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The results of the SIP Interoperability Testing event, SIPit 26, have been announced by the SIP Forum. This event is positioned as the world's premier interoperability testing for SIP application developers, service providers and IP communications equipment manufacturers.

The five-day testing event was held May 17-21, 2010 in Kista, Sweden and demonstrated continued growth and evolution in SIP-based technology as SIP-based consumer and enterprise applications become more broadly deployed across fixed and mobile IP network topologies.

"As SIP communications become more widely prevalent, securing SIP at both the application and media layers through SRTP and TLS is critical," said Robert Sparks, chair of the SIP Forum's Test Event Working Group and organizer of SIPit (News - Alert) 26, in a statement.

 

"Other interesting developments were the growth of IPv6 and a large number of participants testing network edge-specific scenarios with ICE and TURN implementations."

 

Edvina and TANDBERG both hosted the event, which was sponsored by Intertex (News - Alert), Ingate. The IPv6 Forum served as an association sponsor and 28 attending companies received value from real-world deployment data gathered from the 42 SIP implementations conducted during the week.

Participants tested SIP interworking in a variety of simulated, live IP network conditions and settings. There was a significant increase over past events in the number of secure, real-time transport protocol and TLS implementations for secure SIP networks. The event also saw continued and steady growth of IPv6 implementations.

A full summary report of SIPit 26 results is available at the SIP Forum (News - Alert) website or by clicking here.

"SIPit events bring together a diverse array of stakeholders from the global telecom community - SIP application developers, IP communications equipment manufacturers, and service providers - and provides them with an opportunity to glean valuable technical data about new SIP specifications and implementations important to their business, in a neutral setting," said Marc Robins (News - Alert), SIP Forum President and Managing Director.

"The event and the resulting data also give standards bodies such as the IETF a good progress report on the growth of SIP and the specific SIP implementations that are becoming more widely adopted in the service provider, enterprise, and consumer markets."

Last month, the SIP Forum shared a piece on TMCnet as to Why SIP Is the Best Protocol and Architecture for Demand and Response. It is clear that the flexibility of SIP makes it an appropriate choice for a variety of functions across the Smart Grid space. SIP can significantly reduce costs and time to market for all the players, simply because SIP is already proven and widely deployed in both enterprise and residential networks today.