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Day 1 — Tuesday, August 3,
2004
8:15 am
Opening Remarks
 Rich
Tehrani
President, Group Editor-in-Chief
 Keynote Address
Michael Stanford
Technology Strategist
9:30 - 10:15 am
DSPs and HMP in VoIP App Design
Mike Kane, Senior Product Manager, Brooktrout
DSPs are a basic building block for designing VoIP solutions, but
there’s nothing basic about designing innovative VoIP applications.
Developers need to consider many factors that go into DSP selection
including performance, power efficiency, control optimization,
software compatibility, and more. Beyond DSP selection,
application-specific concerns include compression, echo
cancellation, adaptive jitter buffering, tone detection/generation,
voice activity detection, and low-bit rate/PCM vocoders and the
effect these all have on the resulting application. This session
will focus on teaching developers how best to leverage Digital
Signal Processors when creating VoIP solutions.
10:30 - 11:15
am
VoIP Enabling Legacy Products
David Duffett, Head of Learning and
Development, Aculab
Jonathan Peace, CTO, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.
Developers often face a critical decision when making the move to
new VoIP-enabled equipment: Throw out the legacy solution? Or
migrate slowly but surely to the latest VoIP solutions? This session
will strive to prove that adding gateway functionality to
traditional TDM telephony products can lead to a quick and
economical solution. Discussion will include principles and practice
of developing and implementing gateways as well as key factors to be
addressed in any TDM-to-IP migration strategy.
11:20 am - 12:05
pm
Developing Apps Using Host Processing Instead of
DSPs
David Brown, CTO, Trinity Convergence
Darren Cooper, Senior Software Engineer, Trinity Convergence
Host Media Processing (HMP) is considered the next step in the
evolution of media processing and call control. HMP technology
essentially runs the media processing and call control software on
the host instead of on DSPs mounted on special purpose boards. A
review of features, development environments, and deployment
scenarios will help you identify the criteria for HMP selection.
Real life examples will be employed to illustrate why and when this
choice makes the most sense.
1:30 -
2:15 pm
Designing Apps Using DSP Modules
Etal Biluar, AudioCodes
DSP modules provide low-cost, high-performance multi-processor DSP
solutions for use in VoIP applications. The rich variety of
functions including voice compression, packetization, media
processing, signaling processing and standard control protocols is
designed to ensure a fast time-to-market solution with reduced
development risk. This session will address VoIP application
development using DSP modules and the inherent advantages of doing
so.
2:20 - 3:05 pm
Designing Apps Using DSP Resource Boards
Simon Millard, Head of Consultancy Services, Aculab
When designing applications, a developer must think carefully about
what enabling technology to use. DSP resource boards often offer
pre-packaged algorithms, i.e., voice compression, echo cancellation,
tone detection, etc. Some boards even offer the ability to run your
own proprietary code. As HMP becomes more fashionable, come see the
merits of host/DSP division, and how to leverage the capabilities of
DSP resource boards to create full featured, high-density, scalable
solutions without compromise.
3:15 - 4:00 pm
HMP Versus DSP — Battle of the CPUs
Lior Weiss, Audiocodes
Mike Kane, Senior Product Manager, Brooktrout Technologies
Henry Dewing, Product Marketing Engineer, Intel Corp.
Host Media Processing is considered by many to be a disruptive
technology, promising a transition away from DSP-based media
processing. Yet, many experts concede that HMP will not completely
replace DSP, but serve as a complement for a wide range of
applications moving forward. This panel discussion will feature
speakers drawn from the ranks of both HMP and DSP vendors,
presenting their position on Host Media Processing versus Digital
Signal Processing. Attendees can expect a lively discussion
answering questions such as: What's reality and what’s hype? How can
a developer build both a low-cost enterprise application and a
highly-scalable application to meet large deployments? Is there a
common goal?
4:05 - 5:30 pm
Product Showcases
Participants to be announced. Visit
www.voipdeveloper.com
frequently for updates.
Day 2 — Wednesday, August 4, 2004
8:30 am
Opening Remarks
Rich
Tehrani
President, Group Editor-in-Chief
Keynote Address
 Martin
Steinmann
Board of Directors, SIP Foundry
Keynote Address
 Anna
Dorcey
Director, DeveloperConnection Program
10:00 - 10:40
am
Avaya Application Enablement Review
Dean Hiller, Charles Hayden, Joseph Marzulla
Highlighted by applications, systems
and services, Avaya IP Solutions help simplify the complex while
working with existing infrastructure to optimize productivity,
network performance and investments. Join us for an opportunity to
explore how you can take advantage of some new opportunities to
develop applications and solutions and build a unique relationship
with Avaya.
10:45 - 11:30 am
Developing VoIP Devices
Jens Wenzel, Director of Product Marketing, Infineon
Technologies
This session will focus on developing next-generation VoIP
devices that are gaining interest in the enterprise and residential
space, such as desktop devices that deliver voice, data, and video,
mobility devices like PocketPCs and PDAs, 802.11 wireless devices,
and softphones. The speaker will provide design considerations that
engineers will need to consider, and discussion will include a
functional overview of the major components required in today's VoIP
devices, key elements necessary for a quality VoIP call, and more.
11:30
am - 12:15 pm
Developing Cable Telephony Solutions
Ed Morgan, Executive Director, R&D, Texas Instruments
Cable telephony is a vital area for VoIP developers to consider.
This session will look at key elements of the core technology of
cable IP telephony CPE and gateway equipment. Topics will include
voice compression, echo cancellation, jitter buffer management, and
tone detection and generation. Related hardware and architecture
options will also be discussed. Various equipment configuration
options will also be reviewed as well as applications to a variety
of deployment scenarios.
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Developing a Complete VoIP System
Dr. Asif Naseem, Senior Vice President &
CTO, GoAhead Software
In traditional telecom infrastructure equipment, "five-nines"
availability is an absolute requirement. A highly available (HA)
system translates into on-demand, uninterrupted service where any
equipment or network failures remain transparent to the end user.
Yet, development teams operating in today's environment are often
forced to cut corners and are not including HA functionality into
their systems. This session will address the steps necessary to
implement HA, offer guidelines to avoid common mistakes, and cover
examples of successful implementations.
1:50 - 3:25 pm
Building V2oIP Devices
Majid Foodeei,
Systems Architect, Centillium Communications
This session will dive deep into the world of developing
Voice-and-Video-over-IP (V2oIP) devices and will educate developers
on what they need to know to build V2oIP devices using a single-chip
IC solution. Areas covered will include:
- Growing market demand for integrated voice and video over IP,
and need for cost-effective solutions to deliver it
- Available semiconductor architectures
- Tradeoffs of using external video accelerators and not using
them
- Building low-cost, low-power solutions
- Addressing the varying video codec standards – which to use
and when based on type of application
- Issues related to integrating both voice and video into a
single device
- Challenges of interleaving voice and video
- DSP-free single-chip design
- Complete software building blocks to ease development
The session will combine the presentations from a panel of
company experts with an audience question-and-answer period.
2:40 - 3:25 pm
Enabling Voice Over
Wireless LAN Handsets
Krishna
Yarlagadda, President & CEO, HelloSoft
WiFi wireless data links and
increasingly powerful PBX handsets are triggering a new phase of
growth in Internet telephony by bringing real-time wireless
connectivity to portable, instant-on, low cost devices to the
enterprise. With delivery of VoIP services on these devices,
enterprise users can now take an important step in fulfilling the
promise of converged data and voice services over a wireless network
on a single handset. Here we review a truly low cost solution
designed to deliver high channel capacity and secure conversations.
The advanced functionality is enabled using low-level,
low-complexity embedded software running on a single embedded
processor without requiring an expensive DSP semiconductor device.
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Migrating from TDM to IP:
Real-World Business and Technology Stories
Brough Turner, Sr. VP of Technology,
NMS Communications
Wayne Jang, Senior Service Architect, Voice Services, TELUS
Gregg Blackett, Director of Marketing, ComputerTalk
Everybody's talking about it, we're convinced (maybe) of
the value, and a few leaders in the telecom ecosystem have done it,
actually making the move from a TDM-based environment or application
to IP. These transformations have involved more than a change in
enabling technology, itself no trivial undertaking. Business models
and operations have been re-cast. Target markets, partnerships and
alliances have been reassessed and renewed, reinforced or redefined.
A panel of those who've broken through to the other side will
discuss business and technical drivers, challenges, and rewards
experienced by infrastructure, enabling technology and application
providers.
Panelists will discuss:
- The specific business and market considerations involved in
planning a migration from a TDM to IP-focused business and
solution
- How companies are transitioning from enterprise to network
markets
- The different requirements of network operators and enterprise
customers for hosted and stand-alone solutions
- Technical strategies: ones that worked, and some that,
surprisingly, didn't
- How leaders communicate their new value propositions, often to
new audiences
4:15 - 5:00 pm
The Consumer VoIP 'Food Chain'
Moderator - Allan Armstrong, Program Director,
Communications Semiconductors, RHK, Inc.
Panelists - Marty Wachi, Director Strategic Product Development,
V-Tech/Advanced American Telephones
Pradyumna Sant Sr., Business Development Manager - Mobile and
Netcoms, Renesas Technology America, Inc.
Jeff Bonforte, CEO & President, SIPphone.com
Residential broadband deployment continues to grow unabated and
consumers are clamoring for VoIP services. This panel discussion
will address the complete product food chain required to deliver
VoIP services to consumers including software/hardware vendors,
OEMs, and service providers. Panelists will focus on OEM and service
provider requirements and how hardware and software vendors address
these considerations. Beginning with the feature, cost, size, and
support challenges faced by an OEM, the discussion will evolve to
include service provider provisioning, privacy, and management
needs. The presenters will discuss specific solutions including how
semiconductor product portfolios address VoIP devices inducing the
integration of crypto blocks and DSPs, codec, codec identification,
and package types. Finally, the panel will address the
considerations of embedded software environments including the
unique software issues faced by consumer VoIP devices such as custom
signaling integration, network topology traversal, device recovery,
QoS, remote management, and provisioning.
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