Siemens Switzerland Software House Selects Ubiquity as SIP Application Server Development Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003 Ubiquity Software Corporation, a developer of SIP-enabled, IP-based applications and service creation platforms, today announced an agreement with Siemens Switzerland Software House, the applications subsidiary of Siemens Switzerland, for using the Ubiquity ASB ASB Asbestos ASB Arbeiter Samariter Bund (German medical help organisation) ASB Anti-Social Behaviour ASB Accounting Standards Board (UK FRC) ASB Aarhus School of Business SIP Application Server for advanced real-time web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. application development. Siemens Switzerland chose Ubiquity as a business partner to develop applications on its ASB SIP Application Server due to the product's robust service creation capabilities, which enable Siemens Switzerland to easily develop applications for the wider Siemens group and fulfill end-customer opportunities. Ubiquity's commitment to open, standards-based SIP Servlet A Java application that runs in a Web server or application server and provides server-side processing such as accessing a database and e-commerce transactions. Widely used for Web processing, servlets are designed to handle HTTP requests (get, post, etc. APIs and recognized industry leadership in the SIP Application Server field were also key factors in their decision. "Ubiquity is an obvious partner for Siemens Switzerland Software House, as they complement our strength and leadership in the applications area by providing us with an equally strong and innovative SIP Application Server platform," affirmed Christoph Bommer, Head of Department, Siemens Switzerland Software House. "InfoChannels are Siemens Switzerland's first solutions to be developed on the Ubiquity platform. They are multimedia information 'push' application services See ASP and Web services. , converging SIP with 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 other protocols, and are well suited to the advanced features that Ubiquity affords." Jeff Liebl, Vice President of Marketing & Product Management for Ubiquity, said, "From the early days of SIP, Ubiquity has focused on building a best-in-class SIP Application Server for both mobile and wireline networks. We are proud that Siemens Switzerland has selected Ubiquity's platform. InfoChannel is an excellent example of the kind of communications application that can be delivered across SIP-based networks." About Siemens Switzerland Software House The Software House at Siemens Switzerland has worked extensively in the world of IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. (e.g. H323 Call Centre Solutions), before moving on to data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. systems of a broader nature, facilitated by our early adoption of the SIP protocol and capitalizing on the possibilities thus afforded for media convergence. We have worked in this area for the last two years and already have many solutions available: e.g., SIP InfoChannel Services, SIP Multimedia AutoAnswer Service, SIP Breakout Services (SIP-SMTP, SIP-SMS, TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to (text to speech)) and a fully featured SIP client (voice, video, IM, secured chat, shared content, and presence). For more information about Siemens Switzerland SIP activities please visit www.mysip.ch. About Ubiquity Ubiquity offers its award-winning SIP applications server platform, the ASB, and SiPEAK Conference Broker, a rich media conferencing application, to service providers and enterprises worldwide. Ubiquity's ASB dramatically simplifies and accelerates SIP-based, converged application development. Use of this platform is extended to both Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and service providers through open, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs). Ubiquity has offices in the US, UK and Canada. For more information, visit www.ubiquity.net or email info@ubiquity.net. |
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