TMCnet's SIP Week in Review

By Stefania Viscusi

TMCnet Assistant Editor

 

Though this week was much drier than the last, that didn’t stop SIP news from flooding in. Motorola, pbxnsip, AGN Networks, Pannaway, Centile and Gizmo Project all made headlines.

 

Motorola (News - Alert) jumped into the SIP world this week when they added a new SIP-based SBV5100 series to their suite of voice-enabled cable modems. With the new series, voice and data are converged on one network and in one product. "Bundling multiple services in one unit will offer consumers an array of advanced voice services," reported TMCnet's Johanne Torres in an article.

 

Johanne also quoted Charles Dougherty, corporate vice president, Motorola Connected Home Solutions as saying, "Operators around the world are already making the move towards SIP-based products…by providing a voice-enabled cable modem with the SIP protocol, Motorola enables cable operators to not only expand their offerings with voice today, but to lay the foundation for new feature-rich voice and multimedia services, such as fixed-mobile convergence.

 

While were on the topic, fixed-mobile convergence is no longer a matter of “if” but “when” and although projections vary on timing, everyone knows the it is now inevitable. How can service providers capitalize on it? What do enterprises and end-users to need to do to prepare for it? Be sure to attend the Mobility Summit taking place at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo, WEST, which runs October 10-13, 2006, in San Diego.

 

Now back to SIP news for the week, pbxnsip took some time to speak with TMCnet and during a conversation with CEO Christian Stredicke, TMCnet's Mae Kowalke uncovered, Eight Reasons to choose pbxnsip's PBX (News - Alert).

 

Some of the reasons they discussed included: "It makes you independent—because pbxnsip's PBX is SIP-based, it supports a large range of devices from many different vendors as well as, it talks to remote users—pbxnsips PBX makes it easy for companies provide access for remote workers.

 

Mae also highlighted that PBX can run with several IP addresses, set to public or private.

 

For more, check out the article featured on pbxnsip's IPBX TMCnet channel.

 

Mae also reported this week that AGN Networks (News - Alert) OnDemandSIP trunking service was used at this years Interop New York 2006 show to provide network connectivity.

 

This is the third year AGN will be connected Interop to the public telephone network.

 

Mae quoted Lenny Heymann, General Manager Interop as saying,  "Using AGN Networks OnDemandSIP services has helped us make dramatic reductions in our setup time for each show, while giving us a range of new real-time capabilities that help us get more out of our network."

 

Also announced this week, Pannaway's Service Convergence (News - Alert) Network platform has allowed Ponderosa Telephone to make the switch from a TDM and ATM-based network. TMCnet's Patrick Barnard reported that with the platform they can now provide subscribers with next generation services like VoIP.

 

Gary Pemelton, senior facility plant engineer for Panderosa was quoted as saying, "SIP will allow us to provide our subscribers with a much more robust and scalable digital voice service and our access partner of choice needs to be able to support this capability."

 

Also this week, Patrick reported that Centile's IntraSwitch would deliver enterprise and residential VoIP over Debitel Denmark's network.

 

"IntraSwitch is a SIP-based carrier grade VoIP services platform featuring built in capabilities for fixed mobile convergence and compliance with IMS standards," noted  Patrick.

 

TMC's Tom Keating reported this week that SIPphone's Gizmo would offer an "All Calls Free" calling plan to business users worldwide. Tom also highlighted Gizmo's appeal as a softphone client because it uses the SIP standard. He wrote, "The beauty of the SIPphone client is that it supports dual SIP logons. Thus, you can register with Gizmo's SIP server as well as any second SIP server you wish."

 

For more, visit Tom's VoIP and Gadget's blog here.

 

Also, be sure to check out the September issue of SIP Magazine now available online. Feature articles to check out: "How to develop and implement an effective IP Strategy" and "SIP & ENUM- Foundations of Peering."

 

And don’t forget, Internet Telephony Conference & Expo West is just around the corner! For all you SIP followers, be sure to check out the SIP Workshop and see what all the buzz is about!