For those that don’t know, SIP Broker is a unique service that is designed to make it easier for people using SIP based phone services to call customers with other SIP Based phone services. Fro example, Callcentric (a popular SIP Provider) has a calling code of *462. Therefore, someone will dial *462 followed by the customer number. For the phone service, there will be a unique way of dialing the service. 111 will be prepended before the call, and the * will be dropped. For example, to call me – the customer will dial the following number:
111 462 17772603465
As mentioned 111 will tell the system you are making a SIP Broker Call. 462 tells SIP Broker that you wish to call a Callcentric customer. 17772603465 is the subscriber number. While this may not be a popular feature, it will be a useful one to those that will use it. It will eliminate the need to have use another phone. In addition, my phone service will work with SIP Broker to get their own SIP Broker prepend code. This will allow others to call a customer using SIP Broker.