Jay Batson, chairman and founder of Pingtel, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the SIP Forum. During 2004, the SIP Forum plans to conduct major interoperability activities, such as the SIPit events and its own SIP phone testing service. The SIP Forum also announced that Eric Burger, chief technology officer, SnowShore Networks Inc., has joined the organization’s board of directors.
SIP Forum Names Pingtel Exec as Chairman
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You just read about SIP. Here is what it replaced:
MGCP / Megaco (H.248) served from 1999. What ultimately replaced it?
MGCP / Megaco (H.248) a master/slave model where a central call agent (softswitch) controlled dumb media gateways, instructing them how to set up and tear down media streams. Its job passed to SIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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