Media Servers & Applications Servers
Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

The adaptation of different media into varied applications is forcing the tight integration of Media Servers and Application Servers. Prior to SIP integration these were logically separated devices. The integration between these two devices leads to utilization of specific signaling. This panel looks at the standards work that is driving new services.

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Ranjith Mukundan, Lead Architect, Wipro Technologies

Ranjith Mukundan has over 8 years of experience in core Telecom Switching R&D, spanning across solutions design and architecture, standardization, network architecture, technology consultancy, technology trends and market analysis. He is, currently working as a Lead Architect in Wipro. He is the author of IETF drafts in areas spanning across SIP, SIGTRAN, MEGACO and MIBs. He is also involved in Parlay 6.0 Standardization activities. He is also the author of papers on Packet Network Solutions, NGN Trends, Kerberos etc. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from BIT, India and MS in Telecom and Software Engineering from IIT, Chicago.

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Piyush Modi, VP Applications, IP Unity

Piyush, a leading expert in advanced speech processing technologies, platforms and applications, leads the R&D team and champions the integration of ASR and TTS technologies into next-generation, multimedia messaging and conferencing solutions at IP Unity. Prior to IP Unity, Piyush built an engineering team to develop innovative speech technologies and to research related applications at AT&T. This work culminated into the large-scale deployment of the world’s first spoken natural language understanding customer care telephony service.

Piyush holds several patents and has served on many standards committees. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University, MS in computer science at the University of Tennessee and B.Tech..in EE from India.

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Garland Sharratt, VP, Business Development, Convedia

Garland Sharratt is responsible for defining and managing Convedia's overall product architecture as well as for Convedia's strategic partnering initiatives. Garland brings to Convedia over 15 years of experience in telecommunication systems as well as in-depth expertise in Advanced Intelligent Network architectures, service management, IP telephony, networking protocols and multimedia communications systems.
Previously, Garland spent 12 years in key product management, product planning, business development, software development and systems engineering positions at Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research (now Nortel Networks). During his tenure with Nortel, Mr. Sharratt was an instrumental player in cornerstone products such as DMS-100 ISDN Primary Rate Interface, Nortel's AIN based PCS product and Nortel's AIN based VPN product.

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