Public SIP Interoperability Event»International SIP 2004«

Goals

Combination of private hotstaging and public interoperability demonstration The private event improves

SIP interoperability capabilitiesof the evaluated devices.

The public event showcasesthe solution to conference visitorsand confirms that participant isefficiently addressing SIPinteroperability issues.

MSF Collaboration

 “A number of service providers have recently announced SIP-based voice over IP services, and many more are about to follow. This showcase highlights the forum’s goal to advance the SIP technology as part of an open multiservice architecture.”

Roger Ward, President

SIP Forum Collaboration

“This public multi-vendor showcase complements the private SIP Forum test events and is very important for us to demonstrate the advancement of the SIP technology to network operators in Europe”.

Jay Batson, Chairman

Testplan Design

Participants and EANTC created an individual test plan for the hotstaging, based on: MSF Implementation Agreements SIP Forum test suites EANTC service provider test experience.

Test-

plan Participants

Reference Documents

MSF-IA-SIP.001-FINAL, Implementation Agreement for SIP Profile, for Voice over IP, between a line-side Media Gateway Controller and a Trunks Media Gateway Controller.

SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, RFC 3261 STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol

(UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs), RFC 3489

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Basic Call Flow Examples, RFC 3665

draft-ietf-sipping-service-examples-05.txt draft-ietf-sipping-torture-tests-02.txt PROTOS Test-Suite: c07-sip

Testplan Contents

Infrastructure and Scalability Tests SIP-to-SIP Calls: One Proxy and Proxy Chaining Calls via a Firewall with NAT and STUN SIP-to-PSTN Calls

Services and Applications Tests Unattended Call Transfer and Unconditional Call

Forwarding Codec Negotiation

Security and Robustness Tests Digest Proxy Authentication Robustness Tests

Private Hotstaging

Prior to the public show case in January 2004 Took place at EANTC in Berlin, Germany Four days of in-depth,

any-to-any testing Result: Internal test report

under NDAcompiled by EANTC

Public documentation:White paper

Participants

Testbed Infrastructure

Evaluation Results I

Evaluation Results II

Public Show Case

Here at the conference, just opposite this room

Conclusion I

advance public SIP multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations to the next level

proved that SIP is a mature technology in many areas and is ready for deployment in a larger scale

industry forums involved have proactively created necessary documents and tools to improve multi-vendor interoperability

wealth options in SIP standards, ongoing standardization work and vaguely defined operator requirements may lead to interoperability issues

continue interoperability and security verification regularly

Conclusion II

Future interoperability events focusing carrier infrastructure will need to evaluate scalability issues, specifically for media gateways

While most of the deployed SIP networks are homogeneous right now — and thus not affected by interoperability issues — the power of SIP technology in service provider environments will increase with the number of vendors committed to interoperability of common feature sets

Dissemination of Resuts

Press release announcing the evente.g. http://www.lightreading.com/

document.asp?doc_id=46075

Public SIP live show case and presentation of results on »International SIP 2004«

White paper with results available from

http://www.eantc.de http://www.msforum.org http://www.sipforum.org

More Information

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