WELCOME TO THE SIP FORUM WEBSITE!
The SIP Forum is an industry association with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption of IP communications products and services based on SIP.
The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks. The Forum directs technical activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability, provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, and highlights successful applications and deployments.
Each of our Working Groups has their own mailing list, many of which are open to individual, "Participant" members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general "discussion" mailing list.
The Forum is open to both individual "Participant" members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate "Full Members". Individual "Participant" and Academic/Institutional membership is free.
To view our current Full Member Listing, click HERE. To view our Academic Member Listing, please click HERE.
You can find out more about membership here.
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SIPit 24 Results are In!
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 website HERE. 
SIP Forum Announces New User Agent Configuration Task Group
The SIP Forum has created a new UA-Config Task Group within the Technical Working Group to create a SIP phone and end-point device configuration profile based on the IETF Config Framework.
The goal is for the Forum to provide a venue and mechanism to help drive the implementation and deployment of such a profile among equipment vendors and service providers, provide a testing environment for such implementations at the SIPit events, and create a "SIP Phone Configuration Compliant" program to provide certification of such implementations.
For more information about the UA-Config task group, please visit the task group webpage HERE.
SIP Forum Elevates Fax-over-IP Effort to Official Task Group Status
The Board of Directors of the SIP Forum has approved the elevation of our Fax-over-IP Interoperability initiative to formal Task Group status!
The new FoIP Task Group has developed a proposed task group charter, which you can view HERE.
This new task group evolved out of a special Fax-over-IP Interoperability Workshop in November, 2008 hosted by the SIP Forum and sponsored by Dialogic Corporation, that brought together researchers, engineers, and service providers to exchange ideas, share experiences, and propose approaches to address FoIP problems.
To view task group documents and other related materials, please visit the FoIP Task Group document repository HERE.
SIP Forum Work on SIPconnect v.1.1 in Progress
The SIP Forum reached an important milestone when it formally adopted version 1.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation this past January, 2008 with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors. At the same time, the Board announced the formation of the SIPconnect v.1.1 Task Group.
The formal adoption by the SIP Forum Board of the SIPconnect 1.0 Technical Recommendation is based on recognition that the recommendation has been through credible peer review, including broad membership and significant community review, that it is stable and is well-understood, and that it is believed to have resolved known design choices.
To read the full announcement, please click here.
To download the ratified SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 1.0, please click here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Work on SIPconnect 1.1 has begun! For an overview of the work in progress, please visit HERE.
The SIP Forum has created a repository of SIPconnect 1.1 Documents,
which includes submissions from Avaya, Broadsoft, CableLabs, Cbeyond, MetaSwitch, Microsoft and Siemens, and contains various draft iterations, including v.00 through v.14 documents.
Please click here for the SIPconnect 1.1 Document repository.
One of the Forum's most important 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, and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies can 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.
For more information about SIPconnect and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program, please visit here.
For a current listing of products and services that have achieved SIPconnect Compliant Certification, please click here.
SIP Forum Presented Special SIP Trunking Interoperability Workshop
The SIP Forum presented the third of a special educational workshop on SIP trunking and SIPconnect on February 3, 2009, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the 2009 Internet Telephony East Conference and EXPO in Miami Beach, Florida.
Topics included The Why and What of SIPconnect, the SIPconnect Value Proposition, a SIPconnect "Deep Dive", a Step-by-Step SIPconnect Compliance Tutorial, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments.
Click HERE to access the full workshop agenda.
To view presentations from the workshop, please click HERE.
SIP Forum Hosts Second SIP Interoperability Workshop at IETF 73
Over a hundred attendees at IETF 73 joined the SIP Forum for lunch to learn about current SIP Forum activities and initiatives. Co-located with the 73rd Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, SFSIW-2 served as a forum to bring together researchers, engineers, and service providers to continue the exchange of ideas, experiences, and propose approaches to address interoperability problems.
To view and download the presentations given at this workshop, please click here.
To view a video interview with SIP Forum Chairman Eric Burger conducted at IETF 73, click HERE.
To view and download submitted papers and workshop presentations given at the 1st SIP Interoperability Workshop (SFSIW-1), co-located with the 70th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, please click here.
For more information about SFSIW-1, please click here.
SIP Forum Announces 2008 Annual General Meeting Results
The SIP Forum 2008 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 507, in conjunction with Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO Fall 2008.
For the vote results of the meeting, including the full text of the 2008 Annual General Meeting Notice, the presentations given at the meeting and other related information, please visit here.
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