Pre-Conference Workshops

Competition Policy: Seismic Eruptions and Disruptions in an Internet-Enabled World

We are living through a technology, business, policy and political upheaval, the likes of which the world has never known. Technology is disrupting business is disrupting policy is disrupting politics. What are the issues that can make or break a company? an industry? a government? We're in the midst of major consolidations within and across industry sectors. We are witnessing a race to the Patent Office and the patent tribunals by companies seeking any edge in this ferociously competitive world. We are feeling a seismic shake from government and industry players making their own jurisdictional and power grabs. These issues require informed legal talent to straddle the worlds of business and government. Come learn more from these drivers in business decision-making.

Executive Summit - Communications Enabled Business Processes

Save money, improve productivity and make your clients happier with Communications. Enabled Business Processes (CEBP).This full day seminar provides the CIO department with a practical, vendor neutral tutorial on how to use real time IP technology to reduce costs, increase worker productivity and make clients happier by improving the business process.

This business and technology oriented summit starts with a review on VoIP and its network elements, and then continues with how to extend and improve your business process using voice APIs and IP PBX strategies. As the sessions progress, we will show added value to the VoIP network, application layer options and integration, and will take some time on maintaining, debugging and troubleshooting your converged network.We will wrap up with an overview of voice-based Mashup applications with business use cases to benefit any industry.The Enterprise executive should expect to leave this training session with defined CEBP project concepts that will have quantifiable ROI and lasting benefit to their company.

OpenSER Summit

With an increasingly growing force driving IP communications at all levels, the market also demands competitive solutions at lower costs, pushing open source to play a more important role. OpenSER is one of the most innovative solutions in the industry that can easily scale from simple residential services to carrier-grade requirements.

OpenSER is one of the world's leading projects that focus on an open source SIP server. Flexible, robust, active and open, a large set of its features and functionalities are backed by constant development input. Supported by a global community of developers, the project now promotes its features and services for business opportunities in enterprise and carrier markets. At this summit you will learn what makes this project so interesting. Hear about successful applications already in production in VoIP provider networks around the world and learn from experienced developers about this unique open source architecture for developing a new generation of applications.

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 eight 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.

Technologies and Market Forces behind Fixed Mobile Convergence

Fixed Mobile Convergence, now a definite industry trend, is not just a solution for cellular coverage indoors, but a market struggle between mobile and fixed operators. The overriding driver for most of us is the desire to use a single phone indoors and out. As operators are working to expand cellular coverage indoors, and thereby taking business away from fixed operators, they are also studying two enabling technologies - WiFi cell phones and femtocells to leverage their existing infrastructure. This tutorial will provide the background and overview of both technologies and will include the WiFi, WiMAX, 3GPP, VoIP and femtocell pieces of the puzzle. We will examine the role each technology and standard plays and how the market forces are shaping up to arrive at the FMC solution.