TMCnet's SIP Week in Review

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This week in SIP news, Patton Electronics and Corp. announced SIPxNano, a new IP-PBX (News - Alert) for businesses with fewer than 30 extensions and designed to bring enterprise quality SIP-based VoIP to SMBs.

 

According to a report by TMCnet's Patrick Barnard, the new services now available via the SIPxNano are a combination of "Patton's NanoServ ultra-compact server technology with a tailored version of Pingtel's (News - Alert) SIPxchange ECS software."

 

CounterPath, provider of SIP-based telephony software solutions, was highlighted this week in an article by TMCnet's Mae Kowalke. Mae spoke with Donovan Jones, the company's President and Chief Operations Officer about Counterpath's happenings over this past year. The conversation covered topics like their headquarters move, their marketing focus shift, recent contracts, and even discussed X-Lite, the company's free SIP softphone. This is what Jones had to say about X-Lite during the conversation: 

 

"This phone is what we consider to be a feature core version because it doesn’t have the ability to brand the interface in terms of changing the look and feel."

 

To read more about what Counterpath is working on and has accomplished CLICK here for the full article.

 

TMC President and Editor-in-Chief Rich Tehrani wrote an interesting article on SIP this week titled, "Quality SIP Trunking Comes to VoIP" In the article, Rich discusses SIP trunking's move to VoIP and details how SIP has changed telephony and added flexibility for IP based operations across the world.

 

Commenting on the enhancements and improvements being made in the SIP trunking world, Rich wrote:

 

"But are we at the point where businesses should start adopting SIP? According to Conrad Allenbach and Chris Dunk. They have cracked the SIP trunking quality problem. The two work for Bandtel as Channel Manager and President respectively and in a recent meeting about their service were beaming with more enthusiasm than a parent with a newborn baby. Although they didn’t pass out any cigars they were generous about telling me why their platform is so great."

 

To find out more, read the full article here.

 

Other SIP related news was brought to this week by Samsung and Avaya, who announced the completion of interoperability testing for integrated data, voice and security solutions, products and services targeted at mid-sized enterprises. TMCnet's Anuradha Shukla  reported, "The companies have created an intelligent business solution for mid-sized enterprises by combining Samsung's Ubigate iBG and the Avaya (News - Alert) Session Initiation Protocol-based IP telephony infrastructure."

 

Using the new combination, companies are able to gain mobility and utilize messaging applications to deliver "a simple and secure high performance solution to the mid-market."

 

"Implementation of the Ubigate iBG series combines with Avaya SIP Enablement Service and Avaya Communications Manager telephony software will allow businesses to gain competitive advantage and keep costs under control," reported Anuradha.

 

Interactive Intelligence (News - Alert) also made SIP-related news this week when they announced their new IP-based predictive dialer, Interaction Dialer.

 

The solution is for contact centers, teleservices firms and collection operations. TMCnet's Susan Campbell wrote, "Now based on the SIP standard, this latest release of Interaction Dialer can operate in an all-software, all-VoIP environment in order to help reduce costs and simplify management. The release includes an all new SIP gateway called Interaction Gateway (News - Alert) which is an application connecting legacy phone trunks (T1s) to VoIP networks."

 

For more from Interactive Intelligence be sure to visit TMCnet's VoIP Contact Center Channel and Contact Center Research.

 

SIP's not just in the news this week either, check out the latest SIP-related Blogging happening on TMCnet:

 

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That's all for this week. More next week as IT Expo nears, and SIP news keeps on coming.

 

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