Voxeo Talks

As I wrote about before, RJ, Jose and I were out at the Communications Developer Conference (co-located with ITEXPO) next week earlier this month in Los Angeles and our slides are now available for viewing. I also have audio and video that I will be making available soon.

Meanwhile, enjoy the slides. Note that if you click on links to go to the actual SlideShare pages you can also download the slides in PDF form.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The State of SIP Application Development, 9:00-9:45am

Our CTO, RJ Auburn, led off our presentations as part of a panel on SIP application development:

As SIP continues to be implemented in enterprise and consumer environments, applications are being developed that further leverage the IP capabilities of the clients.

RJ spoke about the state of SIP-based voice application development and how it all fits in within the world of unified communications. He had some great demonstrations of using SIP via CCXML and also SIP Servlets to connect voice applications to Twitter.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network, 10:15-11:15am

On this day, I (Dan York) put on my VoIP Security Alliance hat and joined a SIP trunking session sponsored by Ingate Systems:

Panel discusses security misconceptions, challenges and requirements in this evolving IP communications landscape from each presenter’s perspective.

It was a fun talk to give and covered the many aspects of VoIP security – with an obvious focus on SIP trunking.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

AJAX’s Impact on Telecom, 9:15-10:00am

Jose deCastro started off our day on Thursday with a presentation about how AJAX (“Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) has changed the way we can do telephony development:

AJAX has completely changed how developers approach the Web. A lesser-known and surprising phenomenon is AJAX’s impact on telecom and open telephony standards. This session will give the audience a brief history of speech technologies and how XML fits into the speech technology ecosystem. Jose will demonstrate how developers can apply their existing AJAX skills to build dynamic telephone applications, and why this development paradigm is ideal for telecom applications.

Jose has been the lead developer on our Designer product that lets developers easily build voice applications through a web/drag-and-drop interface and this talk was a great one, especially for web developers looking to add voice into their apps.

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Developing Voice Applications in The Cloud, 10:15-11:00am

I was up right after Jose talking about the whole movement to push application functionality out into “the cloud”. Here’s my abstract:

Today the industry is buzzing about cloud computing and pushing applications out into the network cloud. Google has brought out their AppEngine platform while Amazon offers their EC2 and S3 services and Microsoft and others prepare their own offerings. In this session, attendees will learn about what is involved with developing voice applications on cloud computing platforms. What options are out there? What do you need to look for in a platform? How can you get started? The session will include demonstrations and prepare the attendees to return home and get started.

Technorati Tags: voxeo, voice, applications, voip, sip, sip applications, sip security, ajax, cloud computing, xml, itexpo, communicationsdeveloperconference

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Out here at ITEXPO/Communications Developer Conference, we’ve been showing the new “Management Console” in Prophecy 9 that lets you manage a large number of premise servers. Now we’ve made available a video/screencast that walks through the major features of this new management tool:

This new Management Console is not yet available in our Prophecy 9 early access release but we expect to include it in a new beta version coming out in the next few weeks. Believe me, we want to get it out to you all, so hang in there a bit more and we’ll have it out publicly.

Since we’ve been asked multiple times, yes, this same kind of management console will also eventually wind up in our hosted Evolution environment as well. First we want to get it out for the premise product… then we’ll be migrating that functionality into the hosted environment.

Please do check out the video and let us know what you think. We’re pretty pleased with how it has come out so far and we’re very much looking forward to sharing that with you all.

Technorati Tags: voxeo, prophecy, management, monitoring, network monitoring, screencasts

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As I mentioned previously, we’ll be out at the Communications Developer Conference (co-located with ITEXPO) next week in Los Angeles and several of us will be presenting. Here in chronological order are the sessions we’ll be in:

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The State of SIP Application Development, 9:00-9:45am

Our CTO, RJ Auburn, will lead off our presentations as part of a panel on SIP application development:

As SIP continues to be implemented in enterprise and consumer environments, applications are being developed that further leverage the IP capabilities of the clients.

RJ will be talking about the state of SIP-based voice application development and how it all fits in within the world of unified communications.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

SIP Trunking and Security in an Enterprise Network, 10:15-11:15am

On this day, I (Dan York) will be putting on my VoIP Security Alliance hat and joining in an SIP trunking session sponsored by Ingate Systems:

Panel discusses security misconceptions, challenges and requirements in this evolving IP communications landscape from each presenter’s perspective.

I’ve been doing these sessions with Ingate for a year or two now and if you’ve never heard me present on the threats to VoIP security, the tools out there and best practices to defend your systems, it will be a good overview talk – with an obvious focus on SIP trunking.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

AJAX’s Impact on Telecom, 9:15-10:00am

Jose deCastro starts off our day on Thursday with a presentation about how AJAX (“Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) has changed the way we can do telephony development:

AJAX has completely changed how developers approach the Web. A lesser-known and surprising phenomenon is AJAX’s impact on telecom and open telephony standards. This session will give the audience a brief history of speech technologies and how XML fits into the speech technology ecosystem. Jose will demonstrate how developers can apply their existing AJAX skills to build dynamic telephone applications, and why this development paradigm is ideal for telecom applications.

Jose has been the lead developer on our Designer product that lets developers easily build voice applications through a web/drag-and-drop interface and this talk should be a great one, especially for web developers looking to add voice into their apps.

Developing Voice Applications in The Cloud, 10:15-11:00am

I am up right after Jose talking about the whole movement to push application functionality out into “the cloud”. Here’s my abstract:

Today the industry is buzzing about cloud computing and pushing applications out into the network cloud. Google has brought out their AppEngine platform while Amazon offers their EC2 and S3 services and Microsoft and others prepare their own offerings. In this session, attendees will learn about what is involved with developing voice applications on cloud computing platforms. What options are out there? What do you need to look for in a platform? How can you get started? The session will include demonstrations and prepare the attendees to return home and get started.

I’ll be talking about some of the themes I’ve written about here and some of where I see all this going. It should be a fun talk to give.

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Those are the talks… if you do come by and see us at one of the sessions, please do come up and introduce yourself afterwards. It’s always great to meet people who read our blog posts. We’ll also have our booth (#126) in the exhibit area and will generally be around the show. You can follow our Twitter feed if you want to stay up on where we are during the show.

Technorati Tags: voxeo, voice, applications, voip, sip, sip applications, sip security, ajax, cloud computing, xml, itexpo, communicationsdeveloperconference

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Are you going to be out in Los Angeles next week (starting Sept 16, 2008) for the Communications Developer Conference or the co-located Internet Telephone Conference & Expo (ITEXPO) event?

If you are, please do stop by our booth #126 in the Communications Developer Conference area of the exhibit floor. We’ll have some great demos of Prophecy 9 and yes, we’ll be bringing our “fun” giveaway T-shirts to this show like we did at SpeechTEK.

We’ll also have three of us (RJ, Jose and myself) speaking at the event, which I outline in a separate post.

Come see us there – we’ll also be tweeting from the show so you can follow us at twitter.com/voxeo to see what we are up to at the show itself.

We look forward to seeing some of you out there.

Technorati Tags: conferences, voip, voxeo, voice, speech, itexpo, communicationsdeveloperconference, telephony, communications, telecommunications

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Would you like to learn more about Voxeo? Where we came from and where we are going? As I mentioned previously, our CEO Jonathan Taylor was interviewed by host Alec Saunders on the Squawk Box podcast and that show is now available for listening. You can listen to it by either using the audio play on the show web page or alternatively you can download the MP3 file directly and listen to it in iTunes, Windows Media Player or whatever MP3 player you wish.

It was an enjoyable call (I was listening) that went for about 45 minutes. Jonathan spoke about how and why he started the company, about the new release of Prophecy 9, the acquisition of Micromethod, our recent financial results and much more. I think you all will find it a great introduction to what Voxeo is all about.

Technorati Tags: squawkbox, voxeo, voice, voice applications, voip

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