Contact Developer Program

Open Developer is the membership designation for the Carrier IMS, VoIP and Multimedia Developer Segment of the Developer Program. Open Developers may have commercially available products, products in development, or even products in the conceptual stage. Through membership, they gain access to tools that will assist them in their development efforts, including toolkits/SDKs, APIs, specifications, documentation and support.

Product Designations Available to Developer Program Members
Members may pursue compatibility/interoperability testing for their product(s) in order to earn Nortel awarded product designations:

• Nortel Compatible Product (brandmark and certificate)
• Registered Product (designation only; no brandmark or certificate)
• Proof of Concept (no brandmark or certificate)

Nortel Compatible Product
Compatibility Testing by Nortel is designed to assist our customers in locating third-party products that have been verified by Nortel engineers in a controlled lab environment and deemed compatible with specified Nortel products. Nortel distributors/resellers may order some Compatible Products through Nortel.



Registered Product
Registered Product - Developers may be invited to initially pursue less extensive interoperability testing than would be implemented through full Compatibility Testing. Registered Product testing is designed to recognize third-party products that have demonstrated an initial level of interoperability in the Nortel laboratory environment and are thus deemed registered with specified Nortel products. Third-party developers will receive an acknowledgement letter that a successful call completion was made with a Nortel product and will be encouraged to complete testing to achieve Nortel Compatible Product status.

Proof of Concept
Developers with products in the early stages of design may be invited to initially pursue less extensive interoperability testing than would be implemented through full Compatibility Testing. Prototype (proof of concept) testing is designed to recognize third-party products that have demonstrated pre-deployment level products that can achieve a limited set of capabilities that could be used as demos for customers but not have reached a level that could pass a formal interoperability event. Nortel encourages these developers to pursue a formal test event once their product becomes more mature.

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