Showcase
SIP has been described as "a simple protocol with profound implications". It addresses many of the major issues in the development of Internet telephony - a technology that is predicted to change the way businesses and people talk to each other. But SIP is much more than VoIP.
SIP allows service providers to invent their own services out of the basic ingredients of:
These ingredients become peers, interacting as never before to create new services. Telephony is removed from the deterministic, vertiginous world of the telephone system and set free on the Internet!
In this showcase we look at some of SIP's applications and how SIP will be used in a number of environments. The possibilities brought about by SIP are by no means restricted to the scenarios described here. The creation of next generation services is in the hands of service providers, enterprise IT departments or even end-users!
SIP, the Web and eCommerce
Mobile World
Desktop Call Management
IM and Presence
Gaming
We also take a look at Service Providers who are active in SIP.