Presence and IntComm WG

["Jill B Gemmill" <>]

Title: FW: Workshop on H.350 "Directory Services Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing" standard

Workshop on H.350 "Directory Services Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing" standard

March 24, 2004 6-9 PM March 25, 2004 8 AM to 5 PM Conference
sessions

WHERE: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus,

From: NSF Middleware Initiative []
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Subject: Workshop on H.350 "Directory Services Architecture for
Multimedia Conferencing" standard


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click to http://www.vide.net/conferences/h350/email.php.

The Workshop on H.350 is the first event targeting the technical
communitywith hard-hitting actionable information about H.350, its implementation
 in products and deployment in enterprise, academic and research networks
for Voice over IP and IP-Videoconferencing scalability.

Visit http://www.vide.net/conferences/h350

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WHAT: A one-day technical workshop on the new H.350 "Directory Services
Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing" standard ratified in August
2003 by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

WHEN: March 24, 2004 6-9 PM March 25, 2004 8 AM to 5 PM Conference
sessions

WHERE: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus,

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

WHO: This workshop is designed for:
--> Developers of multimedia communications products (e.g. VoIP and
IP-Videoconferencing gatekeepers, IP-PBXs, softswitches, etc.)
--> Commercial voice and multimedia communications network service
--> providers Enterprise multimedia consulting network architects and
--> integrators Deployers or administrators of VoIP or
--> IP-videoconferencing networks in
enterprise, academic, research and government networks

Presentations will be delivered by the world's H.350 experts including:
--> Samir Chatterjee of Claremont Graduate University
--> Nadim El-Khoury of the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill Jill

--> Gemmill of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Tyler Miller
--> Johnson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jason Lynn
--> of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Egon Verharen of SURF.net


INCLUDED:
Lectures delivered by H.350 experts, discussion sessions and demos
Conference binder, including all presentations and CD-ROM
Electronic edition of ITU H.350 standardand suite of related documents
Evening reception and buffet dinner sponsored by VCON
Breaks and continental breakfast sponsored by TANDBERG
Luncheon sponsored by RADVISION

FEE: $350/attendee from enterprises, $250/academic attendees and
students

TO REGISTER: Go to http://www.vide.net/conferences/h350/register.php

Register EARLY and win a FREE H.350 NETWORK CONSULTATION. Our experts
will
select up to 4 networks from early registrations to use as the basis for

recommendations. At the end of the workshop, winners will receive
complete
migration/implementation recommendations which can be executed
immediately.

Any inquiries may be sent to:

The Workshop on H.350 corporate sponsors include:
RADVISION http://www.radvision.com/, VCON http://www.vcon.com/, TANDBERG

http://www.tandberg.com/

The Workshop on H.350 partners are: ViDe http://www.vide.net/, IMTC
http://www.imtc.org/, SURA http://www.sura.org/, ITU
http://www.itu.int/home/index.html

This workshop is a post-conference special event following the 6th
Annual
SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop
http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2004/

The development of H.350 is based in part on work supported by the
National
Science Foundation under grant ANI-0222710 "ViDe.Net:Middleware for
Scalable Video Services for Research and HigherEducation"  to the
University of Alabama at Birmingham and partners Claremont Graduate
University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and SURFnet.
Additional support was provided by the NSF Middleware Initiative - EDIT
Consortium's Cooperative Agreement - NSF 02-028, ANI-0123937.