OpenSER Summit 2008 - OpenSER SIP Server

The second OpenSER Summit took take place in San Jose, USA , on the 17th of March, 2008. This was the first US edition of the OpenSER Summit - following the European edition, a large segment of the OpenSER community have continouosly asked for an edition to address also the American community. The summit was again hosted inside the VoN Spring 2008 Exhibition, as a pre-conference event - more than 50 people were present at the event to learn the latest news on OpenSER.

This OpenSER Summit edition was sponsored by a parallel OpenSER related event, the OpenSER Pavilion . The pavilion was a common exhibiting area - booth 1027, inside VoN expo, gathering, under the OpenSER name, six different companies working or using the project. Their direct statement to the visitor is: "Yes, we do open source in our business and OpenSER is a success recipe and we want to share this with you"

The dual event, OpenSER Summit & Pavilion is a new concept of a more complex event, aiming to create a larger diversity and to give more power to the understanding of the OpenSER project.

Read more about the participant companies on the OpenSER Pavilion web page .

OpenSER Summit targeted an open debate about OpenSER's accomplishes and perspectives -- where it stands and where it moves, all these seen from industry, education and project point of view.

What makes this project so interesting? It is open source, it is in production of well established VoIP providers, it scales from residential services to carrier grade requirements. Shortly, it is flexible, robust, active and open.

Summit Agenda and Presentations

To access the directly the entire repository with the Summit presentations, go here.

To individually access the presentatio, see the blonw links from the summit agenda.

9:00 - 10:00

Introduction

What are the goals of the WorkShop and how they will be addressed / covered.
OpenSER Overview
What is OpenSER
History and Evolution
Purpose - what can we do with OpenSER

Speakers:

Bogdan Andrei Iancu - project co-founder - "Welcome to OpenSER Summit 2008"
Henning Westerholt - project main developer - "General project introduction - usecases and purpose"
Bogdan Andrei Iancu - project co-founder - "Project history and evolution"

10:00 - 10:15
Morning break

10:15 - 12:30
Industry Perspective

Real life stories about successful showcases of OpenSER (as OpenSource Software) in industrial and commercial environments. Several companies are to present their stories: what purpose OpenSER was used for, why OpenSER and how they did it.

Speakers:

Jim Dalton - CEO Transnexus - "Using OpenSER and OSP for Wholesale VoIP services"
Gines Gomez - CIO Voztelecom - "Developing SIP applications using OpenSER, WeSIP, HTTP and Java...yes you can !"
Ivan Sixto - CEO i6NET - "IVR and IVVR IP/3G VoiceXML services integration for OpenSER platforms"
James Body - Director Networks Truphone -"OpenSER for mobile telephone infrastructure"
Paul Cusack - CEO Localphone - "Business-to-business VoIP products and services"
Bogdan Andrei Iancu - CEO Voice System - "OpenSER as multi-purpose VoIP platform"

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break

13:30 - 14:45
University & Research Perspective

How OpenSER became a viable solution for Universities as their own communication infrastructure, but also as a their study and research platform.

Speakers:

Bogdan Andrei Iancu - CEO Voice System - "OpenSER in University environment"
Glenn Marmon - Connecticut College - "Networking Research with OpenSER"
Carmelo Zaccone - AWT Belgium - "OpenSER for governmental environments"
Philippe Sultan - INRIA - "Bridging our academic SIP architectures with OpenSER"

14:45 - 15:00
Afternoon break

15:00 - 17:00
OpenSER - Quo Vadis? (Where to go?)

Features and directions
What are the latest OpenSER capabilities (showcase presentation)
What are the ongoing & future directions
Development and strategies
Open Discussions

Speakers:

Henning Westerholt - project main developer - "Carrier-Friendly OpenSER"
Anca Maria Vamanu - project main developer - "Presence - present and beyond"
Henning Westerholt - project main developer - "OpenSER - scaling the development"
Bogdan Andrei Iancu - project co-founder - "Project future development" open-discussions

Pictures

Pictures from the OpenSER Event 2008 are listed here . Thanks to all participants who sent us valuable pictures to be shared with the rest of the community.

Sponsors

OpenSER Summit, 2008 Edition is sponsors by the OpenSER Pavilion participant companies:

i6Net (Spain)
Localphone (UK)
Transnexus (US)
Voice System (Romania)
Voztelecom (Spain)

Read more about the OpenSER Pavilion and its participant companies .

First OpenSER teaching book -"Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER"- is now available....