Intel kit bolsters plug-and-play VoIP components
The Intel Universal Phone Device Interface (UPDI) aims to establish a uniform interface specification between ‘softphones’ – software-based phones installed on PCs – and peripheral phone devices.
Intel’s goal is to make it easier to integrate phone devices from a range of device providers and service providers while making the PC a more accommodating platform for these types of VoIP applications.
UPDI is designed to speed product development and testing for independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs), while lowering costs.
With UPDI, softphone ISVs no longer have to implement proprietary interfaces and instead can provide ‘plug-and-play’ support for various phone devices, the company says. The UPDI was also designed to facilitate a broader supply of softphones and devices for service providers.
The UPDI Software Developer Kit aims to provides documentation and reference source code to accelerate software and hardware vendor implementation of UPDI-compatible VoIP components.
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