Metaswitch Takes Session Border Controller to SIPit 26

Metaswitch's Session Border Controller and SIP network software products tested at latest SIP Forum interoperability event in Stockholm

London, UK, June 10, 2010 — Metaswitch, the world's leading independent provider of network technologies, today announced its successful participation in SIPit 26, the twenty-sixth SIP interoperability test (SIPit) event organized by the SIP Forum (http://www.sipforum.org) and hosted in Stockholm by Edvina and TANDBERG.

The SIPit 26 event provided a technically intensive atmosphere where the thirty-one vendor participants could look at a range of interoperability test scenarios, ranging from peer-to-peer tests to complex multi-party tests, with SIP and IMS focused devices. Notably at this event, many vendors participated in video and conferencing test scenarios, reflecting the increasing importance of video and conferencing in corporate Session Border Controller and SIP deployments.

Conducted by the SIP Forum twice a year, SIPits are the world's premier interoperability testing events for the Session Initiation Protocol (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.

Metaswitch, a regular participant in SIPit events, tested at SIPit 26 with both its DC-SBC and DC-SIP solutions. DC-SBC is a fully portable session border controller software solution designed for system vendors and DC-SIP is a portable source code implementation of the SIP protocol. Both DC-SBC and DC-SIP were successfully tested with many of the participating vendors at the event. DC-SBC was also tested in other IP network topologies including IMS scenarios, where it successfully performed as a P-CSCF, IBCF, BGF, and I-BGF.

"The SIPit events are really useful in proving industry interoperability," said Clive Partridge, General Manager of Metaswitch's Network Technologies Division. "Our test team can concentrate on the technical details of each test scenario in an open and cooperative multi-vendor environment, with real benefits for the interoperability of our DC-SBC and DC-SIP products."

More on DC-SBC

DC-SBC is the industry's first software-based, fully portable session border controller solution developed exclusively for system vendors. Metaswitch's DC-SBC solution enables vendors to enhance their existing and new products with full, carrier-grade session border controller functionality, with massive savings in time-to-market and engineering costs. Metaswitch’s "Session Border Controllers in IMS" white paper describes how DC-SBC may be deployed in an IMS environment.

More on DC-SIP

DC-SIP is used by many of the world's largest manufacturers of VoIP/Multimedia equipment and is enhanced to allow speedy assimilation into IMS environments. These enhancements include IPv6 functionality, signaling compression (SigComp), ENUM, session timers, and support for IPSec, AKA, and IMS-specific SIP headers. This functionality enables DC-SIP to be utilized in all SIP-based IMS applications, including Application Server, CSCF, Gateway and User Elements.

About the SIP Forum

The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, educational seminars, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. For more information, please visit: http://www.sipforum.org.

About Metaswitch Networks

Metaswitch Networks is a leading provider of the technologies and solutions that are powering the migration of communications networks to open, next-generation architectures. Hundreds of network operators worldwide depend on its reliable, scalable carrier systems solutions, while its high performance, fault-tolerant software technologies are licensed by all the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers. For more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.