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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
Basics of Protocols - SIP/H.323/MGCP
Sridhar Ramachandran, VP of Engineering, NextTone
This session provides an overview of the protocos SIP, H.323, and MGCP and the role each plays in VoIP development. The speaker will
dive into the many developments affecting the selection and
implementation of these various protocols as well as the latest
significant changes in the latest RFCs and versions. You’ll walk
away with a thorough knowledge of these important VoIP development
protocols.
10:30 - 11:15
am
All About Echo Cancellation, Compression, and Silence
Suppression
Brad Steinka, Director-IP
Technology, Telica, Inc.
Frederic Bourget, Director of Product Management, Octasic
Many factors need to be taken in to account when designing VoIP
applications that are expected to perform at or above traditional
circuit-switched TDM call quality. Echo, jitter, latency… all of
these contribute to poor call quality and the degradation of a
user's VoIP experience. This session will teach you about echo
cancellation, compression, and silence suppression - all techniques
that developers need to take advantage of in order to design
high-quality VoIP applications ready for deployment.
11:20 am - 12:05
pm
Giving Software a
Voice
Henry Dewing, Intel
Abstract: In many presence-aware applications, speech technologies
provide the interface to human users. Intel will discuss, in
technical detail, the architectures and densities that are possible
when using host-based media processing software to provide media
control and services behind Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and
Text to Speech (TTS). Intel's labs have tested the performance of
several speech server architectures relying on host-based media
processing and call control software. Learn how these technologies
can be used to create unique presence aware solutions requiring
resulting in more flexibility and lower Total Cost of Ownership for
end users - all without sacrificing functionality or reliability of
your solution. Distributed processing environments using standards
like MRCP will be discussed.
1:30 -
2:15 pm
Test Tools - How Do You Load Test This Stuff?
Mike Moldovan, Director of Engineering,
Telephony, IXIA
Communications
David Clarke, Customer Care, PIKA Technologies
How do you measure VoIP quality and network performance? Load
testing VoIP applications ahead of time is essential to the success
of the application once it's released. This session offers a
checklist of data you need to be aware of before any purchasing or
deployment decision gets made. Additionally, this session also
offers general guidelines for testing delays in a VoIP network and
examines the key points to consider when testing networks supporting
VoIP.
2:20 - 3:05 pm
Leveraging Open Source for VoIP App Development
Mark Spencer, CEO, Digium
Bob Andreasen, Board of Directors -
SIPfoundry
Manager, Application Software - Pingtel Corp
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 offerings from the likes of
Digium, PingTel, and others has caused quite a stir.
Three-hundred-dollar PBXs? It's a reality. Come see 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.
3:15 - 4:00 pm
HMP Versus DSP — Battle of the CPUs
Lior Weiss, Audiocodes
Mike Kane, Senior Product Manager, Brooktrout
Henry Dewing, Intel
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 Peer-to-Peer
IP Telephony Apps
Rick Stefanik, Chief Technology Officer, Gatelinx
Jim Dalton, Founder, Transnexus, Inc.
Development of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has moved from simple
file sharing to a multitude of media apps including IP telephony.
P2P IP telephony developers face several challenges when designing
a solution, including connectivity, security, real-time streaming
transport, and QoS. Global load balancing of servers providing network
services is crucial. Latency, jitter, and packet loss must be managed
to ensure that applications actually work. This session will cover
everything P2P developers need to know, including the client telephony
application and how hardware, network, and codec technologies need
to work together to support the P2P solution.
11:30
am - 12:15 pm
Methods For
Building Customer Confidence in VoIP Systems
Richard Whitehead, CTO, Clarus
Systems
IP-PBXs have moved from the theoretical, to reality, with
significant feature parity, call quality and reliability. However,
due to the disaggregated and heterogeneous nature, no matter how
well designed the system, problems can still arise during the
deployment phase. This session will discuss technology available to
assist in deployment, and customer acceptance, and the enabling
technology that should be considered during the design phase, to
result in a well-managed solution.
1:00 - 1:45 pm
SIP Server -
Enabling IP transition and building innovative solutions
Presented by Hughes Software Systems
- SIP - Market Projections & Views for Various Segments &
Services (PBX, IP Centrex, Basic Telephony, Applications)
- SIP Server positioning as proxy, redirect, register, location,
centrex and presence server
- SIP Server Routing Infrastructure: A future Proof core
infrastructure element
- SIP Server - An application development framework - how to
build revenue generating differentiating services on SIP Server
- SIP Server technical insight - An introduction to concepts of
Dial Plans, Zones, User Classification, Local & Public Addressing
etc. Services & Service-interaction between Routing Infrastructure
& Application Infrastructure
- SIP Server deployment - Where is the Future (ASP Vs ISP Vs
Telco)
1:50 - 2:35 pm
Developing Hosted IP PBX Applications
Doug Bellinger, CTO & VP of Product
Development, Atreus Systems
Bob Minai, Director of Product Marketing, Broadsoft
Hosted telephony applications such as IP Centrex are enjoying
tremendous success in the corporate world. As the number of users on
these systems grow, expect the opportunity to augment these hosted
solutions to grow as well. This session will teach you how to take
advantage of the hooks in today’s hosted solutions so that your
application can be sold to corporations migrating to communications
on demand.
2:40 - 3:25 pm
Introduction to
Softswitch Architecture
Ray J. Adensamer, Marketing Manager, Convedia Corporation
Bob Ehlers, Director of Business Development,
Mapletree Technologies
Advanced softswitch designs enable advanced service brokering by
optimizing the development and delivery of advanced features in a
multi-vendor, multi-application setting. This presentation will
outline the key characteristics of an advanced softswitch design,
defining the benefits of service mediation and the need for service
broker intervention to manage and advance the development and
deployment of new services for critical competitive opportunities.
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
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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