"We have joined the SIP Forum because we believe in the importance of collaboration and interoperability with key global companies and their initiatives to strengthen the SIP ecosystem", stated Bogdan Carstoiu, 4PSA's CEO. "Our interest is to share the experiences with our cloud implementations and to scale our solutions massively in distributed environments", added Mr. Carstoiu.

"4PSA has an extremely high focus on SIP and its use in the enterprise for applications which include SIP trunking, Unified Communications, Fax, conferencing and video. Many of our current products and lot of development effort is in the SIP area. As we've continuously discovered improved methods for leveraging the full cloud potential, we look forward to presenting these to the SIP Forum members for review and exchange of ideas", Mr. Carstoiu also stated.

"I also look forward to 4PSA bringing a significant contribution to the SIP Forum and its members as a resource and as a partner. I am certain that the expertise we bring to the SIP Forum will help accomplish its mission and provide value to the other distinguished SIP Forum members." Mr. Carstoiu mentioned.

According to Richard Shockey, Chairman of the Board of the SIP Forum, "We are very pleased to have 4PSA join our ranks as a new Full Member of the SIP Forum. The interest of 4PSA and other companies in the Forum is a major proof-point of the growing awareness and support for SIP Forum initiatives related to improving interoperability and speeding the broad adoption of SIP-based products and services in the commercial marketplace.

Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director stated, "All of the Forum's various initiatives are gaining significant industry traction, including 'SIPconnect', which provides a best practices methodology for accomplishing trouble-free SIP trunking between SIP-enabled IP-PBXs and SIP-enabled VoIP service providers; the Fax-over-IP Interoperability Task Group work focused on achieving a higher degree of FoIP interoperability and FoIP reliability; the User-Agent Configuration Task Group effort to develop a simple configuration mechanism and profile suitable for a variety of user agents; and our exploration of the applicability of SIP in the Smart Grid with our Smart Grid SIG. In short, the progress we're making in these areas is having a positive, direct effect on our membership."

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