Media Support Provided By:
10:15 - 11:00 am Achieving True QoS When Deploying VoIP Ronn Wiehler, President, Monrovia Ventures Group, LLC Managing VoIP QoS is complex because it involves both data and voice components that are in different networks, have different support organizations, and have different philosophies. If both networks are to converge, IP networks (i.e., data) must be enhanced with mechanisms to ensure the QoS to that of voice networks. Explore why voice quality is best viewed from an end-to-end perspective; that is, regardless of what technologies are employed, metrics must be measured in terms of the end user's experience. The end user's qualitative perception can make measuring these metrics quite challenging.
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Choosing the Right VoIP Protocols Mark F. Whittier, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, VocalData SIP might just be the protocol of the future, but it may not be the one that service providers should turn to completely today. This session will explore the pros and cons provided by each of the main VoIP protocols - SIP, MGCP and SCCP - with an in-depth look at the factors that a service provider should consider (cost, features, etc.) when choosing VoIP equipment. It will also take a case study look at why carriers such as Primus choose MGCP as its protocol of choice for its recent launch of VoIP services.
1:00 - 1:45 pm Open Source & IP Telephony — Happy Together Bill Rich, President & CEO, Pingtel Open Source has the potential to bring PC-like economics and multi-vendor solutions to the telephony market, providing similar price and innovation benefits to the enterprise. Fundamentally, this will force the telephony market to re-examine the current model of vertically integrated single-vendor solutions to the more open model typical of the information technology (IT) sector. For customers, open source IP PBX solutions provide tremendous value and benefits and open up new avenues for innovation across the solution stack. It enables customers to lower network administration costs and reduce TCO for enterprise communications, allowing a more rapid ROI. 2:00 - 2:45 pm The Importance of Testing Tools and Quality Assurance Marek Dutkiewicz, Director of Hardware and Software Development, Polycom Canada, Ltd. Chris Miller, Distinguished Member-Technical Staff, Lucent Worldwide Services Pathang Janardhanan, Group Project Manager, HCL Technologies At the current fast pace of the VoIP industry, with standards constantly evolving and the ability to almost instantly develop innovative Internet-based features, testing and quality assurance remain critical for the development and production of high-quality telecommunications products. This session will focus on the latest tools and methodologies available to help the IP telephony developer work the kinks out of their next-generation VoIP application before releasing it to the cold harsh environment of a mission-critical network.
3:00 - 4:00 pm The State-of-the-Art in VoIP Silicon Majid Foodeei, PhD, System Architect, Centillium Communications, Inc. Jonathan Peace, CTO, Mindspeed Technologies The requirements for various VoIP applications vary significantly and continuously increase in complexity. These applications are many, encompassing wireline, wireless (Wi-Fi and 3G), residential terminal adapters (TA), IP-PBX, and various gateways. The technical and service requirements trickle down the "food chain" to the underlying silicon. With advances in system on chip (SoC) VoIP silicon, it is not an exaggeration to talk about TA-on-a-chip, IP-PBX-on-a-chip, or even GW-on-a-chip. While complex advanced silicon is being pulled by different applications in somewhat different directions, there are basic commonalities. This presentation covers the latest requirement trends across system and silicon and the benefits to the evolution of VoIP.
Return to Main Conferences Page
Free Keynotes
