Sotel IP Services, a Division of Sotel Systems , LLC, today announced the beta version of its SIP Core product.  SIP Core is a SIP Trunking Softswitch which, with engineering assistance from Sotel, can help aspiring ITSPs go from square one to IP Telephone Company within 30 days for as little as $30,000 for the softswitch, plus engineering and provisioning help to get it running.

SIP Core is bundled with SIP termination services provided by Sotel.Sotel's SIP Core will be promoted at VON and offered as Beta product immediately.

Sotel's SIP Core provides:

• A high-end, carrier-grade SIP switch either co-located in a Level(3) data center or the client's data center.
• Least cost routing of local calls to local gateways, LD calls to Sotel SIP trunking gateway.
• Economical SIP switching platform with room to grow (starts at 110 concurrent calls), providing enough horsepower for $20 Million dollars in annual billings at $.02 cents per minute.
• Clustering for 5 nines availability.
• Remote management by Sotel personnel.

Sotel IP Services creates new IP-based revenue streams for existing Telecom companies, start-ups, CLECs, ILECs and ISPs throughout North America.  Sotel also sells SIP trunking through its existing network of 600 agents and resellers throughout North America.