingly inevitable shift among enterprises and other organisations across the globe towards internet protocol (IP) telephony and business VoIP (voice over internet protocol), a key health establishment in Poland has announced that it now intends to do the same.

The country’s National Health-Protection Fund says that in four of the Fund’s regional departments it will be replacing existing landline-based phone systems with new state of the art networks based on IP telephony and business VoIP.

Asterisk, the open source communications solution used in a wide number of internet protocol (IP) telephony and business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) applications across the globe, has been the beneficiary of some key enhancements according to Digium, the software company behind the platform.

In an announcement made at AstriCon, the recent Asterisk users’ conference in the US, Digium said that the brand new version of Asterisk (Asterisk 11) does not deviate too far from the tried and trusted version already deployed by a great many business VoIP providers and resellers around the world but, at the same time, contains some notably worthwhile features.