Want to learn about SIP? Come to my SIP Tutorial at VoiceCon March 22
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Want to learn about the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)? Would you like to understand how the SIP protocol works and why it is the dominant open standard for communication today? Want to understand the challenges SIP faces and what’s being done to overcome them?
If so… and if you will be attending VoiceCon in Orlando, FL, March 22-25, you’ll be able to join my (Dan York) 3-hour tutorial on “SIP Fundamentals and Prospects” on Tuesday, March 23rd, from 2-5pm. The abstract VoiceCon has posted is this:
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has become the dominant protocol for IP communications. This workshop explains SIP — how it works, the major issues impacting deployments and how SIP will evolve in the future.
The session focuses on the technical aspects of SIP and how it is used. It analyzes in detail the major components of SIP architecture, SIP addressing and registration, session establishment, SIP message routing and connecting SIP across the PSTN. You will learn about SIP extensions and how SIMPLE works for IM/presence. The workshop also examines some of the challenges SIP faces, including NAT traversal (and the tools developed to cope with it: STUN, TURN and ICE) and security. The tutorial concludes with an assessment of how SIP may evolve and its role in peer-to-peer environments. You will receive an inventory of SIP resources—books, papers and organizations.
I’m very much looking forward to the session… although I still do have some work to finish up on the materials. For the past while my friend David Bryan has given these tutorials at VoiceCon events, but given that he also chairs IETF working groups he would need to clone himself since this VoiceCon is the same week as IETF 77 in Anaheim, California. It’s a wee bit hard to flip between coasts… and as anyone who has ever been to an IETF event knows, the meetings are intense and he is needed out there.
If you can’t attend VoiceCon this year, I’ll probably do some SIP tutorial webinars in the future and perhaps you’ll see something popping up over at Voxeo University… stay tuned. And if you are at VoiceCon, please do stop by and say hello… or send me an email in advance letting me know.
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