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| Uniqall Unveils Gridborg HMP 1.2 - With SIP Included In order to reach a larger share of VoIP developers, Uniqall unveiled the first beta version of its upcoming Gridborg HMP Server 1.2. Unlike previous versions that only use H.323 protocol, this one also speaks SIP - the new lingua franca of the VoIP world. In essence, HMP products are software-only replacements for expensive voice/fax cards that are used as building blocks by vendors of IP PBX, IVR, auto-attendant, contact center, voicemail, conference server, fax server and other telephony solutions. As voice traffic migrates from TDM to IP networks, it makes sense to solve both network connectivity (H.323, or SIP) and media processing on the host processor in software. Hence the name, HMP (Host Media Processing). In the early days of VoIP deployment, H.323 was the dominant protocol, and it still has an enormous installed base. Standardized by ITU-T and with its roots deep in the telecom world, H.323 is a complex collection of binary protocols that can be very difficult to deal with. Somewhat later came the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), native to IP networks, standardized by IETF. It consists of human readable text messages and shares some design principles with the HTTP protocol that carries Web traffic. Since its very beginning, Uniqall has built the Gridborg HMP Server on top of the open source OpenH323 stack. In order to add SIP the Gridborg HMP Server had to migrate to the OpenH323's successor OPAL. Both OpenH323 and OPAL have been created by an almost overlapping group of core developers. Other new and upcoming features in Gridborg HMP Server 1.2 include improved multi-user support, improved T.38 FoIP (Fax over IP) that now has T.38 Fax Relaying capabilities, support for ring-back tones, as well as an embedded web server that will drive a simple web-based interface for configuration and monitoring. As well as being available for Windows and Linux (Debian, FC, and SuSE), this version of Gridborg HMP Server also comes with support for RHEL and Ubuntu Linux distributions. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |