Skype Talks To Cisco Call Manager With Skypbx By Zipcom

PRLog (Press Release) – Taipei, Taiwan 09/05/2006

ZiPCOM Corporation, the leading VoIP manufacturer based on Taiwan, announced today, ZiPEG VoIP Gateway series products, which allow using SIP/H.323 equipments such as Cisco Call Manager, and IP-Phones to talk to Skype users! By integrating ZiPEG into SkyPBX, enterprise users can now use their existing desktop SIP/H.323 phone sets to make and to receive Skype calls all over the world via SkypeOut/SkypeIn/Skyper. It seamlessly bridges SIP/H.323, the most popular Voice over IP networks, with Skype network with more than 200 Million registered users. It saves huge telecom expenses, and at the same time, encourages cost-effective communication among enterprises, subsidiaries, and customers.

Charles Chen, the marketing manager and spokesman of ZiPCOM said, “ZiPEG makes it possible the universal voice communication everywhere: SIP, H.323, Skype, and PSTN networks are now all talking to each other. It definitely marks another technology revolution.”

ZiPEG, or ZiPCOM IP Enterprise Gateway, runs in dual mode for both SIP and H.323 protocols. ZiPEG offers many models to fit different requirements. ZiPEG-4004 offers 4 SIP/H.323 ports to SkyPBX and 4 LAN ports for IP-Phones. ZiPEG-GK4000 offers additional built-in Gatekeeper for H.323 networks. And, ZiPEG-SVR4000 includes an additional SIP Proxy Server. ZiPEG is designed to be very reliable with watch-dog to recover from any failure.

Integration of ZiPEG with SkyPBX provides multi-channels which allow many simultaneous calls between SIP/H.323 and Skype. The unique technology to generate and to detect global call progress tones (dial tone, busy tone, etc.) makes SkyPBX compatible to most IP-PBX, such as Cisco’s Call Manager, Asterisk, etc. SkyPBX works perfectly with IVR and auto attendant system to detect the DTMF signals and to route calls correctly for Skype-to-Skype, SkypeIn or SkypeOut calls. With an integrated rack-mounted PC, SkyPBX provides further ease of installation to become a real “plug-and-play” for Skype service.

SkyPBX offers advanced management features such as call recording, monitoring, call detailed records (CDR) to allow more central network control. SkyPBX provides a unique enterprise skype account as a hunt group and ACD functions so that the customer can call in the same way as using traditional PSTN system.

ZiPCOM has been specialized in VoIP and telephony systems for years, providing VoIP and Communication equipments, such as X.25 PADs, ISDN phones, and Skype-based USB phones/adapter/gateway and PBX systems. UMC, NEC Infrontia, Arima, and Siemens, are among the customer list. For more information, please visit www.zipcom.com.tw or write to sales3000@zipcom.com.tw or to Skype to: zipcom-ipbx.

Skype (TM) is a trademark of Skype Technology S.A. (www.skype.com).