sipum is a SIP/RTSP based unified messaging system.
Once unified messaging services catch on, free services may become hard to find.
Alice can now retrieve the message either by dialing a message specific SIP URI sip:alice-67212-retrieve@address_of_sipum, using an RTSP client rtsp://server.wonderland.com/alice/inbox/67212.au or by going to her web based unified messaging home page and clicking on the appropriate message.
They were both developing products allowing telephone companies to offer unified messaging services, in which voice messages, faxes, electronic mail and so on are all collected into a single place and then distributed to the device of the user's choice, be it a computer, a telephone or a wireless gadget.
Think unified messaging for young women, maybe.
Other companies that offer unified messaging services range from startups such as Ureach.com to traditional telcos such as Ameritech.
Both companies seem perfectly poised to conquer two huge growth areas: the delivery of wireless Web applications and unified messaging.
Doherty said it will charge competitive rates for local and long distance telephony, managed e-mail, Web hosting, virtual private networking and unified messaging.
The first such products, Intel said, will be available in mid-2000 and will integrate Internet access with telephony features such as call management and unified messaging.
The same goes for the Google's rumored unified messaging system that's supposed to launch at some point in the near future.
The company's products can be used to create digital PBXs and to integrate those systems with Internet gateways, unified messaging systems, remote access systems and customer contact management systems.
