The SIP 2.0.1 release features a significant number of product enhancements, bug fixes and many ‘industry firsts’. Most notably the following major new features are included in this software release:

Transport Layer Security (TLS) to allow service providers and enterprises to ensure that their SIP signaling traffic is secure from malicious eavesdropping or interception.

Busy Lamp Field (BLF) support when used with Broadsoft Broadworks Release 13. This feature allows customers to deploy phones for use by Receptionist and Administrators enabling them to monitor the line status of multiple users from their phone. This feature is best utilized by customers using a SoundPoint IP 601 plus Expansion Module(s).

Integration with Microsoft ® Office Live Communications Server 2005 platform. This feature allows telephony features and Presence features to be implemented on the phone when used with the LCS2005 Server. This may be done as a second registration on the phone with the Microsoft ® Office Live Communications Server 2005 platforms to allow a rich Presence solution in conjunction with Microsoft Office Communicator clients in addition to a primary registration with another SIP call server.

Product Enhancements to allow more flexibility on phone configuration and management designed to facilitate a Low/Zero Touch deployment of Polycom SoundPoint IP phones.

The new Polycom firmware and bootroom can be downloaded by our customers from our ftp site below. Be sure to check out the complete list of changes in the release notes PDF.

ftp://ftp.telephonyware.com/firmware/polycom/