Al Baker, US Vice President Product and Service Management and Martin
Northend, Director of Portfolio Marketing for Small and Medium enterprise, both
from Siemens Communications joined me on the Lippis Report to discuss SIP phones. Siemens just launched its OpenStage SIP
phones which interoperate with BroadSoft and Cilantro Softswitches. These SIP phones allow Service Providers to
offer hosted IP services based upon their existing softswitch investments to
the small to medium sized business market.
The phones are sleek with i-pod like control, mobile phone directory
services, large screen size and XML development environment. You can download the Siemens presentation
here. This is the first SIP phone
offering that is not linked to an equipment supplier's SIP proxy allowing a
degree of freedom we have not seen in the industry thus far. Enjoy, Nick
