Pre-Conference Workshops

Carrier Ethernet Workshop

As IT departments centralize their servers and other hardware to better manage their assets, more bandwidth is required for site-to-site and multi-site connectivity. Therefore traditional WAN services need to be either upgraded or replaced. Traditional Ethernet limitations are well known to IT managers and CTOs and they naturally need to be assured that there are hard service level agreements as well as 50ms protection for mission critical applications. At the same time Carrier Ethernet services must support applications whose bandwidth requirements are variable and unpredictable.

We are therefore seeing interoperability testing, e.g. at the European Advanced Networking Test Center in Berlin, as well as industry-wide promotion of the benefits of robust transportation at speeds set to reach 100 Gbps. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is coordinating these activities in order to accelerate the adoption of Carrier Ethernet.

The MEF has defined three main services. E-Line defines a point-to-point Ethernet service that connects two geographically separate sites. Thus, it’s similar to a regular private line service. EVPL (Ethernet Virtual Private Line) defines a point to multi-point service. And E-LAN defines a multi-point to multi-point service. In addition the Forum has defined MEF 18, a technical specification that defines the requirements and corresponding test procedures to which a system must comply to deliver Circuit Emulation Services over Ethernet. Attend this workshop to learn more about these hot topics.

SIP Tutorial

This full day tutorial on P2P SIP reflects the work in the IETF and elsewhere and is the first of its kind in the VoIP industry. Hear 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.

Various pre–standard P2P systems such as the world's leading 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.

2nd Annual ENUM and Peering Summit

VoIP Peering - Expanding the Opportunities

Pulvermedia and XConnect invite you to the 2nd annual ENUM and Peering Summit, a one day workshop exploring the opportunities and significance of a Registry-based interconnection model.

The increasing market share of Voice over Broadband providers (fixed line and softphone) and the proliferation of mobile providers and devices supporting video telephony presents an opportunity to launch new, differentiated, revenue-generating services. However, until now, most providers remain "islands", in that the advanced features they promise can only be enjoyed on calls within their subscriber groups. Registry-based interconnection is the key to enabling these services on a cross-network basis, and is a prerequisite to widespread consumer adoption.

What are the prerequisites for user adoption of new revenue-generating services such as video calling and high-definition voice? How can carriers use peering as a means to reduce termination costs through more optimal routing of calls than traditional LCR? How does peering enable the interconnection of the Telephone Number space to the Instant Messaging space?

Peering is the future paradigm for all telecoms interconnection in an IP dominated world. The worldwide growth of number portability and adoption of "nomadic" VoIP services will expose the limitations of the traditional LCR model, where calls are routed solely based on dial-codes.

During this full day workshop you will explore with experts and practitioners the business cases, technology options, implementation challenges and regulatory impact of Registry-based peering and interconnection. Sessions will explore:

Carrier perspective: How to integrate Peering into a portfolio of wholesale and retail services, including Security in Peering, Peering Federations; combining ENUM and LCR.
Vendor perspective: How VoIP and ENUM equipment merge capabilities to provide carriers and service providers with the true benefits of Peering.
Service provider perspective: Case studies of existing federations and the commercial, technical, security and regulatory considerations.

A "Personal Peering" networking and discussion component will compliment the sessions affording the opportunity to make valuable contacts with potential peering partners, solutions vendors and industry experts.