The Rising Tide of VoIP Islands
Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 9:00am - 11:00am
We are at a stage now where interconnection between VoIP networks is becoming more commonplace and we are able to introduce features that would not be available on the PSTN. This panel is a two-part discourse discourse of Circuits vs. Packets & Switches vs. Routers.
Part I
Circuits vs. Packets
The Data Network surpasses the voice network as the largest transport on the backbone.
· What issues face us as the revenue model on voice continues to erode?
· What is the rate of Broadband adoption worldwide?
· Is the Internet self-supporting?
· What is the impact on the ILEC’s bottom line?
· Will traffic segmentation yield new pricing?
Part II
Switches vs. Routers
The interconnection of the PSTN with the Internet has been changing over the years. Solutions that support Wireless, Wholesale, Voice over Broadband have pushed the technology.
· What is the future of interconnection?
· Will the network core compete with Mesh Networking for a new model of transport?
· When does the convergence of the technology impact the LOBs of the carrier?
· What role will the Enterprise play in the future?
Ken Epps, CEO, BayPackets
A 15+ year telecommunications veteran, Epps most recently served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Williams Communications. Prior to Williams, Epps was vice president in the communications practice for the consulting firm, Emerald Solutions, where he built a "best of breed in telephony" consulting team that provided technical solutions in the ERP arena. Epps also spent 13 years at AT&T, serving in such positions as assistant to the president, general manager of domestic consumer long distance, division manager of product development within the consumer communications services division, department head for network operations, senior manager of international market development and financial analyst.
BayPackets
communications software
Tom Ely, Director, Telcordia
Tom Ely began his career at Bell Labs, transitioned to Bellcore at divestiture, and is now Director of Mobility Solutions at Telcordia. He has more than 33 years of experience. He is responsible for developing architectures for the delivery of new mobile and converged services. He led the team which developed Telcordia's SPACE service creation system. He also has extensive experience in the development of new services including video and data services. Tom is a Telcordia Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He holds patents in the area of high availability systems, service creation, converged services, and soft switch architecture.
Peter Gaylas, General Manager VoIP Products, i3 micro technology
Peter Galyas is responsible for the IP telephony product line at i3 micro technology. He joined i3 micro in 2000 as a system architect and later as business development manager. Prior to joining i3 micro he worked more than 11 years at Ericsson, where he held numerous positions in product development, system design, standardisation, research and
product management. He holds several patents in the area of mobile telephony and packet voice.
Peter holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm."
Rubin Gruber, Founder & Chairman Emerritus, Sonus Networks
Mr. Gruber is a well-known and highly successful entrepreneur. Prior to founding Sonus, Mr. Gruber founded VideoServer, Inc., (NASDAQ-VSVR) a supplier of videoconferencing switching equipment. Prior to VideoServer, Mr. Gruber served as Senior Vice President BBN Communications Corporation, where he introduced a new generation of packet-switching equipment in support of mission critical applications. Mr. Gruber also founded Davox, (NASDAQ-DAVX) a supplier of outbound call-center systems and Cambridge Telecommunications (CTX), which was the first company to incorporate microprocessors in communications equipment and an early supplier of packet network access equipment. CTX was acquired by GTE and remains part of Sprint.
Martine Lapierre, Chief Technology Officer/Vice President Mobile Communications Group, Alcatel CIT
Martine Lapierre graduated as an Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecom, plus a master from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees. She worked
• 10 years with France Telecom in switching, networking, data and services
• including an exchange program at SBC/Pacific Telesys
• then 14 years with Alcatel. She worked for Metropolitan Area, later as the Director of the Alcatel Corporate Research Center IT Department, and then as VP responsible of the Switching A1000E10 Business Unit ; she became Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel Carrier Networking Group, and has now the same position in the Mobile Communications Group.
She was TINA-Consortium President in 98/99, and also President of the Telecom Networks group for the French Prime Minister’s CSTI committee in 2003. She is Vice President for Europe and member of the Board of Directors of the International Packet Communications Consortium.
Ari Takanen, CEO, Codenomicon Ltd.
Ari Takanen, founder and CEO of Codenomicon has for years already been studying information security issues in next generation networks and security critical environments. The work of Codenomicon and University of Oulu aims at ensuring that new technologies are accepted by the general public by providing means of measuring and ensuring quality in networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research that studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. SIP implementations.
