Robert Sparks, co-author of the core SIP specification, co-chair of the SIMPLE working group and coordinator of the SIPit events, joins Xten as CTO Santa Clara, August 26, 2004 – /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Xten (OTCBB: XNWK) announced, today, the appointment of Robert Sparks to the post of Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Sparks has been working in the computer and communications industry since 1982. He has spent the last 5 years designing and developing SIP-based IP communications infrastructure. Recently he has been an active contributor to IETF protocol development, with a strong focus on improving interoperability of SIP and SIMPLE implementations. Rob Raymond will stay on with Xten as Vice President of Engineering. “People are changing the way they communicate. The Internet, and technologies like SIP are giving us new ways to reach our peers and family that are more natural to use.” said Robert Sparks, chief technology officer of Xten. “Xten’s phenomenal endpoint is leading this revolution.” “Robert is a leader and innovator in IP communications. He is well known for his ongoing contributions in SIP and SIMPLE, technologies that form part of the essence of Xten,” said Erik Lagerway, president and chief operating officer of Xten. “We are honored and excited to have Robert lead our team. You can expect more great things from Xten in the coming months!” About Robert Sparks Mr. Sparks has spent the past 4 years as a principal engineer with dynamicsoft, Inc., where he was responsible for system architecture development. Prior to dynamicsoft, Mr. Sparks was a senior engineer with MCI WorldCom, where he was co-designer of MCIW's SIP-based IP communications infrastructure; responsible for driving vendor development of SIP business telephones; and created and maintained a PC SIP user agent for use in interoperability testing and SIP/RTP protocol research. Prior to MCIW, Mr. Sparks was part of the Admin Foundation Team at Lucent Technologies, Netcare Messaging Services, where he performed design and development of the next generation of NMS’s core business tool (an automated voice-mail system and subscriber management system). Mr. Sparks is an active contributor to many IETF working groups. About Xten® Xten is a developer of award-winning, high-quality, carrier-grade SIP-based Voice and Video over IP software and softphones for service providers, cable operators, internet telephony service providers and OEMs. Through its deployments with leading service providers, Xten has more than 400,000 IP endpoints deployed worldwide. For more information please visit www.xten.com. You may also visit Xten COO, Erik Lagerway’s blog at www.sipthat.com. For more information, please contact: Xten Networks, Inc. Mark Bruk, CEO +1.408.876.4344 [email protected]
August 2004 Archives
Okay I got to use the iPaq 6315 for about a week and have some impressions. I think if you are a PC user, and have a user-friendly tech-support department, then this is a good device for you to carry on day trips. I got to configure and use it with my T-Mobile service within minutes, since most of the settings come preloaded into the device. The software collection that is bundled with this device will meet most of your needs. The new device is a quad-band global communicator, and can roam seamlessly from one corner of the world to the other. It is also quite easy to connect with the T-Mobile hotspots. I tried to connect with a bluetooth headset from Plantronics, with success in less than ten minutes. The thumb board provided with the device is good enough for answering emails and sending quick SMS messages. I installed the XTen softphone on the device, and boom I was making VoIP calls using my Vonage account. more...
With voice-over-IP services popping up like summer weeds, providers are predicting that rich feature sets will ultimately win new customers. To that end, WorldWide Telco Inc. plans to unveil a series of features over the next two months. The New York-based vendor has developed its own telecommunications software platform and customer premises equipment to provide a service it calls wIPphone. more...
Taken from GekoNews On July 15, Qualcomm conducted a wireless VoIP test on an American Airlines commercial airplane, enabling passengers with commercially available CDMA mobile phones to place and receive calls and text messages in-flight. The technology employed Qualcomm's 3G picocell network and UTStarcom's Moving Media 2000 softswitch to support a VoIP connection between an in-cabin CDMA cellular base station and an air-to -ground Globalstar satellite link. Boeing conducted a similar VoAirplane test last month, supporting in-flight PC to phone connectivity on a Lufthansa aircraft using Xten's softphone.
POPstar Communications Canada, an IP Telephony solutions provider, selects Xten Networks (OTCBB: XNWK - News) Soft Phones and Xtunnels for People Line broadband telephony services. People Line services launched in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this month and will roll out in other cities later in 2004/2005. Russ McDermott, Director of People Line states, "We're excited about Xten's soft phones. When they're combined with our desktop email/fax services, we can offer customers an affordable, full-featured, 'virtual' phone/fax call center on a PC, without requiring dedicated phone lines or hardware such as adapters, phones, or fax machines." Xten's Xtunnels allows customers to use the soft phones behind firewalls. more...
Recently Mr. Robert Sparks [currently a Principal Software Engineer at dynamicsoft] was named CTO of Xten. "The growth of instant messaging as an industry reflects a change in the way people are communicating. With every day and each innovation, computers, PDAs and mobile handsets are becoming more transparent, letting people concentrate on their conversation instead of their tools. The development of SIP and SIMPLE has significantly accelerated these innovations." Areas of Expertise SIP / SIMPLE (Standards development for Internet-based communication) Multi-implementation interoperability testing Software architecture Briefs What Is The Relationship Between SIP And SIMPLE? Recent Accomplishments - Ongoing coordination of the SIPit interoperability test event - Created and coordinated the first SIMPLE interoperability test event - Completed RFC 3515 defining the SIP REFER method - Elected to board of directors of the SIP Forum Background Robert is one of the foremost global experts on presence technology. A true thought leader driving telecommunications standards, Robert is co-author of the most current SIP specification, RFC3261. He is a co-author of SIP for Presence specifications and co-chair of the IETF's SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) working group. He also serves as the technical lead at the SIPiT interoperability events. This announcement will be made public via a press release very soon and I will probably take some heat about putting it up before that release goes out but I am so excited I just can't contain myself any longer
I am very happy Robert has chosen to join Xten! He will make a great mentor and leader for our existing award winning team!
Santa Clara, August 17, 2004 - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Xten (OTCBB: XNWK), a provider of SIP-based Voice and Video over IP softphones and software, today announced that Sales Lead Management Inc., a developer of web-based lead-fulfillment and account management tools, will now offer The Brokers e-Vantage ASP management tool powered by Xten SIP softphones. "The Broker's e-Vantage" (TBEV) is the first 100 percent Web-based prospect management and lead fulfillment system for financial professionals focusing on the needs of Stock and Investment Brokers. Affordable for both large and small operations, TBEV users are charged monthly for access to the encrypted and password protected site. more...
by Nathan Torkington Nathan Torkington is an editor, content planner for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, co-chair of the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference, and eager awaiter of the Mac OS X Conference. Rael and I are about to go to London, and thence to Amsterdam for Euro Foo. Rael's been looking at Skype as a cheap way to stay in touch with our families in the US, but we're both running Mac households and Skype doesn't offer a Mac port. So I've been looking at X-Lite, a "softphone", which does have a Mac port. Both X-Lite and Skype have PocketPC ports, which makes Rael happy--he loves his iPaq. I'm still unclear on the whole VoIP world (anyone want to write us a small consumer VoIP intro? I'd buy it!) but it appears to break down something like this: hardware phones, software phones, and the SIP services that connect phones together are all different. So I could buy a Vonage hardware phone, run X-Lite as a software phone, and get service from a company I've never heard of. Which is pretty much what I did. more...
Galaxy Telecom, a privately held VoIP telecommunications carrier based in Vancouver Canada, is recognized as being a successful innovator and developer of VoIP solutions. For more than two years, Galaxy telecom has been driven to deploy a multi-service Voice and Data network designed to offer a high quality, inexpensive VoIP solution to MSO Cable Operators & Internet Service Providers world wide. "The Xten PRO soft-client is an excellent addition to our stable of services," stated Peter Wiggans, COO of Galaxy Telecom. "Many of our subscribers are looking for a more portable device to serve as a companion to the more traditional i-box ATA model." more...
