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Demystifying Wideband Telephony
5:00 PM Brussels CET
11:00 AM New York ET
8:00 AM Los Angeles PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
There is no wonder about the economic advantages of sending voice and data over the same low-cost IP network. But concerns about VoIP quality, such as dropped calls and poor speech intelligibility, are preventing many enterprises from making the leap forward to VoIP. What are the recent advancements in IP telephony that dramatically improve VoIP voice quality? Is it possible to deliver to your users VoIP in the same or even better voice clarity than PSTN?
Join this educational webinar featuring wideband audio pioneer Jeff Rodman, CTO of Polycom, Inc. A must-attend for IT executives and service providers who seek to maximize return on IP Telephony investment. From this webinar you will gain answers to these commonly asked questions:
- Can VoIP beat PSTN’s toll quality?
- What is wideband audio?
- Is it open or proprietary?
- How soon is it coming to you?
- What should be your migration strategy?
Speaking:
Jeffrey Rodman, Co-Founder and CTO, Polycom, Voice Communications
Jeffrey Rodman has been at the forefront of audio and video communications for most of his career. Rodman co-founded Polycom in 1990 and has been instrumental in the realization of Polycom's iconic products for voice, video, network communications, and other media. He is CTO of Polycom’s voice communications division.
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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Wireless Data Services - Solving the top Network and Service challenges for effective migration
5:00 PM Brussels CEST
11:00 AM New York ET
8:00 AM Los Angeles PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
Mobile Operators (MOs) across the globe are in a race against time. The race entails migrating their current service portfolios and networks to offer highly profitable next-generation wireless data services. This must be done, of course, while protecting their large installed base of voice-only customers who still generate a majority of the revenue. In addition, due to competitive pressures and increased demands from customers, MOs are being forced to streamline their operations; reducing CAPEX, reducing customer churn and increasing ARPU.
To achieve these goals requires many things, the most critical amongst them being: smooth transition to an IP-based architecture, careful optimization of Access and Core networks and analysis/monitoring of new service-related issues. As most experienced MOs are well aware, this transition is not an easy one.
This Webinar, featuring renowned telecom R&D pioneer Fred Rampey, begins with a succinct overview of the market drivers and technical issues facing MOs as they prepare for this migration. It then details the main challenges MOs will likely encounter from both a network and a service perspective when migrating towards wireless data services. Finally, the Webinar discusses issues and requirements when selecting monitoring systems, which are a key part of the migration infrastructure.
Speaking:
Fred Rampey - CTO, Sunrise Telecom Protocol Products Group
Fred is an acknowledged pioneer in the Telecom Test & Measurement industry. With almost thirty years in the arena, Fred’s roles have ranged from detailed design work to managing multi-national R&D labs and product lines for Hewlett-Packard's OpenView, oscilloscope and logic analyzer divisions. Executive and entrepreneurial experiences include early-stage telecom start-ups such as Astracon and Vertel, as well as current Trustee/Board seats on the Telemanagement Forum and for a recent HP international joint venture.
Significant career achievements include co-inventing HP's first digital oscilloscope; rapidly growing HP's logic analyzer sales; deploying OpenView across Alcatel's WW product lines; and leading Astracon's engineering services for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon's) first DSL East Coast roll-out of 1 million lines - the largest such deployment in the world at the time.
Fred received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1977 prior to joining HP's R&D Lab in Colorado Springs, and was a Co-op Engineer with Martin Marietta Communications & Electronics Division during the early days of mobile digital telephony and networking.
Rossano Piccinini - Director of Marketing, Sunrise Protocol Products Group
With over 10 years’ experience at Sunrise Telecom alone, Rossano holds an incredible wealth of experience in the mobile communications industry. Rossano currently serves as Director of Marketing for Sunrise, where he has responsibility for all Product Marketing, Corporate Marketing and Public Relations activities. Before that, Rossano served as Product Manager for the mobile applications group, and as international sales manager for the European and Asian markets.
Previous to Sunrise, Rossano spent more than 10 years with Ascom Italia spa. At Ascom, Rossano held a diverse array of positions, including Business Unit manager for the Test Equipment business unit, international Sales Manager for protocol analyzers, Product Manager responsible for protocol analysis product lines and communication matrix switches, and finally, R&D project leader responsible for various projects in the field of SS7 protocol analysis and testing.
Rossano graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in Electronic Engineering.
Claudio Guerrini - Senior Product Manager of Wireless Solutions, Sunrise Protocol Products Group
With significant experience in the field of mobile data services and convergent networks, Claudio joined Sunrise in January 2006 to lead Product Management efforts for the rapidly expanding mobile applications program. In this role Claudio has responsibility for all aspects of the product line, including product features and pricing, technical industry relations and product roadmap planning.
Previous to Sunrise, Claudio served more than 6 years at Telecom Italia in the field of mobile networks. His contributions at Telecom Italia included early-market work on 3GPP (in the field of mobile access networks).
Claudio graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering.
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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