Quintum Adds SIP, Included in VoIP Report

May 29, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- VoIP solution developer Quintup Technologies Inc. (Quintum.com) announced on Tuesday that it will incorporate SIP support into its line of Tenor MultiPath Switches. The company says the SIP stack will be embedded in the entire Tenor product line by the third quarter of 2002.

Session Initiation Protocol is a signaling protocol designed to allow telephony resources to interact with Internet resources more efficiently than existing tools. SIP, says Quintum, offers more functions than the popular H.323 protocol, including the ability to create instant messaging and multimedia conferencing sessions. SIP also works with IP-based products such as IP PBXs and phones.

"SIP is rapidly gaining momentum in the VoIP and multimedia messaging marketplaces," says Charles Rutledge, vice president of marketing for Quintum. "Incorporating SIP functionality into our Tenor switches was essential for us to maintain our industry leadership and ensure interoperability with the rest of our customers’ networking environments."

All of Quintum’s Tenor switches currently support H.323, says the company, and will support both H.323 and SIP by the third quarter of 2002, including the ability to act as H.323-to-SIP gateways.

The company also announced that its case study of the Yuan Fu Brokerage House VoIP implementation has been included in the Aberdeen Group’s report "What Works: Significant Voice over IP Deployments of 2001," examining and evaluating the overall market dynamics and the success factors behind VoIP deployments.

"We are thrilled that Quintum’s case study was selected by the Aberdeen Group as a significant VoIP deployment," says Rutledge.

According to Quintum, the Tenor solution allowed Yuan Fu to implement VoIP without disturbing the company’s existing PBX and data network infrastructure. The switches also provided automatic re-routing of calls over the public switched telephone network in the event of breakdowns in the company’s data network voice communications.

"Though converged networks have been promised by technology providers for years, Aberdeen research indicates that 2001 was a watershed period for VoIP," says Dana Tardelli, senior analyst, Communication Services at Aberdeen and co-author of the report. "The Information Technology market has matured to a point at which the inherent value proposition is now based on business requirements and benefit rather than just technological feasibility."