The industry is experiencing a shift to user -centric communication. This shift comes at a time when companies, as well as people, are expecting more than just device centric technology. This shift will be integrating diverse media and systems, into a unified user experience. This presentation will be a tutorial style overview of the enablers of this shift to SIP (session initiation protocol) and Presence. The basics of SIP-based communication will be introduced to provide an understanding of the new value that emerges for applications and multimedia services based on SIP and Presence, along with illustrative examples. SIP applications running on an IP platform will enable powerful and inexpensive applications such as conference calling, unified messaging, web support mapping, call-recording capabilities, video conferencing and video recording, and many other integrated business applications. Come to this session to find out more.
Presented by:
Jack Jachner Senior Director Research and Innovation Alcatel
Clark Rines Senior Vice President for Engineering Inter-Tel
As service providers seek to develop consensus on a framework for establishing a scalable model for the exchange of SIP traffic between networks, several industry initiatives are addressing core issues. This panel presentation will provide a background on this critical time in the evolution of SIP exchange, as a foundation for widespread growth is being established.
Some key topics to be covered in the panel:
• As greater adoption of VoIP and other SIP services will be driven by cable operators, panelists will discuss some of the impediments for immediate action by cable operators to establish an exchange framework with each other.
• QoS issues and how they remain a top concern for a successful SIP exchange framework.
• The prerequisites for service providers seeking to trial SIP exchange platforms and VoIP peering infrastructures, and the evolutionary path for service providers to begin VoIP peering.
• The importance of developing a VoIP peering community to establish the framework that will accommodate the anticipated widespread growth of VoIP.
Presented by:
Ramani Pandurangan Director of Architecture & Technology XO Communications
Eric Schwartz (Moderator) VP, Strategy and Services Equinix
With more and more traffic being shifted to VoIP infrastructure, many customers are starting to worry about the reliability of their SIP network and voice traffic. Fortunately there are a number of well understood techniques used by network designers to improve the reliability and survivability of both enterprise and service provider VoIP solutions. This session will explore these techniques and show how SIP can be leveraged to create highly reliable voice solutions with no single point of failure.
Security concerns are heightened when interactive services such as VoIP are rolled out, because firewalls, the traditional network sentries, are unable to address the complexities of VoIP traffic and its accompanying SIP protocol. SIP is required for the delivery of interactive applications, such as VoIP and multimedia. However, its intrinsic complexities, fluid development, and peer-to-peer communication expose networks to a host of security violations. The unsavory and serious security issues associated with SIP include DOS attacks, fraud, service theft, SPIT (spam over Internet telephony) and SPIM (spam over instant messaging). Attend this session to gain a better understanding of the complexities of securing SIP-based communications.
This session will provide an overview of the SIMPLE standard (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) for enterprises looking to deploy the protocol into their infrastructure. Discussion will include a review of SIP and the architecture needed to support it, a full explanation of the SIMPLE protocol and its relationship with SIP, and SIMPLE-centric applications like Presence Management, Instant Messaging, and mobility tools. Security and third-party development will also be explored.
Although it took a few years, SIP has finally gained the backing of today’s most prominent technology companies, (from Microsoft to Cisco to Polycom). SIP has quickly become the de facto standard and continues to speed the adoption of VoIP in the enterprise. New versions of SIP are already making their way onto the scene, promising to add business-class features such as caller ID, missed call support, and other useful features. The question is: will this standard change and what does the industry need to do to make the promise of SIP a reality?
Attendees will learn the evolution of SIP and its role in driving VoIP adoption and innovation; receive a status update on “splinter” protocols such as SIP-B and their role in VoIP; and get the insider’s take on the next wave of SIP in context.
Presented by:
Chris Lengyel Market Development Manager Cantata Technology
Brough Turner Founder Ashtonbrooke.com
Gaddi Menahem EVP Product and Business development MobileMax
Glen Gerhard Vice President of Product Management Sansay
Standards-based IP telephony solutions continue to reshape the communications industry. Through its ability to increase productivity and enhance efficiency, SIP has become a vital element of the most recent and most original IP applications. SIP and the applications it supports, from administration tools and interactive conferencing to voice-enriched e-commerce, continue to change the way today’s organizations conduct business.
The speaker will outline the finer points of SIP: how it operates, the advancement of SIP-based solutions, the different diagnostic and support tools that have enabled this protocol to gain such wide acceptance, best practices for deploying SIP solutions, and what the future of innovative SIP-enabled VoIP applications holds.
Opportunities and Threats of SIP-Based VoIP... (SIP-08)
Friday - 10/13/06, 1:15-2:00pm
We’re in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution and people are increasingly realizing the long-term benefits of VoIP. But VoIP is an ambiguous concept encompassing many protocols. In order for VoIP to reach its full potential, it needs to be standards-based — eliminating current proprietary enterprise systems. This is where SIP comes into play. The open and standards-based signaling of SIP allows VoIP platforms to be interoperable.
This presentation will address the challenges of implementing SIP-based VoIP and the benefits of SIP Farm clustering technology. Topics will include the evolutionary path of Internet Communications, including the different network models for IP Communications and the advantages/disadvantages of each. Additionally, the presentation will highlight the implications of distributed VoIP and common security assumptions associated with the technology.
Presented by:
Jon Doyle VP of Business Development CommuniGate Systems
SIP is a very powerful technology in its ability to effectively tunnel through firewalls and NATs in the home. That capability is invaluable for delivering voice calls over broadband to the home. It is also invaluable in delivering content and services to broadband enabled devices throughout the home. It allows presence information, messages and time critical content to be pushed into the home and delivered to the right device at the right time. In the future, it may even be a delivery mechanism for targeted advertisements. Come to this session to learn all about SIP as it moves beyond voice to embrace other applications.
Presented by:
David Weinstein Co-Founder - VP of Marketing and Business Dev. Casabi
