SIP Devices

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signalling protocol used for creating, modifying, and ending communication sessions consisting of one (or occasionally more) media streams – usually voice, but possibly video or instant messaging.

Traditionally, VoIP was implemented by way of proprietary, closed standards, each one unique to a particular vendor. SIP is an open, global, freely accessible standard: allowing all vendors to create products and services that can interoperate with each other using a common language.

SIP goes well beyond the traditional telephony paradigm of two way party audio conversations by facilitating any type of peer-to-peer communication session, between any number of parties, including plain text (such as instant messaging),instant messaging, presence,  graphical/motion videoimages, video,  (video conferencing etc) & collaborations combinations of these methodsdifferent types of media.

SIP devices can intelligently identify & communicate with each other along with your network being able to locate & then direct that session to your required destination, using a methodology not dissimilar to Sat Nav.

The consistencies of our recommended devices are the intuitive simple navigation interfaces & those devices can improve business processes & increase productivity by delivering enhanced functionality such as mobility & XML.

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a widely adopted, open standard for deliveringtext-based, machine readable information exchange format, commonly used to transfer information to any Web interfacebetween devices across a network, such as a LAN or the internet. Some of the advanced, SIP-based IP terminals that we provide are capable of interacting with XML based services – enabling advanced interactive services and applications to be provided through the handset, accessible via the screen and keys, and possibly via voice as well..  This information can be displayed on XML enabled SIP device display phones as they run over a data network.

Software developers can just as easily create integrated voice and data applications for SIP Phones using XML as they can for any Internet application.  XML enabled SIP phones connect business processes and people to critical information by providing display-based access to services and applications. Users can now easily access information and perform tasks from their phones that would previously not have been feasible through such an immediately available interface, and would previously have required a call to a person or call centre, or starting up a PC and browsing to a web page.

Applications for such functionality is unlimited, and is only just beginning to be explored. Current uses involve applications as diverse as choosing breakfast or ordering room service in a hotel, to allowing a class register to be taken over a handset at school, to logging a call with a CRM system in a business.

Aastra is a worldwide leading manufacturer of terminals, systems and applications for building and accessing communication networks. Aastra are committed to open-standards