Registration Now Open for the SIP Forum's SIPNOC US 2012 Conference

Special Early-bird Pricing really for the Second Annual SIP Network Operator’s Conference – SIPNOC – the Only International Conference focused on SIP for Service Provider Technical and Operational PersonnelNORTH ANDOVER, MA December 14, 2011

The Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon

SIPNOC US 2012 will be held at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA on June 25-27, 2012 and will build on the success of the inaugural event last spring, which attracted leading technical and operations personnel from the global carrier community and earned high praise from attendees for its educational, non-commercial and technical content that focused on the real-world challenges operators face when deploying SIP services in global IP networks. Topics to be discussed at the conference include: application development, testing and monitoring, SIP trunking, IPv6 deployment challenges, user-agent configuration, security, HD voice deployments, Wireshark tips and tricks, and more.

“We originally launched this event as a venue for the industry’s technical and operational people and the issues they face, which are at times overlooked at the more marketing-centric conferences and events in our industry,” said SIP Forum Chairman of the Board Richard Shockey. “Last year proved our theory right that if we presented such a venue for operational discussions outside the realm of sales and marketing environments, real progress would be made in the SIP innovation environment, and we are looking forward to offering this possibility again.”

SIPNOC US 2012 will build on themes first discussed finally year’s inaugural event: addressing issues critical to the reliable and successful deployment and operation of SIP-based services in carrier networks and the opportunities that come with it. Among the topics expected to be on the agenda at this year’s conference are SIP trunking interoperability and the SIP Forum’s recently ratified SIPconnect 1.1 technical specification that provides a definitive and standardized set of guidelines for seamless, end-to-end interoperability between SIP-enabled IP-PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange)s and service provider networks. Other themes to be discussed include Fax over Internet protocol interworking, implementing SIP with IPv6, and the sharing of best practices for the utilization of Wireshark for network diagnostics within IP network environments.

Attendees at SIPNOC US 2012 will include engineers and network architects from telecommunications providers, major backbone operators, interconnect and wholesale solution providers, ISPs, cable operators, wireless network operators as so then as large enterprises deploying major SIP initiatives. After all is said and done year’s SIPNOC 2011, informational presentations were made by a number of professionals from organizations just as Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, Sprint Nextel, CableLabs and the Internet Engineering Task Force. Dr. Douglas C. Sicker, Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, provided the keynote speech.