More than 20 vendors of Session Initiation Protocol-enabled products will join in an interoperability demonstration to show customers what their offerings can do. The SIPop booth at the Fall 2003 VON trade show September 22-25 in Boston is scheduled to include a variety of products, including videoconferencing systems, phone services software and media servers. "The goal is to show how applications can be supported seamlessly across multiple platforms," says Carl Ford, who is helping organise the event for the show producer, Pulver.com "This is a significant display that SIP is readily available for people to purchase." SIP, a real-time communication protocol, enables peer-to-peer style communication among devices on an IP network, making it possible to put much of the call intelligence within end devices, such as phones.
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