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- Avaya Sponsors The SIP Center!
- Motorola Sponsors The SIP Center!
- Evolving to Converged Communications with SIP
- Improving Quality in IAD and IP Phone Testing
- International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium Request For Feedback
- About the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC)
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| Avaya Sponsors The SIP Center! |
 Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable IP telephony systems and communications software applications and services. Avaya is developing SIP-based telephony, instant messaging, conferencing and collaboration solutions for enterprises and service providers worldwide. Through seamless integration of SIP within existing telephony networks, organizations have a clear migration path to converged communications that fully leverages their existing investments.
Avaya's SIP Showcase on The SIP Center >>>
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| Motorola Sponsors The SIP Center! |
 Motorola, Inc., a leading provider of SIP-based solutions ranging from robust network infrastructure technology to handset devices, has become a Principal Sponsor of the SIP Center. Motorola's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), based on Motorola's Softswitch platform, offers carriers a highly scalable system for seamlessly connecting converged VoIP and multimedia applications across a variety of end-user devices and environments. This convergence is enhancing personal collaboration through value-added applications such as Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC), video conferencing, multimedia group messaging and more. For more information on Motorola's SIP Solutions, visit Motorola's SIP Showcase or www.motorola.com/products.
| Evolving to Converged Communications with SIP |
A whitepaper from Avaya
Organizations with multi-vendor, multi-application and widely distributed communications systems need a reliable way to integrate and optimize their network infrastructure. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) supports converged communication applications by placing control of the communication across distributed networked entities and smoothly integrating the various system levels. This white paper is designed to help business leaders understand the impact of SIP-based converged communication in Voice over IP (VoIP), Unified Communication and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. This paper also offers CIOs with guidelines for migration towards an enterprise SIP network.
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| Improving Quality in IAD and IP Phone Testing |
A RADVISION Technology White Paper
Software bugs cost the U.S. economy alone nearly US$60 billion annually, according to a study published by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)1. More than half of the costs are borne by software users and the remainder by software developers and vendors. According to the study, not all software errors are preventable, but more than a third of the losses—or an estimated $22.2 billion—could be avoided by an improved testing infrastructure that lets developers and vendors identify and remove software defects earlier and more effectively. Currently, most errors are discovered late in the development process or during post-sale software use. To boost software quality, testing needs to be improved, the NIST concluded. Standardized testing tools, suites, scripts, reference data, implementations, and metrics that have undergone a rigorous certification process would have a large impact on inadequacies that now plague software markets.
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| International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium Request For Feedback |
The SIP Forum Service Providers Working Group has received a liaison from the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium, asking for feedback to the current document by March 9th. The IMTC UMMAP Recommendation A.1, version 0.8.7.1 is available at http://www.imtc.org/activity_groups/UMMAP.asp . Please respond to the IMTC editor Alan Stillerman (astiller@ihets.org) or to Dave Olson, Chair IMTC UMMAP AG (dolson@more.net)
About the document:
1.0 - Purpose and Scope
The IMTC Universal Multimedia Addressing Platform (UMMAP) Recommendation A.1 defines a set of addressing guidelines which ensure that any multimedia conferencing user or system can be uniquely identified and signaled on the Internet. The overarching goal is that any user can be reached at an address, regardless of the source or destination of the call, or the source, destination or intermediate signaling protocols in use. UMMAP recommendation A.1 is a designed to have manufacturers and vendors support multiple native dialing techniques that allow end users of any one device (H323, H320, SIP, E164) to dial another device (H323, H320, SIP, E164) without having to use any special characters that are not native to that device. For Example, if a person is using a H323 device to call a SIP device that user can input either the E164 address, SIP URI, or an IP address and the corresponding gateway(s) along the route will route the call to the correct device. To use OSI terms, UMMAP is similar to working at the Presentation layer between the application and session layers. An end user enters in a dial string on their endpoint (Application Layer). The end point then sends the packets through the system to the destination device based upon one of the core UMMAP addressing schemes. The two endpoints negotiate the session and the information is presented to the destination end point where it is resolved in to a two way or multi person communication. The end users are not aware of the underlying infrastructure to make this happen. Drawing from existing standards, UMMAP Recommendation A.1 prescribes acceptable addressing formats that can be used by multimedia conferencing systems to enable any user or system to be contacted. In short, using systems conforming to UMMAP Recommendation A.1, any user should be able to say, 'Here is my address. Call me,' and be assured that a call placed to that address will connect. UMMAP does not prescribe protocol level or network level functionality, but rather assumes that functionality to be already present.
| About the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) |
The IPCC, also referred as the “Packet Communications Forum” is an international industry association dedicated to accelerating the deployment of VoIP, video over IP technologies and services over converged wireless, wireline, and cable broadband networks. The association is comprised of service providers, solutions providers, systems integrators, and government agencies translating industry standards into revenue generating services. IPCC members develop simpler, more cost effective technical frameworks for converged services in wireline, cable, 3G, WiFi, and WiMAX networks. The IPCC continues the groundbreaking work of the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC) founded in 1998. For additional information visit www.packetcomm.org.
| VON Europe 2005 (May 23rd – 26th) |
pulver.com’s VON Europe 2005 takes place in Stockholm, May 23-26.
Meet the ‘inner circle’ of the European IP communications industry – fixed, wireless and broadband – and define the ‘present future’ of VoIP markets, technology and regulation. VON Europe 04 sold out – book your place today!
Quote prioity code ‘SC1’ when you register to save up to $100! Limited time offer. Plus save up to $600 more if you book before APRIL 9.
Register now at www.voneurope.com
| VON Canada 2005 (April 19th – 21st) |
Voice on the Net Canada 2005 is the place to go to if you need to understand the issues affecting the Canadian IP Communications industry today and would benefit from having a heads-up on the future directions of the space. We speak about the present future rather than the present past. Since 1997, the pulver.com events have directly contributed to the growth of the VoIP industry and have been the place where companies got funded, mergers and acquisitions discussed, and where the VoIP protocol wars settled.
http://www.sipcenter.com/goto/sipcenter-von-canada-05
| 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
| IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Asia 2005 |
17 - 19 May 2005, Grand Hyatt, Singapore
IMS Asia 2005 is Asia's FIRST and ONLY leading conference in 2005 dedicated to addressing all the strategic issues related to the one of the world's most important telecommunications market - Asia. This event focuses on new services, new revenue streams for operators via IMS. http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/ims_SG
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