Cbeyond Leads SIPconnect Education Sessions at TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East.ATLANTA -- Cbeyond[R], Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CBEY CBEY Center for Business and the Environment at Yale ), a leading IP-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider to small businesses, today announced Chris Gatch, chief technology officer of Cbeyond, and Greg Rothman, director of SIPconnect[R] development, will present four sessions designed to educate attendees on SIPconnect at the Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ) Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. Conference & EXPO East. The TMC Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO, held January 23 - 25, 2008, at the Miami Beach Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. Convention Center in Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe. Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048. , is an educational program that teaches enterprises, small businesses and government agencies how to select and deploy IP-based services. Gatch and Rothman plan to share their knowledge and insights on 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. (SIP) trunking, also known as SIPconnect, which is an industry-standard signaling protocol used to establish end-to-end IP communication sessions between service providers and enterprises. SIPconnect, an initiative of the SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org) and a certification mark of the organization, provides detailed instructions and architecture specifications to deliver direct SIP connectivity between businesses with IP PBXs and VoIP service providers, which ensures consistent quality-of-service, low cost and full-featured SIP-based VoIP telephony. "The rapid adoption of SIPconnect makes a true understanding of the standard vital to resellers and corporate IT managers serious about using IP-based services," said Gatch. "The implementation of SIP Trunking via the SIPconnect specification benefits many participants in the delivery of voice communications and reduces telephony costs, but businesses and end users derive the greatest benefits." Gatch will present at the SIP Forum's SIPconnect Compliance Workshop on January 25. Gatch will provide a SIPconnect Compliance Process Overview and the SIPconnect Recommendation Deep Five, which will include a review of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation and a review of the latest SIPconnect Compliance survey results. Rothman will lead a one-hour "SIP Trunking" accreditation session on January 23 in partnership with TMC University. Additionally, Rothman will participate in two panel discussions: * SIP Trunking - The Service Provider Perspective, Jan. 23 * SIP Trunking for the SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. , Jan. 24 The INTERNET TELEPHONY([R]) Conference & EXPO connects corporate managers, resellers, IT/telecom management and development with service providers, small business technology and corporate management, and developers. More information on the event can be found at www.itexpo.com. About Cbeyond Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 33,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry(R), broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net. CBEY-F CBEY-G |
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