Eric Burger, SIP Forum Chairman and CTO, NeuStar, will be part of a special panel discussion on “What’s Next for the Net?” presented by the Internet Society-DC Chapter (ISOC-DC) on September 14, 2009 at the Orientation Theater, U.S. Capital Visitor’s Center, Capital Building in Washington, D.C.. Hosted by Representative Adolphus Towns, and joined by Leslie…

The Thought Leadership Series on TMC’s new Smart Grid portal is an ongoing forum where industry players and thought leader in the Smart Grid space are interviewed. For this segment, Jon Arnold interviews Marc Robins, managing director of the SIP Forum. SIP has an important role to play in the evolution of communications technologies within…

The SIP Forum UA-Config Task Group presented a status update of the work in progress during the DISPATCH group meeting at IETF 75 in Stockholm, Sweden. To view the presentation, click HERE. The UA-Config Task Group, part of the SIP Forum’s main Technical Working Group, is tasked with creating a SIP phone and end-point device…

The Fax-over-IP Interoperability Task Group has published Version 1.0 of its official Problem Statement, a document that details the various interoperability issues that currently plague FoIP services. This important document is available for download HERE. The FoIP Task Group has developed a task group charter, which you can view HERE. The FoIP Task Group evolved…

The SIP Forum presented another SIP Trunking Best-Practices Workshop focusing on SIPconnect and the SIPconnect Compliant Program on September 2, 2009, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the Internet Telephony West Conference and EXPO at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles, California. Topics included The Why and What of…

The SIP Forum is proud to welcome Texas A&M Univerity – Telecom, as a new Academic Member! From humble beginnings in 1876 as Texas’ first public institution of higher learning, to a bustling 5,000-acre campus with 46,000-plus students and a nationally recognized faculty, Texas A&M University is one of a select few universities with land-grant,…

SIPit 25 – the leading SIP interoperability Test Event – will be held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire, on September 14-18, 2009. Mark Your Calendars! Registration is now open. To register, and for additional event details, please visit the UNH-IOL SIPit 25 event website HERE. For additional…

SIPit 24 – the leading SIP interoperability Test Event – was hosted by the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) May 18 through 22, 2009 in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. To view the SIPit 24 results, please click HERE. For additional event details, please visit the SIPit…

The SIP Forum is proud to announce the addition of Glamorgan University as a new Academic Member. For more information about our new Academic Members, please visit our Academic Member Listing webpage.

The SIP Forum would like to welcome Comcast Cable as a new Full Member company!