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NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), in conjunction with Dialogic (www.dialogic.com), announced today that their TMC University division will offer SIP Certification Courses at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2008 in Miami, Florida. The daylong course, which includes a 30-minute certification exam, will be held Wednesday, January 23rd, day one of the three-day conference.

Titled, ‘SIP: The Foundation for Building Enhanced Services’, this TMC University course offers six individual training sessions teaching service providers how to use SIP to create profitable enhanced services they can roll out to new and existing subscribers.

TMC has partnered with Dialogic, a leading provider of open systems platforms to both enterprise and service provider markets, to build the comprehensive curriculum for TMC University.

According to TMC President and conference chairman, Rich Tehrani, TMC University is the only independent program of its kind. And this new SIP certification course is an overdue addition to the series.

“We are especially excited to offer a course which will allow graduates to create better SIP applications which will in-turn help drive service provider growth,” said TMC president Rich Tehrani. He continued, “We believe the opportunity exists for service providers to increase stickiness and ARPU by delivering applications which empower their customers.”

“Since its inception, TMC U has focused on bridging the gap as technologies emerge from their “early adopter” phase and enter the mainstream,” added Jeff Dworkin, Dialogic’s Marketing Manager and Advisory Chairman for TMC University. “With hundreds of graduates for IP PBX 101 and 201 courses, we have demonstrated that there is real need to help Integrators and End Customers understand how to leverage technology to solve real world business problems and generate bottom-line profit. We are sure that the course content presented here will fill that need for this market and the Developers, Integrators and ISVs that serve it.”

The TMC University SIP Certification Course consists of sessions covering the following topics:

Introduction: SIP as the Foundation

• Overview of a SIP call set up
• SIP Elements in a Network to Deliver Enhanced Services

Signaling: SIP, SS7 & Integrating your Network with the Legacy Infrastructure

• Understand how a class 4/5 circuit architecture migrates toward a SIP Network
• Review of available standards for SS7 – SIP interworking
• How SIP can be used for IP Backhaul-Class 4 Replacement
• Example: Pre and Post Paid Services Using SIP

Media: Voice and Video in your SIP Environment

• Common Audio and Video Codecs
• Media/Codec Negotiations
• Tuning Your Network for Voice and Video
• QoS issues, metrics and user quality expectations

Transitioning to IMS via your SIP Based Network

• Understand the high-level IMS architecture and its benefits
• Learn the important factors in considering interop testing
• Describe the main goals and objectives in setting up an interop lab

SIP Trunking

• What is SIP Trunking
• Pitfalls and Shortcomings in Ad Hoc SIP Trunking
• The Basics of SIP Connect

Case Study

Review and discuss a carrier’s plans to expand their SIP-based service offerings.

• The migration from stove-piped apps to centralized media resources and the benefits
• Factors to keep in mind when deploying services with centralized resources
• The types of services that lend themselves to centralized resources.

Registration for the course and the entire conference is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting http://www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146.

About TMC^®

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com¹, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (¹alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)