[SIPForum-discussion] SIP Forum’s SIPit 27 Slated for Taipei, Taiwan, November 15-19, 2010

Tue Oct 5 18:15:35 UTC 2010

SIP Forum’s SIPit 27Slated for Taipei, Taiwan, November 15-19, 2010

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperabilityto host five-day testing event in cooperation with the Industrial TechnologyResearch Institute; Registration now open

NORTH ANDOVER, MA (October 4, 2010) - The SIP Forum has announced that its next SIPInteroperability Testing event, SIPit 27, will be held November15-19, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan.  Theinternational event, hosted by The European Telecommunications StandardsInstitute (ETSI) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is open forregistration to any equipment vendor, developer, carrier or other companydealing with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementations.

At SIPit 27,participating companies will test a variety of SIP-based applications andimplementations in assorted network environments and topologies. The upcomingFall event expects to focus particular attention on SIP security, includingpreventing exploit attacks, securing media in secure real-time transportprotocol (SRTP), and maintaining interoperability while exercising advancedreal-time media sessions such as those utilizing High Definition video. Inaddition, groups are expected to continue their work related to IP peering andSIP trunking interoperability. 

"SIPit 27 will onceagain bring together the world’s foremost equipment vendors and serviceproviders across the IP communications industry to test and validate their SIPimplementations in a live, real-world IP network setting in Taipei, Taiwan, acenter of communications technology in Asia,” said Marc Robins, SIP Forum Presidentand Managing Director.  "In addition,the data compiled at the upcoming event will be integrated into an upcominginteroperability report regarding RFC3261, the core SIP standard, aimed atadvancing the specification along the standards maturity ladder inside the IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force).”

Conducted by the SIPForum twice a year, SIPits are the world’s premier interoperability testingevents for SIP, bringing together leading SIP application developers, serviceproviders and IP communications equipment manufacturers to ensure their SIPimplementations work seamlessly together in an IP network testingenvironment.  An important goal of the SIPitevents is to help refine both the SIP protocol and its implementations in orderto reinforce SIP as the global interoperable standard for real-time Internet communicationservices.

“Over the course of 26SIPit events, we have seen this program grow considerably to become one of themost effective and important SIP testbeds for both implementations andspecifications in the world,” said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum’s TestEvent Working Group.  “We haveconsistently attracted  participationfrom both past SIPit veterans and newcomers, as SIP continues to mature, andafter every event participants indicate that a week spent at SIPit providesresults that would have taken months to achieve with individual pair-wisetesting.”

SIPit is organized bythe SIP Forum’s Test Event Working Group (TEWG) and serves as a “plugfest” forparticipating companies to perform SIP interoperability testing with otherparticipants in a live network environment. Conducted twice a year, with events rotating in North America, Europe,and Asia, the SIP Forum has hosted 26 SIPit eventsaround the globe. The previous event, SIPit 26, was held in Kista,Sweden in May of 2010, whilethe last SIPit event in Asia, SIPit 24, was held in Tokyo, Japan.Upcoming events, SIPit 28 and SIPit 29, will be held in North America and Europe, respectively, in 2011.

REGISTRATION

SIPit 27 registration isnow open, and companies interested in attending the event can register at http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/SIPit27/SIPit27.htm.For information about past SIPits, please visit www.sipit.net.

About the SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association thatengages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology,such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperabilityand testing events, special interoperability workshops, educational seminars,and general promotion of SIP in the industry.  One of the Forum's notable technicalactivities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- astandards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IPpeering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks.The SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program is an associated program throughwhich eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right tolicense the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark --the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products andservices. Other important Forum initiatives include work in Fax-over-IPinteroperability, User Agent Configuration, and the opportunities for SIP inSmart Grid deployments. For more information, please visit: http://www.sipforum.org.

About ETSI
ETSIproduces globally-applicable standards for Information and CommunicationsTechnologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical,broadcast and internet technologies and is officially recognized by theEuropean Union as a European Standards Organization.  ETSI is anindependent, not-for-profit association whose 740 member companies andorganizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determinethe ETSI work program and participate directly in its work. 

ETSI's complementary standards-enabling service (Interopolis and Forapolis)offer "Idea to Product" solutions. Interopolis provides testingmethodology expertise, including interoperability test events. Forapolisprovides a full range of support and management services to associations.  For further information, please visit www.etsi.org.

About ITRI 
ITRI is Taiwan’slargest applied technology R&D institution. Since its founding in 1973,ITRI has successfully promoted the development of Taiwan’s high-tech industry. Todate, ITRI has accumulated over 9000 patents and has assisted in the creationof over 150 start-ups and spinoffs, including global semiconductor leaders TSMCand UMC. ITRI’s current focus areas include Information and Communications,Electronics and Optoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Material and Chemical, Energyand Environment, Advanced Manufacturing and Systems, and Biomedical Technology. For more information,please visit http://www.itri.org.tw.

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