Sip:phone is a mobile application that takes advantage of the capabilities of two Sipwise platforms together: The Class 5 Softswitch and the CPBX. It extends the client’s reachability onto any device that has access to a broadband data connection (e.g. WiFi, LTE, 5G, and DSL), whether it runs on Android or iOS. This allows smartphones’ and tablets’ users to experience voice over IP services.
With the Sipwise Sip:phone app, you can use your mobile devices as an extension of your business phone system. The innovative and lean programming easily and seamlessly connects smartphones to an existing core telephony system, making you reachable anywhere you go.
The Sipwise Sip:phone app comes white-labeled and can be branded per your company design. The user interface and appearance can be fully customised to reflect the operator’s corporate identity. The Sip:phone app can then be placed in the Google and Apple App Stores under the operator’s name and made available to end customers via free or paid App Store downloads as part of the operator’s service offering.
Sipwise Sip:phone mobile clients are fully integrated into Sipwise C5: the apps are available to standard Class 5 subscribers and Sipwise CPBX
All subscribers are managed and activated directly on the Sipwise C5 using north-bound interfaces (e.g. Web-based interface, REST API). The mobile apps provide two methods of user login: username and password or using a server generated QR code to scan.
If a subscriber has both a deskphone and a mobile app, you can define the ringing policy of the devices: first deskphone and then mobile app, only the mobile app, only the deskphone, first the mobile app and then the deskphone, and many others.
At mobile app startup, it synchronises the end customer’s phone contact list with the Sipwise C5 subscribers to find the company’s contacts.
The app allows users to define a list of favorite contacts for which it shows the presence status, so users can initiate calls or pick up calls directly there.
The app integrates features like audio and video calls, hold, two contemporary calls, three-way conferences, and blind and attended transfer. The Sip:phone mobile app provides a wide range of voice codecs from narrow-band to HD quality for negotiating best voice quality for the available access network (WiFi or 3G).
From the app, it is possible to configure some of the most important features available at the subscriber’s level in the C5 system, such as dnd, clir, ringing policy, and more.
The design of the Sip:phone mobile app aims to reduce power consumption and minimise smartphone battery drain. Low power consumption is achieved by utilising specific system mechanisms for real-time apps and equipping the apps with the Mobile Push Module of our Sipwise C5 switch. This approach allows the user to launch the mobile app on the user’s phone via Sipwise C5 if a phone call or notification comes in. It relies on the standard push notification framework of the smartphone’s respective App Store.
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