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Best Practice Approaches to Implementing Either UMA or IMS/SIP for Femtocells | Presented by Certicom
5:00 PM CEST
11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
In the emerging Femtocell market - which will dramatically increase cell phone usage by boosting indoor signal strength - two implementation technologies are readily available: Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) backhauling and IMS/SIP. For vendors building Femtocells and associated products, either or both may be required depending on carrier requirements. For this reason, it is vital to understand the technical issues relating to both UMA and IMS/SIP.
This webinar does not take sides. Instead, it provides an in depth study of both approaches, with a particular focus on signaling and security challenges. Webinar attendees will gain a greater understanding of how to apply existing technology and learn best practice methods for integrating critical Femtocell components.
Speaking:
Rick Pitz, Senior Product and Business Development Manager for Certicom
With over thirty years of industry experience, Rick Pitz has been invited to write articles in leading industry publications, including Network Systems, Designline, CommsDesign, and TMCNet. He has also been a speaker at VoIP 2.0, ESC, and the Freescale Technology Forum. He is an active member of the Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC) and WiFi Alliance.
Moderating:
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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AT&T's VoIP Service Architecture
5:00 PM Brussels
11:00 AM New York
8:00 AM Los Angeles
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
AT&T’s secure VoIP architecture supports advanced applications for business as well as wholesale services that often become the foundation of offers that service providers create for their own customer base. AT&T Labs scientists will present AT&T's scalable VoIP architecture, built for all of AT&T, and demonstrate its application to the unique needs of wholesale customers.
The presentation will begin with a description of the capabilities needed to build the network of the future. The focus will turn to actually implementing these capabilities into the evolving AT&T network using state-of-the-art technology. The discussion will cover AT&T's adoption of IMS and introduce AT&T's Common Architecture for Real-Time Services (CARTS). AT&T's CARTS architecture is based on 3GPP/IMS standards but includes many enhancement to implement current and future real-time services that use IP as the main transport technology. CARTS supports the key apparent trends in the telecommunication industry such as: converged user devices, converged services, multiple access technology, access agonistic services, global mobility with no geographic boundaries, flexible customer-focused network and finally proliferation of services.
The presentation will conclude with a description of the AT&T wholesale offer AT&T Voice Over IP Connect Service or AVOICS, which is CARTS-compliant.
AVOICS is the flagship wholesale voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) offer for U.S. service providers that require IP-based connectivity to AT&T’s global IP network for U.S. domestic originated U.S. and international call termination, utilizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling. Based on the design considerations of the CARTS architecture, AVOICS is highly scalable and provides customers with a consolidated method for terminating IP and TDM originated traffic.
Speaking:
Sekar Ganesan, Director, New Technology/Product and Development Planning, in the Labs organization of AT&TResponsible for network and service planning of TDM and VoIP services and network routing. Mr. Ganesan has been with AT&T for 19 years. During that time, Ganesan has worked on the various aspects of the TDM and VoIP network architecture and services planning. Mr. Ganesan has a Ph.D in Systems Science from the University of Houston.
Magda K. Nassar, PhD
Magda is the Executive Director of Global Business VOIP Service Planning Division. She has the responsibility for the design, development and implementation of multi-year development plans for AT&T’s Business VOIP services including domestic and Global Markets.
Magda has experience with AT&T in various roles of network design and services planning. Before her assignment on VOIP services planning, she had responsibilities in areas like TDM PSTN switch planning, AIN call processing, and SS7 singling network design and planning. She also played a key role in developing private network designs for for government applications. Magda also managed the development of the traffic and signaling network management systems for AT&T Global Network Operations Center.
Magda received her PhD and Masters degrees in EE from Case Western Reserve University.
Moderating:
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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NGN Audio Conferencing: Deploying New Event and Reservationless Services With Unprecedented Scale, Reliability, Differentiation Potential and Economy
Presented by Pactolus
5:00 PM Brussels
11:00 AM New York
8:00 AM Los Angeles
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
The interactive conference will disclose a customizable turnkey IP service solution, distributed architecture approach and new load-balancing capabilities that enable the replacement of heavily-used TDM event and reservationless conferencing services with economical, innovation-friendly next-generation IP services. The one-hour session will also preview highlights of a successful industry-first deployment by a national carrier who is now achieving 5-9’s reliability in a highly-scaled deployment.
Participants will learn ways to:
- Protect and sustain call states for even massive conferencing events in the unlikely event of IP network component failure or extraordinary disruption of an entire service point of presence (POP).
- Leverage IP’s on-demand scale and load balancing potential to support large-scale conferences with thousands of participants simultaneously, managed by over 100 concurrent live operators.
- Integrate new feature-richness and real-time participant presence and interactivity, leveraging IP’s innovation potential while providing hosts and operators with real-time control capabilities.
The Webinar will be co-hosted by and Ken Osowski, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Pactolus Communications Software.
Speaking:
Marc Beattie, CSP Practice Manager and Partner, Wainhouse Research
Marc Beattie is a Senior Analyst & Partner at Wainhouse Research, where he acts as the Practice Manager for Conferencing Services. Marc has co-authored over 1,500 pages of original research in numerous public and private reports on collaboration and is a featured speaker at both private and industry events. He regularly consults to telecommunications and technology companies providing market analysis, company and product strategy, and due diligence for acquisitions. Prior to joining Wainhouse Research Marc was an early member of PictureTel and Polycom - holding positions in product management, business development and sales management - and spent 13 years working within the industry. He has been an independent analyst and consultant since 1998. Marc attended Gordon College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.
Ken Osowski, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Pactolus Communications Software
Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Pactolus. Ken was a lead developer of the company’s business plan to support funding activities and market entry, now directs its product strategy and marketing activities, and has helped Pactolus to become one of the industry’s most widely-deployed, flexible and customizable service delivery platforms. A frequent VoIP industry spokesperson and writer, Ken’s teamed with executives across the industry to educate the market on SIP-based voice service delivery. A veteran in the enhanced services industry, he directed Boston Technology’s introduction and commercialization of its carrier-focused voice messaging platform, and subsequently defined IPeria’s market entry strategy as its Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Moderating:
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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