Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Vonage to open up SIP credentials

 
Vonage has announced that they will open up SIP credentials to allow their users to configure their own software or hardware phones to work with their service. This new service may very well be all it will take to get me to switch from Packet8 to Vonage. This, as I'm sure everyone is aware, opens up a lot of potential for VoIP. Vonage trunks will then be able to be initiated directly from an IP PBX such as Asterisk, or sipX, circumventing the need to convert the line back to analog and using hardware to attach to the PBX.

People are looking to leverage the IP phones they already have with their VoIP service provider. Why wouldn't Vonage want to leverage the millions of Cisco IP phones and other SIP-based hardware phones out there? Additionally, Asterisk is a very popular open-source IP-based phone system that many Asterisk users have configured with SIP trunks for outbound termination. Vonage is shooting themselves in the foot by forcing the Asterisk community to use Vonage's competitors for PSTN termination.

Makes perfect sense.

posted by Olin @ Wednesday, February 08, 2006   3 comments  

3 Comments:

At 7:55 PM, Scottie Sharpe said...

Wow, that would be awesome. Where can I find out more information? I searched the Vonage site to no avail.

 
At 10:43 PM, Olin said...

Hi Scottie,
I wouldn't expect much more information until Vonage officially announces and executes their plans for opening their SIP credentials. The estimated date for this is sometime near the end of the first quarter of this year. I promise I’ll look and post any more information concerning this that I come across.

 
At 4:19 AM, raven said...

This is great news! I hope by first quarter they mean March, and not the end of their fiscal first quarter (which could be different).

 

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