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The SIP Forum is an industry association with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption of IP communications products and services based on SIP.
The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks. The Forum directs technical activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability, provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, and highlights successful applications and deployments.
Each of our Working Groups has their own mailing list, many of which are open to individual, "Participant" members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general "discussion" mailing list. The Forum is open to both individual "Participant"
members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate "Full Members". Individual "Participant" and Academic/Institutional membership is free. You can find out more about membership here.
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SIP Forum Announces 2008 Annual General Meeting Results
The SIP Forum 2008 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 507, in conjunction with Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO Fall 2008.
For the vote results of the meeting, including the full text of the 2008 Annual General Meeting Notice, the presentations given at the meeting and other related information, please visit here.
SIPconnect Compliance Workshop A Big Hit
The SIP Forum presented the second of a special educational workshop on SIPconnect this past September 17, 2008, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the 2008 Internet Telephony West Conference and EXPO in Los Angeles, California.
Topics included The Why and What of SIPconnect, the SIPconnect Value Proposition, a SIPconnect "Deep Dive", a Step-by-Step SIPconnect Compliance Tutorial, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments. To view the full workshop agenda, click here
Click here to access presentations given at the first SIPconnect Compliance workshop in January, 2008. Presentations from the second workshop will be posted shortly.
SIPit 23 is in Session!
SIPit 23 - the leading SIP interoperability test event - is being hosted by ETSI with France Telecom technical support October 13 through 17, 2008 in Lannion, France.
For additional event details, please visit http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/SIPit/SIPit.htm
SIP Forum Work on SIPconnect v.1.1 in Progress
The SIP Forum reached an important milestone when it formally adopted version 1.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation this past January, 2008 with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors. At the same time, the Board announced the formation of the SIPconnect v.1.1 Task Group.
The formal adoption by the SIP Forum Board of the SIPconnect 1.0 Technical Recommendation is based on recognition that the recommendation has been through credible peer review, including broad membership and significant community review, that it is stable and is well-understood, and that it is believed to have resolved known design choices.
To read the full announcement, please click here.
To download the ratified SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 1.0, please click here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Work on SIPconnect 1.1 has begun! For an overview of the work in progress, please visit HERE.
The SIP Forum has created a depository of SIPconnect 1.1 Scoping Documents,
which currently includes submissions from Avaya, Broadsoft, CableLabs, Cbeyond, Microsoft and Siemens, and will be the location of other member contributions as they are made available.
Please click here for the SIPconnect 1.1 Scoping Document depository.
CableLabs hosted a special SIPconnect 1.1 Technical Working Group meeting on September 25 and 26, 2008 to finalize the recommendation.
Recent News
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 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.
For more information about SIPconnect and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program, please visit here.
For a current listing of products and services that have achieved SIPconnect Compliant Certification, please click here.
SIP Interoperability Workshop at IETF 70 was a BIG Success!
Co-located with the 70th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the SIP Forum's SIP Interoperability Workshop (SFSIW-1) served as a forum to bring together researchers, engineers, and service providers to exchange ideas, share experiences, and propose approaches to address interoperability problems.
To view and download submitted papers and workshop presentations, please click here.
For more information about this workshop, please click here.
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