Re: Austin Member Meeting VoIP Highlights

[Stephen Kingham <>]

Hi Ben, Walt and team

This looks great and I really want to go to these workshops.  
Unfortunately I will be leading similar workshops (smaller in scope) 
here in Australia and so I will be unable to attend (very sad) ;-(.

Stephen

Ben Teitelbaum wrote:

> I would like to bring your attention to the following VoIP-related
> activities planned for the upcoming Internet2 Member Meeting in
> Austin, TX.  Keep these in mind as you make your travel plans.
>
> -- ben
>
> * Emergency Communications BoF (September 28)
>  
> http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=1725&event=219
>
>  As voice over IP (VoIP) moves to production, solutions must be
>  deployed to provide emergency communications that match or exceed
>  what users expect from wireline services. The migration to VoIP also
>  provides the opportunity to reduce costs and to increase the speed,
>  reliability, and functionality of emergency response, emergency
>  alert, and disaster recovery systems. This BoF will survey relevant
>  current activities and provide a forum for discussing how Internet2
>  might better organize to exploit new opportunities in this space.
>
> * Campus/Enterprise Roundtable on VoIP and Integrated
>  Communications (September 29)  
>  http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=1605&event=219
>
>  In the last year we have seen a rapid acceleration in the
>  convergence of voice and data and in the emergence of
>  standards-based integrated communications applications that
>  integrate multiple real time media types in the context of
>  presence. To understand the implications and opportunities for
>  campuses and enterprises, Internet2 has brought industry and
>  academia together to develop and deploy new applications and
>  services. This session will include project updates from several key
>  collaborative initiatives, several case studies of the
>  campus/enterprise view of VoIP and integrated communications, and a
>  roundtable discussion of obstacles and opportunities going forward.
>     
> * VoIP Workshop (September 30th - October 1st)
>  http://voip.internet2.edu/meetings/200409-workshop/
>
>  This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of emerging voice
>  over IP (VoIP) technologies, including: the session initiation
>  protocol (SIP), IP-based voice disaster recovery, IP-TDM media
>  gateways, and VoIP quality monitoring. Working in several small
>  groups, attendees will bring up several working VoIP systems in a
>  testbed environment. Attendees will learn to configure a SIP proxy,
>  to add SRV and NAPTR records to DNS, and to provision SIP hard and
>  soft phones. Attendance may be limited to ensure that the workshop
>  is focused and interactive.
>  

--
Stephen Kingham, MIT, BSc, E&C Cert
Project Manager and Consulting Engineer 
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