ALCATEL, CISCO AND ERICSSON JOIN THE SIP CENTER INITIATIVE.Current sponsors, Ubiquity Software Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Telecom Technologies Inc, welcome the inclusion of Alcatel, Cisco and Ericsson in the SIP Center initiative. The SIP Center covers a number of key areas pertaining to the development of SIP, including background materials, a test platform, developer tools, forums, FAQs, News, Event Diary, White Papers and a product catalogue. The content is growing rapidly with new content, products and test activity. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ), is part of the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the ) standards process and is modeled upon other Internet protocols such as SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol See SMTP. (messaging) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - (SMTP) A protocol defined in STD 10, RFC 821, used to transfer electronic mail between computers, usually over Ethernet. It is a server to server protocol, so other protocols are used to access the messages. ) and HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. (Hypertext Transfer Protocol See HTTP. (protocol) Hypertext Transfer Protocol - (HTTP) The client-server TCP/IP protocol used on the World-Wide Web for the exchange of HTML documents. It conventionally uses port 80. Latest version: HTTP 1.1, defined in RFC 2068, as of May 1997. ). It is used to establish, change, and tear down (end) sessions between one or more users in an IP-based network and provides a means for deploying the advanced telephony and real time media services to be offered by Telephone Companies around the World. Amongst other capabilities it provides user location capabilities, call participant management and call feature changes. Alcatel, Cisco and Ericsson have confirmed their support for the SIP Center as principal sponsors of the initiative. The three companies join the initiative at a key point in its evolution in terms of scope and content of the site as well as in the development of SIP in the marketplace with all three vendors actively involved in SIP related developments. Furthermore, the parties are contributing content, hardware technology and software to enhance the testing platform. The SIP Center is a portal for the commercial development of SIP software. All organizations involved in the development and deployment of SIP products can use this site to test their implementations of SIP and exchange views and ideas with others. Organizations can also register their own material for inclusion on this site. |
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