p2p news / p2pnet: When Chinese footie fans turn their TVs on to view their favourite sport, millions of them will be watching the iPhox Chinese Super League.

That’s because p2p online phone firm iPhox, the latest entry into the VoIP arena, has become the new title sponsor for China’s national football league.

The five-year deal also marked the global launch of its internet telephone product, says iPhox International chairman Johan Schotte.

iPhox 1.3 is literal person-to-person communication between PCs and mainstream phone system and, “Where traditional SIP software will fail to connect, iPhox can operate in virtually any network environment,” Schotte told p2pnet. “A system of media relays positioned in data centers around the world assures that call traffic that isn’t peer to peer retains a high quality by reducing latency.”

The p2p phone application is available for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and soon for Linux, says iPhox.

It uses technology from Michael Robinson’s SIPphone to ensure compatibility with the SIP open protocol and the ability to communicate with other networks.

iPhox also means Gizmo and Google Talk users will be able to exchange instant messages and voice calls with each other, says the company.

Calls to regular phones cost one cent, compared to Skype and Yahoo’s two-cents and iPhox can instantly communicate with an expanding SIP hardware
product line that allows analog phones, Wi-Fi VoIP SIP phones and Bluetooth headsets to plug right into any network, it says.

Free calls can be placed and received on any PC running iPhox or any other SIP based software, even over dialup network connections and, “Unlike Skype, users’ computers and bandwidth are never used to route third party calls, which makes iPhox suitable for corporate, government and university environments,” states Schotte.

“Users of iPhox enjoy the largest SIP based network currently in deployment. More than 20 networks and many major universities such as UCSD, UCLA, BYU, UCI, UCSC, University of Indiana, Oklahoma University and MIT are linked to the SIPphone network for free calling.”

Download iPhox here.

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