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Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience | Presented by Empirix
5:00 PM Brussels CEST
11:00 AM New York EDT
8:00 AM Los Angeles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
While the initial hype behind IMS may have died down, quality assurance activity for the architecture has increased exponentially. Testing and monitoring of IMS is more important than ever and today’s telecom quality engineers have a lot of work ahead.
This webinar provides an overview on how to ensure a quality IMS experience . The webinar reviews key methodologies, tools, and procedures for testing and monitoring IMS devices, networks, and applications . This subject is addressed in more detail in the industry’s first written guide on IMS Testing and Monitoring – Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience.
Specifically, this webinar will cover:
- The latest telecom quality assurance processes and how they must adapt for IMS
- IMS device testing examples including test setup, common problem areas, and key success metrics
- Testing and monitoring common real-world end-to-end IMS network problems
- Ensuring quality in IMS applications such as Hosted Business VoIP services, Push-to-Talk over Cellular, and FMC
- Best practices for testing and monitoring IMS
Speakers:
Chad Hart, Product Marketing Manager, Empirix® Inc.
Mr. Hart is responsible for internal and external marketing of the Hammer Testing Portfolio of products. He has held various product management, marketing, and engineering positions with telephony and wireless technology suppliers and operators. Chad has a BSEE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dan Teichman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Empirix® Inc.
Dan is responsible for product management and marketing for Empirix’s VoIP and IMS monitoring portfolio - Hammer XMS. Dan joined Empirix in December, 2005 with 25 years experience in product management and marketing in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as Director of Product Management at Apani Networks’ Mobile Security Solutions business unit. Prior to Apani, he served as Director - Product Marketing, as well as Director - Business Development at Integral Access, a venture-funded supplier of packet-based, multi-service access solutions. Prior to Integral Access, Dan held several management positions in Market Development and System Engineering at Nortel.
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. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
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IP Media Processing: The Foundation for VoIP and IMS Services | Presented by RadiSys
6:00 PM Brussels CEST
12:00 Noon New York EDT
9:00 AM Los Angeles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
What do high growth services like videoconferencing, unified messaging, ringback tones, prepaid calling cards, IP Centrex, IVR, and IP Contact Centers all have in common? The answer is that they all need IP-based media processing – the "behind the scenes" foundation essential for economical and scalable VoIP, video, and IMS enhanced services.
IP media server vendors have delivered IP media processing functionality using a number of different hardware platform approaches. Traditional purpose-built DSP-based hardware products deliver carrier-class performance and superior economics for large service provider deployments, while software-based products that run on off-the-shelf processors deliver lighter-weight implementations that provide economical low port count solutions for small enterprise solutions.
This webinar presents a new platform-independent media processing technology designed to cover the entire range of media processing deployment options, from small enterprise point solutions running on Linux™-based servers, to solutions running on ATCA®-based hardware platforms, up to the largest IMS deployments running on purpose-built hardware. This new technology offers VoIP and IMS application vendors, service providers, and enterprises a "one-stop shop" for any IP media processing functional or economic requirement, regardless of hardware platform, control protocol, market, or application.
Target Audience:
This webinar is targeted for CTOs, product and network architects, and technical personnel within telecom vendor, service provider, and Fortune 500 companies involved in VoIP and IMS service development and deployment.
Speaker: Ray Adensamer, Senior Product Marketing Manager at RadiSys
RadiSys is a leading provider of advanced solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets. Ray has over 20 years of achievements in the data and telecommunications industries in the areas of product marketing and business development with Convedia, Redback Networks and Nortel, along with OSS consulting experience while working with Deloitte Consulting and Accenture. Ray has been a past speaker at many leading industry conferences including SuperComm, VON, IT Expo, Western Communications Forum, OSS Comforum, and the Network Operations Management Symposium.
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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Voice Quality in an FMC Environment | Presented by The V2oIP Quality Alliance
9:00 PM Brussels CEST
3:00 PM New York EDT
12:00 PM Los Angeles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
The V2oIP Quality Alliance invites you to the Voice Quality in an FMC Environment webinar, June 27th at 3:00 PM EDT.
Although new VoIP technology offers cost and feature advantages for both enterprises and consumers, exceptional voice quality is critical for VoIP to ultimately succeed. Experiencing better-than-PSTN voice quality is a reality, but not always simple to deliver. Furthermore, a fixed / mobile converged network adds additional complexity due to mobility, handoffs and new handsets.
- Case study – enterprise and service provider use of voice over WiFi
- Problem isolation – FMC complicates an existing challenge of identifying quality problems
- FMC – potential benefits are compelling yet high voice quality is critical
- Testing and monitoring – how to ensure the quality of FMC sessions before and after deployment
FMC offers the promise of IP combined with the flexibility of mobility. Don’t miss this webinar which examines voice quality issues critical to the ultimate success of VoIP as well as the impact of voice quality on FMC.
Speakers:
Martin Taylor, Vice President Product Management and Technology Strategy, Metaswitch
Martin Taylor has spent over 20 years in the telecom and network equipment industries, with diverse experience in product marketing, engineering, technology planning and business development. Since joining MetaSwitch in 2004, he has been responsible for developing the company's IMS technology strategy and has also led key technology initiatives in hosted VoIP services, Web Services interfaces and Web portal evolution. Martin's prior experience includes the role of founding CTO at CopperCom, where he was widely recognized as an early pioneer in Voice Over Broadband for his leadership of the ATM Forum standards work on Loop Emulation. In previous roles at Madge Networks and at Marconi, he was instrumental in significant business successes in areas such as Token Ring switching and passive optical networking. Martin is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England with a degree in Engineering. He enjoys skiing, golf, fly fishing and fine wine.
Raja Gopal, Director, Product Management, Sylantro Systems
Raja Gopal joined Sylantro Systems in 2004 and is currently serving as the company’s director of product management. In this role, Raja oversees mobile product strategy and investments, and is responsible for delivering enterprise and consumer communications solutions to customers such as AT&T, China Telecom, and Swisscom, as well as channel partners throughout the world. Prior to joining Sylantro, Raja worked as a senior product and marketing manager at Motorola, where he successfully led teams in the creation of new products and services, including the launch of 3G wireless network products, and developed and delivered security and push-to-talk solutions to global customers, including KDDI Japan, Pele-Phone Israel, and Verizon. Raja earned a masters degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, a MBA from the University of Chicago, and recently completed courses at the Stanford Executive Institute.
Duane Sword, Vice President Product Management, Empirix
Responsible for the Strategic Marketing, Product Policy and Outbound Marketing for the suite of HammerTM test solutions spanning contact centers, labs, network operations and self service applications for Empirix. The Hammer portfolio offers test coverage from functional through load, diagnostics and monitoring for VoIP/NGN through IMS architectures. Empirix is the market-share leader in VoIP and IMS test as recognized by industry analyst Frost & Sullivan. Duane’s previous roles with Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard were in product management, business development and functional operations management. Accountable for Agilent’s carrier-class test solutions encompassing Broadband Services across wireline and wireless communications. Duane particularly specialized in the Mobile portfolio addresses the Radio Access Network signaling of 2G (GSM), 2.5G (GPRS), 3G (UMTS/cdma2000/TDS-CDMA) and emerging 3GPP reference architectures. A regular speaker at industry seminars and conferences, Duane was named one of the ‘Top 100 Voices in IP Communications’ by Internet Telephony magazine in 2006. Duane graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with honors, from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT). A member of IMS Forum, Multiservice Forum, SIP Forum, and UNH-IOL test labs. A founding & charter member of the Voice & Video over IP Quality Alliance (V2oIPQA). Duane is also on the editorial committee of the IMS Magazine.
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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