Editors note:

Once again the buzz in the industry over the past month has been significant. There were some awesome product and technology announcements at VON and Internet Telephony Conference and Expo. In fact, there were 175 SIP news announcements added to our news section last month! We've just added a you-beaut, ultra-snazzy, new database for our news items and all of our news archives are there back to January 2001 when there were just six items! You've come a long way baby (like Fatboy Slim.)

We have another two Principal Sponsors to introduce to you! This month, please meet Antepo and Quintum Technologies. You really do need to know something about SIP in Enterprise IM Systems and VoIP switching. See below for some great ideas!

One of our members e-mailed me with some brain fodder for this month. See our feature 'VoIP For the Rest of Us' below. It's fantastic to have contributions like this to keep the SIP Center community buzzing. If you're a writer and have something to say, there are 18,500 or so SIPpie readers who will at least listen to what you have to say! E-mail me with your ideas.

Have a cracking month everyone!

Best wishes,

Kathleen Misson
Editor

Contents:

• Our new Sponsors: Antepo and Quintum Technologies
• VoIP For the Rest of Us
• Ubiquity Software Debuts ‘VOIP Plus’ for Service Providers
• SiVuS vulnerability scanner for VoIP networks that use the SIP protocol
• Sidebar: SIP over WLAN: Enterprise Goes Wireless
• Pulver.com Winter 2005 SIP Summit
• 3G Mobile World Forum 2005
• SIP Forum Service Provider Working Group

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Antepo

Headquartered in New York, NY, Antepo is the world's foremost provider of standards-based, carrier-class, enterprise IM systems. Antepo Open Presence Network ™ (OPN) Systems allow companies to employ real-time communications to expedite mission-critical business processes. OPN System connects users across protocols and enterprise boundaries, linking fixed and mobile Instant Messaging environments into interoperable, extended collaborative networks. Antepo provides software and related professional services to telecommunication companies, financial institutions and globally diversified companies in the US and internationally.

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www.antepo.com

Quintum Technologies

Quintum has expanded on the limited capabilities of standard VoIP gateways by introducing the concept of an intelligent VoIP Switch with the Tenor® product line. The Tenor® product line offers solutions from 2 to 24 port analog devices, up to 16 channels of BRI, and digital systems that support up to 32 T1/E1/PRI trunks. Tenor® products provide much more than just simple gateway functionality, they provide all the elements required to deploy a VoIP switching network. Quintum also markets the Tenor® Call Relay Session Boarder Controllers, Tenor® Gatekeeper and Tenor® Call Routing Server.

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www.quintum.com

- By Dan Deveson.

This month we start a new series of articles on Voice Over IP for the Rest of Us, by Dan Deveson. Dan is an engineering consultant specializing in life-safety critical communications, and has spent over 20 years designing and deploying public safety, utility and transit voice and data systems. Dan is a recent convert to SIP, and this month he explains why in a well-founded and humorous review of key issues and historical perspective.

Here's Dan's article >>>

SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT

VOIP Plus is part of a distributed SIP-based network architecture that includes third party SIP phones, Media Servers, Session Border Controllers, Media Gateways, Subscriber Databases and Billing Servers. Together, these elements provide all of the functions a service provider needs to build, deploy and manage IP voice “plus” enhanced services, such as core call control, hosting enhanced services, service creation, multimedia processing, billing and CDR generation, security and PSTN interconnection.

VOIP Plus enables new business models, pricing strategies and service packages that are difficult or impossible to match in the circuit switched world and helps service providers capitalize on the innovative rapidly growing VOIP market. For emerging competitive carriers, VOIP Plus lowers the barriers to entry and provides a means of rapidly bringing to market new SIP-based VOIP services. For non-facilities based CLECs, VOIP Plus provides an alternative to leasing network elements from the incumbent and enables a transition from UNE-P to voice over broadband. VOIP Plus also provides a means for existing service providers to transition from legacy PSTN networks to next generation SIP-based VOIP services, makes it easier for regional carriers to expand into new geographic markets, and gives IXCs and long distance providers a new avenue into local telephony markets.

Further information >>>

SiVuS is the first publicly available vulnerability scanner for VoIP networks that use the SIP protocol.

Info and download here >>>

More developers tools and resources >>>

Here's an extract from an article on TMC Internet Telephony that may be of interest...

Network architecture has evolved in recent times to make the enterprise experience as enriching as it is in public wireless networks. While defining the next generation of enterprise networks, we need to concentrate on following issues:

• Affordability.
• Innovation.

To provide seamless roaming, enterprises need dual-mode handsets, which can support both WLAN and GSM (or any other mobile standards). SIP will be the protocol of choice for dual mode handsets, as this ensures:

• Standards-based interface between handset and servers;
• Environment to create more innovative services for enterprise as well as services which can exploit converged mobile and enterprise networks;
• Compliance to next generation mobile networks (e.g. 3GPP, 3GPP2);
• SIP-based registration (location update), authentication, and call transfer across enterprise servers, enabling true roaming.

Check out the full article here...

In fact, there are a few great articles in Internet Telephony this month. Check 'em out here...

The SIP Summit at the Winter Pacific Telecommunications Council
January 16-18, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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 2001, 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.

For information on how you can sponsor, exhibit at or attend the Winter 2005 SIP Summit, please contact Christopher Erb at (631) 961-8987 or via email at cerb@pulver.com

Further information >>>

11th - 14th January 2005, Tokyo, Japan
www.3gmobileforum.com

The 3GMobile World Forum is now entering its fourth year with a new look and even bigger expectations. 2004 saw 450 senior global attendees, 75 exclusive top level presentations and 60 industry leading sponsors and partners. Since 2001, this essential event has grown and adapted to the 3G mobile telecom industry's needs and this year will be no exception. With a revamped format and most ambitious ever programme, the countdown is now on for 2005.

The SP-WG group has placed a top priority for defining emergency services using SIP. The requirements target the global markets. As many of you already know, the first successful E-911 trial was completed between Vonage and Intrado in Rhode Island. For the trial, Vonage has used industry standard SIP protocol to direct queries to an Intrado service for routing instructions and route the call to the Public Safety Answering Point ("PSAP"). Intrado's service placed the customer's address and telephone number into the Automatic Location Information (ALI) server.

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