Skype to deploy session border controllers

Will use Net-Net OS-Enterprise session border controllers from Acme Packet for its Skype for SIP beta offering

VoIP, unified messaging, products and services

Today we'll hit the highlights with news from Skype's decision to use session border controllers; the new DiVitas Web client with support for the Android, BlackBerry and iPhone; and an IBBS solution to help cable operators and ISPs better manage net neutrality.

Skype announced it will use Net-Net OS-Enterprise (OS-E) session border controllers from Acme Packet for its Skype for SIP beta offering. Commenting on the selection in a statement, Stefan Oberg, vice president and general manager of Skype for Business said, "Deploying session border controllers from Acme Packet will help ensure interoperability between Skype for SIP and native SIP or SIP-enabled PBXs from leading hardware manufacturers. This step simplifies our interoperability testing process and makes it easier for us to begin rolling out Skype for SIP."

Further advancing fixed mobile convergence options, DiVitas announced Web client support for the Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, as well as a desktop soft client. The Web client alleviates the need for users to download client software -- more easily supporting the increasingly popular "bring your own phone to work" option. Using a Web-based approach to support mobile devices also allows DiVitas to more quickly support a much wider range of mobile devices; however, the DiVitas Server will support both the new DiVitas Web client and the DiVitas native client simultaneously.

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Today we'll hit the highlights with news from Skype's decision to use session border controllers; the new DiVitas Web client with support for the Android, BlackBerry and iPhone; and an IBBS solution to help cable operators and ISPs better manage net neutrality.

Skype announced it will use Net-Net OS-Enterprise (OS-E) session border controllers from Acme Packet for its Skype for SIP beta offering. Commenting on the selection in a statement, Stefan Oberg, vice president and general manager of Skype for Business said, "Deploying session border controllers from Acme Packet will help ensure interoperability between Skype for SIP and native SIP or SIP-enabled PBXs from leading hardware manufacturers. This step simplifies our interoperability testing process and makes it easier for us to begin rolling out Skype for SIP."

Further advancing fixed mobile convergence options, DiVitas announced Web client support for the Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, as well as a desktop soft client. The Web client alleviates the need for users to download client software -- more easily supporting the increasingly popular "bring your own phone to work" option. Using a Web-based approach to support mobile devices also allows DiVitas to more quickly support a much wider range of mobile devices; however, the DiVitas Server will support both the new DiVitas Web client and the DiVitas native client simultaneously.

Integrated Broadband Services, an OSS software and network services provider, announced at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo that it is introducing a version of its Broadband Explorer diagnostics and provisioning software -- including a bandwidth management solution supporting net neutrality. New features include "fair-use bandwidth management" so operators can manage high bandwidth users without penalizing the entire subscriber base; a "forced redirect" that helps enables operators to  interact with subscribers by redirecting them to a captive user portal; and "birth certificates" used to capture the baseline threshold levels of installed devices, creating enforceable QoS levels and greater accountability.

Next time: A new and different way to use VoIP.

Read more about voip & convergence in Network World's VoIP & Convergence section.

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.