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9. Emerging Standards for SIP and other Real-time Applications & Infrastructure

Presented by Mary Barnes, Polycom and the IETF. This session provides an overview of current SIP and related standards activities underway in the IETF. Conferees will come away with insight into future network and endpoint functionality, as well as understand the process for evolving and developing SIP and other Real-time Applications and Infrastructure protocols.

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4. Telephony SIP End-to-End Performance Metrics

Presented by Daryl Malas, CableLabs. This session will focus on a new IETF RFC (RFC 6076), which defines a set of metrics and their usage to evaluate the performance of end-to-end Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for telephony services in both production and testing environments. This session will examine a methodology for combining a standard set…

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7. Lessons Learned in Large-Scale SIP Interoperability

Presented by Dan York, Voxeo and VOIPSA (Voice over IP Security Alliance). A number of topics will be discussed in this session, including what are the typical issues faced by an application platform when interconnecting with a large number of SIP service providers? What causes the most friction with bringing on a new service provider?…

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6. SIP Interconnect Guidelines

Presented by David Hancock, CableLabs. As Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) peering becomes more widely accepted by service providers, the need to define an interconnect guideline becomes of greater value. This session examines the SIP and commonly used SIP extensions, and defines a fundamental set of requirements for SIP Service Providers to implement within their signaling…

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5. Media Madness, Part 2

Presented by David Hiers, ADP, and VoiceOps. This session will be centered around the last two of four different media-related interop and defect issues that the presenter solved (the first two issues will be covered in a session the preceeding day). The cases illustrate defects in the protocols, what happens when you don’t follow the…

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4. Technology Rollout with DNS

Presented by Randy Layman, Vocalocity. New technology migrations can be difficult to manage and are a high risk proposition. This session will present one possible mechanism to mitigating the risk and controlling the rollout of new infrastructure to customers — assigning a unique DNS name to every customer can help control the process at a…

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3. VoIP Monitoring – Reasons and Solutions for Automated VoIP Blackbox and Long-term Monitoring

Presented by Michael Hirschbichler, A1 Telekom Austria and the Institute of Telecommunications at Vienna University of Technology. In this session. Mr. Hirschbichler will present the reasons and advantages of blackbox longterm VoIP quality monitoring. By showing specific examples, he will show the importance of both rapid alerting on the one hand and longterm-trend monitoring on…

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2. A Verizon Vision for a Fully Integrated Next Generation Network

Presented by Gaston Ormazabal, Verizon Laboratories. This session will provide a large service provider’s view of development and deployment plans for new technology in the next year, consisting of an integrated view of technical infrastructure and services using IP technology as the foundation. The realization of this vision presents some remaining obstacles and challenges both…

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1. Status Report: SIP Forum/i3 Forum FoIP Testing Program

Presented by Mike Coffee, Commetrex. This session will provide an update on the joint work conducted by the SIP Forum’s FoIP Task Group and the i3 Forum’s FoIP Task Group, which joined forces to accelerate the deployment of reliable FoIP in IP-based carrier networks.

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