WebRTC, SIP Trunking, Emergency Services, Security and SIP-IPv6 Deployment Challenges Headline Agenda at SIPNOC 2013

JUST ANNOUNCED -- Special Keynote Addresses by Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Officer of the FCC and Randy Nicklas, CTO and SVP of Engineering at XO Communications

The SIP Forum is proud to have Henning Schulrinne reprise his keynote address at SIPNOC 2013! As CTO of the FCC, Mr. Schulzrinne guides the organization’s work on technology and engineering issues, together with the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology. He advises on matters across the agency to ensure that FCC policies are driving technological innovation, including serving as a resource to FCC Commissioners. Mr. Schulzrinne joined the FCC in 2010 as an Engineering Fellow.

The SIP Forum is also very proud to have Randy Nicklas, CTO and SVP of Engineering at XO Communications, also deliver a keynote address during the conference.

As the Chief Technology Officer and SVP of Engineering for XO Communications, Randy Nicklas is responsible for the overall technology vision, architecture, implementation, sustaining engineering and capacity planning for the company’s voice, data, and transport networks. He and his team are also the technical leads on the design of XO’s commercial and wholesale voice, data and IP-based services.

SIPNOC 2013 is also proud to have the following speakers share their knowledge and expertise, including:

Mary Barnes, Principal Engineer, Polycom , Dispatch Chair, IETF and Executive Director, IAB, and Director, SIP Forum
Dr. Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University
Spencer Dawkins, Senior Standards Manager, Huawei Technologies and Technical Director, SIP Forum
Harold Feld, Senior Vice President, Public Knowledge
Laurie Flaherty, NG9-1-1 Program Lead, National Highway Safety Administration, U.S. Dept of Transportation
Jim Gast, Director Network Architecture, TDS Telecom
David Hanes, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems
Roger Hixson, Technical Issues Director, NENA
Hank Hultquist, Vice President-Federal Regulatory, AT&T
Alan Johnston, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Avaya and Director, SIP Forum
Robert Kinder, Sr. Manager, Commercial Voice Product Development, Cox Communications, and Director, SIP Forum
Mark Lindsey, MTS, ECG
Steve Mckinnon, Applications Product Line Manager, GENBAND
Randy Nicklas, CTO, XO Communications
Bruce Page, Senior VP, Current Analysis
James Rafferty, Product Line Director, Dialogic
Marc Robins, President and Managing Director, SIP Forum, and CEO, RCG
Mike Romano, Sr. VP – Policy, NTCA
Gonzalo Salgueiro, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, INSIPID WG Chair, IETF, and Director and FoIP TG Co-Chair, SIP Forum
Henning Schulzrinne, CTO, Federal Communications Commission, and Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science, Columbia University
Gernot Scheichl, VP Technical Services, Edgewater Networks
Jack Shields, Senior Member of Technical Staff, XO Communications
Manpreet Singh, Sr. Manager Signaling and IP Architecture, iBasis
Richard Shockey, Chairman of the Board, SIP Forum and Principal, Shockey Consulting
Dan Weber, CTO, Personal Time Software
Chris Wendt, Principle Architect, IP Communications and Services, Comcast
Dan York, Senior Content Strategist, ISOC

SIPNOC 2013 (SIP Network Operators Conference) is all set for April 22-25, 2013. Registration is open, and complete event information can be found on the SIPNOC 2013 event webpage.

SIPNOC 2013 is the latest and third iteration of the Forum's successful "SIP Network Operators Conference". The SIPNOC events are educational conferences focused on the challenges and opportunities related to the deployment of SIP-based carrier services. Read the full SIPNOC 2013 "Save the Date" announcement.

The SIPNOC events attract technical leadership from MSOs and carriers from North America, South America and Europe, including ADP, AT&T, babyTel, Broadvox, CableOne, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cbeyond, COX Communications, Lumos Networks, iBasis, IntelliVerse, Optimum Lightpath, MTS Allstream, Orange, Rogers, Socket Telecom, Sorenson Communications, Time Warner Cable, TDS Telecom, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, XConnect Networks, XO Communications, Uni-tel, Verizon and Vocalocity.

In addition to carrier participants, SIPNOC attracts SIP community stakeholders from vendors, governments and research organizations such as Acme Packet, AudioCodes, Avaya, the FCC, CableLabs, Commetrex, Dialogic Corporation, GENBAND, Georgetown University, Huawei Technologies, Illinois Institute of Technology, ISOC, Polycom, Sangoma Technologies, Siemens, and Sonus Networks.

Topics explored at SIPNOC 2013 will include WebRTC, codec handling, SIP trunking design and deployment, the SIP Forum’s various technical initiatives, Fax over Internet protocol (FoIP) interworking, implementing SIP with IPv6, toll fraud detection and prevention, security best-practices, HD Voice depoloyment, testing methodologies, applications development, call routing and peering, troubleshooting and monitoring, emergency services, SIP market research findings, standards developments, important regulatory and policy developments, and more.

Current corporate sponsors of SIPNOC 2013 include Platinum Sponsors Patton Electronics Co. and Polycom; and Gold Sponsors ECG, GENBAND, Integrated Research, SNOM Technology, Sorenson Communications, and Yealink Network Technology; and lanyard sponsor Acme Packet. For more information about SIPNOC 2013 sponsors, please visit www.sipforum.org/content/view/369/272/#sponsors.

The presentations given at SIPNOC US 2012 are available for viewing, as well the results of a post-event attendee survey taken at the close of the event.

For more information about SIPNOC 2013, please visit the event webpage HERE.

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