Conferences

Conferences

Interoperability testing:

SIP development community’s interoperability testing event is called

  • Session Initiation Protocol Interoperability Test (SIPit) http://www.sipit.net/ †. Note: The SIPit event is closed to the public and press, and no information is released about which products fail to comply with the standard.
    • Why have it closed? So that the testing can be done without risk of public embarrassment.
  • Interoperability is one of the most important aspects of wide deployment using multiple vendors products [Marsan 2004].
  • Proper handing of server failover is considered by some to be the most critical interoperability issue at present [Marsan 2004].

†The 12th SIPit event in Stockholm, Sweden occurred February 24-28, 2003. SIPIT 17 was in Stockholm, Sweden, September 2005, SIPit 26 was in Kista in 17-21 May 2010.

Slide Notes

[Marsan 2004] Carolyn Duffy Marsan, ‘Convergence / SIP rollouts hit variety of snags’, Network World, 02-Feb-2004 [Online]. Available: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0202sip.html Links to an external site.

Transcript

[slide67] Conferences. There's an event called SIPit. It's been held in Stockholm a couple times. And one of the important things for services is, you want to make sure that you have interoperability. Because if your software doesn't interoperate with other people's software, then you have a problem about the growth of your market. SIPit's purpose was to get people together so they could test for interoperability. But a condition is, no one who wasn't there could be told what the results of the testing were. So you could bring your equipment or bring your software, try it out, interworking with other people, but as they say in Vegas, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in this testing environment, that's purely in this testing environment, you couldn't later go and say, well, that it couldn't operate against mine, or I could operate against SIPit. So it's very, very important that you have an ability to try things out on a basis where it isn't necessarily public what's happening.