• Student Colloquium on VoIP, May 6, 2009
• Authenticated Identities in VoIP Call Control - InCharge Systems, April 7, 2009
• Engineers Week - Young People's Event, February 21, 2009
• Unified Communications for the Mobile Network, February 10, 2009
• InCharge Systems Demonstrates ACerted Trust, January 14, 2009
• Fourth Annual Conference and Expo, October 23-24, 2008
• Securing VoIP Communications with Mykryptofon, September 16, 2008

May 6 , 2009: Student Colloquium on VoIP

Students in the Voice over IP and Telecom courses at the IIT Center for Professional Development used posters, demonstrations and presentations to report on their semester projects Wednesday evening, May 6 at the IIT Rice Campus. More than 60 attendees enjoyed pizza and snacks, asked questions at poster sessions and presentations, toured the lab and participated in live demos.  [top]

Sendil Durairaaj describes porting ICS's ACerted Trust to Asterisk

Ainur Zhakenova explains how SIP proxies find proxies on distant networks

Sung Kim peered VoIIT with an Asterisk Server at ITT

CPD honored the organizations and individuals who sponsored this semester's projects, giving certificates of appreciation to the industry mentors who worked with the students throughout the semester . Presentation slides are available below. More photos will be posted to the Photo Album soon. [top]

Paul Sand, Salare Security's CEO with MS candidate Raghuveer Pesaru receives Cartificate of Appreciation

Presentation Slides

• 1- Peering Networks - Sponsored by InCharge Systems
• 2- ACerted-Trust-Integration-with-Asterisk - Sponsored by InCharge Systems
• 3- SIP Trunk Media Gateway Integration and Test - Sponsored by Paetec and Dialogic
• 4- SIP Trunk Integration with VoIIT - Sponsored by Cbeyond
• 5- Securing the Network from Intrusion in RTP Stream - Sponsored by Salare Security
• 6- SIP UA-Proxy Interop Test - Sponsored by Nokia and SIP Forum
• 7- VoIIT and SIP.edu
• 8- Peering VoIIT with other Schools - ITT Peers with VoIIT
• 9- Generating SIP Call Loads
• 10- Building the MGCP Test Bed
• 11- IMS Network Element Placement Optimization Study

More detail about these and other projects in the VoIP Lab is available at the current projects page of this site. [top]

April 7 , 2009: Authenticated Identities in VoIP Call Control - Opportunities and Challenges

A talk about the verification of identity in VoIP networks was presented by John Nix of InCharge Systems (ICS). The talk provided a detailed analysis of the benefits and challenges associated with the solution proposed in the IETF standard “Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol” (RFC 4474). Commercial applications and the limitations of many current network deployments were emphasized. A lively discussion and a demonstration of the ICS solution in the VoIP Lab followed the presentation. The presentation slides and photos of the event are available below. [top]

Presentation slides 

John Nix of ICS speaking about SIP certificates

Roundtable Discussion participants

Lab demonstration supported by IIT student team

February 21, 2009: Engineers Week at IIT

VoIP Student volunteers created and operated a booth at Engineers Week again this year. Our booth invited the children to "get Voipanized." Children placed audio/video calls and then watched as others morphed their video images, turning them into strange creatures, adding silly hats, bizarre eye-glasses, and other disguises. Children received print copies of their morphed-selves as souvenirs. Seeing yourself turned into a large green lizard may help you remember that the new capabilities we get with VoIP come with new vulnerabilities! [top]

Student Volunteer Team

Students help children made video calls

Children got souvenir photos of their morphed-selves

February 10, 2009: Unified Communications for the Mobile Enterprise

An audience of over 50 people attended this presentation by Nokia's Maureen Stillman as she explained the challenges and advantages of Unified Convergence (UC) and its impact on the rapid and global adoption of VoIP services by enterprises and institutions. She described how UC supports mobility and the adoption of VoIP technologies and suggested ways to address some of the security and management challenges posed by their adoption. Her talk, based on her own recent work with Fortune 500 enterprises, Ivy League Institutions and Big Ten universities resulted in a lively discussion and Q&A session. Slides from the presentation should be available here shortly.  [top]

Mobile Unified Communications, Round Table, Feb 12, 2009

Maureen Stillman of Nokia

January 14-15, 2009: IIT Students support InCharge Systems Demonstration

IIT VoIP students Noman Ansari and Ainur Zhakenova, pictured below, work with InCharge Systems, supporting the development of that company's ACerted Trust offering. The product is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) validation system that authenticates and validates originators of VoIP communications, ensuring security and privacy and protecting against identity related threats. Demonstrations of the product were held in the ChicagoLand area on January 14 and 15, 2009. [top]

Demonstration of ICS system Jan 14, 2009

October 23 and 24 , 2008: VoIP Conference and Expo IV

Illinois Institute of Technology's Fourth Annual VoIP Conference and Expo took place on Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 24, 2008. 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. Photos of the event are shown below.

This year's conference featured mini-conferences on "NGN and VoIP" and "E911 VoIP Emergency Services". Enterprise VoIP solutions, research and development, web-based VoIP solutions, test and measurement, and QoS and Performance issues were discussed, debated and demonstrated in panels, talks and live demos. You can view the web site, speakers and abstracts and the conference schedule by following the links below.

The Fifth Annual VoIP Conference and Expo is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 28-29, 2008. [top]
Conference Web Site
Speakers and Abstracts
Conference Schedule

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September 16, 2008: Securing VoIP Communications with mykryptofon

Peter Rung, IDRank Security's CEO, presented an overview of the data-leak prevention industry, with a specific emphasis on VoIP security issues, mitigation techniques and industry products that address these issues. Following the presentation a demonstration of IDRank's myKryptofon product, in use today by the U.S. military in war theater, was provided, demonstrating one method for providing a high level of security for voice, chat and file transfer.

Presentation Slides