OpenSER project and the community around it have grown considerably in the past three years. Because of its extensive development and high adoption rate, conflicting interests related to the OpenSER name and similar trademarks emerged.
Presence is the coming together of all the different digital channels we communicate with in our everyday lives. Protocols and standards like SIP, ENUM, SIMPLE and Jabber are enabling the convergence of mobile and fixed networks, IM, voice and video communications. The next generation of consumer devices will put everything into the hands of the end-user.
Peer-to-Peer Sesssion Initiation Protocol (P2PSIP) provides a conceptually simple, standards-based mechanism to distribute functionality, leveraging the power of clusters of devices, rather than a single centralized box. At the heart of P2PSIP is a notion of providing a distributed "fabric" of devices that are able to provide these same services and functionality with little or no centralized infrastructure. P2P systems do not eliminate work that would be done by a centralized device in traditional client-server architecture, but rather distribute that work differently, pushing the functionality to the edge. As a result, there some advantages to a P2P architecture (for example improved scalability and reliability) and some areas where a conventional CS system may be better (for example number of hops involved to route a message).
Euroweb Romania upgraded its SIP voice network (Eurovoice) to a distributed, multiple-site architecture located in three cities, Bucharest, Timisoara and Iasi. By deploying this self-organizing architecture is now possible to increase the availability of the provided voice services, by eliminating downtimes related to communications' packet-loss or Internet connectivity failures. The voice traffic can now be automatically rerouted between any of the mentioned location, in a short notice and without major engineering works which were necessary prior to this upgrade.
P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media content providers and research institutions, has received a €19 million grant from the European Union. The grant will enable the conglomerate to carry out a research project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology** for Internet Television of the future. The partners,* including the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer Digital Design Centre Limited and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, intend to develop a Europe-wide “next-generation” internet television distribution system, based on P2P and social interaction.
SIP2SIP.info provides free SIP accounts that allows communication using audio and video over the Internet using the SIP protocol. The account is Presence/IM enabled with support for relevant SIP SIMPLE standards for MSRP relay extension, Presence Agent, XCAP and RLS services.
The service is provided in multiple data centers using AG Projects' SIP Thor solution.
AG Projects launches MSRPRelay, an Open Source implementation of IETF standard RFC 4976. MSRP relay is an extension to the MSRP protocol (RFC 4975). Its main role is to help NAT traversal of Interactive Messaging and file transfer sessions for SIP/MSRP endpoints located behind NAT.
For more information visit http://msrprelay.org
The 9th edition of the International SIP conference will take place in Paris on January 29 to February 1 st, 2008 . The event will be jointly organized with the Triple Play Showcase (TVoDSL 2008 and the second edition of the Mobile TV World Congress) . SIP has evolved to become not only the protocol of choice for deploying enhanced voice and data services, it has also become the future choice of how service providers will trade voice traffic for basic calls and enhanced services. The International SIP conference has followed this trend for height years now, as the most important worldwide event entirely dedicated to this technology. Uper Side is expecting more than 300 delegates in January 2008.
AG Projects launches its SIP Presence system based on SIP SIMPLE standards.
AG Projects has launched a set of Open Source software components needed for the implementation of scalable Presence services based on SIP SIMPLE suite of protocols. The software is available at http://openxcap.org while the free SIP service with Presence features is provided at http://sip2sip.info
Adrian Georgescu provides on the 5-th of November 2007 a SIMPLE technical training in one day workshop at IIR's Telecoms Signalling Forum 2007 conference held in London.
NLNet foundation funds AG Projects initiative for the development of the first Open Source MSRP suite. Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) is a protocol for transmitting a series of related Instant Messages in the context of a session, which may be negotiated using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
On October 11th 2007 in den Hague, Carrier ENUM was the main topic of a conference organized by the Dutch Internet Society SIP Special Interest Group (SIP SIG).