Leading Vendors Unite at pulver.com to Accelerate Use of New Internet Telephony Standard - SIP -.Business Editors MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2000 Engineering groups representing 46 leading vendors and research organizations met to jointly test the operation of their Internet telephony products at the offices of pulver.com in Melville last week. The technology "bake-off" was the fifth event organized to test the interoperability of software and hardware devices using the 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). SIP can set up and configure Internet telephone calls and multimedia sessions. The 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 (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ), the standards-body governing the technical foundations of protocols used on the Internet, approved this protocol in March 1999. Participants at the interoperability event linked their products together to test the compatibility of their products across the Internet. The 46 Organizations participating in the interoperability testing came from 11 countries. Some of the participating companies included: 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), Abatis Systems Corp., AT&T Labs Research (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), Axis Communications, Broadsoft, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Columbia University, CuseeMe Networks (Nasdaq:CUSM CUSM Cisco Usable Square Meters ), Dialogic, an Intel Company INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller . (Nasdaq:INTC), HearMe (Nasdaq:HEAR) dynamicsoft, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Komodo Technology, Indigo Software, ipDialog, Inc., LongBoard A longboard generally designates a longer board variant in various .
NTRG National Tactical Response Group (UK) NTRG Network and Telecommunications Research Group ), Nextone Communications, Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), Nuera, MIP MIP See: Monthly income preferred security Telecom, Pingtel, SIPCOMM, SS8 Networks, Startek Technologies, Sylantro, Telcordia Technologies, Ubiquity Software Corporation, VocalData, Inc., Vovida Networks, and Voyant Technologies. "The message here is that SIP is happening. The year 2000 will be known as the year SIP happened in the telecom industry", said Jeff Pulver, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of pulver.com. Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia University, co-author of the SIP specification said: "The SIP bakeoff showed that there is now a complete set of SIP implementations necessary to run an advanced all-SIP VoIP network. Implementations ranged from several different Ethernet phones to small and large PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. gateways, SIP proxies, PBXs, conference servers, SIP-H.323 gateways and unified messaging systems. Many systems now support common PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). telephony features; it was exciting to see that a few weeks after the initial set of specifications emerged, three implementations already offer integration of telephony and presence features." Jonathan Rosenberg, Chief Scientist of dynamicsoft and co-author of the SIP specification said: "The continued growth in the number of attendees at the bakeoffs is impressive. It is a strong indication of market acceptance of this technology. The results of the bakeoff were also excellent. Of the teams I spoke to, most had easily gotten basic call setup and teardown tear·down n. 1. The act or process of taking apart or demolishing. 2. also tear-down A building that is to be torn down and replaced with another, often larger building. to work. I also saw implementations of some of the newer, more advanced capabilities, such as third party call control. These kinds of features are needed for some of the advanced services that SIP can bring to the table, and I was glad to see support for them emerging." "SIP has rapidly evolved to demonstrate new functionality not possible even in today's proprietary telephone systems," stated Jay Batson, Pingtel's CEO and co-founder. "Multi-vendor interoperability will accelerate the availability of new capabilities such as mobility and instant messaging, improving the way we work and our businesses operate." Kim Niederman, President & CEO of LongBoard, Inc. said: "Participating in the Bake-Off proved invaluable. We accomplished months of interoperability testing in just 3 days. It was a great opportunity for our engineering staff to test our code in a non-competitive environment. The end result is better products for our customers." "SIP brings the open service creation capability and the end user control of the Internet to voice services-a key enabler for enhanced services in converged networks," said Jack Kozik, director of Architecture and Intelligent Networks Evolution for Lucent Technologies. "The significantly increased number of participants clearly indicates that SIP industry maintains momentum," said Emmanuel Bertrand, CEO & CTO of Indigo Software. "Beyond competition, the bake-off held at pulver.com also gave participants the opportunity to conduct large scale testing of their products in a convivial and supportive environment". "We believe that the evolution of signaling protocols, like SIP, is critical to the continued support and deployment of next generation voice-enabled e-services," said Yves Durieux, product marketing manager for HP's Telecom Infrastructure Division. "HP participation in events like the pulver.com SIP Bake-Off are important opportunities for us to test protocol interoperability and ensure the success of future technical innovation in communications infrastructure." "Participating in a forum like the 5th SIP Bake-Off is one of the ways Vovida supports the developments of standards and the interoperability of IP Telephony networks," stated Cullen Jennings, Vovida Networks' Vice President, Engineering. "Interoperability of the Vovida Open Communication Application Library (VOCAL) is one of our development team's top priorities." "NexTone is excited to be a part of the 5th annual SIP Bake-off because it provides a forum where companies can put aside their competitive agenda and participate in an exchange of information that will ensure SIP interoperability and enable the Virtual Central Office," said Sridhar Ramachandran,CTO, NexTone Communications. "The SIP Bake-Off is an extremely effective interoperability event and this latest bakeoff offered an excellent opportunity to interact with a wide array of vendor products," remarked Scott Hoffpauir, Chief Technology Officer, BroadSoft. "The rapid market acceptance of SIP is enabling integrated communications providers (ICPs) to offer exciting next-gen communications services, and BroadSoft is dedicated to providing service delivery platforms that create a basis for these new value propositions." "SS8 Networks was pleased to participate in the 5th SIP Bake-Off", said Henry H. Wong, Chairman and CEO of SS8 Networks. "The SIP Bake-Offs help accelerate the maturity of standards that are critical to industry success, SS8 Networks applauds Pulver.com and others' ongoing efforts in making Voice on the Net (VON) a reality." More information about SIP can be found at (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/hgs/sip) and (http://pulver.com/sip/products.html) More information about pulver.com and its Voice on the Net (VON) conferences which cover the convergence of Internet and telephony can be found at: ( http://pulver.com ) For additional information, contact the press relations department of any of the participating organizations. |
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