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Welcome to the SIP Trunking Global Online Community, sponsored by Ingate and powered by TMCnet. Today’s savvy enterprise decision maker is constantly looking to improve their communications infrastructure. This community is designed to serve as an educational resource for users looking to learn more about SIP trunking and how to use this technology to benefit their business.

SIP trunking is the first step toward adopting all forms of SIP communications — such as Unified Communications — not just a replacement of traditional telephony. The SIP Trunking Community will be a unique space where end users, VARs and distributors can obtain the most up-to-date information on SIP trunks. The community will also strive to dispel the myths about SIP trunking by addressing the relevant topics of the day — from security to deployment scenarios — to help visitors make the best decisions to achieve ROI quickly and future-proof their network to support new technologies.

SIP Trunking Feature Articles

Acme Packet, a provider of session border control solutions, has reportedly announced a series of new capabilities for its Net-Net Session Director session border controller in support of the GSMA Rich Communication Suite and session initiation protocol-based interactive communication services for 3G mobile access networks. Additionally, the company said that it has proven interoperability with five RCS client and server solution partners to help ensure rapid deployment of RCS services, which are a new set of SIP interactive services.

Neusoft and Nokia Siemens Networks reportedly announced that they are looking to enhance their partnership to effectively address China's mobile application market. The two companies will transform their existing joint venture - Nokia Siemens Networks Neusoft Commtech Company Ltd., into a powerhouse for the development, sale and delivery of software and services in the mobile data and applications field.

NuBridges a provider of software and services designed to protect sensitive data at rest and in transit, is reportedly inviting British Telecommunications plc customers to join its Electronic Data Interchange Value Added Network gateway, nuBridges Exchange Network.

Rasa Floors & Carpet Cleaning, described by Unified360 officials as "one of Texas' fastest growing floor and carpet cleaning companies." Rasa Floors wanted something to help "streamline communication with customers," according to Jim Barker, CEO of Unified360, saying it wanted "a way of integrating their telephony infrastructure and systems with the core database and CRM."

Sigma Systems, an enabler of Advanced IP Service Fulfillment solutions, announced recently that Inter Mountain Cable, a cable television company in the United States, has upgraded its broadband services solution to Sigma Systems' Device Provisioning Manager with support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices.

Infonetics Research's new report "SIP Trunking Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey" shows that SIP trunking is becoming more popular.

Edgewater Networks has announced the availability of the EdgeMarc 4610W Network Services Gateway.

Ingate, a developer of firewall technology and products that support unified communications, today introduced its IX78 Enterprise Session Border Controller, or E-SBC from sister company Inertex Data AB.

Equipped with multifarious features including voicemail, auto-attendant, find me follow me, and conferencing services, the Metaswitch Business IP Trunking solution interoperates with a host of IP-PBX products.

Sprint Nextel has announced general availability of its SIP Trunking service for businesses. The service has been available since early this year specifically to support businesses with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Sprint claims it was one of the first U.S.-based providers of SIP trunking services qualified for use with Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

Officials at Plantronics Inc. say their so-called "IP40" SIP endpoint device for the contact center connects agent headsets directly to the Ethernet to unify contact center software applications with all inbound and outbound call activity.

Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems are now certified interoperable with XO Communications' SIP trunking solution, XO SIP, the two companies announced this week.

Skype, an online videoconferencing service provider, has selected ShoreTel, an IP Unified Communications provider, as the first vendor for its so-called "Skype for SIP" beta solution. Skype for SIP, which launched earlier this year, lets IP-based PBX owners place low-cost calls to fixed and mobile phones around the world, and receive inbound calls directly into their PBX system through SIP-enabled UC systems from Skype's 481 million users.

Excel Telecommunications has announced the addition of SIP Inbound to its SIP Trunking product suite. The company set the stage for this launch in 2007 when it introduced Voice Paths On Demand, which enabled advanced features for Unified Communications by establishing unlimited voice paths for SIP PBX's.

No trade association in IP communications is working harder to develop standards for relevant technologies than the SIP Forum, a professional group that's received wide praise for its advocacy of SIPconnect – an industry-wide, standards-based approach to direct IP peering between SIP-enabled IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks.

SIP TRUNKING VIDEOS

Interview with inGate
TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Steven Johnson, President, inGate
09/17/2009

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