Global Service Providers Headline Attending Companies at SIP Forum’s SIPNOC US 2012
Technical leadership and engineering staff from leading North American MSOs and worldwide carrier community amongst key participants at service provider educational conference hosted by the SIP Forum next week in Herndon, VA, June 25-27, 2012
NORTH ANDOVER, MA (June 20, 2012) – The SIP Forum today released its list of registered attendees for the second SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC US 2012), to be held next week on June 25-27 at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA. The two-day conference, which focuses on service provider technical and operational challenges and opportunities related to the deployment of SIP-based services, continues to attract technical leadership from leading MSOs in the US as well as senior engineering and network operational staff from the worldwide carrier community in North America, South America and Europe.
Attending service providers include ADP, Allstream, babyTEL, Bright House Networks, Broadvox, CableONE, Cablevision Systems Corporation, Cbeyond, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, Education Networks of America, Evolve IP, Hunt Telecom, iBasis Inc, Lumos Networks, MTS allstream, nexVortex Inc, One Source Networks, Optimum Lightpath, Orange, Socket Telecom, Sorenson Communications, Suddenlink, TDS Telecom, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, Time Warner Cable, Uni-tel, Verizon Technology, Videotron, Vocalocity Inc., WDT (World Discount Telecommunications), XConnect Networks and XO Communications.
“Companies attending next week’s SIPNOC US 2012 reflect the diverse and growing ecosystem of worldwide network operators deploying SIP-based service and applications,” said Marc Robins, SIP Forum president and managing director. “With deployments of services such as SIP trunking reaching an inflection point, service provider engineering staffs from large MSOs to regional CLECs to international 4G wireless carriers who are tasked with these technical implementations must still address critical challenges that remain unresolved. SIPNOC US 2012 serves as a meeting place for the community to resolve these unanswered questions in an educational and commercial-free environment.”
In addition to carrier participants, SIPNOC US 2012 has also attracted a myriad of SIP community stakeholders from vendors, governments and research organizations such as Acme Packet, Inc. (which has also signed on as a SIPNOC US 2012 Platinum Sponsor), Alianza, AudioCodes, Avaya, Broadsoft, CableLabs, Commetrex, Crossfire Media, Dialogic, ECG Inc, Empirix, Faxcore, Genband, Georgetown University, Huawei Technologies, Illinois Institute of Technology, InComm, Ingate Systems, Inc., Intelliverse, Internet Society (ISOC), Network Equipment Technologies, Penn State Altoona, Polycom, RecordMyCalls, Sangoma Technologies, Sansay, Siemens Enterprise Communications, snom, Sonus Networks, snom technology, Tektronix Communications, Inc., tekVizion, Teraquant Corporation, UNH-IOL, Voxbone and West Corporation.
With a few days remaining, registration for SIPNOC US 2012 remains open by visiting http://www.regonline.com/sipnocus2012. For more information about the event and to access the full conference agenda, please visit www.sipnoc.org.
SIPNOC US 2012 will focus on issues critical to the reliable and successful deployment and operation of SIP-based services in carrier networks. The agenda will feature special presentations, panel discussions and workshops covering key topics by network operators related to SIP-based services and infrastructure, including testing, application development, SIP trunking, FoIP, call routing and peering, IPV6, SIP security, troubleshooting and monitoring, emergency services and more.
SIPNOC US 2012 Key Information
Registration: To register for SIPNOC US 2012, please visit http://www.regonline.com/sipnocus2012.
General Show Information: For more information about SIPNOC US 2012, please visit www.sipnoc.org or send an email to sipnocinfo@sipforum.org.
About the SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, educational seminars, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. One of the Forum’s notable 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. The SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program is an associated program through which eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right to 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. Other important Forum initiatives include work in Fax-over-IP interoperability, User Agent Configuration, video interoperability, SIP and IPv6, and the opportunities for SIP in Smart Grid deployments. For more information, please visit: https://www.sipforum.org.
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