BICSI recognise The SIP School^TM

The SIPSchool has gained another major endorsement for its SIP training and SSCA^TM certification service and this time it’s from BICSI, the professional association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry.

The statement from BICSI is as follows

“Effective May 15th, 2009, BICSI recognizes The SIP School training for the following BICSI Continuing Education Credits (CECs).”

The relevant BICSI courses and the number of credits earned via The SIP School are listed here and more information on these courses can be found on the BICSI website @ www.bicsi.org

· RCDD – 12 Continuing Education Credits (CECs)

· NTS – 12 CECs

· Installer – 12 CECs

· Technician – 12 CECs

· Certified Trainer – 12 CECs

Graham Francis, CEO of The SIPSchool said: "Our SSCA^TM certification on SIP is a valuable certification for anyone working with SIP to strive for and with more ‘industry giants’ announcing their support over the coming weeks it’s becoming a ‘must have’ for installation, support and network engineers whatever company they work for”.

This is great news for The SIP School™ and the SSCA™ and check out the full announcement in the blog

The SIP School at Olympia

The SIP School is running a seminar at the Unified Communications conference in the UK on12th March, held at Olympia, London.  Start time is 1:50pm.

They'll be telling everyone about The SIP School, the SSCA Certification track and also the Free SIP community and Directory at the SIP Wiki site....  

To find out more about the seminar and the rest of the exhibition, please click on the logo below.

Panasonic 'endorse' The SIP School and SSCA^TM training program – [link]

The SIP School^TM explains it all!

The IETF has a number of working groups with some weird and wonderful names all contributing to the advancement of SIP. To find out all about them, The SIP School has put together a free ‘flash’ presentation that reveals all. Click on the link to launch the module - [link]

SIP Discussion Groups!

If you have any technical questions about SIP, need someone else’s opinion or just simply want to start off a general discussion on any aspect of SIP then go to the SIP Wiki to get talking – [link]

SIP and Unified Communications added into The SIP School program

"SIP and Unified Communications shows you how SIP underpins all the elements of Unified Communications to realize efficiencies that a successful implementation promises to business"

Topics Include

• Todays issues

• IM Clients

• Presence

• Presence Networks

• Rich Presence

• Conferencing

• XMPP v SIMPLE

• Federations

• SIP and Unified Comms

• Relevant RFC's

Get your free SIP Google Gadget!

If you are learning about SIP, use the Google Gadget from The SIP School^TM to help you get your SSCA^TM. Click on the link to get it now – [link]

30% offer on The SIP School

For a great deal on The SIP School training and SSCA^TM program just click here to get your discount – [offer closed]

If you are into SIP you could win an iPod!

Simply join the SIP Wiki for free and get entered into the draw for an iPod. Find out more here – [competition closed]

The First visitors to the SIP Wiki and Discussion site join up – [link]

The SSCA™ is launched as The SIP School re-brands it's certification program for VoIP/SIP professionals.  find out more about the SSCA™ here +++

Vocale offers accreditation for SIP

Reseller launches accreditation scheme in hope of attracting major manufacturers

Birmingham-based resellerVocalehas added to channel momentum around Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) by launching an accreditation based on the emerging voice standard.

Vocale’s new SIP School, which is aimed at communications dealers and installation firms, covers a range of topics, including Core SIP operation and SIP Trunking. Graduates will be awarded a SIP School Certified Associate certificate.

Graham Francis, managing director at Vocale, an authorised Mitel training partner, said: “Every telephone manufacturer is putting SIP into their systems, but at the moment there is nothing recognised as an industry standard for SIP, which is what we are looking to do.

“We hope to get every major manufacturer on board,” he said. Francis said the course had been developed online to enable dealers to refresh their knowledge as the SIP protocol develops. According to a study by ABI Research, almost half of all telecoms users will be employing at least one SIP service by 2012.
Stuart Clarke, EMEA training manager at Mitel, said: “I do not know of any accreditation that is based on the SIP standard and it is fantastic if someone can drive down that road.

“Vocale is very strong on updating material, and as the SIP standard develops people can revisit its web site,” he said.
John Massey, managing director at Mitel resellerActimax, said: “Not a lot of people understand SIP, but it will probably become a requirement for our industry.”

Francis claimed there were very few firms offering a SIP accreditation, although he cited US-based training and research group SIPKnowledge as a possible competitor.
He added: “We have worked with Mitel on training courses for seven years. Its products are now heavily dependent on SIP. This course has been developed with Mitel in mind, but applies to every manufacturer.”

External link here +++