[SIPForum-discussion] Notice of Upcoming SIP Forum SIPconnect Compliance Workshop

Wed Jan 9 22:35:14 UTC 2008

Dear SIP Forum Members:

The SIP Forum is proud to announce that it will be running a FREE half-day
workshop on SIPconnect Compliance on January 25th, 2008, in conjunction with
the Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO EAST 2008 and the Ingate SIP
Trunking Seminar series.

Please note that although the workshop is free, you must be registered as an
attendee of the show in order to attend the workshop. Here's the link to the
conference website -- if you click "Register Now", you'll be presented with
a number of options, including a free VIP pass:

http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/

We hope to see you there!

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Marc Robins
Managing Director, SIP Forum
www.sipforum.org
marc.robins at sipforum.org

Chief Evangelism Officer, RCG
Tel: 718-548-7245
Fax: 484-952-2470
Mobile: 203-829-6307
SkypeMe! marcrobins
www.robinsconsult.com

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Full Workshop Agenda follows:

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SIP Forum SIPconnect Compliance Workshop
Schedule, Speakers and Topics

Date: Friday, January 25, 2008 -- 10:00am-1:00pm

Co-located with TMC’s Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO EAST 2008
<http://www.itexpo.com> 
The Miami Beach Convention Center, Room B114/115
Miami, FL

The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in
numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology, such as the
development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and
testing events, special interoperability workshops, and general promotion of
SIP in the industry.

One of the Forum's most important technical activities is the development of
the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- a standards-based recommendation
that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability
(SIP Trunking) between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks, and the
SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies
can license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification
mark -- the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products
and services.

This special educational workshop will provide a full review of the
SIPconnect Technical Recommendation, real-world insights into current SIP
Trunking deployments, and a full understanding of the process and
requirements of SIPconnect Compliant Certification.

Detailed Schedule:

10:00am-10:20am – Opening Remarks and Introduction: The Why and What of
SIPconnect – Presenter: Marc Robins, Managing Director, SIP Forum

10:20am-10:40am -- The SIPconnect Value Proposition – Presenter: Marc Robins

10:45am-11:15am -- SIPconnect Compliance Process Overview – Presenter: Chris
Gatch, CTO, Cbeyond
Topics include: 
*	A Discussion of the Application Process
*	The Compliance Survey
*	License Agreement Overview
*	Discussion of the Certification Committee

11:15am-11:45am -- Lessons Learned  – Presenter: Mark Enstrom, Broadsoft. 
	Get real-world feedback from actual SIP Trunking/SIPconnect
deployments. Topics include:

*	How to use SIPconnect in your existing interoperability program to
significantly reduce resource requirements
*	How real-world service providers improved the economics of SIP
Trunking services
*	NAT/Firewall Issues
*	The additional requirements needed to provide a successful
SIPconnect Trunking service.

11:45am-12:00pm – Break

12:00pm-12:45pm -- SIPconnect Recommendation Deep Dive – Presenter: Chris
Gatch, CTO, Cbeyond.
This session will provide a section-by-section review of the SIPconnect
Technical Recommendation, with identification of key areas of
interoperability and review of the latest SIPconnect Compliance survey
results.

12:45pm-1:00pm—Closing Remarks and Q&A

PRESENTER BIOS

Mark Enstrom
Mark Enstrom is a telecommunications professional with almost 14 years of
experience in the industry, including roles in Systems Engineering, Product
Line Management and Product/Field Marketing. In these roles, Mark has been
instrumental in many product introductions. As a member of the Field
Marketing team at BroadSoft <http://www.broadsoft.com> , he works with
service providers on their go-to-market efforts for Hosted PBX, Business
Trunking and SIP trunking solutions.

Before joining the Marketing team, he led the effort to define and document
the SIP trunking solution, which is now BroadSoft’s fastest growing
application. As BroadSoft’s representative to the SIP Forum, Mark was active
with the SIPconnect Certification Committee and helped launch the SIPconnect
Compliance Trademark. Prior to BroadSoft, Mark was with TTC/Acterna (now
JDSU) and sentitO Networks (now Verso). Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the R. H. Smith School of
Business at the University of Maryland.

Chris Gatch
Chris Gatch is the CTO and a founder of Cbeyond <http://www.cbeyond.net>
(NASDAQ: CBEY), a successful managed services provider started in 1999 and
now publicly traded on the NASDAQ. Chris is responsible for Cbeyond's
Engineering department as well as on-going network technology research and
development. Chris has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from
Clemson University and a master's degree in the management of technology
from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has served on the board of the
Cisco BTS 10200 Users Group and the Service Provider Board of the
International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC). Chris has been
professionally committed to VoIP technology since 1998.

Chris helped lead the formation of the SIP Forum’s Service Provider to IP
PBX Interoperability Task Group for which he submitted the proposal to
create. This task group produced the SIPconnect SIP Forum recommendation of
which Chris was an editor along with Chris Sibley.

Marc Robins
Marc Robins currently serves as president of SIP Forum LLC (the operating
U.S. subsidiary of the SIP Forum) and as the consulting managing director of
the SIP Forum <http://www.sipforum.org/> . Marc is also the founder and
Chief Technology Evangelism Officer of Robins Consulting Group (RCG)
<http://www.robinsconsult.com> , an IP Communications industry consultancy
founded in 2003 that offers advisory, market intelligence and strategy
development; and comprehensive marketing and communications and services for
companies in the IP communications industry. RCG has also served as a
producer of a number of special workshops and industry conferences.

Prior to RCG, Marc served five years as Vice President of Publications and
Trade Shows, Associate Group Publisher and Group Editorial Director at TMC
(Technology Marketing Corporation) <http://www.tmcnet.com> .  He was the
co-founder, conference architect and co-chairman of TMC conferences, such as
the Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO, and Communications Solutions EXPO,
and also managed the operations of a number of leading industry publications
-- including Internet Telephony® magazine, Customer Inter at ction Solutions®,
Communications Solutions®, and Communications ASP®. 

Over the course of his 25-year career, Marc has authored hundreds of
articles, columns and special reports for leading telecommunications
industry magazines. He continues to evangelize new IP communications
technologies as a regular contributor to mainstream and business
publications, and as the author of columns in various industry publications.
Marc is also a frequent moderator and speaker at industry events and is a
commentator for a variety of radio shows on the subject of VoIP and IP
communications.

Best,

Marc

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