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TMC University SIP: Interview With Dialogic's Jeff Dworkin

January 16, 2008

With the ITEXPO pre-show activities reaching a fever pitch here at TMC headquarters, I took some time to speak with Jeff Dworkin of Dialogic, who will be heading up the TMC University Certification Course SIP: The Foundation For Building Enhanced Services to find out a bit more about the initiative.   Dworkin explained the goal of the certification as well as how Dialogic fits in to the whole SIP subject matter.   Please feel free to check out the short interview I did with Dworkin here. And thanks again to Dialogic for sponsoring this valuable content offering at ITEXPO.

Course Overview Wednesday January 23, 2008 9:00am - 4:00pm Introduction: SIP as the Foundation
  • Overview of a SIP call set up
  • SIP Elements in a Network to Deliver Enhanced Services
Signaling: SIP, SS7 & Integrating your Network with the
Legacy Infrastructure
  • Understand how a class 4/5 evolves into a SIP Network
  • How SIP can be used for IP Backhaul-Class 4 Replacement
  • Meeting E911 Needs via SIP and Gateways
  • Example: Pre and Post Paid Services Using SIP
Media: Voice and Video in your SIP Environment
  • Common Audio and Video Codecs
  • Media/Codec Negotiations
  • Tuning Your Network for Voice and Video
  • QoS issues, metrics and user quality expectations
Transitioning to IMS via your SIP Based NetworkFollowing this session you will be able to describe:
  • Understand the high-level IMS architecture and its benefits
  • Learn the important factors in considering interop testing
  • Describe the main goals and objectives in setting up an interop lab
Case Study Review and discuss a carrier’s plans to expand their SIP-based service offerings. Following this session you will be able to describe:
  • The migration from stove-piped applications to centralized media resources and the benefits
  • Factors to keep in mind when deploying services with centralized resources
  • The types of services that lend themselves to centralized resources.
SIP Trunking
  • Definition of SIP Trunking
  • Understand the Evolution of SIP Trunking
  • Benefits of SIP Trunking
  • Key Challenges in a SIP Trunking Deployment
  • What is SIPconnect and the SIPconnect
    Compliant Certification Program
TMC University Exam At the conclusion of the program, you will sit for an exam covering the course topics.

EXPO Time Again!

January 18, 2008

I can’t believe how fast the time has flown by. It seems like just yesterday we began work on the conference program for Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO. And yet, somehow it’s time to pack up my travel gear, toss the coffee mug into the sink (it’s about time) and head off to the airport.   Well, ok maybe not exactly yet, but soon.

Destination Miami Beach: I Have Arrived

January 21, 2008

Just hit the ground in Miami Beach FL. Boy, is this a welcome change of pace from the weather back in NY when I got up thismorning and made my way to the airport! It was 11 degrees when I left. Low 70’s when I landed.

ITEXPO: Anticipation Building

January 22, 2008

As I sit here in the show office, overlooking the work in progress that exhibit hall floor of ITEXPO, I am amazed at how well and how fast the show is coming together.   My perch above the floor gives an interesting perspective. When I walked into the building this morning the hall was a giant cavernous space, and I’ve been watching as the show decorator has transformed the space into what is quickly becoming a trade show floor complete with booths, carpeting, signs and the rest.   By the time tomorrow evening’s Grand Opening Welcome Reception sponsored by Aculab kicks off in the exhibit hall, the empty space will be just a memory and the exciting buzz of networking will fill the air.   This is the part I love most about trade shows… the anticipation, the build up, the “blur”...   I can’t wait for the conference to start.   And I can’t wait to see you in Miami Beach!  

Broadvox VP David Byrd Kicks Off ITEXPO Keynote Schedule

January 23, 2008

David Byrd, vice president of marketing and product management at Broadvox kicked off the Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO Keynote schedule here in Miami Beach Wednesday evening with a presentation entitled Assessing SIP Trunking.   Byrd, who was the CEO of Planet Hollywood.com at one point in his career, started by telling a story of how different some of the major investors were. Jackie Chan was a good guy, Byrd said, and was always willing to give an autograph to a fan. Sylvester Stallone on the other hand, was not so keen on giving his autograph, and managed to upset a fan and investor in the company. As CEO, Byrd went to Stallone and convinced him to sign several autographs for the fan so she could give them out to her friends.

VoIPLogic News at ITEXPO

January 24, 2008

I had the pleasure of meeting with Michael Wimpfheimer, vice president of sales at VoIPLogic this morning at ITEXPO.   Wimpfheimer shared the details of the company’s latest news, the announcement of a new Web services API (application programming interface), accessible to service providers via the company’s Cortex System Management portal (version 2.1).   The API is designed to enable service providers to integrate with the provisioning and management of their end-user feature sets, phone services, emergency services, messaging and billing.   Wimpfheimer is also speaking on the Service Provider Industry Round Table at 2:l5 this afternoon in the service provider track at ITEXPO.

SIP Trunking Sessions Strike a Chord at ITEXPO

January 24, 2008

SIP trunking is proving itself as a way to reduce communications costs – fast. SIP trunks are currently being used by banks, hospitals and most every type of business, across every industry, to leverage the benefits of SIP and lower communications expenses.   Ingate Systems produces SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and SIParators (a piece of hardware that SIP-enables existing firewalls) for enterprises of all sizes. The company has been at the forefront of educating Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO attendees on how they can maximize the ROI from their IP PBX investments through a series of SIP Trunking Seminars since the Fall of 2006.   I had the chance to speak with Olle Westerberg CEO, Ingate, Steve Johnson, president of Ingate, Anne Coulombe, who handles SIP product marketing for Avaya’s Solutions Marketing Division, Sean Rivers, channel account manager at Bandwidth.com, and Joel Maloff, the newly installed director of marketing at Bandtel.   I asked Westerberg to describe a bit about the seminar series.   “We're running our fourth set of SIP trunking seminars,” Westerberg said.

Nortel Keynote at ITEXPO

January 25, 2008

Tony Rybczynski, director of strategic enterprise technologies at Nortel, delivered a keynote at ITEXPO yesterday stressing a converging world and a tectonic shift occurring in the market.   Tony began by suggesting the show change the meaning of the acronym ITEXPO to “In-transition Technology EXPO, to better reflect the current state of the shift currently happening in the IP communications industry.   As Rybczynski noted, “The industry is moving to software and we are in the midst of a fundamental transformation.”   Regarding most enterprise workers, “they will only buy one more phone. Your next phone is your last one,” Rybczynski said.   He spoke about the concept of “Hyperconectivity,” the idea that anything that can be connected and would benefit from being connected will be connected.   He cited examples of various types of connectivity (person to person; person to machine; machine to machine) and in support of the last type, he said that 98% of CPUs are going into things other than PCs. To illustrate that point Rybczynski pointed out certain examples such as rodent raps that can send a signal when they’ve caught a mouse, wireless beacons on children’s backpacks for safety, and RFID tags that contain additional consumer information.   Rybczynski addressed the challenges and opportunities that hyperconnectivity brings:   Challenge Opportunity Decreased personal and group productivity Rich collaboration across devices, networks, and modes of operations Human delays in business processes Accelerated business processes Poor asset utilization Energy efficiencies; Real time asset tracking; Enhanced security and compliance 10–100x more endpoints and more real time applications Simplified networking with real time reliability and performance   Perhaps the key takeaway from the keynote was this: There is a need to simplify and scale networks, while increasing reliability in order to accommodate more connected users and devices more rich media traffic and more real time demands.   “Worlds are converging,” Rybczynski said. “Synergy matters.”      

Jon Arnold ITEXPO Interviews

February 1, 2008

At the recently concluded Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO, Jon Arnold, this time wearing the hat of portal editor for IP Convergence TV, conducted a number of video interviews. I was happy to participate in the project, and enjoyed speaking with Jon regarding some industry trends currently driving IP Communications.   Jon also interviews Matt Lukens of Comverse.   The results of Jon’s efforts, a co-production between TMC and IP Convergence TV, can be found online here.

Jon Arnold ITEXPO Interviews

February 1, 2008

At the recently concluded Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO, Jon Arnold, this time wearing the hat of portal editor for IP Convergence TV, conducted a number of video interviews. I was happy to participate in the project, and enjoyed speaking with Jon regarding some industry trends currently driving IP Communications.   Jon also interviews Matt Lukens of Comverse.   The results of Jon’s efforts, a co-production between TMC and IP Convergence TV, can be found online here.
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