By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing

In TMCnet’s VoIP Quality Feature, industry expert Doug Mohney outlines the troubles facing end-to-end SIP transport and the need for what he terms a ” federation service to link enterprises, enabling them to share UC applications, IM directly and securely, and do all that HD voice and video goodness without having to run down to the corporate IT staff and getting them to hand-craft secure connections through the firewall on a one-off basis.”  His view is that, “federation would provide a central hub and one-stop-shop for businesses to interoperate at the applications level without having to worry about security.”

Businesses are considering how they can seamlessly integrate UC applications with their partners since Internet service providers (ISPs) do not offer such a service beyond the controlled VoIP framework.