As the SIP Trunking space grows, vendors continued to deliver products with Avaya (News - Alert) compliance while some others were busy conducting interoperability tests this past week. In addition, CIOs and IT managers were exploring investment opportunities in the infrastructure.

TMCnet contributor Miguel Leiva-Gomez reported that LG-Ericsson USA said that its products have beaten all averages in SIP trunking interoperability tests administered by 3NG networks. Leiva-Gomez quoted director of product marketing Iain Kenney (News - Alert), as saying, “SIP trunking is one of the ways that businesses can leverage the latest in reliable IP networking to deliver economical broad-spectrum communications.” He added, “Our iPECS-LIK pure IP and ipLDK-60 hybrid communications solutions, both of which utilize LG-Ericsson's flexible and comprehensive communications software, both passed 3NG's SIP interoperability testing easily, demonstrating that our customers can rely on LG-Ericsson's IP communications solutions for reliable SIP trunking.”

CIOs and IT managers took a critical look at infrastructure investments, wrote Ingate Systems’ president Steven Johnson (News - Alert). He noted, “SIP trunking continues to be one of the best investments around.” According to Infonetics Research, wrote Johnson, the adoption of SIP trunking services grew 200 percent worldwide in 2010, and the use of SIP trunking is growing.

TMCnet contributor Jayashree Adkoli reported that Star Telecom’s SIP-based services suite recently earned the “Avaya compliant” status. It means that Star telecom’s service is now compatible with Avaya’s key contact center solutions, wrote Adkoli. As per this report, Star Telecom’s solutions are crafted to serve the basic telecom needs of contact centers via SIP trunking. They are flexible enough to provide value added services such as cloud-basednetwork calling, call routing, hosted IVR, call reporting and other SIP-based services and solution, stated Adkoli.

Another contributor, Michelle Amodio, reported on SIP Forum’s latest initiative, SIPconnect-IT. It provides a means to demonstrate SIP trunking interoperability in real scenario, wrote Amodio. The report quoted SIP Forum president and managing director Marc Robins (News - Alert), as saying, “The ratification of the SIPconnect 1.1 technical recommendation earlier this year represents a significant step forward for the adoption of a common interoperability specifications for seamless end-to-end interoperability between SIP-enabled IP-PBX (News - Alert) and service provider networks scross the globe.” He added, “SIPconnect-IT represents the next step and is designed to transform these specs into action and to ensure IP applications and infrastructure utilizing the SIPconnect 1.1 guidelines can be implemented in live telecom environments.”