Polycom adds SIP support for IP telephony products. (Breaking News).Polycom, Inc., a player in the convergence of interactive voice, video, data and Web communications, has announced it will support 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) on its standards-based SoundPoint IP 500 desktop phones and SoundStation IP 3000 conference phones. With the addition of SIP, Polycom voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones will support the major IP telephony platforms and protocols, including IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol , ITU H.323 and Cisco SCCP (Signaling Connection Control Point) A layer 3 protocol in an SS7 network that routes a message to the appropriate database. SCCP is used in conjunction with the TCAP protocol for sending queries to databases. See SS7 and TCAP. See also SSCP. . Polycom includes SIP support on both desktop and conference phones, which aims to offer customers a flexible choice with broad support for IP telephony solutions. www.polycom.com/800-POLYCOM |
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