Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum FoIP Task Group Cliff Schornak, CTO, Commetrex Kevin Fleming, Director, Software Development, Digium

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum SIP Forum Background  Founded in 2000 in Sweden  Leading non-profit IP communications industry association  Membership comprised of corporate and academic members

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Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Founding SIP Forum Mission  “Advance the development and deployment of IP communications products and services that comply with, and properly interoperate with, other products and services that use the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).”

Current Focus Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Interoperability…among end-point devices, enterprise servers, and SIP- enabled service-provider networks for all types of applications and services using SIP. Interoperability…among end-point devices, enterprise servers, and SIP- enabled service-provider networks for all types of applications and services using SIP. Interoperability…among end- point devices, enterprise servers, and SIP-enabled service-provider networks for all types of applications and services using SIP. Interoperability…among end-point devices, enterprise servers, and SIP-enabled service-provider networks for all types of applications and services using SIP.

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Current SIP Forum Activities  Advance interoperability  SIPit interop test events  Define and create compliance tests  Address key technical issues through working groups:  SIP Trunking (SIPconnect), User Agent Configuration, Fax-over-IP  Smart Grid Special Interest Group (SIG)  Planning stage: Unified Communications, HD Video, and Security task groups  Develop technical recommendations and best-practice implementation guides (e.g., SIPconnect)

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum  Week-long engineering test events  Twice a year  Different locations  Averages around 100 implementations  60 to 90 companies  16 to 20 countries  Issues are corrected as discovered  Immediate retesting  High-yield testing  Participants claim 4 to 6 months of results from one week at SIPit compared with individual testing 7

SIPconnect Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum SIPconnect: a standards-based best-practices recommendation that provides detailed rules and guidelines for achieving direct IP peering and interoperability between IP-based servers (e.g. PBXs) and VoIP service-provider networks.

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum 9 User Agent Configuration Task Group  SIP UA configuration complexity is a barrier to successful deployment of SIP  Working method: mail-list discussion, conference calls, face-to-face meetings  With IETF meetings and SIPits  Mailing list subscription:   10 active participants  Task Group Chair: John Elwell, Siemens, Scott Lawrence, Nortel, Document Editor

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum 10 Goals of the UA-Config Effort  Develop simple boot mechanism suitable for a variety of UA types  Determine small set of essential parameters  Create profile of IETF SIP configuration framework

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Smart Grid Special Interest Group Evaluate the appropriateness of using SIP as a protocol for the following Smart Grid areas:  HAN (Home Area Network) – between devices and the Customer Energy Management System (Customer EMS)  Utility’s Operational Network  PEV (Plug-in Electric Vehicle)

FoIP Task Group Charter Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Investigate ongoing issues with the deployment of fax services, specifically ITU-T T.38, in SIP networks. SIP networks cannot fully replace analog PSTN in enterprises unless essential services, such as fax, are provided.

Goal Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Develop and publish the guidelines (recommended practices) that will reduce the implementation problems that are today hindering IP-based fax deployments.

FOIP Task Group Problem Statement Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Due to increasing carrier support of T.38, barriers to its effective use are moving from the simple case of interop between two T.38 peers within the enterprise to effective SIP-based call setup among multiple network elements, in addition to the two T.38 SIP peers, demanding strong cooperation between equipment vendors and carriers.

FoIP Task Group & The i3 forum Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Reliable IP-based real-time fax can only be achieved with effective cooperation between vendors/SIP Forum and carriers/i3 forum.

SIP Forum & FoIP Task Group Leadership  SIP Forum Leadership  Eric Burger, CTO, NeuStar  Marc Robins, Managing Director and President, SIP Forum LLC  Richard Shockey, Chairman of the Board  Task Group Leadership  Neil Weldon, Dialogic Corporation, Task Group Chair  Max Schroeder, VP, FaxCore, Task Group Whip  Mike Coffee, CEO, Commetrex, Document Editor Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum

Active FoIP Task Group Participants:  Alcatel-Lucent, AEMcom, AT&T, AudioCodes, Biscom, Dialogic, Digium, C4U Solutions, Cisco, Commetrex, Comunycarse, DevFoundry, Dialogic, emFAST, Faxback, FaxCore, Lexmark, LSI, NeuStar, Nortel, Omnitor, Orange, Packetizer, Sagem-Interstar, Siemens Enterprise, Sonus, Teridian

Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Task Group Questions:  Network interconnection and peering/tandem-network problems  Product validation  T.38 interoperability  T.38 performance  G.711-V.34 Data-V.34 Fax Negotiations (published)  SDP negotiations (in process)  Redundancy, FEC, and ECM study/recommedations  LEC usage  Secure fax

Next Step: Copyright © 2010 SIP Forum Work together and solve the tandem-network problem.