Enterprise Connect 2011

Enterprise Connect logoAfter 20 years as the “VoiceCon” conference, the organizers last year renamed the event “Enterprise Connect” in recognition of the fact that enterprise communication has gone FAR beyond simply voice!

Given that the event is in our home town of Orlando, you can expect to see Voxeons at the event and we’re definitely interested in meeting with you. Please contact us at conversations@voxeo.com to arrange a time to meet. You will also be able to watch our Twitter stream to see what we are doing at the event.

Speakers

Monday, February 28

SIP Fundamentals & Interoperabilty, 2-5pm

Voxeo Director of Conversations Dan York will be back at Enterprise Connect with his highly acclaimed 3-hour workshop on the fundamentals of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Here is the abstract:

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has become the dominant protocol for IP communications. This workshop explains SIP —how it works, the major issues impacting deployments and how SIP will evolve in the future. There will be a major focus on SIP interoperability.

The session focuses on the technical aspects of SIP and how it is used. It analyzes in detail the major components of SIP architecture, SIP addressing and registration, session establishment, SIP message routing and connecting SIP across the PSTN. You will learn about SIP extensions and how SIMPLE works for IM/presence. The workshop also examines some of the challenges SIP faces, including NAT traversal (and the tools developed to cope with it: STUN, TURN and ICE) and security. The tutorial concludes with an assessment of how SIP may evolve and its role in peer-to-peer environments. You will receive an inventory of SIP resources—books, papers and organizations.

Wednesday, March 2

Open Source, 3:45 – 4:30 PM

Dan will also join a panel discussion on open source and telephony:

Digium claims there are now some Asterisk deployments in the tens of thousands of seats; so are we reaching the point where open source communications systems really can scale to compete with proprietary systems? And if Asterisk can’t scale, does it have any future at all in the enterprise? In this session, members of the opensource community will discuss the future of Asterisk and other open source communications software, and whether it really has a role to play in the large user base. You’ll come away from this session with a better idea of whether open source communications has peaked, or whether it still has a future that you should take part in.

KEY QUESTIONS:

  • Is Asterisk moving up-market from the SMB market where it traditionally has had its best success?
  • What function can open source communications software serve for the large enterprise—if it’s not your core platform, does it have any other role to play?
  • What communications applications have open source software implemented “under the covers”? How can you use open source communications software to develop internal communications applications?
  • How important are intellectual property considerations like the ability to customize open source software (an ability you may not have with proprietary systems), as you consider its possible role in your enterprise?

Speaker – Kevin Fleming, Director of Software Technologies, Digium, Inc.
Speaker – Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CEO, Light and Electric
Speaker – Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo
Moderator – Dave Michels, Principal, Verge1 Consulting