A first-of-its-kind event will bring together leading technical minds from telecom to discuss the challenges and opportunities for SIP-based carrier services.
The SIP Forum will hold its first annual SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC) for service providers, April 25-27, at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, Va. Registration is being accepted online.
The two-day conference will address SIP-based carrier services in fixed and mobile IP network environments. It’s for SIP network operations personnel, such as NOC engineers, instead of a high-level conference for executives.
"The worldwide service provider community faces a great opportunity as the use of SIP grows, but because of geographic, logistical and technological challenges, it has not had a venue through which it can share and discuss these opportunities amongst itself in a non-commercial, technically oriented setting," said SIP Forum Chairman Richard Shockey. "SIPNOC will provide the first true venue for SIP operators, and will build on the fact that SIP has become the protocol of choice for carrier VoIP transport and interconnection, universally deployed by enterprises and service providers worldwide. In fact, old FCC estimates state as much as 20 percent of all US carrier-delivered voice is running on a SIP-based infrastructure. That percentage is certainly greater now, and with the introduction of VoLTE in the new mobile networks, SIP will quickly become the dominant protocol for real-time voice communications and eventually video."
SIPNOC 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, troubleshooting and monitoring, and emergency services.
Attendees at SIPNOC will include telecommunications providers, major backbone operators, interconnect and wholesale solution providers, ISPs, cable operators, wireless network operators as well as large enterprises deploying major SIP initiatives.
"SIP services and infrastructure continue to be deployed from the network core out to the edge at an ever increasing rate as network operators recognize the business and technology benefits of IP communications," said Eric Burger, SIP Forum Chairman Emeritus and chairman of the SIPNOC Program Committee. "As global networks continue to transform themselves to IP, there remain a number of challenges – SIPNOC is designed to help operators understand these challenges and opportunities in an academic and non-commercial environment."