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12. Let’s Make SIP Geographic Redundancy Actually Work Well.

Presented by Mark Lindsey, ECG. Under the weight of new US Government rules requiring outage reporting, many VoIP carriers are thinking harder fault tolerance. Most carriers already have local redundancy, where mated pairs using an Active/Standby protocol provide protection against basic faults. But many are working toward geographic redundancy, where the active and the standby…

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4. Simultaneous Ring: The Monster That’s Eating Your Network

Presented by Mark Lindsey, ECG. Simultaneous Ring may be the most beloved of features of VoIP. In the IP Telephony papers of the 1990s, call forking and simultaneous ring tantalize the reader with the obvious elegance of IP as a replacement — simply by sending another packet. And today, now that VoIP has won, customers…

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7. IETF DISPATCH Update and Other SIP Matters

Presented by Mary Barnes, Polycom, SIP Forum, IAB and 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…

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5. Overview of Projects at the IIT Real-Time Communications Lab

Presented by Carol Davids. RTC-IIT. This talk describes the IIT Real-Time Communications (RTC) Lab, its origins, goals and projects, with an emphasis on the current projects and future plans. Hosted by IIT’s School of Applied Technology, the lab supports research, test, and development projects many of which are initiated and sponsored by industry sources, including…

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2. The Impact of an all-IP Interconnect Regime

Presented by John Barnhill, GENBAND. Both the FCC and the CRTC are reviewing and updating their current regulation framework for how voice carriers interconnect with each other and deliver multi-media services. The existing regulations, developed in support of the CLEC model of the 90’s is clearly out of date. Today competition is being driven by…

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