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Editors note:
There's no need to be coy, Roy, there must be fifty reasons to read your copy of The SIP Informer this month.
What a finale to a fantastic year in the world of SIP! History has been written and SIP is now very much in the mainstream. 2005 will be an exciting year of further innovation. Our customers and end users have caught on to the SIP bandwagon and now they will tell us how they want to SIP next. It will be very exciting to see all the wild and fantastic new ideas next year. Stay tuned to The SIP Informer for all the guff.
The main highlights this month are a welcome to our new sponsors (hooray!) Brooktrout and Movial. There are a few important events coming up in the new year and you'll find all the info and all that jazz below. There is an 'Extreme Network Makeover' webcast to check out and a 'VoIP Comes of Age' article contributed by a member of the SIP community.
I hope there is something helpful or interesting here for you and I wish you all a very happy holiday season and a fantastic new year.
Best wishes,
Kathleen Misson
Editor
Contents:
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- Brooktrout and Movial join The SIP Center Team
- SIP Events Not To Miss
- SEE HOW SIP IS FUELING THE EXTREME NETWORK MAKEOVER!
- SIP Forum Working Group Activities
- Step right up and get your SIP Knowledge
- VoIP comes of age, offering a new lease of life for copper telephone networks
- Developers resource - TestYourVoIP.com
Regular Features:
- New SIP products and services
- New and popular titles in The SIP Center Bookstore
- Events diary
- SIP Center Principal sponsors
- Sponsorship information
"One day I will leave this world and dream myself to reality"
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| Brooktrout and Movial join The SIP Center Team |
Check this out! Brooktrout and Movial are well on the SIP bandwagon with innovative technology and some great products! A couple of minutes of your time will be well spent to learn something new here...
BROOKTROUT TECHNOLOGY - PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
The Brooktrout SnowShore Media Server™
The industry’s premier standards-based media server. It leverages the simplicity and flexibility of SIP and VoiceXML to provide a cost-effective and highly scalable IP media server solution, powering a broad range of voice and video services for next-generation wireline, wireless and broadband networks.
SnowShore Media Firewall
The SnowShore Media Firewall is a high performance media processing platform that enables session-level security for internetworking across multiple carrier and/or enterprise IP networks. It performs critical real-time Network Address Translation (NAT) and dynamic firewalling functions and supports multiple signaling protocols and media transcoding functionality allowing secure traversal and interconnection of IP media streams across multiple network boundaries.
http://www.sipcenter.com/sip.nsf/html/Brooktrout+Technology
http://www.brooktrout.com/
MOVIAL - ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
The Movial Connect application suite rapidly integrates Presence, Instant Messaging, and Multimedia applications in mobile devices. The Movial Connect suite consists of: Presence Engine SDK, Instant Messaging, PoC, Voice Instant Messaging, Push-to-Video, Instant Conference, and Presence-enhanced Othello based on SIP and IMS standards.
http://www.movial.fi
You don’t need to discuss much, You don’t need to be coy, Roy, Just slip out the back, Jack, Make a new plan, Stan and get yourself to these great SIP events!
International SIP 2005
January 25 to 28, Paris, France. http://www.upperside.fr/intersip05/sip2005intro.htm
The SIP 2005 program will be dedicated to deployment examples. The objective is to show that SIP is a stable and functional protocol and operators can invest in architectures and roll out services.
This well-attended event has an excellent lineup of conferences presented by industry leaders including Instant Messaging and Presence, SIP Deployment Experiences, Deployment Standardization SIP beyond VoIP QoS and Security, Mobile Networks, Service and Public Safety, PBX and Hosted Services, QoS, Service Platforms, Multimedia Services and Interworking.
The SIP Summit at the Winter Pacific Telecommunications
January 16-18, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The SIP Summit at the Winter Pacific Telecommunications Council is the place to go if you need to understand the issues affecting the international SIP industry today and would benefit from having a heads-up on the future directions of the space. At our SIP Summits we speak about the present future rather than the present past. Since 1999, our SIP events have directly contributed to the growth of the SIP industry. They’re the place where ideas are exchanged, companies get started, and some companies received funding.
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Miami 2005 and SIP Workshop
February 22-25, 2005 - Hyatt Regency Hotel - Miami, Florida USA
"It is good to be in VoIP."
There are literally thousands of deployments happening in service provider networks, in our houses, and across government agencies and enterprises of all sizes. But how do we leverage VoIP to take our organizations to the next level? What hurdles are left to be cleared? INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Miami 2005 is where service providers, enterprises, government agencies, developers and resellers leave VoIP 1.0 behind and move onto VoIP 2.0.
China VoIP Conference & Expo 2005
Incorporating China SIP Conference
May 17 - 19, 2005, Beijing, PRC.
In 2005, China VoIP builds on six previous successful presentations to offer audiences a tightly focused forum for exchanging knowledge, learning, discussing and networking. An educational program, of which you can take part in, focuses on a comprehensive range of subjects, from the market for converged communication services and next generation infrastructure to SIP and softswitching.
| SEE HOW SIP IS FUELING THE EXTREME NETWORK MAKEOVER! |
The problem is all inside your head, she said to me. The answer is easy if you take it logically. I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free. There must be fifty ways to make an Extreme Network Makeover...
If you were unable to attend the 2004 Fall VON tradeshow in October, the SIP Center is bringing one exciting piece of it to you! Click on this link to view the webcast replay of the keynote address "Extreme Network Makeover" by Nortel's Jim Dondero, VP of Wireline and Optical Marketing, and see how SIP is a big part of the future "Multimedia Converged Network."
http://www31.nortelnetworks.com/webcast.cgi?id=2359
| SIP Forum Working Group Activities |
Just drop off the key, Lee and get yourself over to the SIP Forum for a look at SIP history in the making within the various working groups
The SIP Forum accomplishes its goals through the efforts of various Working Groups. Forum member volunteers provide the actual work within these groups, and meet on a periodic basis to produce various outputs for the Forum. Participation by both members and non-members is welcome in the majority of the Working Groups. The Forum and its members strongly encourage you to participate in the activities of these Working Groups.
http://www.sipforum.org
| Step right up and get your SIPKnowledge |
I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued. But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude. There must be fifty ways to learn about SIP. Here's a highly recommended one...
SIPKnowledge researches and teaches SIP and related technologies. They have just revised their e-learning products; SIP Illustrated and IMS Illustrated. This revision offers a tremendous addition to the IMS Illustrated course with a new advanced-topics module, which has 53 pages of detailed information about practical key issues such as security, application servers, billing and others. The latest revision is available now and the courses have had much positive feedback around the world.
You can buy these products from the web site and take the courses in your own time. Check them out here >>>
| VoIP comes of age, offering a new lease of life for copper telephone networks |
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again. I said I appreciate that and would you please explain About the fifty ways everyone will be using the Internet for their telephone calls...
By Jean-Pierre Dumolard, Cirpack President
At the height of the dotcom bubble, some vendors were airing TV advertisements heralding a major revolution – very soon, everyone would be using the Internet for their telephone calls. This claim was predicated on a sound analytical basis, inasmuch as our telephone networks were deployed in the 1970s, and modern Internet and IT technologies now allow telephony services to be provided at lower cost. Furthermore, new services made possible by combining voice, data processing and video technologies have the potential to revolutionize consumers' telephone usage… and telecom operators' revenue streams.
Read the full article here >>>
| Developers resource - TestYourVoIP.com |
A free, voice quality testing portal that enables users to independently measure the quality of their broadband VoIP connections via a quick, self-initiated test call.
You can call selected TestYourVoIP.com test points from either your mobile, Wi-Fi, traditional, or VoIP phones to measure VoIP quality. The hardware Verifiers at these locations are configured to answer calls just like a real phone and measure the quality of the conversation.
Additionally, visitors to TestYourVoIP.com can now compare the performance of various broadband providers to determine which ones are currently offering the best VoIP quality to their customers.
www.testyourvoip.com
More developers tools and resources >>>
| Popular titles in The SIP Center Bookstore |
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The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem: Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds
Gonzalo Camarillo, Miguel-Angel Garcia-Martin
SIP Demystified
Internet Communications Using SIP
SIP Center Bookstore >>>
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