VOICECON BOOTH #1416, ORLANDO, Fla., March 17, 2008 – Covergence®, the leading provider of next-generation Session Border Control solutions, today announced the launch of its SIP Trunking Interoperability program (www.covergence.com/advantage), which ensures interoperability between a wide range of Service Provider SIP Trunking solutions and PBXs and its award-winning Covergence Session Manager (CSM). Covergence also announced it has attained SIPconnect Compliance Certification from the SIP Forum. This new certification validates that CSM complies with the SIPconnect reference architecture, protocols features, and rules necessary for seamless peering between SIP-enabled IP PBXs and SIP-enabled VoIP service providers.
Enterprises are moving rapidly toward the deployment of SIP trunks because they provide a direct connection between an IP PBX and service provider IP network, eliminating the need to connect to the PSTN. Covergence’s SIP Trunking Interoperability Program ensures interoperability between a wide range of SIP trunking solutions and PBXs enabling organizations to quickly deploy secure, manageable SIP trunks and take advantage of reduced costs and new, impactful services. Covergence Session Manager is the most comprehensive solution available for controlling, managing and protecting carrier and enterprise SIP trunks.
“Keeping calls on SIP from beginning to end will help unleash efficiencies that allow businesses to take full advantage of the power of IP-based communications including cost reduction, dynamic scaling, new services and communications-enabling existing applications,” said Bob O’Neil, president and CEO, Covergence. “Through active and heavy use in customer implementations, Covergence Session Manager has been proven to reliably interoperate with a wide range of technology offerings, and these programs underscore what our enterprise customers know: Covergence Session Manager is the most comprehensive solution available for controlling, managing and protecting their real-time communications.”
Introduced by the SIP Forum, the SIPconnect Compliant Program was created to help validate and ensure multimedia communication interoperability among IP communications equipment manufacturers, software providers and service providers, as well as to promote further adoption of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as the standard for IP-based communications.
"The SIP Forum is proud to recognize Covergence as a leader in the session management market that has fully embraced SIP standards and best practices," said Marc Robins, Managing Director, SIP Forum. "The Forum values the participation of its full member companies, such as Covergence, in this important certification program, and such support demonstrates strong and growing traction of SIPconnect from the vendor community."
Covergence Session Manager was developed to meet a full range of needs; from the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market all the way up to the world’s largest service provider. The solution is available from Covergence immediately and can be purchased by contacting sales@covergence.com or by calling 978.823.5200.
In Other Show News
Covergence®, today also announced that it would publicly showcase the CVA-50, the industry’s first SBC delivered as a virtual appliance, on March 18, 4:30 p.m. during VoiceCon Orlando 2008 at Booth #1416. The CVA-50 enables enterprise branch offices and service providers servicing small and medium businesses to deploy Covergence session management software as a pre-built, pre-configured, ready-to-run enterprise application, packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine.
About Covergence
Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services. The award-winning Covergence Session Manager combines traditional session-border-control functionality with comprehensive security features and management tools. The Covergence Session Manager is purpose-built to securely and reliably connect users to VoIP and multi-media services while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require.
About the SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. One of the Forum's recent technical activities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- a standards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks, and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right to license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark -- the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products and services. For more information, please visit www.sipforum.org.
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