VPIM

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VPIM

(Voice Profile for Internet Mail) A method for encoding voicemail messages as data so they can travel via the SMTP mail protocol over IP networks. VPIM uses MIME to encode messages in multiple parts, which are decoded by VPIM-compliant voicemail systems at the other end.

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"We're hopeful the standards-based approach -- using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Voice Protocol for Internet Mail (VPIM), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) 0.2 capabilities -- will influence other messaging providers to consider this approach and make possible widespread interworking between networks," he said.

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Since it was still difficult to find many language implementation experts, we decided to use basically the same implementation, Virtual PIM (VPIM), for four out of five models to minimize the effort.