[SIPForum-discussion] SIP Forum Announces SIPconnect-IT 2012 -- New SIP Trunking Interoperability Testing Event

Wed Sep 19 22:13:07 UTC 2012

SIP Forum Announces New SIPconnect-IT 2012 SIP Trunking Interoperability
Testing Event Dec. 3, 2012

Five-day Interop event, hosted by the UNH-IOL and sponsored by CableLabs,
will provide worldwide telecom community opportunity to test the SIPconnect
1.1 Specification for SIP trunking interoperability in live network
environment 

North Andover, Mass. (September 19, 2012) - The  <http://www.sipforum.org/>
SIP Forum announced today a new SIP trunking interoperability testing
initiative to drive industry-wide adoption of the SIPconnect 1.1 Technical
Specification. SIPconnect-IT 2012 will be a five-day event held from
December 3-7, 2012, at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL)'s 32,000 square foot facility in Durham, New Hampshire.
SIPconnect-IT 2012 will provide application developers, equipment vendors
and service providers with a platform to demonstrate and test
implementations of this SIP trunking interoperability specification in a
live network environment. Registration to SIPconnect-IT 2012 is now
available online at  <http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2012>
http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2012.

SIPconnect-IT 2012 is one of the first milestones of the SIP Forum's new
SIPconnect- Interoperability Certification Task Group (SC-IT TG), formed to
develop appropriate test plans, Interop events and conformance tools for
SIPconnect 1.1. The SC-IT TG was also tasked, in its first phase, with
identifying "interworking" issues and developing a process for resolving
issue disputes in order to speed adoption and implementation. In its second
phase, the group aims to evolve its testing program into a formal,
comprehensive SIPconnect 1.1 Compliance Program. Ultimately, the SC-IT Task
Group aims to accelerate the adoption of the
<http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/273/227/> SIPconnect 1.1 Technical
Specification and create a formal testing certification program for
compliance.

The SC-IT Task Group is co-chaired by Alan Johnston of Avaya and Robert
Kinder of Cox Communications.  Additional participants include SIP Forum
Technical Working Group Director Spencer Dawkins and Task Group Chief
Document Editor James Swan, as well as many other participants of the SIP
Forum's longstanding Technical Working Group. The SC-IT Task Group charter
is published online at  <http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/393/285/>
http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/393/285/.

The primary goal of the SIPconnect-IT 2012 event is to provide a venue where
attendees can perform technical interoperability testing among and between
products or services that use the SIPconnect 1.1 Technical Specification
published by the SIP Forum, and adhere to the requirements of the Session
Initiation Protocol ("SIP) as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force
("IETF") and associated companion technologies and protocols.

"SIPconnect-IT 2012 marks an important step in galvanizing the industry
toward universal adoption of and compliance with the SIPconnect 1.1
Specification," Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director,
said. "It will give the IP communications engineering community an
opportunity to put the theory and ideals of SIPconnect 1.1 into action and
begin the hard work of identifying and ultimately resolving key
internetworking issues related to SIP trunking."

SIPconnect-IT 2012 will be hosted by the UNH-IOL. The laboratory focuses on
testing services for data, telecom and storage networking technologies,
helping to efficiently and cost effectively speed go-to-market time for
products. As an independent organization, the UNH-IOL offers confidential,
vendor-neutral testing that is recognized industry-wide as evidence of
interoperability and conformance to technical standards.

"Through collaboration with the SIP Forum, the UNH-IOL is helping service
providers to overcome interoperability issues experienced when deploying SIP
trunking services to their enterprise customers," said James Swan, Research
and Development, IP Technologies, UNH-IOL. "SIPconnect-IT 2012 will be
fundamental in introducing SIPconnect 1.1 compliant products to the market
and ultimately, driving widespread industry adoption of the specification."

The newly developed SIPconnect 1.1 Interoperability Test Plan focuses on
testing interoperability between different vendor products and network
elements involved in SIP Trunking services. Testing procedures will aim to
verify interoperability between an Enterprise SIP-PBX and a Service Provider
network SIP Signaling Entity (SP-SSE). Test cases cover industry-accepted
requirements for the SIPconnect 1.1 interface, as well as applicable IETF
RFCs, and will be measured against the requirements of the SIPconnect 1.1
Technical Recommendation. Current test groups include: Registration Mode,
Static Mode, Basic Voice Calls, Extended Call Features and Media and Session
Interactions.

"The availability of a comprehensive and detailed test plan is a key enabler
for this event," said Glenn Russell, VP Business Services, CableLabs.
"Development of the plan has been a true joint effort with contributions
from service providers, equipment manufacturers, and leading industry
research labs.  Companies who attend and participate in SIPconnect-IT 2012
will certainly benefit from the work of these industry experts."

The SIPconnect 1.1 Technical Recommendations, ratified by the SIP Forum
Board of Directors in 2011, provides an industry-wide, standards-based
framework for direct IP peering between SIP-enabled enterprises and service
provider networks. This framework helps to ensure the interoperability of
network elements across the IP environment and provides best practices
guidelines for vendors and service providers as they develop new equipment
and IP applications.  The recommendations feature an array of enhancements
from Version 1.0, including more comprehensive guidelines about SIP endpoint
and media endpoint functionality, security, as well as standards-based
support for both registration (SIP REGISTER-based) and static (DNS-based)
modes of operation, incorporating the newly-approved IETF RFC 6140.

For more information about the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version
1.1, please visit the SIP Forum's main SIPconnect webpage at:
http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/273/227/.

For more information about SIPconnect-IT 2012, please visit
http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/400/287/. 

Registration for SIPconnect-IT 2012 is officially open at
<http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2012>
http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2012.

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Marc Robins

President and Managing Director

SIP Forum

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