Sylantro weaves VoIP application plans. (Upfront: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)

IP-based telephony services are still squarely in the nascent stage, but at least one company is making big application plans in the background for the day when deployment of the technology picks up the pace.

Three-year-old Sylantro Systems' focus is on the business side of telephony applications, using IP as the mechanism to deliver them. Dubbed "hosted PBX (Private Branch exchange)," Sylantro's softswitch would basically take the place of an in-house PBX phone system to foster apps such as call logs, phone directories, caller ID and speed dial, and make thos