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The SIP Forum (News - Alert) has opened Call for Presentations for the third annual SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC 2013), being held in Herndon, VA, April 22 -25, 2013.

The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit (News - Alert) and SIPconnect-IT interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, educational seminars, and general promotion of SIP in the industry.

The educational conference would focus on the challenges and opportunities related to the deployment of SIP-based carrier services globally.

Proposals are now being accepted for workshops, panels, speaker presentations and “Birds of a Feather” sessions addressing the deployment of SIP in service provider environments.

Organizers of SIPNOC 2013, which is a unique, network operator-centric event, invite companies, executives and industry insiders to propose presentations highlighting the use of session initiation protocol (SIP) in service provider environments.

At SIP Network Operators Conference operators are encouraged to present SIP-related success stories, deployment issues and concerns in their networks, while equipment vendors and other industry stakeholders are invited to work with operators to present real-world deployment experiences.

The attendees at SIPNOC 2013 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.

SIPNOC 2013 offers several different types of speaking opportunities including-General Session Talks; General Session Panels; Special Workshops and Research Topics, where researchers are invited to present short summaries of their work for operator feedback. Topics may include call routing, network performance, statistical measurement and analysis and protocol development and implementation. Studies presented may be works in progress. Researchers from academia, government, and industry are encouraged to present and Birds of a Feather sessions. BOF are informal sessions on topics which are of interest to a portion of the SIPNOC community. BOFs may be held in break-out areas or in an unscheduled room.

Acceptance notifications for speaking at SIPNOC 2013 will be sent by the Program Committee in early March.

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