Introducing SipExchange Portal, web services and more
Mar 20, 2009, Raleigh, NC.
We
are pleased to announce the release of SipExchange r1.0.0b. This is
a Beta release to give users a working system to evaluate and test.
Feedback from the development community is
encouraged for further enhancing the
system. In this release, we have introduced major features that will be
beneficial to companies and service providers who wants to provide VoIP
service to their employees or customers. Highlights of the release
include:
We have introduced a Web Portal which enables subscribers
and administrators to access, manage and fine-tune all aspects of
SipExchange. Subscribers can view their calling records, manage their
profile & contact list and manage their features like call
forwarding and call screening. Administrators can provision and monitor
the system from the portal. Based on the Jboss Portal technology, it
enables system administrators to completely customize the look and feel
and add new applications to the portal. It enables users to customize
the look and feel and manage application dashboards.
An extensive set of web services have been introduced that
enables external management and billing systems to manage user records,
billing records and system configurations. This feature allows
SipExchange to be integrated into existing infrastructure and
enterprise services. In addition, since all the SipExchange user
interface applications are portlets, elements of the user interface can
be integrated into existing portals.
An installer/upgrade tool has been introduced. The
installer uses a command-line wizard tool to setup the basic
configuration of the system. This reduces the number of steps an
installer had to perform to setup SipExchange. The upgrade tool
enables SipExchange to be upgraded without losing any data.
Extensive set of automated unit tests have been added. In
the next release, we want to extend this further and introduce
benchmark tests.
The call processing engine has been tested extensively and
number of bugs found while testing has been fixed.
What is SipExchange?
SipExchange is an open-source softswitch that provides
standard SIP services like location, proxy and presence. Using
the
SipExchange application, service providers can offer VoIP telephone
services
to their subscribers as well as other services based on voice, video
and instant messaging. SipExchange supports many of the standard
subscriber features offered by the traditional
telephone exchanges and PBXs. In addition, SipExchange supports
external call
control capabilities using which service providers and software
developers can create new features and
services rapidly and plug them into the SipExchange application.
SipExchange provides a
portal-based user interface using which system administrators can
manage
subscribers and features as well as perform other routine operations.