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Contents:
- New tools and resources added to The SIP Center
- SIP: una tecnologia per reti e servizi di prossima generazione
- Motorola Joins Forum to Advance IP Technology
- Enterprising with SIP - A Technology Overview
- Best Practices for Implementing Advanced Voice Services
- A selection of IMS Articles
- SIP skills are key to internet telephony
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| New tools and resources added to The SIP Center |
Here you go folks... There are many many resources out there for developers to get developing. Here are a few I added this month. Want more? Try our developers resource section. Do you have a link you would like to add here? Please let me know.
ENUM RTC Softphone
The ENUM RTC Softphone is an ENUM anbled SIP softphone. The softphone uses the Microsoft SIP stack (MS RTC API) and the ENUM Active-X control from JPRS.
oRTP - a Real-time Transport Protocol stack under LGPL
LIVE.COM Streaming Media - This code forms a set of C++ libraries for multimedia streaming, using open standard protocols (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP).
Morgan RTP DirectShow Filters - a set of DirectShow filters that allows you to perform media-streaming on your Windows PC.
Open Source SIP stacks compared - By Martin van den Berg, August 2004.
The Robust Audio Tool (RAT) - An open-source audio conferencing and streaming application.
Java Media Framework API (JMF) - Enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to applications and applets built on Java technology. This optional package, which can capture, playback, stream, and transcode multiple media formats, extends the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) for multimedia developers by providing a powerful toolkit to develop scalable, cross-platform technology.
RTP Tools (Version 1.18) - Columbia University rtptools distribution consists of a number of small applications that can be used for processing RTP data.
vomit - voice over misconfigured[1] internet telephones
UDP Packet Reflector / Forwarder - This application operates in two modes: 1. Packet reflector that sends UDP packets back to the host that sent them. 2. Packet forwarder that forwards packets between a number of unicast UDP sources acting as bridge when multicast is not available.
Tech-Invite - a Portal devoted to SIP and surrounding technologies
| SIP: una tecnologia per reti e servizi di prossima generazione |
New SIP book for Italian readers
Gianni CANAL
ed. Telecom Italia Lab - Dicembre 2004
ISBN 88-85404-37-5
Prezzo 22 Euro
Questo volume č stato scritto con l’obiettivo di fornire una guida approfondita alla conoscenza del protocollo SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) definito in ambito IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) come protocollo di segnalazione per offrire servizi di comunicazione, su rete a pacchetto IP, sia multimediali (voce, video) sia di messaggistica (chat, instant messaging) sino al controllo di sessioni di giochi interattivi.
Nel libro sono delineati gli elementi essenziali per capire la tecnologia SIP e per identificarne i relativi ambiti di applicabilitā. E’ anche presentata una visione d’insieme dei servizi che saranno offerti all’utenza con i nuovi prodotti SIP disponibili sul mercato.
More information and ordering: Gianni.Canal@TILAB.COM
| Motorola Joins Forum to Advance IP Technology |
 
AARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill - March 28, 2005 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today furthered its commitment to deliver seamless mobility to audiences worldwide by becoming a principal sponsor of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Center. Motorola will contribute significantly to the forum’s mission to educate the industry, promote SIP standards for Internet Protocol (IP) and accelerate SIP service deployments, as well as become the first sponsor to share its expertise on topics such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology through new educational webinars on the Center’s web site.
Founded by Ubiquity Software in 2000, the not-for-profit Center provides an average of 55,000 visitors per month with the tools and resources they need to investigate, develop, test and market new technologies based on SIP. This open signaling protocol is aiding the telecommunications industry in merging wireline or wireless communication sessions with the Internet to create a realm of multimedia services for new 3G networks, including video telephony, chat and multimedia conferencing.
Read the full article here >>>
| Enterprising with SIP - A Technology Overview |
SIP is an application layer, peer-to-peer communication protocol that facilitates openness, simplicity, flexibility, and reuse within IP communication architectures. This paper offers a look at how Avaya views SIP in enterprise evolution, provides a technical overview of SIP and a comparison with H.323 and H.248/MEGACO, and outlines a practical guideline for deploying enterprise SIP networks.
Read the full whitepaper here (PDF 713 Kb) >>>
| Best Practices for Implementing Advanced Voice Services |
Advanced voice services are almost universally recognized as the path to increasing revenue per subscriber, reducing customer churn, adding new revenue growth and increasing profitability of telecommunications companies and service providers. Carriers and ISPs are increasingly reliant on voice services as a central component of their business model now that dial tone revenues are falling. However, the cost and complexity of developing and deploying advanced voice services into traditional environments has kept many companies from fully capitalizing on this huge opportunity. Download here (634 kb) >>>
| Mini Tutorial - SIP and Personal/selective presence |
Introducing the first of a series of mini-tutorials on SIP presented by SIPKnowledge. Personal/selective presence is the very essence of how SIP can play an important role in enhancing our personal and professional communications. Here's how it works...
| Broadband Wireless Access Forum |
Opening new revenue streams and achieving effective differentiation on the migration path towards truly mobile wireless broadband services 14th – 15th June 2005, Vienna
Broadband wireless access technologies are currently being tested and rolled out worldwide, promising customers high-speed data access on the move. The migration from today’s wireless technologies to fully mobility-enabling standards will present exciting opportunities as well as real strategic challenges to companies that own and operate fixed and mobile telecommunications networks.
The Broadband Wireless Access Forum will offer you a unique opportunity to draw immediately transferable lessons from the key early adopters and thought leaders in this space.
For more information or to register go here or email paul_osmond@osneymedia.co.uk. SIP Center members are entitled to a 10% discount - please remember to quote 798SIP when booking.
| A selection of IMS Articles |
History of IMS
IMS Guide
IMS: A New Spin on Convergence
IMS: A Blueprint for Fixed Mobile Convergence
| SIP skills are key to internet telephony |
Salaries for networking and telecoms specialists with SIP skills are high. What is it?
The key to soft telephony, instant messaging and much else, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used for setting up communications sessions between devices on the internet.
SIP is a lightweight client easily embedded in end-user devices, including PCs, personal digital assistants and 3G phones, enabling them to communicate with and provide services to other SIP-enabled devices.
Early adopters concentrated on internet telephony - voice over IP - but quality and reliability were poor and traditional telecoms companies, seeing their infrastructure investment threatened, were resistant.
Now telecoms companies such as Siemens and Nortel are in the vanguard, along with Cisco, Microsoft and a host of start-up companies. Issues such as quality of service and security are being tackled and applications are becoming more sophisticated.
Read the full article >>>
| Visit the SIP Forum web site |
The SIP Forum's mission is to advance the adoption of products and services based on the Session Initiation Protocol - SIP. The Forum provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, highlights successful applications and deployments, and directs activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability. The Forum promotes SIP as the technology choice for multimedia / real-time communication session control throughout the Internet, corporate networks and within next generation wireless networks.
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