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A Community-Based Approach to Voice Peering for the Air Transport Industry | Presented by SITA



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Date & Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:00 PM Brussels CEST
9:00 AM New York EDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE

SITA invites you to join Fabiano Chies and Denis Berger on Wednesday, June 6th for a webinar on "a community-based approach to Voice peering for the air transport industry."

The air transport community faces extraordinary challenges, including rising fuel costs, increased competition and ever growing passenger numbers. It is also a uniquely global industry, with operations in over 220 countries and territories, 24/7. As a result there is a clear need for a cost effective, globally available, community-based approach to the delivery of voice and convergence services, which has led to the creation of the first inter-company voice peering service, the SITA Voice Exchange.

Speakers:
Fabiano Chies, Head of Voice & Convergence Services, SITA
Fabiano Chies joined SITA in 2004 to establish the company’s Global Voice and Convergence Services, and is the father of the air transport industry’s first Voice Exchange. He is also the Chairman of the .aero council, the top level domain reserved exclusively for aviation.

Fabiano joined SITA from BT, where he re-established the company’s Swiss operations as Country Manager. Previously he spent two years as General Manager of a cellular star-up company in Malaysia. After returning to Switzerland, Fabiano was responsible for the launch of UUNET Switzerland.

Fabiano holds a degree in Telecommunications, and a coaching diploma for Freestyle Skiing from Swiss Olympics. He is an Italian national, and the proud father of two.

Denis Berger, Head of Voice Product Line, SITA
Denis Berger is responsible for SITA's voice over IP services - including hosted telephony offerings, softphone and IP trunking services over MPLS and internet - a key product management function within SITA's Communication Services.

Before joining SITA, Denis spent four years at NetCentrex Inc. as director of product marketing and pre-sales for the NAM, CALA and APAC markets. He contributed to major operators' VoIP roll outs as well as the creation of the first consortium -IPlay3- formed to develop and promote integrated triple play solutions addressing the residential market. Prior to this, Denis' experience includes service development positions within Equant (now Orange Business Services) to create the first scalable MPLS-based VoIP VPN services, available over 200 countries for multinational corporations.

Denis holds a MS degree in Physics as well as a postgraduate degree in Computer Science from the French "Ecole des Mines de Paris".

Moderator:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia
Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon.

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Decreased time to revenue and lower costs: IP interconnects for Wholesale Carriers -- A VON Webinar

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Date & Time: May 16, 2007
7:00 PM Brussels CEST
1:00 PM New York EDT
10:00 AM Los Angeles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE

Nominum and Acme Packet are defining a new approach to IP interconnects for VoIP and multimedia services. Join them on May 16th for a webinar on the role of IP interconnects for wholesale carriers and the requirements for making them secure, scalable and successful.

Efficient, effective call routing is essential to a wholesale interconnect carrier’s profit margins and operations. As true VoIP traffic continues to increase, a growing percentage of carrier interconnects are happening on IP networks. This environment presents numerous challenges to wholesale carriers, including:

  • A proliferation of VoIP providers with which to manage termination and origination agreements
  • A wide array of routing options, with varying service quality
  • Complex, error-prone routing management processes
  • Network security and call quality

Nominum and Acme Packet are changing the way wholesale carriers perform VoIP interconnects based on lessons learned in recent implementations.

We invite you to join us for a webinar on May 16th discussing this new approach to IP interconnections. The topics covered will include:

  • Wholesale/transit carriers’ current needs: moving to IP-IP interconnects
  • Preserving termination and settlement business models and route management
  • Protecting wholesale core network and ensuring SLAs
  • The essential role of IP-application Routing Directories (IPRDs) and Session Border Controllers (SBCs)

Panelists:
Georges Smine, Nominum’s Senior Director, Product Marketing,
Georges is responsible for Nominum's strategic direction and products for the IMS and FMC markets. He brings to Nominum over 16 years of experience in marketing and engineering products for the mobile and service provider industry. Prior to Nominum, Georges was at Ecrio, where he headed marketing activities pioneering the adoption of presence, instant messaging, and packet push-to-talk in the mobile industry. He has also served as the Director of Worldwide Strategic Sales for the Sun|Netscape alliance, and has held lead software engineering positions at Oracle Corporation.

Kevin Mitchell, Acme Packet’s Director, Solutions Marketing
Kevin leads industry analyst relations, competitive intelligence and solution and partner marketing at Acme Packet. He joined Acme Packet after 8 years with Infonetics Research, where he was most recently a Principal Analyst. In this role he served as an overall company director and product manager and lead analyst responsible for consulting, analysis, product development and overall strategic direction of multiple coverage areas encompassing routing and IP/MPLS, VoIP and IMS, and service provider capex.

Tony Cimorelli, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of VoIP Services for Global Crossing
With Global Crossing since 2000, Tony has been instrumental in the global release and launch of Global Crossing’s VoIP Outbound, VoIP Toll Free, VoIP Local, and VoIP On-Net Plus services for the carrier, enterprise, and partner channels.

Prior to employment with Global Crossing, Tony had a successful 14 year career with MCI Telecommunications acting in various marketing capacities including International Relationship Manager and Regional Call Center Solutions Manager.


Moderator: Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia
Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon.

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