Join us September 10-12 in Los Angeles and experience our invaluable
conference sessions yourself!
There remains little doubt regarding the significance of SIP — Session Initiation Protocol — and the profound effect it has had on the IP telephony industry. SIP is an IETF signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification, and instant messaging, and many developers are beginning to realize the tremendous potential of writing applications to take advantage of this standard. The SIP Workshop is a full-day conference designed to educate conferees on the subject of SIP. Special thanks go out to the SIP Forum and SIPCenter.com for sponsoring this event.
Track: SIP Workshop (tp)
The State of SIP (SIP-01)
Monday - 09/10/07, 9:00-9:45am
We continually hear about SIP, but do you find yourself bewildered by the buzzwords and terminology? Wish someone would tell you what a SIP Proxy was, and why it might feel the need to fork? What advantages does SIP bring? Why should I move now? This ‘back to basics’ session will take a high level look at the SIP protocol and the power it puts in the hands of application developers and solution architects. We will discuss the building blocks required to put together a SIP deployment so you can talk with confidence about how the next generation of telephony products will be built!
Presented by:
Simon Millard Head of Professional Services Aculab
Jon Young Vice President of Software Engineering Inter-Tel
Cullen Jennings Distinguished Engineer, Voice Technology Group Cisco
Greg Galitzine (Moderator) Editorial Director of TMC's IP Communications Brand TMC
One of the challenges for carriers is to roll out a SIP-based core network and related applications, while providing a package of services for both traditional and IP phone users. One way to overcome these challenges is to provide support for interworking between circuit-switched signaling methods — in particular, SS7 and SIP. A variety of standards groups have taken on the challenge of providing interworking between the large SS7 installed base and SIP. In this session, we will review the various efforts that have been made in standards bodies to address these needs and provide some use cases of how SIP and SS7 can be used together to provide connectivity and voice services for both IP and circuit switched users. In addition, we will consider some of the open business and technical issues in this transition and practical approaches that can be used to solve them.
Presented by:
Vince Lesch Vice President, Product Marketing, Network Signaling Group Tekelec
Everyone is talking about SIP, and for excellent reasons. After all, SIP changes everything in a contact center. If a business is struggling to innovate for a competitive edge, SIP delivers key new capabilities to a contact center that foster new avenues of communication and instantaneous collaboration using any device. Understanding the vital capabilities of SIP and how they help remove restraints to convenient, dynamic, breakthrough customer service will allow users to add cutting edge capabilities to a contact center that strengthen customer retention, boost employee productivity, and provide superior agility.
Presented by:
Mark Morell Vice President Nortel Contact Center Solutions
John Finch Sr. Director of Product Marketing LiveOps
Art Rosenberg (Moderator) Principal Analyst The Unified-View
SIP trunking rapidly reduces costs by leveraging SIP, eliminating redundant network connections and providing PSTN termination in the local area. This session will provide an overview of the issues faced in enterprise deployments, provide real solutions and discuss the opportunities that SIP trunking offers.
VoIP has created a beachhead for a new generation of converged IP applications for telecommunications, the mobile market, and even the enterprise. SIP offers an IP data delivery platform that uses the IP infrastructure already in place for real-time communications services like VoIP, plus it enables a whole new generation of converged applications that combine multiple functions into a single application – across software clients, devices and networks. Part of the beauty of using SIP as a convergence development platform is that these new telecommunications applications can be readily adapted to run over just about any IP service infrastructure, including enterprise networks or cellular service as well as landlines. This presentation will discuss how SIP is serving as the common platform in driving the convergence market, making it possible to integrate multiple features and functionalities into a single application accessible from any client or device. It will also review how SIP and SOA is streamlining applications development among enterprise and telecommunications developers as the lines distinguishing data and voice platforms continue to converge.
Presented by:
Richard Grigonis (Moderator) Executive Editor TMC
Ken Osowski VP of Product Management & Marketing Pactolus Communications Software
SIP Trunking is experiencing rapid growth in the SMB market. While SMBs have other options like hosted PBX and legacy interfaces, why is it that SIP Trunking is leading the way? Panelists from some of the leading PBX Manufacturers and Service Providers will discuss the benefits of SIP Trunking and why this trend is occurring.
Presented by:
Greg Rothman Director, SIPconnect Development Cbeyond
Jennifer M. Blatnik Mgr, Product Marketing Cisco
David J Sullivan Sales,VP Avaya Peer 2 Peer Business Unit Avaya
Michael Herrmann Director, Business Development – Marketing and Product Strategy Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Marc Robins President and Managing Director SIP Forum
