Tangerine Chooses SIP Technology from SIPCOMM; Affordable Switching Solution Uses SIP Communications Proxy Server.Business/Technology Editors HYANNIS, Mass. and NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--April 9, 2002--Tangerine, the maker of the ground breaking Tangerine tangerine: see orange. tangerine Small, thin-skinned variety of the mandarin orange species (Citrus reticulata deliciosa) of the rue family (citrus family). Connect softswitch, and SIP Communications, Inc. (SIPCOMM), which has licensed breakthrough technologies from Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. for enabling real-time, interactive, multimedia communication sessions utilizing 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), today announced that Tangerine selected the SIPCOMM Proxy Server Also called a "proxy," it is a computer system or router that breaks the connection between sender and receiver. Functioning as a relay between client and server, proxy servers are used to help prevent an attacker from invading the private network. for integration with Tangerine Connect. The SIPCOMM Proxy Server is a SIP redirect, forking proxy A proxy server in a SIP-based telephony system that attempts to find the recipient by searching more than one location. See SIP. and registration server that provides name mapping, user location and scripting services. It can use external routines to do the actual work of resolving aliases (including group names), mapping names and locating users. It also allows users to register their current location with the server. Users can be registered at multiple locations. Each user can register a script in any scripting language or executable format understood by the server that will be executed when receiving a call. When combined with the Tangerine Connect Softswitch, it provides a complete switching solution for enterprises and emerging carriers. "The SIPCOMM Proxy Server is the perfect complement to our softswitch technology." said Thomas Howe, 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 Tangerine. "With the combined product, our customers can implement a full SIP network for their companies, and still use H.323 and MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol devices as well. They can choose to host applications on our softswitch and make them fully available to any SIP endpoint. And of course, Tangerine Connect can now serve as the Internet phone site for enterprises. Using Tangerine Connect, our customers have an attractive migration strategy into the next generation network. We think it's a real winner." Henning Schulzrinne, co-author of the SIP protocol and chief scientific advisor to SIPCOMM, supports the role of SIP in the enterprise, especially as a long-term replacement for the 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). . "In the long term, we should expect to see the replacement of the corporate PBX with SIP based solutions. A migration strategy however, protects legacy investments, yet opens the door for the kinds of new services and applications that SIP enables." About Tangerine Founded in 2001, Tangerine Incorporated designs, develops and markets next generation telephony switching solutions. Tangerine's product line includes softswitches, proxy servers and application platforms. Its customers include enterprises and emerging carriers world-wide. Tangerine's headquarters are located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For more information on Tangerine, visit: http://www.tangerineinc.com. About SIP Communications SIP Communications, Inc. (SIPCOMM) develops comprehensive, open standards communications and collaboration systems based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Through licensing and research agreements with Columbia University, SIPCOMM has rights to the core and derivative technologies developed by Professor Henning Schulzrinne, co-author of SIP. |
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