VocalTec Communications, a provider of multimedia and voice-over-IP services for communication service providers, has announced the availability Essentra BAX, free-trial version, on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment.

The company claims that the potential customers will have the ability to use its Class-5 VoIP Application Server, providing residential and enterprise VoIP services.

According to VocalTec, Essentra BAX offers a range of applications including hosted PBX, IP Centrex and residential VoIP services, and boasts an array of subscriber calling features, including IP features such as click-to-dial, attendant console and auto-attendant.

Ido Gur, president and CEO at VocalTec, said: Amazon EC2 is the perfect environment under which we can let users experience the benefits and inspiration behind our VoIP solutions. VocalTec is committed to evolving the way communication services are being used and the Amazon EC2 environment provides for simple and ubiquitous access. We will consider running more of our solutions on this innovative platform in future, allowing our customers to enjoy the benefits of reduced infrastructure and maintenance costs.