The Internet is an in-band open network constructed to facilitate the free flow of information, while the telecommunication industry is currently operating an out-of-band network whose aim is to protect overall reliability. The panel will describe security issues and solutions resulting from SIP integration.

Joel has been focused on Voice over IP since 1997 and has over thirteen years of overall marketing and business development experience within the telecommunications industry. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Jasomi Networks, he is responsible for product strategy, marketing and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Jasomi Networks, Joel served as the Vice President of Business Development for Indigo Software, a SIP-based softswitch company. Prior to Indigo Software, Joel held a variety of marketing and business development positions at Clarent Corporation where he created the company's wireless strategy and helped position the company as the market leader for VoIP infrastructure. Prior to Clarent Corporation, Joel held marketing positions at Pacific Bell Information Services and Cingular.

Andrew is responsible for leading the technology innovations in the messaging security field at BorderWare. Prior, he was the V.P. Customer Engineering at Wysdom, a privately-held company which pioneered the Software Delivery Platform for wireless devices, allowing wireless telcos to the secure delivery of functionality to external developers. In his previous position as Director, Development with Origins Software Company, he architected and led the development team for ActiveBlueprints, a fourth generation development environment for generating N-tiered application code for mobile. Andrew holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from Dublin City University, Ireland, in Applied Physics with specializations in Computational and Mathematical Physics.

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.

Ari Takanen, founder and CEO of Codenomicon, has for years been studying information security issues in next-generation networks and security critical environments. The work of Codenomicon and the 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 SIP implementations.