Presented by Mark Lindsey, ECG. When the phone rings, is it a human being or a robocall? The expensive PSTN once ensured calling was too expensive for practical robocalls, but the efficiencies of deregulation — and VoIP — have brought pre-recorded advertisements to every telephone. While the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sponsored competitions…

Authored by Andrew Hutton, Unify, and Presented by Dr. Alan Johnston. The SIPconnect 2.0 Task Group has produced a SIP Forum SIPconnect 2.0 Technical Recommendation that defines a common set of implementation rules for implementers who desire to interface an IP PBX with a SIP-enabled service provider. The recommendation specifies which standards must be supported,…

Presented by Gernot Scheichl, Edgewater Networks Call quality statics are now captured by endpoint devices during every voice transmission, but then what? Data is great, but applying real intelligence to that information to gain meaningful insights that can be quickly and automatically actioned on is the holy grail. In this presentation, Gernot Scheichl will discuss…

STIR and SHAKEN Framework Overview. Presented by Chris Wendt, Comcast.

Caller ID Spoofing Technical Assessment & PASSPortT Use Cases, presented by Martin Dolly, AT&T.

Presented by John Barnhill, GENBAND. The IP-Network to Network Interface (NNI) Joint Task Force is a cooperative effort between the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the SIP Forum that has been meeting regularly to define specifications to support SIP-based Service Provider to Service Provider IP Interconnection. The Task Force is comprised of telecommunications…

Presented by Richard Shockey, Shockey Consulting and SIP Forum. The IETF STIR proposal envisions a method by which operators can assert the origin and validity of calls using E.164 numbers between service providers. There is a strong desire to take the Call Validation data from the terminating service and display it, in some useable manner,…

Presented by Hala Mowafy, Ericsson. Enhanced Calling Name (eCNAM) is an NGN call management service that overcomes the limitations of classic circuit switched CNAM. eCNAM delivers a full length name, up to 35 characters, and could provide additional information about the caller in a SIP Call-Info header. Additional information obtained from authoritative databases could assist…

Presented by Dr. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University. While SIP-based communications is still dominated by voice and conference-style video, new challenges and opportunities are emerging. This keynote addresses four related topics: 1. Phone numbers are no longer the dominant communication identifiers, but no viable alternative has emerged. How should we find, identify and discover participants? 2.…

Presented by Dave Walters, BroadSoft. Businesses are increasingly selecting hosted voice services. Understand how the growth of hosted voice impacts the delivery of existing services such as SIP trunking and commonly bundled services such as IP access and network services. Learn about the operational impact of delivering hosted voice services, especially with respect to traditional…