Digium|Asterisk World offers the world’s most comprehensive education program for the industry. Only the most relevant sessions submitted make it into the program at Digium|Asterisk World.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
9:00-9:45am
Wednesday - 02/02/11
VoIP Quality Monitoring for Asterisk in the Cloud with AQuA
Endre Domiczi
CEO
-Sevava Oy
One of the greatest challenges facing VoIP service providers and integrators is managing service quality across customer and carrier networks. This session will cover the quality management and monitoring capabilities of Sevana Oys AQuA product when used in conjunction with the Asterisk open source telephony framework. Come see how carriers, enterprises and integrators can use AQuA to guarantee a quality user experience form their VoIP solutions.
10:00-10:45am
Wednesday - 02/02/11
Managing Corporate Voice Compliance Requirements with Asterisk
Jeronimo Romero
Chief Technology Officer
-EUS Networks
This session is an exploration of Asterisk’s ability to uphold corporate voice compliance requirements. SarbanesOxley, HIPPA and other regulatory frameworks will be discussed and solutions presented based on real world Asterisk examples.
11:00-11:45am
Wednesday - 02/02/11
Introduction to Asterisk SCF / What You Can Expect from 1.0
Bryan Johns
Community Director
-Digium
In the Fall of 2010, Digium announced a new open source project called Asterisk Scalable Communications Framework Asterisk SCF. Asterisk SCF was conceived to address four critical limitations of the existing Asterisk project: performance, scalability, fault tolerance and extensibility. This session will cover the plans for Asterisk SCF 1.0, its proposed featureset and its potential uses in the communications marketplace. This session will include a brief history and overview of Asterisk SCF, specific attributes and proposed capabilities of Asterisk SCF and potential uses for Asterisk SCF what types of solutions can be built using the platform?
12:00-12:45pm
Wednesday - 02/02/11
Virtualized Asterisk in the Cloud
Jeff Uphues
VP Sales & Marketing
-Cbeyond Cloud Cloud Services
The rise in popularity of server virtualization has forced the question can I virtualize my PBX?. The answer to this question is YES! with a few caveats, of course. This session will cover the available virtualization options for Asterisk, those that work well, those that dont and best practices for running Asterisk in a virtualized environment. We will also look at potential business models for virtualized Asterisk.
1:30-2:15pm
Wednesday - 02/02/11
Asterisk + Adhearsion + Tropo: Building AGI Applications in the Cloud
Mark Headd
Developer Evangelist
-Voxeo Corporation
This session will provide an overview of the Adhearsion framework for building Asteriskbased applications, and the Tropo Cloud Communication Platform. It will discuss how Adhearsion applications can be coupled with Tropo AGItate to build AGI applications that leverage Tropos powerful features like enterprisegrade speech recognition while running entirely in the cloud. It will also provide an overview of how communication applications built on Tropo can interconnect and interact with Asterisk servers, allowing for the development of hybrid cloud and premisebased applications.
2:30-3:15pm
Wednesday - 02/02/11
Session TBD
Session info coming soon…
Thursday, February 03, 2011
9:00-9:45am
Thursday - 02/03/11
Presence OpenGate: Deploying a Turnkey Contact Center with Asterisk
Jose Luis Castanos
CEO
-Presence Technology
Contact centers have very specific operating requirements that make them complex environments for Asteriskbased solutions. Presence Technology has combined its awardwinning contact center solution with Asterisk to provide a turnkey contact center solution with capabilities and flexibility like no other. Come learn how Asterisk has helped Presence to expand its capabilities and customer base.
1:00-1:15pm
Thursday - 02/03/11
Open Source ROI: Myths & Reality
Corey McFadden
Managing Partner
-Infradapt
Opensource solutions like Asterisk have gained considerable market share by offering significant price advantages over traditionally licensed platforms. This presentation is a frank examination of the longterm costs of using opensource platforms and a mustattend for anyone contemplating a switch from a proprietary platform.
2:00-2:45pm
Thursday - 02/03/11
Building Dictation Solutions with Asterisk
Gaston Draque
Director of R&D
-EUS Networks
Recording a call is not a complicated task when using Asterisk as a telephony toolkit. But being able to produce the recording is only the tip of the iceberg for a company providing dictation services We will showcase how a Multitenant Medical Dictation Server can be built from the ground up using Asterisk and which where issues we had to overcome in order to turn this into a success story.
3:00-3:45pm
Thursday - 02/03/11
Asterisk Mythbusters: Is Asterisk suitable for business-critical applications
David Duffett
Principal Consultant
-Telespeak Limited (UK)
Come along to this session to hear a few common myths exploded, not only about Asterisk itself – but we’ll look at Open Source generally and Linux too! Find out why the messages coming from the traditional PBX vendors and even some of the IP PBX vendors have changed over time as their view of Asterisk has changed from interesting hobbyproject to serious competitive technology. See examples of Asterisk configurations and deployment options which lend themselves to business critical applications and leave the session enthusiastic about switching to Asterisk for the first time or stepping up to the next level in your Asterisk deployments!
4:00-4:45pm
Thursday - 02/03/11
Session TBD
Session info coming soon…
Friday, February 04, 2011
9:00-9:45am
Friday - 02/04/11
Selling the "Other Stuff": Add-on Products and Applications for Asterisk
Steve Sokol
Marketing Director
-Digium
Over its more than ten year history, Asterisk has grown to solve a wide array of business telecommunications challenges. An entire ecosystem of products and services from Digium and its community of partners and developers has formed to provide unique and compelling business solutions attached to Asterisk. This session will cover some of the more interesting products available to extend the usability and capabilities of Asterisk.
10:00-10:45am
Friday - 02/04/11
Building a Scalable Hosted Contact Center with Asterisk
Julian Flores
CEO
-SMSGate
This presentation goes over the hardware, software, architecture and network design used to create a scalable and robust hosted inbound/outbound/blended call center system.
11:30-12:15pm
Friday - 02/04/11
Service Rating and Billing with Freeside and Asterisk
Ivan Kohler
President
-Freeside Internet Services, Inc.
Asterisk is used in a wide variety of service provider networks in a myriad of different ways. This session will cover the challenges of analyzing and filtering Asterisk CDR for accurate service billing and rating. Learn how to best interpret Asterisk call accounting to create accurate customer billing statements and invoices for VoIP services.