The dialer is already compatible with infrastructure from Cisco, Avaya, Nortel Networks, and other vendors.

SIP is helping to open up the enterprise telephony market, once dominated by proprietary products, to a variety of vendors that can introduce new capabilities, said IDC analyst Abner Germanow.

Faster, easier development means lower cost, Delgesso said. At less than $20,000 for a four-port system that recognizes 1,000 names, the new product costs about one-third less than its existing product for IP phone systems that use TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface), he said.

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