Presented By: Amnon Gavish, Vice President, RADVISION

This session will serve as an introduction to and a look at the current state of the session initiation protocol (SIP). The presenter will provide a basic overview of SIP and its specific applications (as well as strengths and weaknesses) for VoIP. The session will then cover the many developments regarding SIP, speaking to all the significant changes in the latest available versions. SIP has numerous advantages over other, competing protocols, but of course faces some basic challenges as well.

Presented By: Andy Huckridge, Product Marketing Manager of IP Telephony, Spirent Communications

As service providers begin real-life implementations of SIP networks and products, they are faced with numerous issues including interoperability and quality of service to name just a few. The presenter will provide example of real life implementations of SIP networks and products. He will illustrate with examples things that work and areas which still require industry effort. In addition, he will identify and address the challenges that vendors and service providers face as the deploy SIP networks. This session will be interactive and provide the audience an opportunity to ask questions and get honest answers from third-party unbiased experts about SIP network and product implementation.

Presented By: Greg Schmid, Director of Research & Development, SecureLogix Corporation

SIP is generally viewed as the protocol of choice for VoIP. SIP promises interoperability between vendors and an underlying foundation upon which new applications and services can be provided. SIP however provides very limited inherent security. SIP introduces new vulnerabilities, which can only be partially addressed with security overlays. Some of the inherent issues that will be discussed include: Registration Hijacking; Proxy Impersonation; SIP Message Tampering; Session Tear Down; Denial of Service (DoS); and more. Come to this session to learn more about this critical issue.

Presented By: Frank Shepard, Director IP Telephony and Engaged Business Applications, Nortel Networks

SIP is becoming the backbone for interpersonal interactive communications in today’s enterprise converged networks. As organizations become more distributed and their communication requirements become more diverse, real-time contact between individuals is becoming exponentially more complicated. During this session, you will learn how SIP is changing the game and transforming communications. Uncover the real benefits of SIP-based applications like instant messaging, Web collaboration, and presence by taking a look at real-life case studies. Discover what is required to get your network ready for a new generation of SIP-based multimedia applications, and gain tips for overcoming some of the common pitfalls.

Presented By: Mark Kelsey, Senior Manager Product Marketing, Ubiquity Software Corporation

As support for SIP continues to grow, creation of SIP-based services becomes a key element for developers to focus on as they scramble for market leadership. This session will provide a close look at examples of promising enterprise, wireless, and wireline applications of SIP, including Push-to-Talk, Infotainment (Infochannel), and the like. The speaker will also focus on the promising wireless applications enabled by SIP as well as the technology and market challenges facing the SIP community.

Presented By: Steve Johnson, President, Ingate Systems
Jim Greenway, Vice President of Marketing, Kagoor Networks

Real-time person-to-person communications are fast becoming a critical communications tool for enterprises of all sizes. With the standardization of SIP as the Internet protocol for applications such as VoIP, instant messaging, presence, and increasingly video, businesses are eager to adapt their existing hardware to accept SIP quickly, cost-effectively and securely. Traversing the firewall is a tricky proposition when integrating SIP into any enterprise. There are a number of solutions available, but not every solution is right for every network. This session will discuss various solutions for traversing the firewall for SIP-based communications; the challenges of bringing SIP to every enterprise; VoIP security issues; and more.

Presented By: Kenneth M. Osowski, VP Marketing & Product Management, Pactolus Communications Software Corp.
Brandon Weilbacher, Director of Product Management, Epygi

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services present providers with many new revenue opportunities. But what is the key to attaining profitability? This session will discuss the following: • What are service infrastructure architecture, product and operational support requirements • What is the business model for the services being offered? • How are services best marketed, sold and supported? Attend this session to learn more about SIP business models and what SIP means to you.

Presented By: Arjun Roychowdhury, Product Manager, Hughes Software Systems

With advancement in WiFi technology, in terms of QoS, security, and reduction in equipment cost, enterprises have started evaluating WLAN for supporting voice services. A majority of the solutions available in the market today use SIP to support enterprise voice services. The presentation highlights how SIP-based WLAN in enterprises will evolve and the various challenges that enterprises will face and the technical architecture to address these challenges.

Presented By: Mark Rayburn, Senior Technical Advisor, CPT International

SIP is commonly associated with connecting end-to-end VoIP calls, however the ability to initiate multimedia user sessions from the application layer allows SIP to be used in environments alongside traditional telephony components. SIP can, in fact, be used as a more cost-effective means of integrating application servers to TDM-based call infrastructure with the added benefit of allowing a standards-based approach. SIP’s advantages are not limited to facilitating direct calling via VoIP; it offers a valuable standards-based alternative to managing call control of voice applications without incurring the excess cost and hassle of including extraneous DSP boards in your platform architecture.