SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has become the dominant protocol for IP communications. This tutorial explains what SIP is, how it works, what the major issues for SIP deployments are, and how SIP will evolve in the future. 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 tutorial 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.
Instructor - David Bryan, CEO, SIPeerior Technologies
David is the CEO and founder of SIPeerior Technologies, Inc. David is a recognized thought leader in P2P and VoIP, authored the first documents on P2PSIP, and is co-chair of the IETF P2PSIP Working Group. He has published numerous IETF drafts, industry trade articles, and academic papers and is active in the SIP community. Prior to founding SIPeerior, David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, a pioneer in the SIP Session Border Controller (SBC) market, which was sold to Ditech Communications in 2005. David previously worked for Cisco Systems via its acquisition of Vovida Networks, where he led a team of developers creating the first open-source softswitch. David holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from The Richard Stockton College of NJ, as well as a master's degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.
As SIP moves from the Intranet to Internet, security has gone from being a nice-to-have feature to a fundamental requirement. This session focuses on communications security aspects of SIP: How do you know you're actually talking to the person you meant to call? How do you know who's called you? How do you make sure that other people aren't listening into your conversation? The IETF has developed (and is still developing) a variety of SIP and RTP-based protocol tools for providing these security services. Topics covered include: * Introduction to communications security * Security for signaling traffic - User authentication - TLS - S/MIME - SIP Identity * Security for media - SRTP - SRTP key management (MIKEY, SDESCRIPTIONS, DTLS-SRTP, ZRTP) * Privacy and anonymity The current state of the work at the IETF and other standards bodies is covered, as is the state of SIP Security implementations across the industry. Solutions for simultaneously providing identity and knowing who is calling, dealing with spam allowing anonymous calls and providing appropriate wiretap access are described. The instructors will not only describe the various protocol components but explain how they work together as an integrated system that provides security for both signaling and media traffic. This session assumes some familiarity with SIP but no familiarity with cryptography or communications security.
Dr. Cullen Jennings currently serves as IETF Real Time Applications Area Director. In that capacity, he has responsibility for the IETF's activities in voice, video, and instant messaging. Cullen is a Distinguished Engineer in the Voice Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he focuses on conferencing, security, and firewall and NAT traversal. He is responsible for helping set the direction for the technology that will make up the next generation of Cisco's voice products, especially in conferencing, presence and rich media systems. In addition to serving as Area Director, Cullen is a key contributor to all the SIP security work at IETF. He was the original designer SIP's certificate management system and most recently was responsible for the SIP Identity RFC. In addition to his work on security, Cullen has served as a chair and core member of the IETF IP Telephony (IPTEL), NAT Traversal (BEHAVE), and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WEBDAV) working groups. Cullen came to Cisco from Vovida Networks, which developed an open source toolkit for Voice-over-IP. Cullen has remained involved in the open source community and was one of the founders of the reSIProcate project, which developed and maintains the leading open source SIP stack, to which he contributed the security implementation. He is a regular participant of at the SIPit interoperability event and has tested the SIP security systems of all the major vendors. Cullen is an author of Practical VoIP, published by O'Reilly and is a frequent speaker at major Voice and Security Conferences.
Instructor - Eric Rescorla, Chief Scientist, Network Resonance, Inc.
Eric Rescorla is Chief Scientist of Network Resonance, Inc. a network security research and development company located in Palo Alto, California. He is active in the standards community, serving as IETF TLS working group chair, the editor of the TLS and HTTP over TLS specifications as well as numerous other IETF documents. Most recently, he was responsible for the design of Datagram TLS, which allows TLS to be used over datagram transports such as UDP. He currently serves as the security advisor for IETF's SIP work and has served on the Internet Architecture Board since 2002.
While Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology has been widely used in a wide variety of applications -- everything from file sharing to downloading game patches and Skype to distributing media content, only recently has there been an effort to take a standards-based approach to P2P. With the emergence of the P2PSIP standards work, a number of new uses for P2P have emerged, and a consensus around how P2P will be used for communications is beginning to solidify. In this session, we'll explore what the P2PSIP standard is looking to achieve, how it works, which applications of P2PSIP are being developed, when P2PSIP will reach the desk, and how it differs from other P2P technologies. We'll also take a close at what P2PSIP will mean for the bottom line as it achieves wider deployment. KEY QUESTIONS: * What are the elements of the P2PSIP standard, and where is the standard in its development? * What types of applications will be built with P2PSIP? * How will P2PSIP find its way into VOIP/UC products from the major vendors? What other sources are likely to create P2PSIP applications? * How does the P2PSIP effort attempt to deal with P2P concerns such as security and NAT traversal?
Speaker - David Bryan, CEO, SIPeerior Technologies
David is the CEO and founder of SIPeerior Technologies, Inc. David is a recognized thought leader in P2P and VoIP, authored the first documents on P2PSIP, and is co-chair of the IETF P2PSIP Working Group. He has published numerous IETF drafts, industry trade articles, and academic papers and is active in the SIP community. Prior to founding SIPeerior, David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, a pioneer in the SIP Session Border Controller (SBC) market, which was sold to Ditech Communications in 2005. David previously worked for Cisco Systems via its acquisition of Vovida Networks, where he led a team of developers creating the first open-source softswitch. David holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from The Richard Stockton College of NJ, as well as a master's degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.
To what extent is SIP viable -- or required -- when deploying a converged, multivendor IP communications network? To help you answer that question, Ed Mier, a leading independent expert on SIP will give you a detailed report on SIP interoperability, based on the latest annual survey of SIP-supporting vendors: How many and which features interoperate, where interoperability still falls short, and where we stand with SIP "extensions." He'll discuss his conclusions with a panel of vendor representatives and the audience. KEY QUESTIONS * Which traditional voice features can be supported with approved SIP-standard specifications? What features can't? * To what extent do SIP elements from different vendors truly interoperate? Are the newer SIP-based systems backward-compatible with earlier products that were based on proprietary protocols? * In which areas of the network are SIP implementations most likely not to interoperate? * What sorts of features are being implemented as SIP extensions, and why? * Will SIP extensions always be with us, or will most if not all features become standardized over time?
About Edwin E. Mier ? Ed is CEO of MierConsulting, LLC, an independent consultancy focusing on IP telephony, VoIP measurement, monitoring and management. He is also a regular contributor to leading trade publications. Ed previously founded and for many years ran Mier Communications Inc. (Miercom), a leading independent network consultancy and product test center. He was also previously managing editor of Data Communications magazine, a senior analyst with Data Decisions and a senior network analyst with Datapro Research Corp. With over 25 years field experience as a network designer and implementer, Ed has also authored over two hundred magazine feature articles covering all aspects of communications and networking. These have been published in Business Week, Byte, Popular Computing, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, VON Magazine and other publications. His articles have been translated into numerous foreign languages. Mier's consulting achievements include the complete design and implementation of several global networks, and dozens of LAN and campus networks. His areas of expertise include: VoIP, security, storage, network diagnostics, performance optimization and network management. Ed holds a bachelors degree in journalism from Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.), has completed graduate study in Computer Science, and graduate work towards an MBA. He served as an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army, and has attended and completed a broad range of technical and specialty schools, symposia and training courses ? including AT&T?s optical fiber splicing school in Dublin, Ohio. Ed is a member of the American Legion. He lives with his wife in Hightstown, N.J.
M. Raza, Senior Director Product Management for 3Com Corporation manages all IP Telephony platforms and applications for the company. His team defines and leads the effort for unified communications, application strategy and IP Telephony roadmap for 3Com. He has spent almost 20 years in the telecommunications industry working with data and voice networks and has been instrumental in leading teams for technology innovation, and business growth. Recently 3Com became the first major IP Telephony vendor to embrace open source telephony and Raza led the product management effort for the integration of the Asterisk software with 3Com?s data and telephony products. Raza also had a key role in defining the strategy and product integration plans for 3Com VCX IP Telephony System into the IBM System i environment and customer base. Prior to joining 3Com, Raza was the Vice President of Product Management & Marketing for Fujitsu BCS, where he was responsible for the F9600 line of products. At Fujitsu he also managed Data, ATM and SONET products for the enterprise and emerging service provider market in North America. Raza has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Panelist - Paul McMillan, Director UC Strategy, Siemens Communications
Paul McMillan has over 20 years of experience in the design, implementation, and management of Large Scale networks for both Government and Commercial markets. Paul spent 10 years in both the active and reserve military capacity with primary responsibility for the design and deployment of secure, mobile networks. After leaving the military, Paul spent two years deploying a state of the art large simulation test network for the government. He joined Siemens Communications in 1996 to help establish our IP networking business. He has spent the last 5 years focused on Converged network design and deployment issues, with an emphasis on hosted communications platforms for our top global customers. His Current responsibilities include the development of our long term Call Control and Application Strategy. Paul is a graduate of the U.S Army Advanced officer Course as well as the Information Systems Staff Officer Course. He is also a member of the Internet Society, IEEE, and the SIP forum.
Panelist - Sean Olson, Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft
Sean Olson is the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Office Communications Server product. His team is responsible for all engineering aspects of conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and voice within the server. He has over 9 years experience in the area of real time communications and voice over IP and is an industry expert in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standardized by the IETF. Since joining Microsoft in 2002, he has delivered five releases of the Office Communications Server product line working on everything from protocols, to security, to performance.
Tony is Director of Strategic Enterprise Technologies reporting to the VP of Global Marketing and to the enterprise CTO, and has 35 years experience in convergence technologies. He has presented at numerous conferences including a keynote at the Wharton Technology Conference. He has written over 150 articles (including for Business Communications Review, Network World, the Financial Executive and for the Wall Street Technology Association) and has been writing a monthly column in Internet Telephony magazine for over a decade. He was recognized by that publication as one of the 100 Top IP Communicators. He has contributed to two books, is a graduate of McGill and University of Alberta, and Senior Member of IEEE.
The pieces are falling into place for widespread desktop video deployment: Upgraded LANs can support the traffic; cameras are cheap and easy to deploy; and more people are using video in their lives outside the office. At the same time, high-end telepresence systems are moving into the room conferencing market. So is it time for enterprises to start rolling out video as a part of their converged communications platforms? In this session, a leading industry analyst will report on the current state of the market and technology, describe key vendor initiatives in this area, and evaluate desktop video's prospects for moving into the enterprise mainstream. KEY QUESTIONS * What is the size of the market for desktop video systems? What about for room-based videoconferencing and high-end telepresence? * Who's selling the different types of video systems, and who's buying them? * What differentiates the vendors' and products' approaches to the markets and technologies? Which of those differentiators are most important? * How does enterprise usage of video today differ from the past ? more widespread, used for different reasons or by different types of users? * Where is the push for more video coming from ? executives, business managers or end users?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Managing Partner, Wainhouse Research
Andrew W. Davis, Managing Partner at Wainhouse Research, has more than 15 years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to founding Wainhouse Research, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. Andrew has authored numerous articles and market research reports and is the principal editor of The Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a MBA from Harvard University.
A seven year Cisco veteran with 14 years of marketing experience in video, networking and voice industries, Julie leads the Unified Communications team that is responsible for marketing Cisco Unified Workspace applications including video, presence, clients, conferencing, messaging, and mobility. Prior to joining Cisco, Julie worked at SightPath, Inc. (acquired by Cisco in May 2000), Objective Communications and Avid Technology. She holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance and Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Panelist - Peter Nutley, Director, Product Marketing, TANDBERG
Panelist - Stefan Karapetkov, Emerging Technologies Director, Polycom, Inc.
Stefan Karapetkov is Emerging Technologies Director at Polycom, Inc. where he focuses on visual communications market and technology analysis. Prior to Polycom, he spent more than 10 years with Siemens in product management, new technology development and enterprise product definition. He has been involved in Voice over IP since 1997. Stefan Karapetkov has MBA from Santa Clara University and an MS degree in Engineering from the University of Chemnitz (Germany). He is fluent in English, German, Russian, and Bulgarian.
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