What is SIP Technology?
Session Initiation Protocol or SIP Technology is the latest in telephone system technology that customers are asking about. SIP allows phone to phone connection over a data network – peer to peer. The benefits of SIP technology is for a more open standard in the telecommunication and IP Telephony arena. You can take 2 SIP telephones and they will automatically find each other on the data network. SIP technology allows for the basic of the basic functionalities without a call processor (like hold, transfer, forward, redial, etc). With the onset of SIP technology it will allow you to integrate better with other data technologies like http, IM, LDAP, H.323, Call Processing and much more. If you can imagine the following: 1. HTTP: Web-browser client and admin applications that allow you to management and change features on your phone. Since it is a web-browser if you ever go through an upgrade you no longer have to update client apps since it is a web server. 2. IM: Instant messaging for a