ATIS, SIP Forum Hail North American IP Network-to-Network Standardization

The "first standardized IP-based network-to-network interconnection with consensus across North American Service providers" was completed, the Association for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and SIP Forum said Tuesday. "This accomplishment enables a major objective identified in the United States National Broadband Plan, to ensure that all service connections between providers occur at the Internet Protocol (IP) level," the groups said. "It also helps the industry advance a major business objective of achieving the interconnection needed to reliably deliver a range of exciting new IP-based services."