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studies, more live demos and an expanded schedule are on the agenda for the new SIP
Trunk Summit at ITEXPO East 2010, the highly popular educational seminar series from Ingate
Systems. Once again Ingate has partnered with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP
trunking service providers and industry thought-leaders to offer a groundbreaking
three-day agenda providing in-depth information on the what, why and how of SIP trunking.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, the SIP Trunk Summit will be held January 20-22, 2010
at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida, in room A108/A109.

Confirmed Speakers include Avaya, Bandwidth.com, Cbeyond, Dialogic, Digium, Intertex

XO Communications and Fonality announce that Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems have passed XO Communications' certification for standard interoperability with XO's SIP-based integrated voice and data communications solution.

XO Communications is a leading provider of business-class VoIP services and solutions, supporting more than 15,000 businesses and 500,000 customer employees. Fonality's IP-PBX phone systems are known for reliability, superior features, simplified deployment, and offering cost savings up to 80 percent off the price of competing solutions.

Earlier this month out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles, I participated in the Ingate SIP Trunking seminars as I have been doing for the last year or so. My talk was ?SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network?. The slides are available for viewing or download from my SlideShare account and I?ll also embed them here in this post.

I did record the presentation in both audio and video and hope to be making that available as a Blue Box podcast some time soon. I?ll then sync the slides to the audio. Meanwhile? enjoy the slides!

Konftel is now launching the Konftel 300IP, a SIP-based conference phone with a number of innovative functions. The 300IP makes it possible to make local five-way calls and ring pre-programmed groups, as well as record and store calls on a memory card. By creating user profiles, personal contacts and settings can be saved. The phone is equipped with Konftel's patented OmniSound 2.0 sound technology, which provides crystal-clear sound with wideband.

The Konftel 300IP can be connected to either an IP PBX system or direct to a VoIP service provider. The phone is based on SIP (RFC 3261) and is compatible with most of the market's SIP platforms. In order to simplify connection, the Konftel 300IP also supports Power over Ethernet.

How can you make SIP trunking secure? Is there such a thing as ?secure SIP trunking?? Can SIP trunks and VoIP actually be more secure than the PSTN?

The SIP Forum announces the introduction of the SIPconnect Compliant program, a unique certification mark created to ensure interoperability among equipment manufacturers, software providers and service providers, as well as to promote further adoption of Session Initiation Protocol as the standard for VoIP communications.

Back on August 22nd, Radu State from the Madynes research group in France posted a security advisory to the VOIPSEC mailing list, ?Remote eavesdropping with SIP Phone GXV-3000?. He also posted it to full-disclosure and several other lists. As he writes:

EnGenius announces the launch of the SI-680H a SIP-based Wi-Fi phone. The EnGenius SI-680H phone will enable customers the ability to call anywhere in the world over the Internet via a wireless network connection.

This compact IP wireless device is designed for the roaming office worker and boasts an intuitive interface allowing users to quickly and easily configure the handset to access available wireless-b networks.

As systems become increasingly interconnected, how do we prevent Spam for Internet Telephony, a.k.a. ?SPIT? or ?VoIP spam?.

Bandwidth.com announces that it will be powering all Mitel Solution Centers across the country enabling customers and VARS to preview innovative solutions, including SIP Trunking technology in a live environment. Mitel operates solution centers in five locations; Chicago, Costa Mesa, Atlanta, New York and Herndon (Virginia), all of which will be equipped with Bandwidth.com's SIP Trunking VoIP solution by the end of June.

In conjunction with this project, Edgewater Networks, Inc. and Ingate Systems, both Mitel partners, are providing hardware equipment for the solution centers.