CONTENTS:

ENUM on its way to maturity >>>
SIP testing... under GNU GPL license >>>
Carrier-Class SIP Platforms and Revenue Prospects >>>
SIP Center company spotlight - IPFONE TELEFONIA Brazil >>>
TMC VoIP Developer Conference >>>
SIP Summit and SIPop! At Supercomm 2004 >>>
Siemens Redefines Communication Over IP Market With Announcement Of HiPath(TM) 8000 Real-Time IP System For Very Large Enterprises >>>

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This month's new SIP Products showcased in the Virtual SIP Trade Show >>>
New and Popular Titles in The SIP Center Bookstore >>>
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Wise words

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
- Oscar Wilde

ENUM on its way to maturity

By Adrian Georgescu
AG Projects
May 7th, 2004

ENUM, a convergence tool for translating telephone numbers into Internet addresses used by IP telephony and next generation mobile networks like UMTS, is a key ingredient for the transition to the Next Generation Networks.

ENUM introduces the revolutionary possibility to get the routing decision of telephone calls outside of the chassis of telephone switches and put it into the hands of end-users. Anyone using ENUM would be able to redirect personal or business phone calls to self-chosen Internet addresses in the form of e-mail addresses. ENUM provides a solution for number portability as well, because it is provider independent.

As with any revolution, the most difficult thing to change is mind-set. ENUM may be seen as a threat by some parts of the telecom industry, which sees large chunks of international traffic melting down into the new global network. It is perceived however as a new recursive revenue generator by start-ups flourishing across the world. Such start-ups are the new type of telephony companies, the "Voice over IP providers", which capitalize on the possibility of launching new services with small investments made possible by the rapid penetration of broadband Internet.

ENUM has had its long journey from Internet draft status (since 2000), through several national trials (like Austria, UK, Japan and others) and commercial test-beds. There are now signs that ENUM enters its deserved maturity.

Read the full article here >>>

More ENUM Resources:

ENUM Charter

Number resolution - ENUM and TRIP

ENUM Products and Services

 

SIP testing... under GNU GPL license

Sipp is a GNU GPL open source software, provided to you by Hewlett-Packard engineers. HP does not provide any support or warranty concerning Sipp but you can likely get email-based support from the sipp users community.

Sipp is a performance testing tool for the SIP protocol. It features:

• Dependency free compilation (no external library to buy/install)
• Works on HPUX, Tru64 and Linux systems
  Embedded basic SipStone (http://www.sipstone.org/) user agent scenarios (UAC & UAS) that establish and release multiple calls with INVITE and BYE
• Accept custom XML scenario files describing SIP call flows
• Dynamically adjustable call rate
• Dynamic display of statistics about running traffic (active calls, call rate, round trip delay between specified messages, messages count)
• Periodic CSV statistics dumps (spreadsheet applications compatible)
• TCP and UDP (with retransmission management) over one or multiple sockets - enabling a true emulation of thousands of user agents
• Posix regular expressions and variables in scenarios - allowing complex call flows
  Sipp's homepage: http://sipp.sourceforge.net/
  

Heavy Reading, Light Reading Inc.'s market research division, has released a complete competitive analysis of application platforms that enable telecom service providers to deliver new revenue-generating services using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - the communications technology that is emerging as the linchpin for integrating all forms of communication in next-generation networks.

"SIP Hosted Services: A Heavy Reading Competitive Analysis," a 56-page report, delivers a comprehensive evaluation of SIP platforms now being sold to service providers covering SIP Centrex; SIP contact centers; SIP conferencing; and SIP unified messaging. The report includes in-depth comparative product data covering 78 different SIP application platforms from 47 vendors, including 14 public companies and 33 private companies.

Price: $3,495; published in PDF format. The price includes an enterprise license covering all employees at the purchaser's company. For additional information, or to request a free executive summary of this report, please contact Dave Williams.

Further information >>>

 

SIP Center company spotlight - IPFONE TELEFONIA Brazil

Pioneira na Amèrica Latina na venda de telefones IP e adaptadores para uso residencial e SOHO a empresa IPFONE TELEFONIA IP foi criada com o objetivo de desmistificar e de facilitar a compra e o uso de equipamentos que utilizam a tecnologia de voz sobre IP.

O objetivo da IPFONE è oferecer somente produtos de primeira qualidade e a preços acessíveis, deixando claro ao consumidor as funcionalidades e características de cada aparelho. Um ponto básico na atuação da IPFONE è oferecer somente aparelhos que utilizem tecnologia aberta e que tenham constante atualização por parte dos fabricantes, evitando assim a perda dos investimentos de nossos clientes.

www.ipfone.com.br

English version:

The first VoIP only store in Brazil, IPFONE TELEFONIA IP was created to desmistify VoIP to the general public and sell the best brands of IPphones, adaptors and gateways.

Working only with devices that use SIP like SNOM, Grandstream, Cisco, Siemens, Audiocodes and others, IPFONE TELEFONIA IP deliver all devices configured with free services like FWD or any ITSP that the costumers choose.

IPFONE TELEFONIA IP objective is to make the new technology accessible to the Home and SoHo markets in Brazil and Latin America.

www.ipfone.com.br

If you are a new company entering the SIP arena and would like us to shine the spotlight on you, please email editor@sipcenter.com

 

TMC 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.

The opportunities in IP telephony continue to multiply as Federal and State/Local governments, consumers, corporations, and service providers all begin to deploy the latest IP telephony solutions.

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.

The VoIP Developer Conference(TM) is the only place where developers can see demonstrations of actual development tools they need to be aware of. This event is the perfect forum to meet, greet, and network with like-minded developers building the future of telecommunications.

www.voipdeveloper.com

 

VON SIP Events - VON Canada, SIP Summit and SIPop!

VON Canada:

Pulver.com's first VON Canada Conference is scheduled for May 18-20 at the Hilton Suites/Markham Conference Center, Toronto. Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the IP Communications premier event and the first VON show held in Canada. VON Canada will feature a conference session on SIP Deployment and a session outlining the IETF's efforts to ensure adherence to SIP standards. Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, will make his first Keynote presentation in North America. For more information visit us at www.pulver.com/canada2004 .

The SIP Summit at Supercomm will be taking place June 21-23 in Chicage, IL.

The pulver.com SIP Events are the place to go if you need to understand the issues effecting the international SIP industry today and would benefit from having a heads up on the future directions of the space. At our SIP Summit events 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 and has been the place where ideas were exchanged, companies got started and where some companies received funding. http://www.pulver.com/sipsummit/index.html

SIPop!

SIPop! premiered at Fall 2001 VON. SIPop! is the industry's first and only General Availability Interoperability Event, coordinated by pulver.com. The event is designed to help display entire working solutions by the SIP community. While other SIP Interoperability events exist, none offer solutions that are available for sale and installation in a production network.

SIPop! 2004 will be taking place June 22-24 in Chicago at McCormick Place Co-located with SuperComm 2004. http://www.sipop.com/
 

The SIP-based HiPath 8000 system offers an industry leading real-time Web Services Based Communication Architecture. It was created - from start to finish - for easy IT management through central data application deployments, open design criteria and interoperability with existing voice infrastructures.

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SIP Center Sponsor's News

• RADvision Offers France Telecom's eConf Multimedia Solution
• Siemens to Launch Next-Gen IP PBX
• Data Connection and Interpeak Unveil Embedded IP Routing Software Solution
• RADVISION ADDS SIP/H.323 SOFTWARE
• VAvox Chooses Data Connection's MeetingServer for Best-of-Breed Web Conferencing
• Interactive Intelligence Reports Profitable First Quarter Financial Results
• MIT'S Technology Review Magazine Recognizes Lucent Technologies for 'Killer Patent' on Voice Over IP
• Miercom Rates Interactive Intelligence IP PBX Number One in Performance
• 3Com Offers New IP Business Phone
• FERMA and Convedia Deliver IP-Based Mobile Applications
• Bell Net invests E5 MEUR in Hotsip
  PointOne Picks Convedia for VOIP
• Siemens Integrates WebEx Into OpenScape(TM) Enterprise Communications Solution
• Network Integration with Lifeworks (Siemens)
• 3Com and Qovia Team up to Provide

Evolving Service Delivery Platforms & Intelligent Networks
17-19 May 2004
Brussels, Belgium.

VON Canada 2004 Conference & Expo
May 18-20, 2004, Toronto.

VON Europe 2004 Conference & Expo
June 7-10 at the Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK.

SUPERCOMM 2004
June 20 - 24, 2004, Chicago IL

The SIP Summit at Supercomm
June 21-23 in Chicage, IL.

SIPop! 2004
June 22-24 in Chicago

JavaOne
June 28 - July 1, 2004

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.

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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 350 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:

• 3Com 3102 Business Phone, the first member of a family of Internet protocol (IP) desktop phones designed to meet the needs of enterprises of any size and support
• 3Com's own call control protocols and industry-standard session initiation protocol (SIP).
• Amitelo Communications - Connecting urbanizations in southern Spain to Amitelo's network via wireless technology combined with the SIP technology
• BayPackets - BayPackets is a communications software company that provides a Next-Generation Network Services Platform
• BroadVoice - The BroadVoice service is based on the SIP protocol, allowing the company to accommodate a wide range of end user devices including a small analog telephone adapter (ATA) that allows the consumer to connect the service to their existing telephones.
• Brooktrout Technology - The A1-G2 Media Server is a complete ready to deploy SIP media server with proven protocol interoperability (SIP MSCML, VXML)
• ClearSight Networks - Network analysis tools for troubleshooting at the application layer
• DyLogicDMD - MIRIAL is the most advanced software-only client for professional quality videoconferencing. H.323 and SIP fully compliant.
• Heppner EDV - SIPPSTAR and Spiderstar IP PBX-solutions
• INTRACOM SA - IP phone offering the whole scale of VoIP functionality.
• Iphonica LLC - (a) 1-port FXS and 2-port FXS/FXO H.323/SIP based VoIP gateways offering a variety of features. (b) Ethernet IP Phone. (c) Dial-up IP Phone.
  LocustWorld - Wireless broadband pioneer LocustWorld has added support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to its range of mesh networking equipment.
• Navigata - WebCall by Navigata is ideal for busy families who require a second phone line, people who regularly communicate with family or friends in a WebCall served area or people looking for an economical communications tool. The service, which runs on Nortel
• Networks Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200 platform, will allow high speed internet customers from anywhere in Canada to select a phone number from any WebCall location, a set of enhanced features and a long distance package.
• Neon Software - Popular Network Management Software
• Maps SIP-based VoIP Devices, Diagrams Router and Switch Connectivity, and Adds XML Access to Real Time Asset Management Data
• Netbricks - SIP-BRICKS: a field-proven high-performance SIP implementation.
• NICs Intec Co. Ltd - NICs Intec ATA, Gateways, IP phone are perfect solution for residential, SOHO & enterprise user.
• Pandora Networks - Worksmart Hosted Service, the first complete IP Centrex service with virtual PBX, video, universal instant messaging, and collaboration for complete communications solutions for small and medium enterprises.
• Peninsula Communications - Provides sales, installation and support of Zultys Technologies complete line of IP products. We also provide security soultions for Voip enabled networks.
• Radio Data Network srl - Our products VOICE OVER IP integrate with CRM provide the controls and monitoring capability needed for these modern call centers
• TeleWare - Intelligent eXchange platform provides a gateway between the IP world of H.323, H.450 and SIP and the traditional telephony world of DPNSS/DASS/Q931 operating over PBX, VPN and PSTN networks.
• Telsey - Residential Gateways ADSL, FTTH, VoIP
• Teltone - The Harmony VoIP test platform supports SIP, ISDN, and PSTN signaling as well as PESQ voice quality measurement.
• Uniden America - The Uniden UIP200 is a SIP VoIP phone that is RFC 3261 compliant and can be used with an IP-PBX or as an IP Centrex solution.
  The Voice Peering Fabric - The VPF ENUM Registry allows organizations to terminate calls between one another at no termination, creating a "centrex" like calling between one another.
• ZGroup North America is a worldwide voice and data service provider. Providing comprehensive communication solutions with an excellent quality/price mix. Communications equipment, Turnkey Telco, Office solutions, PC Phones and SMS/Web Call.
• Zhone - MALC IP Access Gateway (IP-AG) Provides Migration Flexibility From Circuit to Packet With Full Support for SIP and MGCP Signaling
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