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Editors note:
Happy new year!
We are anticipating a ferocious amount of activity in 2005 as new and major service deployments are announced. New and cool applications will buzz amongst corporate and home consumers and perhaps the most interesting we will see this year will be in the wireless domain. The SIP Center is gearing up to provide information, news and resources about this hot topic so if you would like to contribute, please get in touch editor@sipcenter.com.
Once again, we are announcing new sponsors. It's great to see continuous activity on The SIP Center - it shows what a hot topic this is and how important SIP is in our Next Gen communications. Our developers tools and resources section is worth a lookie this month - you never know what handy tools you might find. Some important events are on the way and our SIPpie readers even get a discount!
Wishing each and every one of you a happy, safe and prosperous 2005!
Kathleen Misson
Editor
Contents:
- What is SIP? - A definition.
- Introducing our first new sponsors for 2005!
- NEW! - More tools and resources for developers
- Discount for all SIP Center members @ VON
- Demonstrating the Business Case for IMS: Deployment and Implementation
- NEW Titles in The SIP Center Bookstore
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A definition from SIPKnowledge.
SIP is an acronym for Session Initiation Protocol, which is a signaling protocol used for establishing, managing and terminating, interactive communication sessions between users in IP networks (Internet, Intranets.) Such sessions include voice phone calls, multi-media conference sessions, instant messaging chats, interactive games, web page click-to-dial and voice-enriched e-commerce, to name a few. http://www.sipknowledge.com/sip_demo1.htm
If you're new to SIP and you're looking for an overview of the basics, there is plenty of help on The SIP Center too. Try our Introduction section >>>
"Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.", C-3PO.
| Introducing our first new sponsors for 2005! |
SOLINET and Futurenetz are very welcome new members to our team this year. Products like SOLINET's SIP testsuite will be in great demand to fine tune SIP networks as more and more live deployments are announced in 2005. 3G Mobile is a HOT Topic! Be prepared! Get in touch with Futurenetz for some training to get a head-start.
Futurenetz offers comprehensive competence in SIP technologies for the 3G mobile industry. Its expertise on wireless systems (GSM, GPRS, UMTS) and IP technologies is combined with extensive training experience to provide 3G operators and vendors with high quality courses in the area of IP Multimedia Services using the Session Initiation Protocol over UMTS. Technicians as well as non-technicians involved in the development and introduction of the IP Multimedia Subsystem can get a solid head-start in emerging mobile-services such as Conferencing, Push-To-Talk, Presence, Instant Messaging and many others... www.futurenetz.com
The SOLINET VoIP conformance test platform provides a cost-effective environment for running ETSI TIPHON signalling conformance test scenarios. It also includes a powerful, yet intuitive, SDL graphical development tool-chain for user-defined scenarios. The SIP testsuite consists of scenarios for testing User Agent, Proxy and Re-direct Server, and covers all the main protocol areas including Registration & Authentication, Session Origination/Termination, Messaging, Timers,
Invalid/Valid/Inopportune testing. www.SOLINET.com
"Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator.", Luke Skywalker.
| NEW! - More tools and resources for developers |
The tools and resources section has been expanded to include a whole host of new links to all kinds of interesting and useful things. There are now 11 Categories of 'stuff'. If you know of one that may be useful to the community, please let me know and I'll add it here. Enjoy!
Codecs
Developers Programs and Community sites
Free SIP and ENUM Services
SIP Client Software, User Agents, Source Code
Testing and Measurement
SIP Servers, Proxys and Gateways
SIP Parsers and Stacks
SIP and DNS
Other Stacks, code and bits and pieces
"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." --Ben to Luke
| Discount for all SIP Center members @ VON |
Spring 2005 VON, San Jose, CA – March 7-10 2005
Get the very latest in VoIP technology, standards and implementations at VON – the VoIP industry trade show since 1997 – and the world’s largest and leading IP communications event. Save $100 off the Full Conference or VON Package price for SIP members – quote SIPS1 as your registration code. Limited time offer – book today at http://www.von.com
"Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.", C-3PO to Han.
| Demonstrating the Business Case for IMS: Deployment and Implementation |
12 & 13 April 2005, Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Belgium.
Learn from operators such as Orange, O2, 3, Telefonica and Mobikom" reporting on trial deployments. Demonstrating the Business Case for IMS Deployment and Implementation will ask:
- How do you justify the costs for IMS?
- What are the trigger services for IMS?
- How should operators plan their network migration?
- How can full interoperability be achieved?
To register your interest as a delegate or speaker, please contact:
Catherine Hallowell +44 (0) 20 7017 5110.
"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.", Yoda.
| NEW Titles in The SIP Center Bookstore |
Signaling And Switching For Packet Telephony (Artech House Telecommunications Library)
The IMS : IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain
SIP Center Bookstore
"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda
The Technical Working Group is a new working group as of 2004. It combines several old groups (Certification and SIP Devices, which have now been retired) under a more flexible umbrella. Further information >>>
"This bounty hunter is my kind of scum. Fearless and inventive." --Jabba (concerning Boushh)
New SIP products and services added to The SIP Center
Whitepaper library
User Agent Downloads and 24 x 7 public SIP Application Server
What is SIP?
Latest SIP News and Announcements
SIP Phones
Service Providers |