The SIP Forum announces the SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC), a new annual conference for the international service provider community. The two-day conference will bring together the leading technical minds from the telecommunications industry to learn, discuss and formulate new ideas and strategies concerning the challenges and opportunities for SIP-based carrier services in fixed and mobile IP network environments. Unlike other events, this conference is for SIP network operations personnel, such as NOC engineers, instead of a high-level conference for executives. The first SIPNOC 2011 conference will be held at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA April 25 -27, 2011.

Codenomicon announces that Ari Takanen, CTO of Codenomicon, will give a presentation on threat assessment and proactive defense against VoIP vulnerabilities at the 3GPP ETSI Release 8 IMS Implementation Workshop. The event will take place 24-25 November 2010, at the Sophia Antipolis technology park, in southern France.

Ari Takanen will give his presentation "Recommendations for VoIP and IMS Security" on Thursday, November 25th. He will talk about VoIP security threats, focusing on the attack surface analysis and threat assessment of IMS Release 8 architecture. The presentation is based on research and numerous audits on live IMS deployments across Europe performed during early 2010. Presentation also reviews results of selected security tests using test automation technique called fuzzing, which finds and identifies both known and unknown vulnerabilities in communication technologies. The presentation is partially based on the Securing VoIP Networks book Ari Takanen wrote together with Peter Thermos.

PaloSanto Solutions announces the final list of conferences to be presented at ElastixWorld 2010. ElastixWorld 2010 is the first event to gather the Elastix community from around the world in a two-day conference and a further day of integration activities.

"We were surprised by the interest generated by the event from the time we shared the idea with the community. I am very pleased about the reception and support we have received from the hardware manufacturers worldwide" said Edgar Landivar, Elastix Project Leader.

This event has already achieved major interest from software developers and hardware manufacturers of open VoIP products, including Digium, the company behind Asterisk, the most popular open PBX software on today's market.

Voiceserve will be presenting its VoIP software and solutions this month at the GITEX Technology Week from October 17-21 in Dubai and the FutureCOM in Sao Paulo from October 25-28.

GITEX Technology is one of the most influential and high-profile events in the global information and communication technology sector. Now in its 30th year, GITEX connects over 133,000 professionals with more than 3,500 suppliers. The conference is made up of industry professionals primarily from the Middle East who have purchasing authority of generally up to $1 million, most of whom are seeking new products, services or suppliers.

911 Enable will present a webinar series entitled "E911 Solutions for VoIP and UC Deployments," during the months of October and November. This webinar series will provide a complete view of E911 for IP telephony, including how to meet state and local E911 legislation, manage IP phone locations, and ensure proper routing of emergency calls to Public Safety Answering Points.

The first webinar in the series, "E911 for IP Telephony: What You Should Know," will cover the fundamentals of E911 and IP telephony. This introductory-level presentation is designed for IP telephony administrators, resellers, integrators, and consultants beginning to investigate E911 solutions.

Digium announces that Kevin Fleming, director of software technologies, will deliver a keynote presentation regarding the future of open source communications software at the seventh annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition. Each year hundreds of software developers, telephony and unified communications experts, resellers and VARs, and Asterisk enthusiasts attend AstriCon, the longest running conference devoted to the Asterisk telephony platform. Fleming’s keynote takes place on Wednesday, October 27 at 9:00 a.m. ET.

AstriCon 2010 will take place from October 26-28, 2010, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

The Illinois Institute of Technology announces that its Sixth annual VoIP Conference and Expo will take place October 12-14, 2010 in Chicago. This conference, where industry and academia meet, brings together technical professionals and executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, government agencies, as well as the business community. The presentations, exhibits, social events, and session breaks provide opportunities to discover different aspects of this rapidly evolving field.

Phone.com announces its participation at the COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2010 Convention & EXPO taking place September 12-15 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas.

COMPTEL is the leading trade association for the competitive telecommunications industry.

Phone.com’s CEO Ari Rabban will be speaking at the conference session titled “The Explosive and Disruptive Growth of SMS”. This session will be taking place on Tuesday, September 14 10:00-10:45AM.

TM Forum announces that after eleven years in Nice, France, its flagship Management World conference will move to Dublin’s new, state-of-the-art Convention Center - the CCD - May 23-26, 2011. Dublin and the CCD will provide the perfect business environment for Management World attendees—a leading capital city that is easy to get to, easy to do business in and with a reputation for hospitality that is second to none.

As a vibrant European hub for global technology companies, including major communications service providers, IT organizations and large online businesses such as Google, Facebook and eBay, Dublin is a natural fit for the increasing scope of the industry’s premier conference.

AstriCon is quickly taking form, with speakers on a range of technical and business topics confirmed. Organizations of all sizes use Asterisk to create customized, feature-rich and scalable phone unified communications systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and more. Digium the owner and corporate sponsor of Asterisk, hosts AstriCon, which is now in its seventh year. A few of this year’s speakers will include:

“Just How Vulnerable is Your Phone System?”

• Sandro Gauci—“Just How Vulnerable is Your Phone System?” Sandro is the author of “SIPVicious,” one of the most popular brute-force attack test kit systems for SIP platforms. He’ll talk about attack methods, vulnerabilities administrators should understand and how to mitigate these issues on Asterisk.
• Jim Kerr—“Orbitz and Asterisk: How We Did It.” Orbitz has implemented Asterisk to handle customer calls. Learn how this huge travel management agency integrated the platform with its legacy system, deployed it across call centers and achieved PCI security compliance.
• Simon Perreault—“IPv6 in Asterisk 1.8.” Asterisk will support IPv6 in 1.8, and Simon will talk about the changes, configuration requirements and fundamentals of IPv6 required to get Asterisk running. Then, as part of a double-long session, he will walk through configuration of an entire platform on a purely IPv6 network.
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Unified Communications is coming of age and it's being driven by the urgent demand for SIP trunking, which lowers operating costs and delivers rapid ROI. To address the need for information on the what, why and how of Unified Communications and SIP trunking, Ingate Systems is partnering with TMC, thought-leaders and vendors in the space to present the new SIP Trunk-Unified Communications Summit at ITEXPO West 2010.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, the Summit is a three-day seminar series providing in-depth educational information on SIP trunking and Unified Communications. The Summit will include general information panels and technical insight sessions from both the service provider and enterprise perspectives, and will feature visionaries driving the industry.

D2 Technologies is showcasing the industry’s broadest range of VoIP platform offerings for OEMs/ODMs through on- and off-floor demonstrations with the world’s leading semiconductor vendors during the COMPUTEX 30 Taipei tradeshow. D2’s vPort Gateway embedded VoIP software allows manufacturers to use their IC platforms of choice to quickly deliver advanced Integrated Access Devices, residential gateways and other CPE with optimized, carrier-grade VoIP functionality over wireline, WiFi and WiMAX connections.

XO Communications in collaboration with TMCNet and BroadSoft, will host an interactive webinar on May 12th entitled, "Beyond SIP Trunking - Unify the Enterprise." The event will bring together several SIP trunking experts to discuss the latest industry trends and insights on how distributed enterprises can streamline their managed voice services.

Specifically, the hour-long session will cover topics such as the benefits of SIP trunking services and future trends, how to evaluate the return-on-investment of SIP, as well as things to consider when evaluating SIP trunk service providers. It will also offer an inside glimpse of various enterprise networks before and after SIP trunking was implemented.

Acme Packet announces the launch of the Acme Packet enterprise seminar series, Deploying SIP Services Successfully, kicking off in San Francisco on May 20, continuing on to New York, May 25, Chicago, May 26 and ending in Washington, D.C., on June 2. The goal of this series is to educate enterprises, contact centers and government agencies about the significant challenges of integrating SIP trunking, video conferencing, unified communications, contact centers and hosted cloud communication services, and the role of session border control in ensuring interoperability, security, quality, availability, and regulatory compliance.

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 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.