
Part 8
Top Ten Reasons for SIP-
Enhanced Communications
In This Part
䊳 Simplifying communications
䊳 Gaining more control
䊳 Working with divergent systems
䊳 Making mobility easier
䊳 Saving money
S
IP is a key enabling technology that can advance communi-
cations to an unrealized level of flexibility and usefulness.
Even though SIP may end up being invisible to end-users, SIP
is the glue that will help peer-to-peer communications work
better than most people can imagine today.
We believe that most organizations will be using SIP within
the next few years. If you’re considering using SIP in the near
or distant future, this part helps you understand the most
important benefits of using SIP — and will help you explain
those benefits to other decision-makers in your organization.
Presence-Based Communications
SIP adds intelligence to communications by enabling users,
as well as applications, to intelligently connect parties based
on their presence (availability). We explain how presence
works in Part 3.
SIP also has the ability to support intelligent forking — that is,
the ability to route communications to the right person, using
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