“Vovida Networks is augmenting their open source implementations
of developmental protocol stacks for Voice over IP (VoIP) to
include both the COPS (Common Open Policy Service) and RADIUS
(Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) protocols. “We are
very pleased to add COPS and RADIUS to our existing open source
implementations of MGCP, RTP, SIP and H.323 Annex-F (via OpenH323
collaboration), as we believe open source benefits the entire
communications industry by allowing third parties access to common
software building blocks for VoIP,” stated Alan Knitowski,
President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Vovida
Networks.”
“Although we have given away more than 16,000 protocol stacks
over the last 12 months, we are definitely not a protocol stack
company,” Knitowski went on to say. “Vovida Networks is a
communications software company that markets toll quality, carrier
grade VoIP software to both service providers and carriers. Our
software enables customers to deploy converged voice, video and
data features, services and applications to their business and
residential customers via broadband cable, DSL, and wireless. The
Vovida Open Communications Application Library software leverages
the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as its core signaling
protocol. However, the system also offers line side agnosticity by
incorporating multi-protocol translators for H.323, MGCP, analog
and NCS based endpoints. The Vovida Open Communications Application
Library software will offer call processing, signaling,
provisioning, billing, a core subset of CLASS telephony features
and customizable feature creation modules for third parties to
develop their own features and services with simple, standard
scripting languages. This flexibility in design and architecture
will provide service providers and carriers the power to deploy
customized communications environments based on their own unique
business and technology requirements and objectives for VoIP.”
“The COPS protocol is a query and response protocol that can
be used to exchange policy information between a policy server and
its clients. The RADIUS protocol specifies the authentication,
authorization and billing information detailing the service being
delivered to end-users.“