It has to do primarily with the acceptance of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an industry standard for enabling communications between multiple users involving voice, video, instant messaging and other elements, according to Clive Longbottom...
The market for voice over IP - the routing of phone calls over data networks - is finally taking hold after many years of talk thanks in part to the emergence of a standard known as Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP.
In order to interconnect different applications on the converged IP network a new standard, sessions initiation protocol (SIP), was created to ultimately replace the older standard H.323, which had limited capabilities.
Now the company is adding support to more devices, such as its 12000 IP router, which combines the functionality of an IP edge router and a Session Border Control device that controls and manages IP multimedia traffic using protocols such as...
He announced SAP Discovery System, a collection of software components meant as a "starting point" for a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a system design meant to make SAP's applications more modular and flexible.
The increasing adoption of session initiation protocol (SIP) for VoIP is expected to open up a whole new front in the security war. Examples of hacks for SIP include registration hijacking, which allows a hacker to intercept incoming calls and...