It’s been a long time since I’ve used the term (r)evolution; in fact it was almost nine years ago when we launched Internet Telephony. And for all the changes that we have witnessed in the past decade, today we find ourselves in the midst of a telecommunications (r)evolution.

According to our good friends at the SIP Center, “…the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a fundamental building block that service providers can use to harness the power of the Internet Protocol and transform their traditional revenue streams.” Incredibly, this single building block is at the center of all the amazing innovation and transformation taking place in telecom. SIP is at the core of the very services that will generate revenue for carriers, create opportunity for developers, and help enterprises and end users of every stripe to harness the power of IP and wring new levels of efficiency out of their communications systems for years to come. As we embark on a new journey with the launch of SIP Magazine, we promise that we will remain true to our mission of educating and informing our constituents, alerting and reporting the key facts and trends that readers of this magazine will be able to use to make the decisions they need to make as they move forward with their communications plans. SIP enables application developers to write to a common standard, enabling services to run on multiple platforms, across disparate networks. SIP underlies the fabric of a movement with massive potential to transform the communications space: the adoption of IMS or IP Multimedia Subsystem. SIP enables so many of the innovations that we will come to take for granted someday. We pledge to be the resource you want to turn to first for information regarding this exciting space. I’d like to take a moment to thank the distinguished individuals who have agreed to join our editorial advisory board, as experts who will help drive the conversation forward through various levels of participation in creating the most compelling content for you, the readers of SIP Magazine:

• Erik Lagerway, Independent Consultant
• Kenneth Osowski, Pactolus Communications Software
• Jonathan Rosenberg, Cisco Systems
• Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University; SIPquest
• Richard M. Williams, Connect2Communications

And, lastly, at SIP Magazine we invite our readers to participate in the conversation. I encourage you to e-mail me with any questions or comments you might have regarding the industry, the technology, the publication, what have you… Complaints and compliments are equally welcome.

Greg Galitizine