Hotsip AB , the global leader in SIP and Presence based products for infrastructure and application vendors, and Sonera Oyj, the largest broadband operator in Finland, announced today that they have signed a commercial deal enabling Sonera to launch new SIP based VoIP/PSTN and Presence services licensed from Hotsip, within their Finnish broadband network.
The
commercial agreement constitutes that Sonera has purchased Hotsip's
SIP Application Server, Presence Engine and Active Contacts(TM). The
communication client from Hotsip known as "Active Contacts"
runs on top of the Presence Engine and SIP Application Server enabling
users to make voice calls from their PC to another PC or into the fixed
and mobile networks, start communicating through video, send instant
messages, network gaming and to control their Presence status which
is the basis for communication - "I'm online - available".
"Hotsip's expertise in SIP and Presence based products provides
Sonera with the platform to launch exciting new IP based services to
our end users", states Jari Hakalin, Department Director, Sonera
Oyj. "Our extensive high end testing with Hotsip's products has
been very successful and Sonera is very satisfied with the scalability
and reliability of Hotsip's back-end server architecture".
"We
have been working closely with Sonera over the past months, and see
this adoption as a benchmark case for SIP adoption worldwide "said
Jens Lundstrom CEO of Hotsip. "Hotsip is firmly committed to providing
the highest quality carrier grade products and are very pleased that
Sonera is taking Hotsip's products into use"
Hotsip's
products are SIP and Wireless Village compliant meaning that end users
can now communicate via messaging, voice and video directly with other
leading SIP and Wireless Village compliant communication clients and
hardware. This issue is vital for future network compatibility especially
now as the 3GPP have announced that SIP as being the protocol choice
for multimedia session control in 3G networks.
"Right now our products are the leading edge of technology and we aim to stay on that track well into the future" states Peter Schuller, VP of Sales at Hotsip. It's quite clear that our products surpass customer demand, and provide them with the necessary tools to increase ARPU within their network.
SIP - is the acronym for Session Initiation Protocol, and is used as
the multimedia signalling protocol for controlling different types of
sessions (VoIP, Messaging, Gaming, Presence, Video-conferencing, etc)
over fixed and wireless networks. SIP is firmly backed by the IETF,
3GPP.
Presence - within mobile and fixed networks allows users to show their
availability, status, equipment used, location etc, to other users with
their social network. On the basis of that knowledge users will initiate
more voice and SMS within the operator's network.
