SIP Forum Releases SIPit Interoperability Test Results from SIPit 28 Held In in Huntsville, Alabama

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SIP Forum has released the test results from the latest SIPit event SIPit 28, the SIP interoperability event, was hosted by Digium on April 11–15, 2011 and held at the Jackson Center in Huntsville, Alabama's Research Park. SIPit is organized by the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group (TEWG) and serves as a "plugfest" for participating companies to perform SIP interoperability testing with other participants in a live network environment. There were 19 companies from 10 countries who participated in the SIPit 28 to test and confirm SIP interoperability this spring. High definition IP video was a key focus at the event and IPv6 support in the industry was also on the rise, the forum noted.

"SIPit28 was one of the smoothest events to date featuring a lot of positive energy and hard work from all involved, We received great feedback from participating companies who were able to glean a good deal of valuable data which provided them a very high return.", said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group and organizer of SIPit 28.said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group and organizer of SIPit 28.

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Following is the press release by SIP Forum.

NORTH ANDOVER, MA (June 27, 2011) - The SIP Forum has announced the results of its latest SIP Interoperability Testing event, SIPit 28, the world's premier interoperability testing event for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for application developers, service providers, and IP communications equipment manufacturers, held earlier this spring at Jackson Center in Huntsville, Alabama's Research Park. Hosted by Digium, the five-day testing event once again demonstrated the critical role that Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) plays in today's telecommunications industry while also highlighting the growth, evolution and adoption of SIP services in fixed and mobile IP networks worldwide.

SIPit 28 provided 19 attending companies with valuable "real-world" deployment data gathered from the 40 distinct SIP implementations conducted during the week as participants tested SIP interworking in a variety of simulated, live IP network conditions and settings. Testing exercised the full range of defined transport protocols for SIP, from UDP to TLS over SCTP.

As part of the week-long testing event, which took place April 11-15, participants showed a growing interest in deployment of high definition (HD) video services across global IP networks. Participants executed a number of different telepresence scenarios with intricate SIP signaling, testing for quality of service (QoS), network resiliency and interoperability involving new types of rich media endpoints with IP application servers, SIP proxy servers and session border controllers.

"Rolling out IP video in both enterprise and service provider networks and making it work is a key objective for many operators, equipment makers and application developers in today's telecom world and is something attending companies really focused on at this year's SIPit" said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group and organizer of SIPit 28.

"We were able to successfully execute a number of testing scenarios that examined different network topologies under a variety of simulated conditions. Participants were able to verify correct behavior of advanced applications in an environment that is very difficult to duplicate without so many different implementations in the same room at the same time."

In addition, IPv6 was also a hot topic in preparation for the industry-wide rollout of this next generation Internet protocol, with many participants uncovering new, positive information surrounding interoperability of IPv6 equipment and services, particularly when implementations use a combination of IPv6 and IPv4 for media and signaling. Across the testing, 68 percent of the implementations at the event supported IPv6 which represented a significant increase from SIPit 27 in 2010 which saw 53 percent of attendees achieve IPv6 support.

A full summary report of SIPit 28 results is available at the SIP Forum website or by clicking here (https://www.sipit.net/SIPit28_summary).

"The SIPit events continue to be critically important and popular events for the IP communications industry because they give participants an opportunity to vigorously test implementations of their own IP communications product or service with other members of the telecom community in a non-commercial, real-world testing environment," said Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director. "Every time we have a SIPit event, we receive scores of positive feedback about how valuable the testing was to the development of products and services, as well as how useful it is to standards bodies such as the IETF for gaining insight into the growth of SIP and the specific SIP implementations."

SIPit is organized by the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group (TEWG) and serves as a "plugfest" for participating companies to perform SIP interoperability testing with other participants in a live network environment. Conducted twice a year, with events rotating in the United States, Europe, and Asia, the SIP Forum has hosted 28 events around the globe. In the coming months, the SIP Forum will release details about its next event - SIPit 29 - which will be hosted by ETSI and take place this fall in France. For information about past SIPits, please visit www.sipit.net.

"SIPit28 was one of the smoothest events to date featuring a lot of positive energy and hard work from all involved," continued Sparks. "We received great feedback from participating companies who were able to glean a good deal of valuable data which provided them a very high return."

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World IPv6 Day Starts Tomorrow. Test Your IPv6 Connectivity And Get Ready To Participate.

I am happy to have been involved with IPv6 for a some time now. I had access to IPv6 networks at the University but not at home, this was about six years ago. Actually I could not wait until my ISP provided IPv6 support. So I started using IPv6 over IPv4 (6to4) to connect to my iPv6 networks from home.
But now things have changed greatly and I have IPv6 connectivity from all my regular hangouts.

So I am looking forward to connect to all the web sites that will enable IPv6 connectivity tomorrow. So who are these websites? It is a union of more than 400 websites, companies under Internet Society, that have come together to promote IPv6 usage.
"On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out."
There are instructions and guide lines needed for you to participate in World IPv6 Day:

• Website Owners
• Network Operators

You can also test IPv6 connectivity using this test. Google has also provided a place to test your IPv6 connectivity,  at ipv6test.google.com.

So get ready and join these companies and put the fear IPv4 address' running out under us, behind us!

15 billion devices on the Internet by 2015.

IPv6 Transition snapvoip.blogspot.com
With all these devices coming up, it is inevitable that we will transit to IPv6 soon. We have been on the IPv6 network for quite a few years now thanks to academic connections and networks. First we had IPv6 ove IPv4 and later got into IPv6 directly when the means and equipment were available.

But now  Cisco is introducing new carrier-grade IPv6 capabilities to the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System for the network core and to the Cisco Aggregation Services Routers for the network edge. So I am sure you do not need to scramble like we did when we deployed IPv6.  

Are You Ready For IPv6("Internet Protocol Version 6")?

I am! I have been on a IPv6 over IPv4 connection for almost 8 years at home and a pure IPv6 address' and connection at work, from the institution I work for due to research work I do. Things were not easy yet due to my indulgence I have mastered the beast somewhat, with the aid of countless others on Internet2!
But one way or the other, it is going to come your way soon and you will have to deal with it. You will not see an IP address as you used to see for years. It is very different from what you are familiar now with IPv4 classes and subnets. So Some learning is needed and you can find more information from organizations like IPv6.ORG, or from some of the following sites listed here. The IPv6 Forum also has more regional information as well.
But the reason for me to write this is that TMC has arranged a webinar on May 20 for an educational presentation and explore how IPv6 affects your VoIP business. TMC will team up with experts from Ontario, Canada-based MERA Systems.

Presenters Oleg Goryunov and Vitaly Potapov, MERA’s chief marketing officer and seniors sales manager, respectively, and Erik Linask, group managing editor at TMCnet, will discuss the most pressing issues of IPv6 transition. Listeners will explore the most pressing issues of IPv6 transition, including how to: ensure carrier-grade quality, address voice delivery across firewall and network address translation, prevent denial of service attacks and enable 4-to-6 interoperability.
So Join the webinar but you need to register first. With all I know, I have registered because, you always can learn something new.

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