Some interesting news to share from Sipura - a very popular ATA manufacturer. They announced a 4 Line Business Feature Phone and a 2 Port Phone Adapter With Home Networking Router Solutions. SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/15/2004 -- Building on the telecommunications industry's most advanced VoIP endpoint product line, Sipura Technology Inc., today announced two new products – the SPA-841 VoIP phone and the SPA-2100 analog telephone adapter (ATA). Both products use the SIP communication protocol to communicate with other network elements like VoIP/PSTN gateways, softswitches, and application servers in a service provider or enterprise IP network.

SPA-841 IP Phone:
Communication is the lifeblood of world business. And VoIP technology is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry whereby small, medium and large businesses are deploying IP telephony systems and solutions to reduce the cost of operations and increase productivity of workers. The SPA-841 is Sipura's first product entry into the business telephone market. The SPA-841 is an affordable, full featured business class telephone with up to four independently configurable line appearances / extensions, a high resolution pixel-based display, speakerphone, headset jack and message waiting indicator with a dedicated message retrieval button. Via an intuitive, easy to operate user interface, the SPA-841 supports, do-not-disturb, call hold, transfer (blind + consultative), three party conferencing and more. A personal directory, call logs for made, received and missed calls and speed dialing is supported. On-hook and off-hook dialing, directory dialing with name and number matching is also supported. List price for the SPA-841 with 2 line appearances / extensions is $99.95. Quantity pricing starts at $80.00 for 200 units. A license that enables all four line appearances / extensions on the SPA-841 is available as an upgrade from Sipura for $30.00.

Sipura Technology SPA-841 VoIP Business Phone SPA-2100 Analog Telephone Adapter: Service providers addressing the rapidly growing market for residential and business voice over broadband services will now be able to address the millions of broadband customers who do not have a home network with a Sipura SPA that combines ATA functionality with home networking functionality. The SPA-2100 is the latest edition to Sipura's phenomenally successful line-up of ATAs. The SPA-2100 features two RJ-11 telephone/fax FXS ports for connection to traditional analog phones, fax machines and business communication platforms. The SPA-2100 includes an Ethernet port for connection to a home PC or network as well as a second Ethernet port for connection to a cable or DSL modem. The SPA-2100 uses new, more powerful media processing technology and greater memory supporting all the features of the SPA-2000 ATA as well as quality of service, multiple simultaneous complex codec and IP faxing support. ITU-T.38 real-time fax over IP will be supported via a software upgrade in a post first customer shipment firmware release. List price for the SPA-2100 is $109.95. Quantity pricing starts at $80.00 for 200 units.

"Sipura's engineering team has strived to provide the most comprehensive line of VoIP products with unbeatable value," said Jan Fandrianto, Sipura Technology, Inc. president and CEO. "The addition of a VoIP phone and ATA with home network routing capability has been highly anticipated by our customers," Fandrianto said. "With today's announcement of the SPA-841 telephone and SPA-2100 ATA we can meet the immediate needs of both service provider and enterprise customers who want interoperable, SIP standard, secure, affordable and feature rich VoIP endpoints," he added.

Sipura's innovative implementation of the popular worldwide IP telephony standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used in the SPA-841 and SPA-2100 in addition to secure and sophisticated provisioning and firmware update technology. Sipura incorporates technologies like SIP, HTTPS, XML and multiple toll-quality voice coding algorithms to deliver solutions to service providers and system integrators. Many of the hundreds of calling, regional, configuration and provisioning features already used by the world's leading VoIP service providers on Sipura's market leading SPA-1000, SPA-2000 and SPA-3000 products are available so that immediate deployment and management of the SPA-841 and SPA-2100 can be accomplished with relative ease.

The SPA-841 is being sampled by Sipura's customers today with general availability expected in November.