59 Companies to Attend SIPit Interoperability Testing; Attendance Shows Vibrant Community Supporting SIP Protocol Announces pulver.com.Business & Technology Editors MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2002 Engineering teams from the world's leading equipment vendors, service providers and research institutes will begin a week of advanced interoperability testing on the latest releases of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ) hardware and software at the 11th SIPit event Oct. 7, 2002 in Atlanta, Ga. The largest meeting to date, the event has attracted 59 companies representing 15 countries. Half of the participants come from outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and, in total, 60 teams comprising more than 130 engineers will converge for a round testing. The event is being hosted by IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. group Pulver.com. SIP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ) protocol used for the establishment and management of multiparty, mixed-media IP sessions or calls, and has become the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for the IP voice industry. The event itself is an open playing field where companies can test communications products to guarantee interoperability among vendors. This SIPit will feature products compliant with SIP RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. 3261, and will include a significant number of presence products following the SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or and Presence Leveraging Extension) specification. "The SIPit events are a crucible used to refine both implementation and specification. Throughout the event, participants pair off, meticulously verifying the interoperability of every aspect of their SIP implementations. Additionally, coordinated tests involving multiple implementations are performed to stress aspects of the protocol that might not be exercised in pairwise testing Pairwise testing may refer to
"The event demonstrates why innovation on the Internet proceeds so rapidly," noted Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and founder of pulver.com, and a founder of the VoIP industry. Pulver is the chief writer of what's referred to as "the Pulver Order", which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding internet , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , pulver.com. "Progress in telecommunications formerly revolved around technical documents and regulations. Innovations involving the Internet get implemented and tested in the real world as the first priority. We are honored to host the SIP community in Atlanta." "The SIP Forum is proud to hold the responsibility for the overall organization of an event that is truly shaping the communications landscape. The SIPit events continue to validate the advanced level of development of new products, particularly in the areas of conferencing and presence services. The number of participants registered for this latest event is very encouraging," commented Edward Keegan of the SIP Forum. About SIPit: The SIP Interoperability Test Event - SIPit (formerly SIP Bake-Off) is an event open to implementers with working SIP implementations to move SIP forward to become a global interoperable protocol for real time Internet communication services. They take place roughly every four months, hosted by different companies and organizations. The first SIP interoperability event took place in August of 1999. About pulver.com (http://www.pulver.com) Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. In addition to producing the highly successful VON conferences, pulver.com is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. The pulver.com website (http: file://pulver.com ) is a key source of information for those in the IP Communications industry and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports ) has over 65,000 subscribers for whom it is a primary source of news and information on the latest developments in emerging net technologies. Mr. Pulver is the founder of: The VON Coalition, pulverRadio, RevUp Records, pulverMusic, and co-founder of: Vonage and WHP WHP Workplace Health Promotion WHP WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment) Hydrographic Program WHP Wellhead Protection WHP Wheel Horsepower WHP With High Probability WHP Wellhead Platform (offshore drilling) Wireless. About SIP: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is the protocol of choice for setting up conferencing, telephony, multimedia and other types of communication sessions on the Internet. SIP may also be used for new types of communications, such as instant messaging and application level mobility across various networks, including wireless, and across user devices. Work on SIP is accomplished primarily in the IETF SIP working group, and at SIP bake-offs. SIP has however manifold interactions with other areas, such as the next generation wireless internetworks, QoS, payments and security. About SIP Forum: The SIP Forum is a non-profit association whose mission is to promote awareness and provide information about the benefits and capabilities that are enabled by SIP. SIP Forum is open to everyone that is willing to contribute to spread information of SIP and accepts the architectural model that SIP relies on. The objective of the SIP Forum is to facilitate the integration of SIP with other areas of work on the Internet. We are at the beginning of an explosion of new services under development by significant Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and by vendors of Internet technology based on SIP. The SIP Forum is the meeting place for developers of commercial SIP based services and Internet technology, such as IP phones, PC clients, SIP servers and IP telephony gateways. |
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