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All ALXTEL solutions offer the cost saving benefits and advanced functionality of integrated voice and data with business class IP telephony over Midas IP PBX Session Initiation Protocol Our switch in New York is SIP enabled and offers SIP and H323 to PSTN wholesale termination services.

About SIPSession Initiation Protocol is the latest protocol used for establishing sessions in an IP network. SIP's importance lies somewhere between its straightforward approaches to call control and its membership of the Internet protocol family. SIP enables services such as presence, real time instant messaging, instant conferencing and real time multimedia services, turning telephony into an extension of the Internet.

1. SIP is a request-response protocol that represents a modular approach to IP telephony, free from underlying protocols or architectural constraints

2. SIP is enabling the Next Generation Network (based on modular CO (Central Office) architecture).

3. SIP can be used as the integration technology behind modular telephony architecture.

4. Can be readily integrated in various architectures and deployment scenarios.

5. Easily scalable and extensible. For eg, Presence and Instant Messaging (IM) have been created through SIP extensions.

6. Software-based, open and lightweight, allowing organizations of all types to support the new breed of SIP phones along with soft phones, analog phones, desktop PCs, mobile devices and PDAs.

7. Quickly gaining attention and visibility due to major technology supporters, including Microsoft (SIP is the framework behind Microsoft's Messenger).

8. Widely regarded as the successor to H.323 for IP-based telephony. ALXTEL is compatible with Nextone, Cisco, Nuera, Avaya, Mera, Quintum, Vega Stream and most of VOIP equipments