Nortel says it is 'firmly committed' to SIP interoperability

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
08/22/05
Today's focus: Nortel says it is 'firmly committed' to SIP
interoperability

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In this issue:

* Nortel's statement on SIP
* Links related to Convergence
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Today's focus: Nortel says it is 'firmly committed' to SIP
interoperability

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Two weeks ago, one of our subscribers contended that Avaya,
Cisco, and Nortel had provided less-than-stellar support for
Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP. This week, we'll wrap up
our miniseries about these companies' support for proprietary
voice protocols vs. their support for SIP. Today, we'll relay
Nortel's prepared statement on its position.

The company writes:

"Nortel, a key developer of the SIP specification, is committed
to standards and leads or participates on all of the standards
bodies. This commitment applies to unified communications as
well.

"Nortel is firmly committed to SIP interoperability. Today
Nortel's CS1000, MCS 5100/5200, CS2000 and SN08+ products
support open SIP device and gateway standards. Nortel's CS2100,
Business Communications Manager (BCM) and contact center
solutions will support SIP endpoints later this year and into
2006. Nortel is delivering open support with a variety of SIP
devices and gateways including RIM BlackBerry and ipDialog
ManiTone, Mediatrix, D-Link, Aastra, Polycom and Citrix.
Interoperability with a wide variety of call servers and devices
was also verified by iLabs during N+I in May 2005.

"Nortel is also committed to taking our customers to the future
of SIP without losing the traditional features and values they
built their businesses on. As such we have designed our
architecture to enable an easy migration to the SIP environment
while protecting prior investments. For example our converged
desktop allows coexistence of traditional TDM, and SIP
wired/wireless clients. The phones that Nortel is delivering
today are designed to support SIP and later this year, we will
be releasing SIP software, affording our customers the choice of
interface into either a Nortel SIP call server or other vendors'
SIP servers."

Next time, we'll highlight three readers' comments on the issue.

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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
<mailto:taylor@webtorials.com>

Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com>
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Nokia believes that business mobility will fundamentally change
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increased efficiency through enhanced mobility. Learn more by
downloading this white paper today!
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=110821
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