Asterisk 1.2 - a presentation of the brand new release version

Asterisk 1.0 was released at Astricon 2004. The asterisk.org development team has released the first beta versions of Asterisk 1.2 for testing. This talk describes what developers have been doing for a year, what changes has been done to Asterisk and what are the benefits of all these new functions?

Kevin P. Fleming, Digium and Olle E. Johansson, Edvina.net

Kevin Fleming is a Senior Software Engineer at Digium, Inc., the primary developer of Asterisk. His responsibilities include managing Digium's interaction with the Asterisk development community and providing direction for Asterisk's future.
Olle E. Johansson is one of the Asterisk developers that works with SIP support, documentation and user interface issues. Olle is also co-founder of Astricon and teaches Asterisk in the Asterisk training classes.

Packaging and deploying Asterisk for the SOHO market

This session takes Asterisk into the marketplace as a method to deliver additional services to your customers. Attendees will get a good handle on what's required, examples of services in use by other providers, how these services were deployed and sold as well as the regulatory concerns, methodologies and pitfalls you'll need to consider along the way. Get the straight story from someone delivering high quality, business-class voice services with Asterisk."

Greg Boehnlein, N2Net

Using ARA - The Asterisk Realtime Architecture - in a service provider network

Caleb Kow, Valuecomms

Real time VoIP billing – managing the transition to IP billing in a converged world

• The evolution from per-minute billing to IP billing
• Examining customer billing needs – can authentication, accuracy and reliability be delivered?
• Current issues in deploying VoIP services - what are the existing billing solutions?
  • VoIP call tracking software options
  • Billing standards - choose your poison (RADIUS, OSP, Diameter, Parlay and more)
  • The use of signalling proxies and softswitches for billing
• Pre-paid and post-paid issues
• Hardware and Software – Technical Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Eric Hernaez, Telic

Eric M. Hernaez, Founder and President of telic.net. Hernaez, is the conceptual architect of telic’s xVox service management suite and its real-time billing platform. Prior to founding telic, Hernaez worked as Vice President of Business Development for Linkon Corporation, a manufacturer of telephony switching equipment. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Sequel Communications, an international long distance carrier, and the company that established the first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the Philippines. Hernaez earned a JD degree from Temple University School of Law, and has worked as an attorney focusing on international telecommunications issues. He also holds a BA degree in Marketing from Temple.

Multi-lateral Peering with Asterisk: The Open Settlement Protocol

Jim Dalton, CEO, TransNexus

Jim Dalton is the founder and CEO of TransNexus, Inc. TransNexus, a software development firm, provides commercial and open source VoIP Operations and Billing Support System (OSS/BSS) solutions. Dalton began his career as a petroleum engineer working in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Yemen from 1981-86. After graduate studies in finance, Dalton began his telecom career with BellSouth in 1988 and became a Chartered Financial Analyst. His work at BellSouth included financial analysis and market planning for BellSouth's GSM and mobile data businesses. This experience led to his early recognition in the promise of Voice over IP and the founding of TransNexus in 1997. Dalton holds four patents for VoIP clearing and settlement technology. He received a mechanical engineering degree from Duke University and a MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton school.

Island life

VoIP platforms have been primarily used for connecting users within an organization, using 'free' data networks to connect telephony endpoints. But what about calls to other organizations? Currently, most calls outside of the organization still use the PSTN. However, there are a growing number of methods to connect enterprises together with VoIP, and this discussion covers several of these directory services: ENUM, SIP proxy redirectors, SIP URI use, and DUNDi will be compared and configurations examined.

John Todd, Tello, Inc

John Todd has been involved with the Internet industry since 1994, as a member of the founding teams of Digex, Cidera, and other notable Internet infrastructure providers. His principal expertise is in the area of provisioning system development, deployment, and integration, in environments ranging from co-location to leased-line to satellite to GIS. He is also an accomplished project manager in the areas of software development, provisioning, network operations, and customer service, having managed large groups of technical staff to bring products to market. His current interests are focused in the areas of Voice-over-IP systems integration, operations, and large-scale provisioning. He has run an active consultancy, advising more than 20 companies on future voice technology, and currently works for Tello Corportaion, which is an IP Telephony infrastructure firm. John is a graduate of the University of Rochester, and a regular participant and speaker in operations and technology conferences like NANOG, VON, and ISPCON, and is an active participant in the Asterisk Open-Source PBX software community. He can be reached via email: jtodd@loligo.com

Asternic, the flash operator panel

This presentation will be about the Flash Operator panel and my experiences dealing with the AMI. Past, present and future of FOP and an overview of what can and can't be done (yet) with the manager interface.

Nicolás Gudiño, Partner, House Internet S.R.L.

Co-founded the company in 1991 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Started selling shareware on floppy disks, then transitioned into a BBS and now became an ITSP and IT consultancy firm. Studied Music at the Conservatory, self-thaugh in computers and technology. Working with Asterisk for about two years now, contributed some small features and patches and developed the Flash Operator Panel.

Experiences from running Asterisk in a hosted environment

Go2Call has utilized Asterisk to provide hosted PBX features to VoIP service providers, primarily in emerging markets. Asterisk is utilized for basic softswitch functionality including SIP registrar, feature server for voice mail or conference calling, and specialized e911 call routing. Go2Call has customized its Asterisk deployment to address challenges such as poor Internet connections and a network with a very wide range of SIP endpoints. Specific network issues affecting performance include high packet loss, jitter, delay, and packet fragmentation. Data will be presented showing the performance under various network conditions, reviewing both the strengths of Asterisk and areas for future improvement.

John Nix, Co-founder, Go2call

As Go2Call's Co-Founder and technology leader, John is responsible for directing development of Go2Call’s proprietary VoIP technology and also manages partnerships with leading telecommunications firms. John brings with him a decade of experience in the telecommunications and manufacturing industries, as an engineer at The Coca-Cola Company and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. John also served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he planned and managed the installation of line-of-sight microwave networks. John holds a B.S. in physics from Davidson College, an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Master of Engineering Management degree from the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.