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June 18, 2008: VoIP Roundtable 4: SIP Trunking - Beyond Voice with SIP Connect
Bob Blair-Smith, Cbeyond's Chicago Senior Design Engineer, described the SIP Connect specification and its use in creating SIP Trunk services. Key aspects of SIP Connect and the specific technical challenges it addreses were introduced in this talk. The meaning, architecture and applications associated with the term "SIP Trunk" were also a focus of the discussion. Presentation slides are available below. Following the presentation, attendees visited the VoIP Lab where Bob demonstrated various features of the IIT VoIP Lab's SIP Trunking Service, supported by Cbeyond.
Presentation Slides
Presentation on SIP Connect specification and SIP Trunking
Demonstration of the Cbeyond SIP Trunks in the VoIP lab
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April 21, 2008: VoIP Roundtable 3: Garbage in, Garbage out - Preparing your network to handle VoIP
Michael Goodridge, the owner of Business Information Technologies, LLC. (BIT) spoke on the subject, .Is your network ready for VOIP?. He described network equipment and infrastructure requirements for a successful VoIP deployment, based on his many years experience in the field of IT for the SMB market. A lively discussion developed with a focus on privacy, security and quality of service and the network architectures and elements needed to provide these. Presentation slides are available at the link below.
Presentation Slides
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April 8, 2008: Student Colloquium on VoIP-2008
Title: VoIP Student Projects - 2008
Brief Description:
Students in the VoIP and Telecommunications courses in the ITM Program demonstrated their current projects and present their goals and
results at this annual event sponsored jointly by the IEEE Communications Society and the IIT Rice Campus.
Presentation Slides
The first half of the evening included presentations of the goals and results of the projects created by students in the second semester VoIP course ITM-547.
The topics include:
In the second half of the evening, attendees visited the VoIP lab for demonstrations of the projects and the new test beds that have
been added this year. The new test beds, configured and demonstrated by students in the Telecommunications Course ITM-545 include:
- Nortel SMB Solution
- Avaya Peer to Peer System
- Epygi SMB Enterprise Solution
- Cisco CMS System
- CBeyond SIP Trunk
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February 23, 2008: Engineers Week 2008
IIT students in the VoIP and Telecom classes again sponsored a VoIPirates demonstration, showing the children who attended the Saturday, Feb 25 EWeek event how to make audio/video calls using VoIP technologies - and how vulnerable those calls are to the pirates who lurk on the Internet. Each year IIT Rice Campus sponsors Engineers Week activities including a Saturday day-long engineering festival aimed at school-age children and their parents. Complete with interactive exhibits, goodies and engineers from all disciplines, this annual event is a great opportunity for children to learn about what engineers, technologists and scientists do and how our work impacts their lives and communities.
Student e-week volunteers
VoIP students demonstrate VoIP to guests.
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February 11, 2008: VoIP Roundtable 2:
Security Event Management System - A Case Study
The second VoIP Roundtable of the 2007-2008 academic year was held on
February 11, 2008. Dr. Vijay Gurbani of the Bell Labs Division of
Alcatel-Lucent described his current work developing a Security Event
Management System. Such systems will support the wide-scale deployment of
VoIP networks by enabling network operators to determine whether the network
is under attack and to take evasive action as needed. In his talk, Dr.
Gurbani described his work in constructing a security event management
system using a mix of open source and internally developed software. The
talk described the results of constructing the system and lessons learned as
well as an outline for future research in this area. Presentation slides and
video of the discussion are available at the links below.
Presentation Slides
Link to Video
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October 25 and 26: Third Annual VoIP Conference and Expo:
Speakers List - IIT 3rd Annual VoIP Conference
Illinois Institute of Technology's Third Annual VoIP Conference and Expo
took place on Thursday and Friday, October 25 and 26, 2007. For two full
days, professionals and executives from the telecommunications industry, its
standards bodies and government agencies, as well as students and members of
the business community shared their views, technical expertise and
experiences in both formal talks and informal gatherings. New partnerships,
projects and opportunities resulted from this conference as they have from
conferences past. Photos of the event are shown below. The Fourth Annual
VoIP Conference and Expo is scheduled for October 23-24, 2008.
Session in progress
Keynote address by Henning Schulzrinne
Student demonstrates Current Lab Project
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September 10 , 2007: VoIP Roundtable 1: End-to-End Security Solutions for VoIP Communications
The first VoIP Roundtable of the academic year took place on September 10,
2007. Dr. Tom Messerges of Motorola Labs discussed various aspects of
end-to-end VoIP security. The talk reviewed a number of solutions, including
methods for establishing keys and securing the media data. Observations
regarding advantages and disadvantages of these various solutions were
outlined, and various use cases and scenarios were introduced. As always,
the audience added interesting and thought provoking questions and
discussion. A pdf version of the presentation slides is available at the
link below. Presentation Slides
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