Track: Wireless/Mobility (WM)
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Deploying & Troubleshooting WLANs
(WM-01)
Monday - 09/10/07, 9:00-9:45am
Wireless LANs have become pervasive amongst enterprises. The increasing availability of wireless voice clients and the emergence of dual-mode (wireless and cellular) smart phones, coupled with the improved productivity realized by enabling a mobile workforce, are moving WAN usage from convenience to mission-critical. Enterprises are beginning to recognize the many benefits of adding important applications like voice to their existing WLANs. However, they must first ensure that their wireless LAN infrastructure is truly ready to handle a mix of data and voice applications and their IT managers must understand the deployment challenges and the capabilities necessary solve them. This presentation will discuss the key requirements for delivering voice over an enterprise’s Wireless LAN and will help IT managers better understand and face the challenges involved in building and managing the next generation of converged wireless infrastructure.
Presented by:
| Justin McLain
CEO
Endeavor Telecom | | Chia-Chee Kuan
CTO
AirMagnet, Inc.
View Video Intro | | Gene Sawyer
Lead Wireless Consultant
Cisco | | Andy Abramson
CEO
Comunicano, Inc. |
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Overcoming Broadband Wireless VoIP Challenges
(WM-02)
Monday - 09/10/07, 10:00-10:45am
More than ever before broadband is getting unwired. From mesh networks, to hotspots and advances in 3G – more consumers are surfing, talking and staying connected over the air. WiFi networks in public, enterprise and home locations are growing at an unprecedented rate, opening a new and untapped delivery platform for VoIP. Broadband wireless presents a new opportunity for wireless VoIP that not only reduces telecommunications costs but also increases mobility. The speakers will address some of the challenges, such as QoS, scalability, and security as well as take a look at emerging strategies to create broadband wireless networks that are not only capable of supporting converged data services, but that can delivery secure, high-fidelity voice and multimedia data.
IMS Versus WiMAX
(WM-03)
Monday - 09/10/07, 11:00-11:45am
In this presentation, the speaker will talk about existing market trials for IMS and WiMAX and the experience in working with leading OEMs and carriers and their perspective on these technologies. In addition, the speaker will present critical architecture similarities and differences between IMS and WiMAX-based networks and discuss in depth about whether it is feasible to expect that only technology will survive, or whether, in reality, vendors will need to support both.
Presented by:
| Arjun Roychowdhury
Director, IMS & Broadband Applications
Hughes Systique Corporation (HSC) |
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Designing Software For Mobile VoIP and Video
(WM-04)
Monday - 09/10/07, 12:30-1:15pm
Voice over WiFi is becoming a commodity, but for its wider adoption a new generation of VoIP-enabled handsets should emerge. The cell phone is fast becoming the ultimate platform for a range of entertainment and business services. And typical users would love to access these varied services from a single handheld device. This fancy gadget should combine cordless, cell phone, PMP, be interoperable with PC, be VoIP-enabled, and have the price of a regular cell phone. Both hardware and software platforms have to evolve fast to comply with this challenge.
The presentation will enlighten attendees how to get Voice over WiFi enabled on handheld devices and speak to the most challenging problem encountered in mobile VoIP: ensuring rich voice and video quality while having to cope with resource limitations of a mobile device and inherent problems generated by wireless networks. The issues of optimizing codecs, voice enhancement, and extension of voice functionality by video support will be covered.
Presented by:
| Christina Nigro
Product Marketing Manager
Global IP Solutions | | Fred Wydler
VP VoIP Products
SPIRIT DSP |
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Trends in Dual Mode
(WM-05)
Monday - 09/10/07, 1:30-2:15pm
With the fast pace of wireless technology, product announcements and mergers, it is critical to accurately predict what the next 24 months hold. Dual-mode mobile/WiFi handsets trends are thought to be a key driver to mass consumer adoption of VoIP by 2009. The dual-mode phone market will grow substantially over the next few years. This market will most likely start in the enterprise sector and then move to the consumer sector; however various opinions may differ regarding which market will adopt the technology first. Currently, major emphasis needs to be on reducing the costs of a dual-mode handset on the client side and deploying appropriate FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) infrastructure on the operator side.
Many field trials of this technology are already underway and more will happen over the course of the year. Commercial deployment of the same has begun in the high-end market segment, however mass deployment for the consumer sector will start only when handset costs are reduced. This market will experience explosive growth over the next 4 years.
Presented by:
| Peter Thornycroft
Product Marketing Manager
Aruba Networks | | Allan Johnson
Vice President of Business Development, Wireless Group
HelloSoft Inc. | | Shahadat Khan
CTO
Eyeball Networks | | Greg Galitzine (Moderator)
Editorial Director of TMC's IP Communications Brand
TMC |
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Making Money With Mobile VoIP
(WM-06)
Monday - 09/10/07, 2:30-3:15pm
This session will focus on mobile VoIP as the next way to enter the mobile market with new services. In recent months, several big names in the communications sector announced mobile phone-based VoIP products and services that will radically change how cellular customers use their handsets. Early adopters associate mobile Internet with writing e-mail, sending the occasional picture message or even making an exotic video phone call, but many easily get hooked on cheap VoIP calls or IM (instant messaging) chats. While the service of regular mobile phones are limited in many ways, the technology is there to open mobile VoIP to the existing customer pool of 2.5 billion average cell phone users who only have a regular cell phone instead of the latest chip implanted smart phone. The speakers will address the state of mobile phones today and how new solutions supplement the shortcomings of most mobiles in order to create viable solutions and services in this 2.5 billion user market. The presenters will enlighten the attending audience by discussing viable ways to lower the cost of acquisition and target the mobile market for mass adoption. Furthermore, they will discuss different options of friction-less adoption of the potential service and how to work these notions into existing behavior.
Presented by:
| John Cash
Enterprise Solutions - Regional Mobility Specialist
NOKIA | | TBA
| | Stéphane Marceau
CEO
MOBIVOX | | Michael Stanford (Moderator)
Consultant
Michael Stanford LLC |
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Introduction to Wireless
(WM-07)
Tuesday - 09/11/07, 8:00-8:45am
Many industry experts mention wireless as one of the key domains for the progress of VoIP in the next couple of years. For many developers new to Wireless VoIP (wVoIP), taking their IP voice design to wireless seems quite straight forward. Most VoIP engineers are not that well aware of the limitations and constraints imposed on their designs by the nature of radio communication.
Starting with the high level wVoIP systems overview and narrowing down to key block level discussions, the presentation will educate delegates on important issues like voice quality and bit error rate, appropriate codec selection, bandwidth utilization, coding schemes, working distance and radio waves propagation, power consumption and battery life, etc. The presentation will provide a high level overview of voice specific functionality inherent in WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMAX, ZigBee, wireless USB, etc.
The discussion will be illustrated by design examples that demonstrate the implementation of the enterprise and end-user level wireless VoIP solutions.
Presented by:
| Herman Abel
Product Manager
Aculab |
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Wireless VoIP Vision for the Enterprise
(WM-08)
Tuesday - 09/11/07, 1:30-2:15pm
The long-promised explosion of enterprise wireless VoIP has finally arrived. What does the future hold for this technology and how is wireless changing? What is driving adoption, and what will continue to fuel this fire? In this visionary presentation, we’ll discuss industry factors and trends that are changing the way we view and plan for wireless in the enterprise.
Included will be discussion of fixed-mobile convergence, how we use intelligent devices, how companies are taking advantage of today’s advanced wireless networks, new technologies and standards, mission critical applications that are driving wireless network development and adoption, and how wireless security is advancing to keep up with industry needs. In addition, there will be case studies of industry-leading companies using wireless VoIP today and what their plans are for tomorrow.
Presented by:
| Kamal Anand
Senior VP of Marketing
Meru Networks |
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Mobile Enterprise Applications
(WM-09)
Tuesday - 09/11/07, 2:30-3:15pm
Despite the emergence of new applications and technologies uniquely suited to an increasingly mobile workforce, this trend still faces a steep adoption curve because of remaining questions regarding the viability of current wireless solutions. Given the range of mobile devices, services, and applications available today, the mobile business landscape promises continuing changes in the way enterprises conduct business.
In this presentation, we will examine the applications that are most likely to have the greatest impact on how people work and communicate in today’s business environment. The presenters will offer an update and a timeline going forward for much-anticipated innovations such as dual-mode devices and services and share best-practice guidelines for what companies can do to improve management of mobile business processes.
Other topics to be covered include:
• How to use technology interoperability to interconnect mobile voice and data systems for optimum communication.
• How to maintain mobile security across electronic devices to prevent information interception, blocking, and misuse.
• What key factors are most important to mobile enterprise success today.
Presented by:
| TBA
| | Michael Stanford (Moderator)
Consultant
Michael Stanford LLC | | Nicholas Branstator
General Manager
VoodooLabs | | Ben Guderian
VP of Marketing
SpectraLink Corporation |
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Mobile Rich Media Applications
(WM-10)
Tuesday - 09/11/07, 3:30-4:15pm
The advances in the development and deployment of mobile computing platforms with rich media capabilities, has led to an explosion in mobile application development. The impact and sophistication of this market, while nascent in the United States, can be seen in advanced markets such as Japan and Europe where powerful 3G handsets have exploded IP network traffic usage. As these sophisticated networks and features spread to the U.S., the suite of functionality that domestic carriers offer will become vital: essential to this will be a strategy on how to best integrate VoIP and IP Communications functionality into the mobile handset.
In this session, the presenter will set out to explain the realities of the market as it exists today, and the burgeoning need to integrate IP Communications applications into mobile computing platforms and onto handsets. As mobile handsets are now appearing with WiFi, SIP clients, and capabilities for Flash and AJAX, carriers will need new applications that will attract usage and keep subscribers on their network.
Presented by:
| Jon Doyle
VP of Business Development
CommuniGate Systems |
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Security in a Mobile World
(WM-11)
Tuesday - 09/11/07, 4:30-5:15pm
As mobile devices increase in sophistication, the value of data they carry makes them more valuable than many computers. Applications and services previously limited to PCs are also now available on mobile systems, offering consumers experiences they’ve never had before. However, as the mobile environment evolves, the same problems that have plagued PC users for many years (fraud, theft, viruses and spam) have also begun to threaten the integrity of the mobile industry. In this session, we’ll explain ways to improve fraud prevention and strengthen customer loyalty.
Attendees will learn:
• How to identify mobile messaging risks and what technologies exist to mitigate those risks;
• How antispam and antispoofing technologies allow operators to detect abnormal patterns in messaging traffic, confirm legitimate senders, filter content, and block suspicious messages;
• How EIR (equipment identity register) supports theft prevention; and
• How to turn these technologies into revenue-generating value-added services.
Presented by:
| Emmitt R. Wells
Practice Director
Getronics | | Vincent Kadar
Chief Technology Officer
Airwide Solutions | | Russell Shaw (Moderator)
IP Telephony Blogger
ZDNet |
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