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SIP Forum’s SIPit 26 to Take Place in Kista, Sweden, May 17-21, 2010Registration opens for five-day interoperability testing event hosted by Edvina and TANDBERG, and sponsored by Intertex, Ingate, .se and the IPv6 Forum. NORTH ANDOVER, MA (April 13, 2010) - The SIP Forum has announced that its next SIP Interoperability Testing event, SIPit 26, will be held May 17-21, 2010 in Kista, Sweden. The event will be hosted by Edvina and TANDBERG, and sponsored by Intertex, Ingate, .se, and the IPv6 Forum as an association sponsor. Conducted by the SIP Forum twice a year, SIPits are the world’s premier interoperability testing events for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), bringing together the leading SIP application developers, service providers and IP communications equipment manufacturers to ensure their SIP implementations work seamlessly together in an IP network testing environment. An important goal of the SIPit events is to help refine both the SIP protocol and its implementations in order to further establish SIP as a global interoperable standard for real-time Internet communication services. "SIPit 26 brings together equipment vendors and service providers across the global IP communications industry to test and validate their SIP implementations in a live, real-world IP network setting in Kista, Sweden, a center of telecom technology in the suburbs of Stockholm,” said Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director. "In addition, this spring event will also give companies the chance to test specifications from standards bodies such as the IETF, as well as recommendations formulated by SIP Forum task groups. A goal is to reinforce the progress that these groups are making to further establish the SIP protocol within the service provider, consumer and enterprise network environments.” 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 25 plugfest events around the globe. The previous event, SIPit 25, was hosted by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire in September 2009. “The SIPit events are extremely effective testbeds, both for implementations and for specifications,” said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum’s Test Event Working Group. “We frequently have participants indicate that a week spent at SIPit provides results that would have taken months to achieve with individual pair-wise testing. Information about the state of implementation and interoperability of the specifications has been very useful in informing ongoing standards work.” "Interoperability is the foundation for the TCP/IP protocol suite. As we move to realtime communications, it's important to test interoperability in all the platforms that are developed. For us in the Asterisk.org Open Source development group, it's been really important to participate in SIPit, where we can test, learn and improve our solution in a very open and friendly setting. SIPit is an important part of the success of the IETF Session Initiation Protocol," says Olle E. Johansson, founder of Edvina and developer of Asterisk. "We're proud to host this event in partnership with TANDBERG and thus become part of the success story of SIPit." SIPit 26 registration is now open, and companies interested in attending the event can register at http://sipit.edvina.se/. For information about past SIPits, please visit www.sipit.net. About the SIP Forum 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 interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, educational seminars, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. One of the Forum's notable technical activities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- a standards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks. The SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program is an associated program through which eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right to license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark -- the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products and services. Other important Forum initiatives include work in Fax-over-IP interoperability, User Agent Configuration, and the opportunities for SIP in Smart Grid deployments. For more information, please visit: http://www.sipforum.org. About Edvina Edvina is a company with many years’ experience in TCP/IP networking and IP Communications solutions. Edvina has been active in software development, software distribution, consulting, training and conferences since 1987. Since its inception, the keyword “open” has been Edvina’s mantra – open networking, open standards and open source. Edvina has been involved with an array of projects, including the installation, configuration and custom development and documentation of Asterisk – the Open Source PBX; VoIP training – including SIP Express Router and Asterisk; XMPP/Jabber installations and development; VoIP architectures for service providers; large-scale SIP PBX services for Universities; scalability, failover and load balancing for SIP infrastructures; and security audits of VoIP infrastructures for carriers and enterprises. Edvina’s Olle E. Johansson is a member of the Asterisk.org development team, a contributor to Kamailio, the open source SIP Server, and co-founder of the Astricon conferences and the Asterisk dCAP certification. Olle is a well-known speaker, participating in many conferences, and one of the leading Asterisk and Kamailio teachers. For more information, please visit http://edvina.net. About TANDBERG TANDBERG is the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit www.tandberg.com for more information. TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries. About Intertex Data AB Intertex Data AB was founded in 1982 by current CEO Karl Erik Stahl. The company develops and markets communication and security products. Currently, the focus is on next generation broadband access products following the SIP standard and Live person-to-person IP Communication. The products include feature rich ADSL modems and firewalls prepared for SIP based IP Telephony, Presence, Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing, both over the Internet and over IMS networks. Intertex has won several International awards for creative product design as well as business excellence. For further information, see www.intertexdata.com. About Ingate® Systems Ingate® Systems develops firewall technology to enable global SIP-based person-to-person communication such as IP telephony, presence, Instant Messaging, video conferencing, IP-PBX connections and Unified Communications. With a history based in security, Ingate offers enterprises, service providers and carriers elegant solutions that make trusted SIP communications possible beyond the LAN. Among the company's award-winning products are the Ingate Firewall® and Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) including the Ingate SIParator® and the Intertex IX78 E-SBC for operator volume SIP trunking deployments. These are widely used to connect service providers' SIP trunks to enterprise IP-PBXs and Unified Communication solutions and to allow remote users outside the LAN. Ingate products are used by retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. A leading educator on SIP trunking, Ingate hosts the SIP Trunk Seminar Series at the ITEXPO and the Ingate SIP Trunking Community at http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com. Both bring together industry visionaries to generate awareness for the benefits of SIP, SIP trunks and Unified Communications. Ingate Systems AB is headquartered in Stockholm. Sweden. Its U.S. headquarters is located in Hollis, New Hampshire. For more information on Ingate Systems, visit www.ingate.com. About .se .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) is an independent utility that acts to promote positive development of the Internet in Sweden. .SE is responsible for the Internet’s Swedish top-level domain, .se, encompassing domain name registration and administration, as well as the technical operation of the national domain name register. Profits from domain name registrations are used to support projects that contribute to Internet development in Sweden through both its own operations and the financing of independent projects. For more information, visit http://www.iis.se. About the IPv6 Forum The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of leading Internet service vendors, National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and international ISPs, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. 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