Rohan Mahy, Co-Chair of Both the IETF SIP and SIPPING Working Groups, Joins Xten Technical Advisory Board
Vancouver, BC, Canada — September 05, 2014
Xten Networks, Inc. (OTCBB: XNWK), a provider of award-winning VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), Video over IP, Instant Messaging (IM), and Presence SIP softphones, today announced that Rohan Mahy has joined the Xten Technical Advisory Board.
“Adding Rohan to our team of industry innovators strengthens our position as a leader in the SIP endpoint market,” stated Erik Lagerway, President and Chief Operating Officer of Xten. “We are excited to have him share his vision with us on the future of SIP and IP Communications.”
“Every self-respecting service provider is using or evaluating the Xten eyeBeam SDK. I am very pleased to be working with the Xten team on ground-breaking functionality and supporting their efforts to continue to deliver excellent-quality standards-based VoIP,” stated Rohan Mahy.
Rohan Mahy is a senior consultant on SIP, VoIP, and Network Address Translation. Previously, Rohan was Chief Voice Architect at Airespace, working on integration of location and real-time services into the Airespace wireless LAN system, and assisting partners with implementation of voice over wireless LANs. Prior to Airespace, Rohan worked for Cisco Systems for eleven years, most recently as a Network Architect in the Voice Technology Group, where Rohan led initiatives in voice security, configuration and administration, distributed call control, and NAT and firewall traversal.
Rohan is a well known leader within the VoIP industry, including regular speaking engagements and heavy involvement in the IETF, where he is co-chair of both the SIP and SIPPING working groups. Rohan is also chair of the recently formed SIP Forum Technical working group, and active in the design of the reSIProcate open-source SIP stack. He has contributed to a number of IETF working group documents, including:
- RFC 3489: Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs (STUN)
- RFC 3427: SIP Change Policy (BCP 67)
- RFC 3842: SIP Event Package for Message Waiting
- RFC 3891: The SIP Replaces Header
- RFC 3911: The SIP Join Header
Advisory Board – Technical Team
- Alan Duric – co-founder & CTO of Telio AS
- Graeme Dollar – Product Manager, Voice Services of Yahoo! Inc.
- Rohan Mahy – Senior Consultant
- Klaus Shulz – International Projects Manager of ZettaWorks
- Robert Sparks – Senior Consultant
Advisory Board – Corporate Team
- Ted Griggs – founder & Chairman of the Board of Syndeo Corporation
- Michael Robertson – founder & CEO of Linspire.com Inc.
- Michael Tribolet – Executive VP of Operations of Vonage
About Xten Networks, Inc.
Xten is a developer of award-winning, high-quality, carrier-grade SIP softphones for service providers, cable operators, Internet telephony service providers, IP PBX manufacturers and OEMs. Xten’s SIP softphones are available either pre-configured or as a software development kit (SDK), and provide VoIP (Voice over IP), Video over IP, IM (Instant Messaging), and Presence functionality. Xten has a feature-rich FREE SIP softphone dubbed X-Lite, in addition to the fully featured X-PRO commercial softphone and eyeBeam, a SIP Video over IP softphone with IM and Presence. Through its deployments with leading service providers, Xten has more than 700,000 IP endpoints deployed worldwide.
For more information please visit www.xten.com.
