Esnatech Adds SIP Integration to Telephony Office-LinX Platform
Esna Technologies announced it has added new SIP integrations to its Telephony Office-LinX unified communications platform. As part of its ongoing goal for interoperability and to offer the most integrations in the market, Telephony office-LinX will support on its first release SIP integration to the Iwatsu ECS, Teltronics 20-20, 3com NBX, Dialogic PMG gateway, and
Asterisk (News - Alert)
-based VoIP solutions.
Esnatech plans to expand its complete product portfolio compatibility with advanced IP communications systems by focusing on SIP (
Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert)
), a leading IETF signaling protocol for Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions. Following this initial release of its SIP interoperability strategy, Esnatech will expand its validation to offer integrations to the Nortel CS1000 and
Avaya (News - Alert)
Communications Manager products, with plans to expand even further, including compatibility with Microsoft's LCS.
SIP integration reduces the cost of hardware, provides flexibility in terms of deployment location and remote site support, as well as support for high availability and resiliency initiatives. "SIP is a very important protocol for IP telephony, video, instant messaging, and presence. It is the ideal protocol for Esnatech to leverage its future development for unified communications solutions like Telephony Office-LinX" said Esnatech's CEO/CTO, Mohammad Nezarati. "SIP will allow us to provide seamless integration into different business applications and deliver real time availability of content from any access point to our customers."
www.esnatech.com
Octasic (News - Alert)
Enhances Media Gateway Modules with Stacks from RADVISION
By Mae Kowalke
Semiconductor manufacturer Octasic announced it has added media gateway controller (MEGACO) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) stacks from RADVISION to its OCT9320 and OCT9360 module families.
The addition of the new stacks means that the company's modules now "modules perform all the voice processing and packet signaling required for media gateways in a ready-to-deploy format."
Octasic's Director of Product Management Frédéric Bourget said that the enhanced technology greatly simplifies the tasks of media gateway design engineers because hardware-software integration is already completed. That results in reduced development time and costs for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Octasic and RADVISION say they have performed rigorous testing of their integrated products, validating the solution as interoperable with a variety of gateways.
www.octasic.com
www.radvision.com
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Reef Point Unveils Universal FMC Gateway
Reef Point Systems unveiled its Universal
Convergence (News - Alert)
Gateway (UCG), which gives telecommunications service providers a single platform for delivering VoIP and multimedia services to their customers over all major fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) network technologies and standards: mobile, fixed-line and wireless.
"Based on consumer behavior and the way industry standards are evolving, it is clear that high value telecomm services from now on will be FMC-based: mobile, IP, and personalized for each subscriber," said Woody Ritchey,
ReefPoint's (News - Alert)
CEO. "The service providers who will win market share are those who can deliver any application, to any user's device, over any network. [This is] a practical solution that enables service providers to capitalize on these trends now."
The Universal Convergence
Gateway (News - Alert)
is a control point that consolidates all major networks for accessing a service provider's core infrastructure; adheres to all major carrier IP infrastructure standards; has the intelligence and policy enforcement to assure that the network delivers personalized quality-assured IP services that subscribers have purchased; and protects service provider infrastructure from Internet threats and revenue from theft.
Situated between a service provider's core infrastructure and the networks that subscribers with mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs use to access services - VoIP, Web, IM, music and video,
IPTV (News - Alert)
- Reef Point's UCG is purpose-built to address the full set of session-aware FMC convergence control functions for the full range of access networks and industry standard FMC architectures.
"Reef Point offers deep inspection and custom handling of packets that's appropriate to everything from security to QoS, from voice to legacy data services. This is the kind of offering that is needed to address the issues that every provider with an FMC mission will surely face," said Tom Nolle, President of CIMI Corporation, a leading independent telecommunications industry consulting firm.
www.reefpoint.com
IVR Technologies, Inc. Releases Talking SIP 3.1
IVR Technologies, a leading software developer for IP enhanced services and real-time billing solutions, announced the availability of Talking SIP 3.1. The release is the end result of a tremendous investment by IVR Technologies in the development of its third generation architecture and revenue-generating applications with real-time billing control and flexibility, but without sacrificing ease-of-use nor low administrative overhead.
"Talking SIP's signaling, media processing, and application scripting components have been completely redesigned to reach new milestones in scalability, performance, and control for the next-generation network. We are extremely excited about this release as it provides an amazing foundation upon which to build voice 2.0 applications that highlight the empowerment, flexibility and control that broadband access and Voice over IP have to offer," said Randall O. Walrond, Product Development Manager, IVR Technologies.
Talking SIP 3.1 is built around a completely redesigned application, media and signaling architecture to serve as the foundation for rich, in-demand applications that capitalize on the ubiquity, access and richness of broadband connectivity.
Release 3.1 includes the following features and functionality: International and Web callback, reminder/wake-up service, improved performance, improved tones, asynchronous voice prompts, multi-leg billing for callback, supports any codec, open XML interface for Credit Card Processing.
www.ivr.com
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Siemens and
Cingular (News - Alert)
Sponsor Multimillion Dollar Networking Lab
Siemens Networks has dedicated a new 3G/IMS laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The new lab, cosponsored by Cingular Wireless, the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), and the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC), will serve students and researchers as a test bed for the creation of 3G
IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert)
(IMS) convergence applications and services that bring together audio, video and data over computer networks.
Initially, the 3G/IMS laboratory is to be used by students participating in an IMS Research Competition co-sponsored by
Siemens (News - Alert)
, Cingular and Georgia Tech. Qualified students who participate in the year-long competition will be eligible to receive a portion of $100,000 in cash prizes.
As part of its sponsorship, Siemens Networks is equipping the new 3G/IMS lab with the latest technology from its IMS portfolio, including IMS@vantage, a 3GPP-compliant implementation of IMS. The IMS@vantage product offering includes the Multimedia Session Controller CFX-5000 and the Home Subscriber Server CMS-8200, as well as the Media Gateway Controller CFX-5200 and the Media Gateway CMG-3000. The IMS@vantage suite gives network operators a strategic platform to deploy multimedia services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), for fixed or wireless infrastructures.
Siemens is also including a suite of enabling servers to allow student applications to use key IMS building blocks. These enablers include Siemens Mobile Presence Manager (Presence status), Community Service Data Manager (Group list management), Instant Messaging and Chat, and Push and Talk over Cellular.
"The new 3G/IMS laboratory will give Georgia Tech's students an opportunity to work with leading-edge technology in their quest to develop new and unique applications," said Ron Hutchins, associate vice provost for research and technology and chief technology officer at Georgia Institute of Technology.
The 3G/IMS laboratory will incorporate subsystems and services from additional sponsors
Ubiquity Software (News - Alert)
(SIP A/S, SOOF Architecture), BridgePort Networks (NomadicONE(TM) IMS Convergence Server (ICS)), and Azaire Networks (TTG/PDG technology, based on ATCA platform).
www.siemens.com
Woize Challenges
Skype (News - Alert)
and Announces Mac Software Plans
Woize International, the digital communications provider, is taking on challenging the Skype and Skype-like providers by announcing plans to launch a Woize BETA client for Mac OS X in Q4 2006. A Woize client for Mac OS will challenge Skype and other similar Peer-to-Peer providers from a technical standpoint, since it will be fully SIP-based, thereby giving users the opportunity to interconnect with other SIP and P2P users worldwide. As are all other Woize clients, the Mac product will be free of charge, allowing users to call outside the Woize community with no hidden startup fees for incoming or outgoing calls. A free phone number will be included in the Woize package and becomes available when signing up.
Some of the main features of the soon-to-be-released SIP-based Woize BETA client for Mac OS X are:
• Free calls amongst Woize® users
• Free telephone number usable worldwide
• Free calls amongst SIP users
• Free voice mail
• Cheap calls to landlines and mobiles worldwide
• Instant messaging
• Contact list
• Account handling
www.woize.com
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Eutectics IPP200 and IPP200T USB Phones Certified for
Alcatel (News - Alert)
OmniPCX
Eutectics Incorporated announced today that its IPP200 and IPP200T USB phones have passed certification testing conducted by NextiraOne Communications for use with the Alcatel VoIP WebSoftphone, VoIP 4908 Softphone R4.0, IP PIMphony Multimedia R5.1 & 6.0, OmniPCX Office R5.0, and OmniPCX Enterprise R7.0 softphones.
Testing was carried out by NextiraOne Deutschland GmbH and was completed earlier this month. Alcatel provided the integration software to support Eutectics devices using Eutectics API and Toolkit. The IPP200 and IPP200T are packaged in professional, ergonomic handset designs that provide users of PC telephony desktops with a high quality, low cost telephony experience.
"We're extremely pleased to be certified by NextiraOne's test efforts for use with Alcatel's line of Enterprise Softphones," said Don Fowler, VP of Sales for Eutectics. "The convergence of PC based telecommunications at the desktop is rapidly gaining momentum in 2006. This combination of a professional soft platform with an elegant equipment solution will fuel this change."
The Eutectics IPP200T list price is less than $60. Eutectics USB phones, when combined with the complete line of enterprise class Alcatel softphones, provide a robust solution for users that desire a professional integrated telecommunications desktop.
www.alcatel.com
www.nextiraone.com
www.eutecticsinc.com
Covergence Delivers Secure SIP Trunking to Avaya Customers
Covergence announced the availability of its secure SIP trunking solution for customers using Avaya's IP telephony products. Delivered through its Eclipse family of SIP security solutions, Covergence's secure SIP trunking solution enables enterprises using Avaya's SIP Enablement Services (SES) to securely connect their Avaya Communication Manager (CM) platforms to an IP network. With the Covergence solution in place, enterprises can quickly and easily implement secure VoIP throughout their organizations, yielding significant cost savings, while protecting all user information through comprehensive application-level security to defend their VoIP service from attacks and intrusions, even over untrusted networks.
With Covergence's SIP trunking solution, customers can immediately move their telephony traffic onto an IP network to eliminate toll charges and redundant management and administration costs, while securely deploying real-time services between the service provider and enterprise or between geographically disperse sites within the enterprise, and secure connections to remote Avaya handsets located in branch offices. Covergence's Eclipse provides Avaya customers with fully authenticated, validated and encrypted connections to protect all user information, plus comprehensive application-level security to defend the service from attacks and intrusions.
Additionally, Eclipse's clustering capabilities provide load balancing for consistent performance, and redundancy for high availability through automatic IP rerouting that maintains the availability of VoIP trunks through most widearea network failures. If the central site becomes unreachable or VoIP service fails, Eclipse provides local call completion within remote sites and diverts external calls to the PSTN. The Eclipse also offers central quality of service (QoS) monitoring, service-level agreement (SLA) verification and other management tools that give network operators the information they need to maintain availability and performance integrity.
www.covergence.com
www.avaya.com
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Polycom (News - Alert)
and Digium Offer SIP-Based Telephony Solution
for Small/Medium Business Market
Collaboration platform provider Polycom and
Digium (News - Alert)
, the Asterisk company, announced a multiyear agreement to develop and market integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for SMBs that will give customers a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, broad support for Asterisk telephony features on the Polycom phones, and the delivery of new capabilities, such as Polycom's breakthrough HD Voice quality.
Polycom's SIP desktop and conference phones will be combined with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk, the industry's first open source
PBX (News - Alert)
. Through the combined Digium and Polycom offering, SMB customers will have access to advanced telephony solutions that will be more affordable than proprietary systems. Additionally, the new offering will give customers the control, rapid feature development and deployment, and rich feature base that the Asterisk open source community and its partners provide. Per the agreement, Polycom will also be the preferred VoIP phone provider for Digium solutions.
As part of the agreement, Digium will modify the Asterisk graphic user interface (GUI), Asterisk Business Edition application and Asterisk OS to tightly integrate with Polycom's line of SIP-based desktop and conference phones. The co-development work will enable simplified provisioning and support for advanced telephony features like shared line appearance, XML microbrowser plugins and Polycom HD Voice. Polycom and Digium will also work together on joint marketing initiatives and joint selling through common channels. Polycom phones will also be the exclusive VoIP phone in Digium's Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit (AADK).
www.polycom.com
www.digium.com
Auvi Adds Dual Mode Cordless Phone to VoIP Family
Auvi has added the PHIP65 dual mode cordless phone to its family of VoIP endpoints. The sleek PHIP65 is the next generation of communication hardware that connects to a traditional landline and the computer, via a USB port. This dual functionality gives consumers the freedom to make and receive both standard and Internet calls from a single cordless phone.
Designed to work with Skype, the PHIP65 enables individuals to use their Skype contact list at a push of a button to talk to other Skype users globally for free or make low-cost calls through other Skype services. In addition, users can use their regular phone service for local calls.
"The VoIP industry is changing the way individuals communicate, yet not everyone is willing to make the full leap into this technology and still rely on their traditional phone service," said Santosh Patel, CEO and President of Auvi Technologies.
Expandable up to four handsets, the PHIP65 is based on the new
DECT (News - Alert)
technology to enhance sound quality while reducing interference with 802.11a/b/g wireless networks, Bluetooth devices, and other home appliances. The unit features an integrated speakerphone, caller ID, three-way calling, call transfer between handsets, and large LCD display on handset. The PHIP65 handset also offers different ring tones to distinguish between landline and Skype incoming calls.
www.auviworld.com
www.skype.com
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