New Intel Software Developer Kit Bolsters Plug-And-Play VoIP Components for the PC

New Intel Software Developer Kit Bolsters Plug-And-Play VoIP Components for the PC

Intel Corporation today announced a new software framework and development kit to enable plug-and-play components for Web-based phone calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The Intel® Universal Phone Device Interface (UPDI) establishes 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 speeds 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. UPDI is also designed to facilitate a broader supply of softphones and devices for service providers. The UPDI Software Developer Kit provides documentation and reference source code to accelerate software and hardware vendor implementation of UPDI-compatible VoIP components.

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