Welcome to the SIP Forum Website!
The SIP Forum is an industry organization with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption of 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, most of which are open to participant members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general mailing list. The Forum is open to both individual participant
members, and to full corporate members. Individual participant membership is free. You can find out more about membership here.
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SIP Forum Ratifies SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 1.0
The SIP Forum has reached an important milestone as it formally adopts version 1.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors and announces 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.
SIPconnect Compliance Workshop Presentations Now Available!
The SIP Forum presented a special educational workshop on January 25th, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the 2008 Internet Telephony East Conference and EXPO in Miami, Florida.
Topics covered included The Why and What of SIPconnect, the SIPconnect Value Proposition, a Step-by-Step SIPconnect Compliance Tutorial, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments.
Click here to see a list of the presentations given at the workshop and to download individual files.
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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