VoIP development platforms are a constantly evolving lot. From PCI and CompactPCI to today’s most advanced ATCA and microTCA-based platforms, there are so many changes that it might be tough to stay abreast of all that is happening in this fast-moving space. Attend this session, and you’ll hear the presenters talk about powerful, standards-based computing solutions and hot swap and high availability capabilities for communications applications and how it all relates to your development plans.

Open Source — software where the source code is available for anyone to improve or modify —has the potential to change the telecom landscape forever. Already Linux has made huge headway into this market, and the advent of Open Source has caused quite a stir. Developers need to know what is available in the Open Source marketplace and how best to leverage the freedom inherent in a distributed community of programmers to amend and adapt code for their VoIP development needs. This session will address the role of the various emerging VoIP standards and what they mean to the development of Open Source.

This group discussion will zero in on the current state of Open Source telephony; what it means, where it stands, and where this segment of the market is headed. Thought leaders from a number of influential Open Source factions will share their insights with the audience. Attendees can expect a frank conversation, and will leave this session with a thorough understanding of Open Source and its role in the future of IP Telephony.

As with any technology element, subsequent product generations typically yield performance, size, integration, or cost advantages. This is often driven by the silicon devices used to define the product. Key to leveraging the advances in silicon has been the equal advances in embedded software. A leading element is the ongoing growth and maturity of Linux as a fully functional and flexible operating system environment, as well as a configurable environment for embedded systems. The performance and integrated benefits of contemporary silicon devices coupled with the functionality and cost benefits of Linux are providing embedded developers with options never before available. This session will discuss the use of Linux as an embedded operating system and development environment and how it can be applied towards the development of embedded systems.

There are several IETF RFCs and Internet Drafts that describe mechanisms for securing SIP. Many of these mechanisms are difficult to understand and implement. The reSIProcate project at SIPfoundry has implemented several of these schemes to provide a complete SIP-based security system including end-to-end security using S/MIME and hop-by-hop security using TLS. It also provides an implementation of a mechanism to distribute and store public and private keys using SIP. This presentation will describe the capabilities of the reSIProcate libraries and how companies can take advantage of them in commercial products.