We've said it before, we'll say it again. The world is getting smaller. Smell better.
-Hugo Boss
We have some great reading for you this month. Nortel Networks are releasing, free of charge, their documentation and test suites that allow third party companies to easily implement Nortel Networks SIP technology on their products. We quizzed Thom Baker, manager of Nortel Networks Multimedia Communications Application/Client Strategy team to tell us more about this.
Sun Microsystems give us the latest and greatest on SIP and JAIN. This special feature article is your food for thought on JSLEE as an ideal SIP server and includes some useful links and resources for further reading.
We welcome our newest member to The SIP Center team and we have added 40 new and updated SIP products and services to the Virtual SIP Trade Show! Also, see our developers tools and resources section for some new links.
New Associate Sponsor - OSIX AB
We are delighted to introduce our newest member to The SIP Center team. OSIX AB is a Swedish company offering telecom operators and service providers real-time CDR-generation and VoIP network surveillance. OSIX's expertise is to extract information directly from VoIP links, process it, and to deliver it in comprehensive and customer-defined formats. The products offered are helping operators, service providers and system providers to increase revenues, reduce income shortfall, and improve services.
http://www.osix.se
SIP Center Exclusive Interview with Nortel Networks Open Client Strategy Management
Recently, Nortel Networks announced its open client strategy which they say will set the stage for mass deployment of multimedia communications. Since many of our subscribers develop SIP-related devices and products, we decided to delve deeper into this announcement with Thom Baker, manager of Nortel Networks Multimedia Communications Application/Client Strategy team.
Here are our questions...
- SIP Center: What is the open client strategy?
- SIP Center: I understand that the documentation suite includes Nortel Networks SIP interoperability specifications. Since SIP is a standard, why is this required?
- SIP Center: So this will reduce the risk of SIP device development?
- SIP Center: Is this documentation suite free of charge?
- SIP Center: Given that SIP is an open standard, will Nortel make the documentation suite available to the wider community - For example via The SIP Center, SIP Forum and IETF?
- SIP Center: You have announced a number of vendors that are participating in this initiative. Could you elaborate on these?
- SIP Center: You also mentioned Polycom in your announcement...
- SIP Center: How do vendors access the Open Client Strategy Documentation Suite?
Read the full article here >>>
Free Webcast: Understanding Today's Multimedia Consumer
Nortel Networks Senior Marketing Manager, Steve Brock and Jennifer Longo, a Director of Research at Pollara discuss the results of Pollara's newly completed study focused entirely on SIP-based multimedia services opportunities within the United States residential market. Here you will learn the differences between the communication needs of urban and rural customers and will also discover whether broadband customers provide more or less of an opportunity for multimedia than those with dial-up connectivity.
Making the Net Work with JSLEE and JSIP
A SUN Microsystems contribution
JAIN SLEE 1.0 (JSLEE, JSR22 is an application server designed specifically for asynchronous event processing networks, by telecommunications vendors and carriers. It integrates a well defined event model with a generic component model. JSLEE is gaining traction worldwide with a variety of applications - IN replacement, Calling Card applications, Presence and Location, VoIP, VPN, etc. However, specific to SIP, JSLEE deployments in Europe for building out IMS networks. By plugging in a SIP resource such as JAIN SIP JSIP, JSR32 into JSLEE, a SIP application server is created to handle any number of SIP appllications. Yet JSLEE is network agnostic allowing operators to plug in other protocols to the application sever such as H.323 and Megaco. Network functions such as call control server, presence servers, registrar servers and location servers can all be built using the JSLEE platform.
So why is JSLEE ideal as a SIP server?
Read the full article here with links and resources to all things JAIN and SIP >>>
VoIP Developer Conference
August 3-4, 2004 * San Jose, California
www.voipdeveloper.com
VoIP Developer Conference(TM) is the only event focusing on educating the pioneers building the next generation of IP-based communications products and services.
Developers in the communications space need to attend The VoIP Developer Conference(TM) to learn the state of the market as well as the future of VoIP and the development opportunities it affords them. Communications has never been so open, so flexible, and so customizable. This conference is designed to teach the development community about the latest tools available to develop the next generation of VoIP applications.
SIP Center Sponsorship opportunities
With more than 45,000 visitors per month (up from 25,000 this time last year,) and a targeted mailing list of 18,000+ SIP focused subscribers, The SIP Center is a great way to showcase your SIP products and technology amongst a focused community.
Why not showcase your company along-side these leaders in the commercial development of SIP technology?:
Current Principal Sponsors:
3Com, ACE*COMM, AG Projects, Convedia, Data Connection, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Hotsip, Interactive Intelligence, Lucent Technologies, Mitel, NetNumber, Netrake, NMS Communications, Nortel Networks, RADVISION, Ridgeway Systems and Software, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and Ubiquity Software.
There are many benefits of sponsorship including:
- Recognition as an industry leader and actively involved in the commercial development of SIP
- 24 x 7 visibility amongst a SIP focused audience
- Promotion at SIP trade shows and events
- Your logo appearing throughout the site
- Regular editorial space in our newsletter
- A showcase of your SIP products and technology on the site
- A targeted channel for press releases and PR opportunities
- And much, much more.
The next step is easy! Just call +44 (0)1633 765 654 or e-mail Kathleen Misson for a full proposal. I will be happy to discuss any ideas you have to work with us as a sponsor.
Careers in SIP
The SIP Center careers page is a free community resource for jobseekers and employers. As SIP and VoIP has been hotting up recently, we have posted a number of new listings.
http://www.sipcenter.com/sip.nsf/html/Careers
Please email mailto:editor@sipcenter.com if you would like to post a relevant listing to this page.
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Ubiquity Software Corporation - Founder of The SIP Center
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As the next-generation service delivery network continues to emerge, converged applications will drive service providers' infrastructure deployments as well as their revenue. Ubiquity's SIP Application Server is both a carrier-class deployment platform and a programmable, standards-based application-creation environment (ACE) that allows providers to develop, roll out and host these next generation services. Further information >>>
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New developers resources added to The SIP Center
RULI - RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface for querying DNS SRV resource records. The goal is to promote the wide deployment of SRV-cognizant software. RULI aims to fully support SRV-related standards. There are bindings for PHP and Perl. IPv6 is supported.
International VoIP Council
The mission of the Council is to disseminate the message that VoIP has vastly improved, is reliable, can lower operating costs, and delivers new, meaningful features and benefits for both the business and individual user. The council will serve as the unified, worldwide "voice" for VoIP within the business, consumer and technology communities, and be the international organization representing all elements of VoIP.
Nortel Networks open client strategy
Nortel Networks open client strategy is an initiative designed to significantly improve the availability of off-the-shelf compatible SIP devices for Nortel Networks Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5100 and 5200 We are releasing, free of charge, our documentation and test suites that allow third party companies to easily implement Nortel Networks SIP technology on their products.
More developers tools and resources >>>
Events diary
VoIP Developer Conference
August 3-4, 2004, San Jose, CA.
Sipit 15
August 23 - 27, 2004. Grand Hyatt Taipei
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo Fall 2004
October 4-7, 2004, Los Angeles, CA.
SIP Workshop (part of INTERNET TELEPHONY show)
October 6-7, 2004, Los Angeles, CA.
IIR - 3G World Congress & Exhibition 2004
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, November 15-19, 2004.
International SIP 2005: Amplifying the Success of 2004
January 25 to 28, 2005, Paris.
More events listings >>>
New SIP Products showcased in the Virtual SIP Trade Show
Here are the changes and additions to SIP Center products section this month. Updated daily and with more than 1,000 company listings, the Virtual SIP Trade show is the most comprehensive SIP products directory on the web. You'll find further information about these companies and their SIP products at the Virtual SIP Trade Show:
GASP! Where have all the new product listings gone?...
Click here
SIP Center Principal Sponsors
3Com, ACE*COMM, AG Projects, Convedia, Data Connection, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Hotsip, Interactive Intelligence, Lucent Technologies, Mitel, NetNumber, Netrake, NMS Communications, Nortel Networks, RADVISION, Ridgeway Systems and Software, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and Ubiquity Software.
Sponsors page >>>