[SIPForum-discussion] SIP Forum Announces Next SIPconnect-IT 2013 Interop Event

[Marc Robins]

SIP Forum Announces the next SIP Trunking Interoperability Testing Event --
SIPconnect-IT 2013 -- May 6-10, 2013


 


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


 

The SIP Forum has announced the next SIP trunking interoperability testing
event to help drive industry-wide adoption of the SIPconnect 1.1 Technical
Specification. The second annual interoperability testing event,
SIPconnect-IT 2013, will be a five-day event held from May 6-10, 2013, at
the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL)'s
32,000 square foot facility in Durham, New Hampshire.

SIPconnect-IT 2013 <http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/400/289/>  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 2013 is now available online at
http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2013.

SIPconnect-IT 2013 is organized by the SIP Forum's SIPconnect
Interoperability Certification Task Group (SC-IT TG), formed to develop
appropriate test plans, Interop events and conformance tools for the
SIPconnect 1.1 Technical Specification
<http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/273/227/> . The SC-IT TG is also
tasked with identifying "inter-working" issues and developing a process for
resolving issue disputes in order to speed SIPconnect 1.1 adoption and
implementation. In addition, the group is developing a comprehensive
SIPconnect 1.1 Compliance Program, with the goal of creating 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 of UNH-IOL, 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/.

The primary goal of the SIPconnect-IT 2013 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.

"Following upon the success of the first SIPconnect-IT event, SIPconnect-IT
2013 will once again offer the IP communications engineering community an
important venue to put the theory and ideals of SIPconnect 1.1 into action
and continue the hard work of identifying and ultimately resolving key
inter-networking issues related to SIP trunking," said Marc Robins, SIP
Forum President and Managing Director.

SIPconnect-IT 2013 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.

The 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 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 2013, please visit
http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/400/287/. 

Registration for SIPconnect-IT 2013 is officially open at
http://www.regonline.com/sipconnectit2013.

 

 

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Marc Robins

President and Managing Director

SIP Forum

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