NexTone Communications Joins SIP Forum.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000 NexTone Communications, www.nextone.com, a provider of advanced network systems that power the Virtual Central Office, today announced it has joined the 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. ) Forum. SIP Forum The SIP Forum is a non-profit organization devoted to advancing the adoption of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a signaling protocol for use in initiating, modifying, and terminating an interactive user session that involves multimedia elements such as voice, video, instant is an international, non-profit association whose mission is to promote awareness and provide information about the benefits and capabilities made possible by SIP - Session Initiation Protocol. "SIP is a key part of NexTone's product strategy to deliver solutions for the Virtual Central Office. SIP provides a standard and flexible way for NexTone's solutions to participate in a softswitch architecture and also enable new value-added services and applications," said Sridhar Ramachandran, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , NexTone Communications. "The SIP Forum provides a powerful opportunity to enhance our leadership in this area while ensuring we are at the forefront of the technological capabilities enabled by SIP." "By incorporating SIP into the iVANi system, NexTone can deliver solutions today for service providers who want to migrate to a softswitch architecture," added Dan Dearing, Vice President of Marketing, NexTone Communications. "It allows our customers to incrementally provide next generation services and applications that include both voice and data." Developed by the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force , the international organization responsible for the web protocol 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. and the mail protocol SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. , SIP is the protocol that ties traditional telecommunications and the Internet together. For NexTone, this protocol enables the Virtual Central Office. As a member of SIP Forum, NexTone will be involved in the sharing of information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the SIP technology among component companies. They will also participate in the formation of interoperability solutions in telephony, multimedia and other internet-based sessions. SIP Forum's purpose is to promote awareness and provide information about the benefits and capabilities made possible by SIP. This is accomplished by posting and generating white papers and by sharing information between service providers, product manufactures, and research institutions. ABOUT NEXTONE COMMUNICATIONS Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, NexTone Communications is a provider of advanced networking systems that power the Virtual Central Office. The Virtual Central Office enables next-generation service providers to deliver convergent voice and IP services in the most simple and cost effective way. NexTone Communications is a Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SFE See Sydney Futures Exchange. ) partner company. You can learn more about NexTone at www.nextone.com. ABOUT SIP FORUM SIP Forum, located in Stockholm, is an international, non-profit association whose mission is to promote awareness and provide information about the benefits and capabilities made possible by SIP. SIP Forum was created on the initiative of the SIP-Company, Hotsip AB, which then teamed up with a number of major SIP players. The founding member of the associations include 3Com, dynamicsoft, Hotsip and Telia. Learn more about the SIP forum at www.sipforum.org. |
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