As the telecommunications industry evolves to embrace IMS, the delivery of unique service combinations requires a horizontal infrastructure that maximizes reusability and minimizes service delivery costs. This session will explore how service providers can develop next generation network convergence architectures that leverage IP and SIP based technologies to bridge mobile and fixed networks while preparing for the future of IMS.

Any VoIP Service Provider looking to deploy VoIP service to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) absolutely must attend Service Provider Solutions Day. This free seminar features equipment vendors specializing in SMB customer premises equipment: the very tools you as Service Providers are looking to deploy in to your customers' place of business. Handpicked by the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, these companies will demonstrate their products, trying to convince you why they merit your consideration. Come and see the actual products in action, and meet the companies face to face. Service Provider Solutions Day is a great venue to see what these vendors have to offer, and a wonderful opportunity to network with the makers of the solutions you will need to attract and keep your customer base. If you are a Service Provider, this is simply a can't miss event! If you are a reseller looking to carry the most sought-after VoIP products, you must attend as well. If you are an equipment manufacturer seeking the chance to present your products and services to the assembled Service Provider audience, please contact Dave Rodriguez for details: drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

Imagine opening night for a play. The actors are in costume and know their lines, but they have not yet rehearsed together. Unthinkable as the above scenario might be, a very similar risk is in the offing for carriers preparing to launch IP telephony services without testing the performance and security of their VoIP networks end-to-end, before raising the curtain to a paying audience. This session will examine the potentially fatal difference between testing VoIP network components and testing real world VoIP services under real world, end-to-end network conditions. Topics will include: emulating real-world traffic from multiple points on the network; test the full range of IP communications and collaboration applications likely to travel the network; and the full range of network statistics, call measurements statistics, and voice quality metrics.

This presentation explains the typical issues affecting the performance of Voice over IP, focusing on some of the more challenging problems such as echo and transient loss/ jitter due to network congestion. The new VoIP performance management framework addresses many of these issues allowing network managers to cost effectively monitor large and diverse networks and quickly identify problem sources. The standards based performance management framework is introduced and practical applications given for both service provider and enterprise networks.

Hosted IP voice services offer new revenue opportunities and often provide access into new, otherwise unreachable markets. These services, such as subscriber-based IP Centrex or residential broadband VoIP, can be delivered over a variety of access technologies such as leased line, ATM, Frame Relay, DSL, and cable. Deploying a session border controller provides the necessary control functions to enable high-quality, real-time communications across IP networks. This session will address safe, reliable delivery of SIP applications across network borders; protection of a provider’s service infrastructure and customer relationships; ability to overcome the NAT barrier to the delivery of high margin multimedia services; and more.

With all the noise in industry and the press over municipal WiFi zones and free Internet offers, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction in the push by cities to deploy WiFi. This session will focus on the reality behind all the hype. What are the challenges of deploying City WiFi zones? What does it take to build, manage and fund these networks? What are the trends in municipal RFPs, and funding tactics? There are several issues to be addressed. Also how does the advancement of WiMax technologies impact the WiFi ‘hot zone’ deployments and what are the roles of each technology in the future? In this session, you’ll learn the real challenges and real opportunities in the race to Municipal wireless networks.