TMCnet's SIP Week in Review, ITEXPO EAST Edition
By Stefania Viscusi, TMCnet Assistant Editor
January 26, 2007

Welcome SIP lovers to another week full of SIP related news. This weeks Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO EAST brought on some exciting announcements, and exhibits galore. If you weren’t there to experience it first hand, this edition of SIP Week in Review has got you covered. You can also see live footage and pictures HERE!

CosmoCom and SIP Trunking service provider BandTel announced a partnership this week to offer a combined, all-IP unified customer communications platform.

BandTel's CEO Chris Dunk, who spoke in a session at ITEXPO called "All aboard the IP train, commented on the announcement: "CosmoCom's open, standards-based platform is a model for an industry often hampered by proprietary variations. It made interoperability testing remarkably quick and easy. Together, we offer a flexible, dependable, and cost-effective solution to enterprises for migrating their contact center to IP with minimum pain and maximum gain,"

According to a report by TMCnet's Johanne Torres, "With CosmoCom and BandTel joining forces, enterprises will be able to deploy CosmoCom's technology on their premises with BandTel's SIP trunks."

Also this week, BandTel announced that TalkSwitch telephone systems are now fully interoperable with their SIP Trunking architecture.

With this availability, customers are given the opportunity to choose toll-quality VoIP dialing plans from BandTel, while connecting via a TalkSwitch telephone system at their office.

Torres reported, "With the BandTel/TalkSwitch system in place, customers should be able to reduce their telecom charges and gain access to enhanced network services. TalkSwitch’s systems hybrid capabilities enable customers to keep their connections to the traditional telephone network without having to acquire additional equipment."

ABP Technology demonstrated their SIP-based IP PBX Solution, the Mid-Market SIP IPBX 50-500 Extension System, during ITEXPO this week.

TMCnet's Patrick Barnard wrote, "The solution combines the power and flexibility of the Audiocodes Mediant 1000 gateway and the advanced features of pbxnsip, a leading SIP-based IP PBX software platform."

With this, the solution has the ability to deliver quality voice and other features including VoIP security and advanced routing and signaling capabilities.

Even outside of the ITEXPO walls, SIP news continued on strong this week:

Grandstream Networks made headlines with the announcement that they signed an agreement with GlobalTouch Telecom to resell and supply Grandstream GXV-3000 IP Video Phone, HandyTone 386, HandyTone 488 Analog Telephone Adaptors ----in a bid to better offer their end-users and resellers a product that best compliments their offering.

TMCnet's Anuradha Shukla wrote, "Based on SIP and H.264 standard, the Grandstream GXV-3000 is an advanced IP video phone, which is competitively priced and easy to use. The GXV boasts a combination of sleek design and technology features with excellent picture quality, ease of deployment and broad interoperability with 3rd party SIP products."

News from Digium this week was that they are partnering with Polycom, to help them keep a strong foothold in the SMB space.

"The new, integrated system features the Digium AsteriskNOW software appliance and Polycom SoundPoint IP desktop phones—all components which the companies say are needed for businesses to deploy a "high quality VoIP solution." TMCnet's Johanne Torres reported.

Altitude Software also announced this week the availability of Altitude uCI 7.5, the latest release of the contact center suite.

TMCnet's David Sims reported, "The Altitude uCI 7.5 is the latest release of the contact center software with fifteen years of service. The latest release enables contact centers to" embrace change, profit from virtualization, increase productivity and grow proactive customer service practices," according to company officials."

And there you have it—this weeks highlights of SIP news straight from ITEXPO and beyond. Be sure to check back with TMCnet for all the latest in SIP news as it happens.