The SIP Forum is hosting a major interoperability event for the SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) specification this week in Banff, Alberta, Canada. SIMPLE focuses on the application of SIP to instant messaging and presence, and its goal is to create an interoperable standard for these services across all IP networks.
SIP Forum Announces SIMPLE Interop Event
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You just read about SIP. Here is what it replaced:
H.323 served from 1996. What ultimately replaced it?
H.323 an ITU umbrella of protocols for packet voice/video: gatekeepers handled admission and address resolution while H.245/RTP carried the media - comprehensive but heavyweight versus SIP. 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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November 26From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.