Sipgate (VoIP Provider)
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Under the brand name "sipgate" the Düsseldorf company indigo networks GmbH has been offering network-independent Voice over IP services for private customers since January 2004, providing its services in Germany, UK and Austria.
sipgate furnishes every customer with a free of charge telephone number, either a local or a location-independent call number, according to the user's residence. Calls can be received and made worlwide from and to any telephone network (VoIP-, fixed line and mobile networks). The basic account version does not include any basic costs, setup costs or minimum balance.
sipgate network internal calls are for free, peerings with altogether eight national and international IP partner networks allow sipgate customers to talk free of charge to more than one million VoIP users around the world.
Furthermore, sipgate provides its customers with the ability to send short text messages through the website. sipgate.de acounts are also equipped with a webfax-feature.
The use of internet telephony with sipgate requires a broadband internet connection and a softphone, SIP telephone or an analogue telephone adapter (ATA) which turns every conventional analogue telephone into an internet telephone.
At the beginning of this year, sipgate has started its first business solution in Germany, called 'sipgate für Telefonanlagen' (sipgate for telephone systems, Link). At the same time, HiPath BizIP has become part of the German sipgate hardware range (sipgate VoIP-Shop), after having been successfully tested with sipgate, in particular with the new feature 'sipgate für Telefonanlagen'.
Purpose of this article is to provide the Unify Wiki Community with basic information and news on sipgate services that are applied together with Siemens Communications Systems and Clients & Devices.
Contents
Supported Features
The charts given below provide an overview on important features concerning both - sipgate services and Siemens HiPath systems/Clients & Devices.
HiPath systems
HiPath BizIP
| Country | Germany | UK | Austria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website | http://www.sipgate.de | http://www.sipgate.co.uk | http://www.sipgate.at |
| Configuration wizard | Profile available | Profile available | - |
| SIP DDI Account | - | - | - |
| SIP Client Account | x | x | x |
| CLIP | x | x | x |
| CLIR | x | x | x |
| COLP | 1* | 1* | 1* |
| COLR | 1* | 1* | 1* |
| Clip no Screening | x | - | - |
| DTMF (out-of-band) conform to RFC2833 | x | x | x |
| DTMF (in-band) towards PSTN | x | x | x |
| Codecs (G.711a/G711u/G.723/G.729) | x/x/NT/x | x/x/NT/x | x/x/NT/x |
| T.38 Fax | - | - | - |
| Music on Hold | x | x | x |
NT = not yet tested
1* = HiPath system RFC 3325 conform, but currently not supported by sipgate
Clients & Devices
optiPoint 150 S
| Country | Germany | UK | Austria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website | http://www.sipgate.de | http://www.sipgate.co.uk | http://www.sipgate.at |
| Simple Call | x | x | x |
| Call Waiting | x | x | x |
| Call Transfer | - | - | - |
| 3 Way Conference | x | x | x |
| Call Forward Always | - | - | - |
| Call Forward on Busy | - | - | - |
| Call Forward no Answer | - | - | - |
| Alternate | x | x | x |
| DTMF | x | x | x |
sipgate specific
sipgate enables customers to initiate phone calls via click2dial by using the "call"-button right next to the relevant entry of the phonebook or call list on the sipgate website. In addition, sipgate has launched a Mozilla Firefox-Extension 'sipgateFFX', which makes telephone numbers on any website directly dialable by clicking on the telephone symbol next to the number. For more information on 'sipgateFFX' see: sipgateFFX
| Product | Click2Dial sipgate Website | Click2Dial sipgateFFX | Account reloading via telephone |
|---|---|---|---|
| HiPath BizIP | - | x | x |
| optiPoint 150 S | x | x | x |
Other
Access to emergency services
| Germany | 110 and 112 |
| UK | - |
| Austria | 112, 120, 122, 123, 128, 133, 141, 144 |
Access to service numbers
| Germany | 01801, 01802, 01803, 01804, 01805, 01888, 0700 |
| UK | 0845, 0870 |
| Austria | 0810, 0820 |
sipgate Weblinks and Documents
sipgate VoIP-Shop
sipgate.de
sipgate Configuration Guides
sipgate.de
sipgate Tariffs
sipgate.de
sipgate.co.uk
sipgate.at
News
- May 8th, 2007: sipgate introduces a new free of charge fax software, called 'sipgate Faxdrucker', which enables sipgate.de customers to send faxes directly out of every Windows based application. For more information see: sipgate Faxdrucker
