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End of Life for IPv4 - Time for IPv6
Date & Time: Thursday, March 6, 2008
5:00 PM Brussels CET
11:00 AM New York ET
8:00 AM Los Angeles PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
It is predicted that by the year 2012 we will have exhausted all available IP addresses. The current address pool, commonly referred to as IPv4, needs a plan to migrate to a new numbering scheme to accommodate the flood of new devices vying for IP addresses and for the sake of service continuity. This panel explains why we have this problem, how it can impact us, and how some companies have already successfully moved to make the transition.
Speaking:
John Curran, Chairman, American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)
John Curran is the CTO and Chief Operating Officer for ServerVault, which is a highly secure, fully managed service provider for the mission-critical applications of government and leading commercial firms. As CTO, John oversees all technical aspects of ServerVault's strategy including its unique security and availability architecture. Prior to ServerVault, John served as Chief Technology Officer for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization's technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company's nationwide network. In that time, he developed and led the company's Internet strategy resulting in $500M in data revenue growth.
John also served as Chief Technical Officer at BBN / GTE Internetworking where he was responsible for the organizations strategic technology direction. He led BBN's technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he served as co-director of the Operations and Network Management area and member of IPng (IPv6) directorate.
John is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), having served since August 1997
Chris Davis, Director of Product Marketing, NTT America, Global IP Network
Chris brings more than 14 years of marketing and product management expertise from the IP networking industry to the NTT America division of NTT Communications.
As Marketing Director, Chris is responsible for all facets of branding, messaging,positioning and public relations of the NTT Com’s Global IP Network throughout theAmericas. Prior to this role, Chris spent 7 years in senior product management and marketing roles overseeing the company’s core IP transit service as well as VoIP, IPv6, business continuity and managed services. Before NTT America, Chris held product management roles at Verio, GTE Internetworking (renamed Genuity) and Southwestern Bell Internet Services.
Chris has a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
Loki Jorgenson, Chief Scientist, Apparant Networks
Loki Jorgenson is the Chief Scientist at Apparent Networks. In addition to providing thought leadership on a range of networking and connectivity topics, Loki is responsible for planning and managing all of the Company’s product research efforts. In this role, he guides and manages the Apparent Networks research team while also looking ‘over the horizon’ at various advanced and next-generation technologies.
Loki earned a Ph.D. from McGill University, where he specialized in statistical mechanics and computational physics. Since the early 1990s, Loki has been involved in a diverse range of network-based research, including high performance computing and grid networks, collaborative and distance learning, distributed interactivity, scientific visualization and algorithms development. He is often a featured speaker at networking industry conferences and academic symposiums, and regularly publishes articles in industry trade publications and academic journals. Having joined the Company in its early days, Loki directed the focus on expert systems, application modeling, network diagnostics, and packet behavior analysis. The results of his work have informed critical product development decisions at Apparent Networks in VoIP, video, application performance, and automated network management.
Moderating:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, Pulvermedia Inc.
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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From the Network Core to the Customer: Assuring User Experience End-to-End
5:00 PM Brussels
11:00 AM New York
8:00 AM Los Angeles
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
The future of business and residential communications and entertainment is based upon the convergence of IP-based voice, video, and data services. Both wireline and wireless service providers are in various stages of transitioning to next-generation IP/MPLS networks. These next-gen networks provide the foundation for converged services, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP video, enterprise connectivity, and Metro Ethernet.
Providers see many benefits in transitioning to next-gen networks, including lower capital and operational expenses, the more efficient delivery of dynamic service packages that aim to increase the average revenue per user (ARPU), and less customer churn. However, providers face new service management challenges as they must focus on service quality and meeting high customer expectations.
To succeed, providers have to differentiate their service offerings on quality, rather than merely competing on price. End-to-end network and service visibility is a requirement for meeting performance and quality objectives and ensuring stringent service level agreements (SLAs). Without the necessary visibility, providers are at serious risk for crippling service degradations and outages, which lead directly to an escalation in customer care costs, eroding profit margins, increased customer churn, and severely damaged reputations.
Join Brix Networks and Linksys in this educational webinar where you will gain answers to these and other commonly-asked questions about end-to-end service assurance in an IP-centric world:
- Why is it important to monitor service quality as well as network quality (think "customer experience")?
- How can carriers deploy a scalable, converged service assurance solution that delivers a quality advantage for next-gen networks?
- What solutions are available for monitoring all the way to the customer premise without expensive network redesigns?
- How can problems be anticipated, or quickly segmented and isolated for troubleshooting?
Speaking:
Charlie Baker, Director, Product Management
Charlie Baker is responsible for the positioning, competitive analysis, and market development activities for all of the company’s measurement platforms, correlation and analysis software engine, and third-party data sources. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Management from the United States Air Force Academy, and an MBA from Boston University.
Josh Bottum, Senior Sales Manager, Linksys, a division of Cisco
Mr. Bottum has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and product management of voice and data communications and is currently involved in sales and business development for Linksys as it relates to their VoIP product offerings.Mr. Bottum graduated with an economics degree from the University of Texas and has an executive degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
Moderating:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, Pulvermedia Inc.
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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The Role of the SIP Application Server in Delivering Voice and Video Enhanced Services | Presented by APEX Voice Communications
5:00 PM Brussels
11:00 AM New York
8:00 AM Los Angeles
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
In most traditional circuit-switched networks, enhanced voice services platforms were sold by individual vendors, and required their own dedicated platform. They functioned as proprietary stand-alone service nodes in the network, with very little, if any, interoperability. In the SIP network, the signaling logic and unique application (i.e. interactive voice response, voice messaging, conferencing), has been separated from the media processing and resides in SIP Application Servers.
The multi-service SIP Application Server is the Service Delivery Platform (SDP) of the SIP network that enables the design, development and delivery of revenue-generating voice and video enhanced services. With integrated service creation environments or web scripting languages such as Python, the SIP Application Server is core to the success of all service providers as it can reduce operational costs, deliver new services and increase revenue.
Join this educational webinar where you will gain answers to these and other commonly asked questions about multi-service SIP Application Server:
- What key functionalities do Application Servers perform in today’s network?
- How do Application Servers interface to other components in the network?
- What type of revenue-generating voice and video services can I run?
- How do I design, develop and deliver services?
Speaking:
Ben Levy, President, APEX Voice Communications
Ben Levy is President and Chief Technical Officer of APEX Voice Communications, and responsible for its management and technical affairs. He is the original and current architect of APEX’s core software products.
Michael Trank, Product Manager, APEX Voice Communications
As a Product Manager, Michael Trank’s responsibilities have included the OmniVox3D SIP Application Server and the APEX Messaging System. Currently, his primary focus is on integrating Multi-Media Messaging and 3G Video across all APEX Service Delivery Platforms and Service Ready Solutions.
Moderating:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, Pulvermedia Inc.
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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VoIP Security…Delivered
5:00 PM Brussels
11:00 AM New York
8:00 AM Los Angeles
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
AT&T customers expect Confidentiality so that all data in the AT&T VoIP infrastructure remains private and is not subject to eavesdropping. They expect Integrity so that fraud is controlled and features cannot be manipulated. They expect service Availability. Fortunately, the same availability and high reliability that is designed into all of AT&T’s network infrastructures is also a design criterion in the AT&T VoIP infrastructure.
VoIP services provide basic and advanced IP telephony features with web-based tools allowing control and convenience to IT administrators and individual end users. The future of VoIP promises even more integration with other IP-based applications. These powerful applications will enable higher productivity and new ways of working. However, the real-time performance needs of these services will place additional requirements on IP security.
The very nature of VoIP places telephony traffic on IP data networks. This potentially subjects voice services to threats known to affect IP data networks. Therefore, security must be an integral element of all VoIP deployments. Security must be integrated from the beginning of the process and throughout lifecycle management using a “Defense In-Depth” approach to provide a multi-layered secure environment. Security is an on-going process requiring constant vigilance, and VoIP deployments must be closely monitored for new threats that could impact the service.
The AT&T VoIP Security Architecture utilizes AT&T security innovations and other IP and telephony security procedures and best practices. This webinar discusses primary threats in today’s VoIP environment and how AT&T is effectively addressing them.
Speaking:
Kevin B. Kealy, Ph. D, Security Scientist, AT&T Laboratories
Kevin is responsible for research and development of security issues in cutting edge technologies including VoIP and VPNs.
Kevin established and currently leads the operation of AT&T’s Check Point training facility. In addition to providing IT Security consultancy to internal and external customers, Kevin is a regular public speaker on the subject of Internet Security. Kevin has been with AT&T since 1996, having joined the European arm of the company as a Senior Consultant.
Among Kevin’s achievements in Europe were the creation and expansion of an IT Security Consultancy offer and the AT&T Managed Firewall offer. Kevin holds a Ph. D and a Master’s degree in Information Security from the University of London, where he is also an Associate Lecturer on the topic of Internet Security.
He has one book in print, with another on the way. Kevin is a Check Point and Raptor Certified Instructor, and holds CISSP status. He is a member in good standing of the IEEE and ISC2.
Gustavo de los Reyes, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Security Services and Engineering Group
This group is part of the AT&T Chief Security Office under Ed Amoroso. Gus has responsibility for defining the security architecture and security requirements for key AT&T IP Services such as AT&T Business VoIP Services and AT&T CallVantage. He is also leading the AT&T Multimedia and Content Security Center Of Excellence.
Gus has been with AT&T Labs (formerly AT&T Bell Labs) for 19 years. He has contributed to AT&T in the areas of robust design, service delivery, and photonic development.
Gus has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He has a BSME and MSE from MIT. Before joining AT&T, Gus designed control systems for General Electric Aircraft Engines.
Moderating:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, Pulvermedia Inc.
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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