Tuesday, 25 Sept - SIP Tutorial
Wednesday, 26 Sept - IMS & Service Delivery - Day 1
Wednesday, 26 Sept - OpenSer Admin Training Session
Thursday, 27 Sept - IMS & Service Delivery - Day 2

SIP Tutorial
"P2P SIP will do to VoIP what VoIP has done to the PSTN" – David Bryan

Moore's law on the growth of computing power, Metcalfe's law on the value of the network being the square of the number of its endpoints and the rise of the dumb network – the Internet have all made peer–to–peer (P2P) computing inevitable. P2P traffic has already been dominant on the Internet for some time.

P2P Internet communications are thus a natural evolution. Various pre–standard P2P systems such as the world's leading VoIP Skype service as well as P2P PBXs are already on the market.

True global communications can however only be based on standards. P2P SIP standards work has emerged as probably the hottest topic in the IETF where Internet standards are developed.

The tutorial on P2P SIP reflects the work in the IETF and elsewhere and is the first of its kind in the VoIP industry. See here the in–depth content of the six hour Tutorial on P2P SIP and the benefits it will bring to users, service providers, endpoint vendors and application developers.

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
9:00 - 10:00 Introduction to P2P for VoIP
  • Problem: The VoIP infrastructure challenged by P2P
  • Solution: Application level SIP overlay networks
  • Deployment scenarios for P2P SIP
  • Interaction of SIP with P2P overlay networks
  • Distributed hash tables (DHT)
  • Examples of DHT based P2P systems: Chord, Pastry and Bamboo
  • Henry Sinnreich, Architecture, Internet Communications, Adobe Systems
10:00 - 10:15 Morning Break
10:15 - 11:15 P2P Routing
  • Greedy routing and neighbor based routing
  • Delay, hop count and BW aware neighbor proximity selection
  • DHT Routing Styles: Recursive and iterative
  • The DHT bootstrap network
  • Churn handling
  • Node failure handling
  • Non-transitive connectivity handling
  • Henry Sinnreich, Architecture, Internet Communications, Adobe Systems
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 DHT Interfaces and Security
  • Interfaces into the DHT
  • SIP-DHT interface security
  • DHT specific vulnerabilities: The Sybil and Eclipse attacks
  • Secure routing for P2P overlay networks
  • Using trust technology in large p2p overlays
  • Conclusions on P2P overlay networks for SIP
  • Q&A session on P2P overlay networks
  • Henry Sinnreich, Architecture, Internet Communications, Adobe Systems
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 SIP Network Based Services and Endpoint Based Applications
  • Problem: Using SIP for network based applications is not optimal. Why?
  • Solution: SIP applications residing in endpoints
  • SIP as an e2e protocol in RFC 3261
  • Methodology to deploy endpoint SIP applications
  • Updating of SIP and SDP
  • Reusing other SIP related standards
  • Alan Johnston, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Avaya
14:30 - 14:45 Afternoon Break
14:45 - 15:45 Examples of P2P SIP Applications. NAT Traversal
  • Reusing other SIP related standards
  • Using the DNS and P2P SIP name spaces
  • Standard SIP VoIP call control without servers
  • Examples: VM, conferencing, call transfer, hold, etc.
  • SIP events, presence and instant messaging without servers
  • NAT and Firewall Traversal: STUN, TURN and ICE
  • Alan Johnston, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Avaya
15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Security for P2P SIP
  • Protocol Security
  • Authentication and Identity
  • Secure transport for SIP signaling: TLS
  • Secure transport for RTP Media: ZRTP and DTLS
  • Conclusions on simple SIP for CS and P2P systems
  • Q&A Session on simple SIP for P2P and CS systems
  • Alan Johnston, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Avaya

IMS & Service Delivery - Day 1
Can IMS deliver on its promise? That’s the question a lot of people are asking particularly when you compare the terminology of Service Deliver vendors with specifications of IMS. It could very well be that these symbiotic objectives are converging. While IMS offers a logic that is suppose to blend the transport and application into a comprehensive network with QoS, many service delivery vendors are pointing to existing implementations that can achieve the same goal.

Wednesday, 26 September 2007
9:00 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Open Plenary
11:00 - 12:15 IMS: It's Here and Now
IMS was designed for the telecom industry to enable the rolling out of new services. This panel is a discussion of the lessons learned to date in developing roll out strategies. What makes IMS compelling for a service provider? Where do we stand on delivering on the promise?
  • Dickel Sooriah , Strategic Marketing Manager, Comverse
  • Michael Mild, President, Softwell Performance AB
  • Bruno Francon, Product Manager, JNETX
  • Antoine Fressancourt, R&D Engineer, Atos Worldline
12:15 - 12:45 Industry Perspective
  • Malcolm Wardlaw, Director, Converged Services, Intelligence and Applications Architecture Group, CTO, BT
12:45 - 13:15 Industry Perspective
  • Adrian Scrase, Chief Technical Officer, ETSI
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch and Expo Area Visit
14:30 - 15:00 Industry Perspective
  • Frederic Potter, CTO and Senior Vice President, Thomson
15:00 - 15:30 Industry Perspective
  • Adrian Georgescu, Founder and CEO, AG Projects
15:30 - 15:45 Afternoon Break
15:45 - 17:00 IMS Interoperability
So many companies claim to be IMS specific already that it’s hard to understand what is real and what is speculation rather than specification. The people in the standards work are gathered here to tell where they stand with the understanding of interoperability issues and compliance testing.
  • Cassandra Millhouse, Product Marketing Manager, Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division
  • Richard Brennan, Vice-Chair, ETSI TISPAN
  • Marie Wold, President & CEO, OnRealy

OpenSER Admin Training Session
OpenSER, the Open Source SIP Server, is one of the most innovative and scalable VoIP softswitches. It is a flexible and cost-effective software solution that allows you to implement a large set of VoIP platforms, as size (from SMB, residential or carrier), services or models (end-user services, traffic trunking, application server). The "OpenSER Admin Training" course will deliver the deep knowledge you need deal with the diversity and complexity of OpenSER in order to properly configure and optimize your OpenSER system to speed up roll out and administration procedures. The training course is offered by the actual people designing and developing the OpenSER SIP server, in an interactive way, based on examples and hands-on work, in order to guarantee the best knowledge transfer.

  • Bogdan-Andrei Iancu - CEO Voice System / Co-founder OpenSER project
  • Daniel-Constantin Mierla - CTO Voice System / Co-founder OpenSER

Wednesday, 26 September 2007
9:30 - 12:30 Configuration Basics

  • Configuration frame
  • Core and module functions
  • Script routes
  • Processing flow

Basic VoIP Routing

  • Initial Request routing
  • CANCEL routing
  • Record-Routing and Loose-Routing
  • Sequential request routing

SIP Peering

  • PSTN and ACLs
  • Interdomain Peering

NAT Traversal

  • NAT detection
  • REGISTER processing
  • Call processing
  • Media Relay
  • Parallel forking with NAT
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Accounting

  • Basic Accounting
  • Multi-leg Accounting
  • Extra Accounting

Security

  • Authentication
  • Credential protection
  • IP Blacklists usage
15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 17:30 High Availability

  • Replication
  • PSTN failover

Asterisk integration

  • Media services
  • Diversion to Asterisk
17:30 - 18:00 Open Questions

IMS & Service Delivery - Day 2
Can IMS deliver on its promise? That’s the question a lot of people are asking particularly when you compare the terminology of Service Deliver vendors with specifications of IMS. It could very well be that these symbiotic objectives are converging. While IMS offers a logic that is suppose to blend the transport and application into a comprehensive network with QoS, many service delivery vendors are pointing to existing implementations that can achieve the same goal.

Thursday, 27 September 2007
9:30 - 10:45 Profiles, Services and the Search for Identity!
Identity! At the end of the day it drives the profiles, which enable the service, which pays the bills on the network. Does Security Assertion Markup Language [SAML] have all the answers for identity management in the future? Can a user manage their services independently from a network provider? How does the relate to the use of the Generic User Profile [GUP] in the IMS specification.
  • Claudio Santoianni, CTO Network Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
  • Grant Lenahan, Vice President, Strategist, IMS, Telcordia
  • George Smine, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Nominum
10:45 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 12:30 Service Oriented Architectures and Service Delivery Platforms
Does SIP and XML represent the building blocks for telecom features and functions to join the Web 2.0 tidal wave? How does this relate to SOA Web services models? Does the change in concepts impact the types of services rendered?
  • Arjun Roychowdhury, Director IMS & Broadband Applications, Hughes Systique Corp.
  • Dirk Verlinde, CTO, Artilium
  • Claude Florin, Marketing Manager Multimedia, Hewlett-Packard
12:30 - 13:00 Industry Perspective
  • Henry Sinnreich, Architecture, Internet Systems, Adobe Systems
13:00 - 13:30 Industry Perspective
13:30 - 15:15 Lunch and Expo Area Visit
15:30 - 16:45 SIP vs. IMS Out in the Open or Safe Behind the Walled Garden
The Open Source world and the SIP standard has given us a huge leg up in developing applications quickly and testing interoperability. This panel looks at how the Open Source and SIP standards are being utilized in the deployment of IMS applications. Key questions included what are the reasons to not go SIP directly and where does IMS expand the opportunity?
  • Xavier Casajoana, CEO and Co-Founder, Voz Telecom
  • Jiri Kuthan, CEO, IPTEL
  • Alan Duric, Co-Founder & CEO, Telio
  • Thierry Boudard, Product Manager, Thomson
16:45 - 17:00 Conference Wrap-up