BusinessWire
February 13, 2006 05:01 AM US Pacific Timezone

SIPquest Announces Enhanced Version of its Mobile VoIP Application for PDAs and Smartphones: Mobile Console 2.0; Now With Instant Messaging, Presence, Corporate Directory Features for Massive Communications and Productivity Gains

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2006--SIPquest today announced the latest version of its mobile VoIP application for PDAs and Smartphone: Mobile Console 2.0.

Mobile Console, a software application residing in mobile handsets, delivers personal command and control of communications services over WiFi or WiFi and GSM or WiFi and CDMA network interfaces. Its single GUI and support for unified numbering consolidates both WiFi and cellular identities to provide a seamless end-user experience. The "Network Aware" feature detects and recommends network connectivity to allow users to place and receive a call over the best available network - WiFi or cellular - optimizing for lowest cost, highest call quality or user preference.

The latest enhancements to Mobile Console include three major features:

-- Instant Messaging: Using this enterprise-grade feature, employees can send and receive important messages to each other instantly. Senders know in real-time if intended recipients are online or offline to determine if they are receiving the message.

-- Presence: This feature enables employees to easily set their phones to "meeting," "away" or other settings so that callers have a proper expectation of when a message or call may be received and/or returned.

-- Corporate Directory: Using this feature, users have immediate access to a centralized, up-to-date directory of names that can be easily accessed for instant review or calling. One click on a directory name connects both the caller and highlighted employee.

Enterprise workers can use these new features to check the availability of co-workers, sort through the corporate directory, enable three-way or four-way conference calls, sort through call logs of their desktop phone and have the IP PBX deliver calls to a temporary number.

"Enterprise wireless is all about balancing cost and productivity," said Tim Kridel, an independent analyst. "Mobile Console addresses that need by giving CIOs and IT managers a way to implement least-cost routing. It also saves money by ensuring that employees aren't wasting minutes calling a colleague who's in a meeting or out-of-pocket. Instead, they can immediately identify the most effective way to communicate, eliminating one of the biggest workplace annoyances: phone tag."

According to David Hattey, president and CEO of SIPquest, "Mobile Console 2.0 is a major step toward the fulfillment of our vision of giving corporate user complete personal command and control of their communications capabilities - regardless of whether they are in the enterprise or a public setting. With these new features, enterprise users can expect enormous communication productivity gains anywhere, anytime."

Mobile Console 2.0 is optimized for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and will be in service provider field trials starting in the second quarter of 2006.

About SIPquest

SIPquest is the leading developer of Converged Multimedia Client software for desktop, WiFi, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environments. The company's solutions are embedded or bundled into the world's largest equipment vendors, systems integrators and service provider's products to quickly and seamlessly deliver rich multimedia services to their end-users.

Based in Ottawa, the company differentiates its mobile VoIP offerings by being first to market with major innovations in mobility management, working with a broad range of channel partners so enterprises have the widest choice of preferred suppliers, and supporting the widest range of mobile devices. Partners include Nortel, Cisco and 3Com, among others. For more information visit http://www.sipquest.com or call +1-613-254-8886.