TMCnet's SIP Week in Review

By Stefania Viscusi

TMCnet Assistant Editor

 

This week SIP heats things up in the market with new offerings; shows promise for the future, and gets ready to exhibit at VoIP Developer.

 

A report released this week by Infonetics Research found that VoIP and Next generation voice services are taking over in a bid to play catch-up with the falling income from traditional phone services.

 

The research firm also found that SIP protocol has an important part in the process because if its ability to connect IP-based applications to one another and as a method of offering fixed mobile convergence. Respondents of their survey predicted the protocol to reach 100 percent penetration by 2007.

 

TMCnet's Mae Kowalke wrote, "In the course of its research, Infonetics found that equipment interoperability is cited as the top barrier to entry for carriers joining VoIP market. Carriers specifically expressed concern about the lack of industry consensus regarding definitions for IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) architecture."

 

SIP is growing in demand in the Telecom market, a new Light Reading study found.  The study looked at the growing number of technology suppliers making their way into the SIP market as well as the future adoption rates for networks and enterprises.

 

Also this week, Convergin made news when they announced their Accolade Convergence Service Capabilities Interaction Management (SCIM) platform, which serves to extend legacy service toward IMS and into next generation services including wireless and wireline.

 

According to a report by TMCnet's Laura Stotler, "Operators may enable SIP across the existing SCP-based services and can also control access to those services from a number of switching platforms and service providers." Also, the platform can later be used to "enhance service offerings to permit SIP-based services and SIP/IMS application servers."

 

Now on to the 3rd Annual VoIP Developer Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in
Santa Clara, California August 8-10 where the VoIP development community will address and demonstrate the VoIP industry's hottest topics from the tools available on the market to the development of high-demand VoIP applications.

 

Eicon Networks, also a gold sponsor of the event, announced they would preview their Diva Server SIPcontrol product.

 

The way it works: "Voice channels are converted into IP packets and streamed via the RTP protocol into the vocalocity platform or to another SIP endpoint so that together, Diva Server Telephony boards and Diva Server SIPcontrol act as a IP/PSTN gateway and provides an open and standards-based approach that is compliant with MRCP an SIP architecture," Eicon told TMCnet.

 

Be sure to check them out for a demonstration at booth #105

 

TMCnet's Michelle Pasquarello reported that NEC's (News - Alert) Elsie Cabaluna  Director, Product Management Division at NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. will present “IP: Reshaping the Way Enterprises Do Business”.  At this session, Cabaluna will address the entire spectrum of SIP from operation, to support and its future in VoIP applications.

 

In more SIP-related VoIP Developer news this week, Editorial Director,
Internet Telephony magazine, Greg Galitzine spoke with  Ubiquity Software's (News - Alert) Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing, Gary Gray about VoIP Developer and Ubiquity's mission to  provide service providers with all they need to deliver next-generation services that bring ROI on their customers investments. At the conference, Ubiquity, a platinum sponsor, will present "Next-gen SIP applications" and share with conference attendees their vision on the future of VoIP. They will also host a half-day program all about SIP.

 

The following sessions will be presented by Ubiquity as part of the Next-Gen SIP track:

 

- Applying SOA to Real-Time Communications Application Development

- Integrating Voice Web Services into Applications

- Understanding Media Server Development

- The Business Opportunities for Developers in the New Converged Services Economy

 

In addition, you can check out the July issue of SIP Magazine available online now. A few highlights of what you can read in this issue: SIP-Controlled Communication Services for SOAs, Is VoIP Secure?, Ensuring IP Voice Stability.

 

And there you have it, this weeks SIP week in Review. Be sure to check back with TMCnet for all the latest in SIP news as it happens.

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