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SIP FORUM MEMBER NEWS Volume 1, Issue 1, August 2008
Welcome Welcome to the re-launched SIP Forum member newsletter, an information resource designed to update you on Forum activities, Full Member news, notable industry research, articles and other valuable information. Our goal is to publish a new issue of this newsletter roughly on a monthly basis, although this schedule will by necessity be flexible depending on the quantity and timeliness of news items we have to share with you. We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to your This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ! -- Marc Robins, SIP Forum Managing Director and Eric Burger, SIP Forum Chairman
New Full Member Welcome Recent membership growth – both Full and Participant Membership -- has been outstanding, which we believe reflects the maturation of SIP as a critical enabler for today’s value-added applications and services. Membership growth is coming from all segments of the IP communications ecosystem, making your SIP Forum an industry-wide voice for innovation. We’d like to warmly welcome our latest Full members and recognize them for the benefit of all SIP Forum members: AudioCodes Ltd., Bandwidth.com, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs), CGI Group Inc, Covergence, Cox Communications, Dialogic Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Unified Solutions Inc., NET, Sonus Networks, Tekelec, and Telsis Limited. Compared to the last quarter of 2007, this surge represents a growth increase of 100%. With a current tally of 45 Full and over 5,000 Participant members, the SIP Forum has never been stronger, and we are poised to make significant contributions in 2008 that will be of benefit to all our members as well as the industry at large. This momentum is continuing, and we look forward to welcoming new members in upcoming newsletters.
Working Group News Much of the work produced by the SIP Forum is driven by our three Working Groups. The most recent news items for each are summarized below. · SIP Forum Newsletter - led by Managing Director Marc Robins, the Marketing Working Group has re-launched the SIP Forum Newsletter, with this issue being the inaugural edition · White Paper update – we are in the process of producing a White Paper to articulate the SIP Forum’s vision for enabling innovation to support all types of rich, multimedia communications services and applications. We expect to have the White Paper published by the end of this summer. · SIPconnect Compliance Workshop – building on the success of our workshop earlier this year at Internet Telephony Expo, we will be conducting another one at the upcoming TMC event this September 17th, 3pm-6pm, in Room 507.. Click here to find out more about Internet Telephony Expo West 2008, which will be held in at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. · SIP Solutions Showcase – The Forum will be hosting a special pavilion on the show floor at Internet Telephony EXPO, providing a very special opportunity for SIP Forum Full Members to highlight their IP communications solutions and applications directly on the ITEXPO exhibit floor. The SIP Solutions Showcase will be a must-see destination for the more than 7,000 attendees expected at ITEXPO. The SIP Solutions Showcase will focus on innovative SIP-based IP communications technologies and applications, such as FMC, Presence-based services and applications, Web 2.0 VoIP Mashups, and SIP Trunking. The SIP Solutions Showcase also includes a presentation theater, so that sponsoring companies can conduct rotating presentations right in the showcase on the trade show floor! To help defray the costs of participating in the showcase, the Forum will provide a $2000 subsidy for up to 9 participating Full Member companies, making this an even more attractive event! The cost to participate is an extremely modest $3495. For more information and a prospectus on the event, please contact Marc Robins, SIP Forum Managing Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call +1-718-548-7245. · Appointment – We recently announced the TWG co-chairs who are now leading this Working Group. The co-chairs are Scott Hoffpauir, CTO of BroadSoft, and Richard Shockey, Director of Technical Staff of NeuStar. · FoIP Workshop – this is an industry-wide initiative initiated by Dialogic and open to all Fax-Over-IP technology companies. Details will be forthcoming on the date and location as well as the specific objectives defined by the Working Group. · SIPconnect v1.1 – following the ratification of v1.0 earlier this year, the Technical Working Group is making good progress on the next iteration. Click here to read up on the latest developments. · IETF72 SIP Phone Configuration Workshop: The Forum hosted a well-attended breakfast meeting during the recent IETF meeting to explore the creation of a SIP Phone Configuration task group. The plan is for the Forum to provide a venue and mechanism to drive the non-technical items to move vendor and service provider product managers, as well as users, to demand the implementation and deployment of a phone configuration profile. Test Event (SIPit) Working Group · SIPit 23– The leading SIP Interoperability Testing event is being hosted by ETSI, with France Telecom technical support, this coming October 13-17 in Lannion, France. Click here for more details and to register.
General Industry News New Report – SIP-Enabled IP PBX and Server Markets Produced by WinterGreen Research, this extensive report examines SIP’s impact on the server and IP PBX market, including markets shares, forecasts and detailed vendor profiles. You can review a summary and table of contents here. New SIP Online Tutorial SearchUnifiedCommunications.com is one of the portals in the TechTarget family of IT-related websites. They have recently published an online SIP tutorial, which serves as a handy reference tool for the basics of SIP and how it is used in the enterprise. You can review the tutorial here. Top 40 VoIP Products, Applications and Services Industry portal VoIP-News has published this top 40 rating list, and is a great summary of the top VoIP offerings for both residential and small office use. Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0 is on the Rise SIP has an important role to play in the Web 2.0 world and this recent post in ReadWriteWeb provides some interesting data points and industry references to support this trend. Market Forecast and Industry Outlook for SIP Adoption and PBX Deployments Long-term industry watcher Alan Sulkin has published an extensive analysis of the trends around SIP adoption and the market transition from legacy to IP-based telephony. You can review the entire analysis on the No Jitter portal. SIPconnect and the Rationale for Widespread Adoption of SIP Trunking SIP Forum Managing Director Marc Robins contributed this feature story on SIPconnect and the benefits of SIP Trunking to No Jitter. You can read the full story here.
Full Member News Acme Packet Introduces Open Routing Solution Across Fixed and Mobile Networks Acme Packet Establishes Role of SBCs in Microsoft’s Office Communications Server Architecture Aspect Software Receives Unified Communications Magazine's 2007 Product of the Year Data Connection Participation in SIPit22 Interoperability Event Siemens Enterprise Communications Launch of OpenScape Unified Communications Server Tandberg Ships 10,000 Personal Telepresence Units Tandberg Telepresence Unifies Large Telco after Three-Way Merger Tekelec Launch of SIP Educational Webinar Series
SIP Forum News This section features SIP Forum news and announcements that will be of interest to both the SIP Forum membership and the SIP community at large. SIP Forum Annual General Meeting Details Mark Your Calendars! The date and time of the 2008 SIP Forum Annual General Meeting has been established for September 18, 2008, from 5:30pm-7:00pm at the Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles, CA. The meeting will be held in room 507 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. A detailed AGM meeting notice will be sent shortly over the discussion list. Membership Growth Surges, Including Microsoft and CableLabs Throughout 2008, the SIP Forum has undergone dramatic growth, with the most notable additions being Microsoft and CableLabs. Full membership now stands at 45, in addition to over 5,000 individual members. With strong representation now from both vendors and service providers, we are well positioned now to advance commercial deployments of SIP in both service provider and enterprise networks. SIPit22 Event Results Complete, SIPit23 Coming in October The most recent SIPit interoperability event was completed at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab in April 2008. We had participants from 46 companies spanning 14 countries, with the focus being on advanced applications as opposed to basic registration and call setup scenarios. SIP Forum Video Interview Broadcast on IP ConvergenceTV.com SIP Forum Chairman Eric Burger and Executive Director Marc Robins were recently interviewed for a video segment by Jon Arnold, Portal Editor of IP Convergence TV. They discussed SIP’s evolution beyond voice applications as well as helping service providers address interoperability issues for multimedia communications. You can view the interview by visiting the IP ConvergenceTV.com website and searching for the clip in the Videos section. Telephony Online Podcast with our Executive Director, Marc Robins Telephony Magazine recently invited the SIP Forum’s Executive Director to conduct a podcast with News Editor Sarah Reedy. Sarah and Marc discussed recent developments with SIP as well as the SIP Forum’s role as a proactive industry body, especially the SIPconnect initiative. You can download the podcast for listening by clicking here. SIPconnect Version 1.1 Work Already Underway A Task Group has been established for Version 1.1 of SIPconnect, and tangible progress is well underway. Contributions have already been received from BroadSoft and Siemens, and two recent members – Microsoft and CableLabs – have committed to making their own contributions to this initiative. There is also a public repository of SIPconnect 1.1 scoping documents, and you can review those here. SIP Forum Board Appointments and Elections Several notable additions were recently made at the SIP Forum Board level. At the highest level, Eric Burger, former Deputy CTO of BEA Systems was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Marc Robins, a leading IP communications industry consultant and analyst, has been appointed as the Forum's new Managing Director. Finally, the Forum announced the election of Mark Enstrom, Product Manager of BroadSoft, Inc. and Richard Shockey, Director of Technical Staff of NeuStar, Inc. to the SIP Forum Board of Directors. SIPconnect Technical Recommendation 1.0 now Ratified The SIP Forum has reached an important milestone by formally adopting version 1.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation. This took place in January 2008, with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors, and included the formation of the SIPconnect v.1.1 Task Group. To learn more, please click here and download the ratified SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 1.0.
Thought Leadership - Recent White Papers and Articles from Full Members Our Full Member companies regularly produce thought leadership around SIP, and this section summarizes their most recent contributions. -- Aspect Software White Paper - Goodbye to CTI, Hello to Unified – examines how contact centers can take advantage of the openness and ubiquity of IP protocols and standards like SIP to get better results than relying on computer telephony integration (CTI) -- Cbeyond article, Chris Gatch - Why Mobile SIP Will Surpass IMS -- Cbeyond article, Chris Gatch – SIP Trunking is Poised for Growth in 2008 -- Covergence White Paper - SIP Trunking and the Role of SBCs -- Ingate article - “Who Is Listening to my Calls?” - a brief comparison of the potential for security threats between VoIP and traditional telephony
SIP Forum-Sponsored Industry Events Calendar The SIP Forum is a proud sponsor of the following upcoming industry events. Some events offer special discounts for SIP Forum members, and are noted in the summary below.
CIPCC 2008 and NexCom Expo 2008 Date: September 17-19, 2008 Location: Shanghai, China
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008 Date: September 16-18, 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA Price: Various options, 20% discount for SIP Forum Members
Date: October 13-17, 2008 Location: Lannion, France Price: 450 Euros
Date: October 20-23, 2008 Location: Bordeaux, France Price: TBA
IIT VoIP Conference and Expo 2008 Date: October 23-24, 2008 Location: Wheaton, IL Price: $100 for SIP Forum Members
Date: November 10-13, 2008 Location: San Francisco, CA Price: $100 discount for SIP Forum Members
Full Member Marketing OpportunitiesA key benefit of being a Full member of the SIP Forum is the opportunity for participation in various initiatives we are involved with. Through our extensive network of industry relationships, the SIP Forum is in a position to create valuable forums for our Full members, such as speaking engagements, editorial content or exhibiting at industry events. Please contact our Managing Director, Marc Robins to learn more about these special marketing opportunities at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call +1-718-548-7245.
Member Roster Our current roster of 45 Full members is listed below, and you can read more about each one by clicking here. 3Com; Acme Packet; Alcatel-Lucent; Aricent; Aspect; AudioCodes Ltd.; Avaya; Bandwidth.com; BEA Systems, Inc.; Bluenote Networks; BroadSoft, Cbeyond, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs); CGI Group Inc; Cisco Systems; Covergence; Cox Communications; Data Connection Limited (DCL); Dialogic Corporation; Digium; Ericsson; IBM; Hewlett-Packard; Ingate Systems AB; Intertex Data AB; IP Unity Glenayre; McLeodUSA Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; NEC Unified Solutions Inc.; NET; NeuStar, NextPoint Networks; Nokia; Oracle; Polycom; RADVision; Siemens, SOLINET GmbH; SNOM; Sonus Networks; Tandberg; Tecnomen; Tekelec; Telsis Limited; University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory; and Wipro. |
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