THE FUTURE BENEFITS
The SIP model is that of the intelligent edge device. The SIP phone will become desktop portal, whereby future applications and services can easily be delivered across the business enhancing the user experience. Facilities such as Presence and Instant Messaging will be the basis for a new breed of pervasive connectivity solutions targeted at vertical market segments. With this in mind, many vendors are implementing advanced new applications and services to take advantage of this emerging technology.
Over time, SIP will enable a host of new services and capabilities. This will provide easy personalised communications and excellent cost efficiency and as individual user the complete control will be in your hands. You can create your own individual profiles to instruct communications networks on your preferences for how and where you can be reached, by whom, and when. For example, dialling your phone number will reach you wherever you are in the world on whichever means of communication is available to you at the time (cell phone, PDA, PC etc). Different rules can be set for the system to find you inside, or outside office hours, and you will be able to set different options for each person on your buddy list.
Setting up a conference call will be as simple as programming your SIP device to recognise when all of your selected buddies are available to talk to you, and the call will be dialled automatically. Voice recognition will mean that you don’t have to use a keyboard or numeric pad for any of these steps. If you’re on a video conference at your desk and have to leave early, you can transfer the video conference to your wireless PDA to continue participating while you are on the move.
Location-based services, such as making dinner reservations while on holidays, will be available, and you will be able to program your profile to alert your office when your plane lands. Your personal profile tells the hotel what newspaper you normally have – you can change this on the fly and from country to country. You may be renting a car, in which case the PDA slots into the dash and becomes your navigation tool – it knows where you are going and uses local map and travel info to guide you there. When you get into your hotel room you will have a broadband connection via either your 3G handset/PDA or the high-speed connection at the desk. You can choose which form of connectivity to use based on cost or convenience. “Presence” is an inherent feature of SIP-based systems, allowing the system to recognise your location and availability, routing communications to the right locations and devices as your schedule changes. And all this you will be able to do anywhere in the world and have access to all of the services you get at home. You will be in complete control.
Once you have put SIP at the core of your communications network, all these capabilities become possible for you without changing your base equipment – you will simply download new capabilities as software becomes available, or add new devices and equipment as new capabilities make it attractive and cost effective.
Source www.avaya.co.uk
